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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
8
A campaign clash unfolds as Taft allies accuse Roosevelt of seeking weak points while backing his own party. The uproar centers on Wisconsin and key states as both sides trade charges about loyalty, strategy, and electoral strength amid a volatile campaign season.
Fragmented obituary notices list relations and memorials for Poore, Moore, and others. Dates span April 1912 with references to hospital, church, and cemetery services. Names include James, Nancy, Walter, and Tatiana with locations such as Baltimore and Washington area.
Report from flood battered West describes ten thousand affected and one million dollars in damages. Nebraska faces a critical outlook as residents seek aid, while Wisconsin, New York, and St Louis politics draw attention amid recall debate and calls for impartial justice under shifting majorities.
Colonel Roosevelt reiterates that the country must be a pretty good place for all of us to be a good place for any of us. Crowds greet his train at Parkersburg as he outlines future aims in talks.
Col Roosevelt blasts opponents as he campaigns through Parkersburg and Huntington, denounces unfair tactics, appeals for a fair convention vote, and presses the issue that the nation must be a good place for all if it is to be a good place for any. Governor Foss withdraws from the presidential preference ballot, leaving Wilson and Clark as the main contenders.
Columbus Kentucky reports 6 feet deep floodwaters inundating business and residence areas forcing evacuations while charity from Cape Girardeau and officials in Ohio and Tennessee offer tents, rations, and refuge. The Mississippi and Missouri rivers rise, with warnings of higher stages and widespread river valley disruption as federal aid is prepared.
Democratic State committee met in New York for organization and tabled a resolution urging Charles F Murphy and Tammany Hall to limit activities to Manhattan. Keith’s protest over his seat’s regularity sparked a status investigation. Seymour Vandantvoord named temporary chair of the state convention. John J Fitzgerald named permanent chair. four at large delegates to the national convention to be chosen from Straus Untermyer Dix Murphy Parker Gaynor Ridder.
Joan J. Hooper was reelected chairman of the Independence League State committee at a meeting in New York. Joe Follana bee was reelected treasurer and Alfred J. Boulton of Kings County succeeded Edmund O Connor as secretary.
A Massachusetts class of about two dozen Republican children planned to meet Speaker Clark after meeting President Taft at the White House. The girls went to Clark in the afternoon, but the boys vanished. A later hotel message quoted a child saying they could not meet Clark because they are all Republicans.
Fragmentary OCR lists multiple marriage licenses with names and ages from Baltimore Maryland Timberville Virginia and other places. Several entries include Reverend ministers and inconsistent spellings, ending with a garbled tail.
A dispatch from Atlanta reports Gus Woodrow Wilson's first sweetheart is campaigning for him in the Georgia presidential primary on May 1. Minnie I. Winn of Greensboro Georgia, widow of former Congressman Thomas E. Winn, writes to friends urging votes for Wilson, recalling her past and her late father who was their pastor in Augusta.
Washington Dawn dispatch reports a shift toward change of venue for the Allen clan murders in Carroll County. Jordan Edwards, arrested for aiding fugitives, refused $1500 to reveal Hideouts, insisting blood money cannot buy him. Detectives pursue leads amid rumors of captured outlaws and tense mountain pursuit near Volunteer Gap.
The New Jok Times reports Supreme Court Justice Bischoff reserved decision on Lord & Taylor’s bid to appoint a receiver for Homer Davenport the cartoonist. Davenport had faced a $130 judgment from Lord & Taylor and was examined in supplementary proceedings. Davenport testified that Henry L. Stoddard of the Evening Mail still owed him money for campaign cartoons of President Taft ordered by Cal Roosevelt.
Unofficial at state headquarters, Senator Elihu Root Vice President James Sherman William Barnes Jr and Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University named as the four delegates at large to the national convention. They will not be instructed for any presidential candidate, Lafayette B. Gleason announced.
Trenton April 4 Speaker Champ Clark in a letter to Secretary Crater withdraws his name from the official ballot for the Democratic primary to select delegates to the national convention. No reason given but believed a courtesy to Governor Wilson, whose name will be the sole candidate on the ballot as no other petitions were filed besides Clark and Wilson.
In Rome on April 4 two delegations will go to the national convention. One slate supports President Taft and includes J. P Dyar of Gordon county and L H Crawford of Whitfield. A rival slate, claiming Negro delegates were ousted, names A T Atwater of Floyd and H E Thompson of Cobb as Roosevelt supporters, after white delegates were allegedly elected.
Waterloo Iowa April 4 delegates from the third district Republican convention failed to break a deadlock after 29 ballots with Taft and Cummings factions each holding 72 votes. The body adjourned at one o clock until tomorrow to try to unite on delegates.
Inventor Marconi unveils a wireless compass concept that triangulates lighthouse and ship signals to determine a vessel’s exact position in dense fog. He envisions a system aiding navigation for vessels like the Mauretania, with calls for regulated wireless use and an international governing board. The last test is described as a complete success, though patents and implementation details remain pending.
Enthusiasm ran high as observers including Captain Turner of the Mauretania lauded Marconi’s wave signaling system for ships. The Mauretania is to bear the apparatus on its Liverpool to Canada voyage, with Mr Marconi venturing to Canada and back before England sails again. A Democratic rally honoring Thomas Jefferson was announced by the College Men’s Democratic League for April 11 at the New Ward room.
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