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The Commoner.
VOLUME It, NUMBER tt
Michigan progressive republicans,
by an almost unanimous voto, de
cided to abandon tho republican
' arty and to name a full state ticket.
Mr. Roosevelt announces that ho
will make no deal with opposition
but that ho wants the support o "ox
democrats and ex-republicans."
The personnel of tho executive
committee of tho national republican
committee was announced by Chair
man Hillos at the national republi
can headquartors In New York.
Tho committee will consist of .J. P.
Adams, Dubuque, la.; Charles F.
Brookcr, Ansonla, Conn.; Fred W.
Estabrook, Nashville; James P.
Goodrich, Winchester, Ind.; Alvah
H. Martin, Norfolk, Va.; T. H. Neld
rlnghaus, St. Louis; S. A. Perkins,
Tacoma, Wash.; Alfred T. Rogers,
Madison, Wis.; Newell Sanders,
Chattanooga. Tonn Charles B. War
ren, Detroit; Roy 0. West, Chicago,
and Ralph Williams, Dallas, Ore. The
same selections are the result of two
days' deliberations of a sub-committee
of tho national committee
which was also empowered to select
an advisory committee and a treas
urer. Tho work of picking the lat
ter officials was not completed, how
over. The executlvo committee, all mem
bers of the national committee, will
bo distributed to direot the cam
paign work at tho three major head
quartors, as follows:
Messrs. Broower, Estabrook,
Goodrich, Martin and Sanders, at
,$Tow York; Messrs. Adams, Neidring
haus, Rogers, Warren and West, at
Chicago, and Messrs. Perkins and
Williams at a Pacific coast city to be
chosen later, possibly Portland, Ore.
Tho democratic membors of tho
house of representatives, under the
leadership of Champ Clark, called on
Governor Wilson at Seagirt.
Already tho third party is having
troublo. An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch,
carried by tho Associated Pivhs. nnvn-
Indications now are that there will be
two delegations from Georgia to tho
"third party" convention in Chicago,
August 5. The question involved ap
parently is whether tho delegates
shall bo "Illy whito" or "black and
white." A call was issued from the
national progressive headquartors by
Roger Dewar for a convention to be
held in Atlanta, July 25. A rival call
was issued by tho Georgia white
league for a meeting of its members
and friends.
zation, Were turned down because ho
is a socialist and has been working
recently as an organizer for the party
in Wilmington. .
Norton admitted that ho was a so
cialist, and said that ho had been one
for the last ten years, only recently
becoming active as an organizer.
.Tho convention has taken a de
termined stand against socialists
since Bishop John T. Carroll of Mon
tana delivered a sermon in which he
strongly denounced tho creed of so
cialism.
John E. Healy, president of the
Delaware Hibernians, said" tho
charges against Norton would be
taken up by tho division of tho order
of which he is a member and if it
was found that ho wad active in the
socialist organization he would be
ask?rl to withdraw from tho Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
olevato Woodrow Wilson to tho presi
dency I would make it now. I am his
to command to tho uttermost of my
power."
Lincoln Steffons, tho magazine
writer, gavo strong testimony for
tho defendant in Claronco Darrow's
trial for jury bribing in Los Angeles.
President B. A. Worthington, of
tho Chicago & Alton railroad, testi
fying "before tho arbitration commis
sion hearing the controversy- between
tho engineers and fifty eastern roads,
declared that to grant tho demands
of tho engineers would lorco many
weaker railroads into bankruptcy.
Leslie Combs, who is considered
tho head of tho Roosevelt followers
in Kentucky, declared that a com
plete organization on permanent
lines would bo made for tho new pro
gressive party in the state, and that
candidates for minor offices would bo
selected as soon as practicable.
Through tho alleged confession of
a man under arrest, tho names of
seven men Bald to have been partici
pants in the sensational assassination
of Herman Rosenthal, are in tho
hands of Now York police.
Governor Deneen of Illinois has
announced that he would not adhere
to the third party movement in the
coming presidential campaign, but
that ho would support President
Taft. On the heels of Governor Do
necn's statement to tho committee
who went to Springfield to question
him, Senator Dixon, Roosevelt's
manager, declared that a full third
party ticket would be put out in Illi
nois with a candidate friendly to
Colonel Roosevelt.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Seattle, Wash., dated July 22, says
that United States District Judge
Cornelius H. Hanford, the federal
judge appointed when Washington
was admitted to statehood, twenty
three years ago, sent his resignation
to President Taft, while the last wit
nesses were waiting to testify before
the house judiciary committee at
Washington. It is stated that the
house committee will not now push
tho impeachment proceedings. Judge
Hanford gives- ill health as the
reason for his resignation.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN NEWS
After Governor Wilson had enter
tained Champ Clark ho entertained
Oscar W. Underwood. Governor
Wilson announced that ho was great
ly pleased with his meeting with both
of tho gentlemen.
Herman Rosenthal, a Now York
gambloy, who had mado charges of
graft in connection with tho police
department, was shot and killed
standing on a New York sidewalk.
Four men did tho shooting.
At Newton, Kan., a stato judge
issued an order restraining every
county clork in Kansas from print
ing on tho official primary ballot
names of candidates for presidential
electors who have openly assorted
that they would voto for Theodore
Roosevelt. The samo plan will be
followed in Colorado and other
states.
-A Chicago dispatch, carried by the
Associated Press, says: At tho an
nual convention pf,tthe Ancient Order
,qC Hibernians, ,thftJ( credentials of
Edward Norton of Wilmington, Pel.,
president of his own county organi-
An Indianapolis dispatch, carried,
by the Associated Press follows:
Governor Thomas R. Marshall, demo
cratic candidate for vico president,
received at the state capital twenty
members of the democratic national
committee, who stormed horn nn
their way homo from the reorganiza
tion meeting at Chicago.
"Wo aro here representing the na
tional committee to pay its respects
to you, governor, as tho next vice
president of tho United States," said
Thomas Taggart, Indiana committee
man. Sneechos nledcriner GnHiiinlnMo re
operation in tho campaign were mado
by Martin J. Wade, of Iowa, and
ocners.
In responding Governor Marshall
said he did not know whether ho was
"progressive," and continued:
"There aro many kinds of 'pro
gressives' nowadays. One believes
in taking tho tariff off Iowa products
and putting it on Indiana products,
and another supports tho opposite
policy. I am not that kind of pro
gressive. But if tho term means to
bolievo that tho democratic party
should meet changing conditions in
protecting tho people against the
special interests, I am progressive."
Thanking the committeemen for
their visit, tho governor said:
"I do not, know what I can do for
the ( success, of the ticket, though I
know it will bo successful. My petfy
hones and ambitions . am nnf- wnrfh
I considering. If their sacrifice could
Governor Wilson summoned to
Seagirt, N. J., the following named
gentlemen: Robert S. Hudspeth, na
tional committeeman from Now Jer
sey; Josephus Daniels, national com
mitteeman from North Carolina; Wil
lard Salisbury, national committee
man from Delaware; A. Mitchell Pal
mer, national committeeman from
Pennsylvania; Joseph E. Davies, na
tional committeeman from Wisconsin,
secretary of the democratic national
committee; Senator Gore of Okla
homa, Senator O'Gorman, New York,
and William McCombs, New York.
It was announced that these gentle
men would aid in the selection of a
campaign committee.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Seagirt says: Among the letters re
ceived by Governor Wilson recently
uavo ueen uity or so asKing Mm if he
really did abolish tho civil marriage
ceremony in New Jersey. The gover
nor wondered, at .first, how anyone
could have gotten the impression that
he did, but recalled the Martin act,
passed recently by tho legislature,
eliminating from the half dozen or
so grades of civil officers who may
officiate at marriages. A great light
broke on him, and he replied to each
letter saying that he did nnf nhniioii
civil marriages, but that the passage
of the act merely put to an end
abuses of their Dower bv liinHroa n
that there still are any number of
Jersey mayors, aldermen, magis
trates, recorders and the like who
were fully empowered and perfectly
willing to marry any couple who
should apply to them.
.
The democratic committee met in
Chicago and elected William F. Mc
Combs of New York, chairman off the
democratic national committee
Joseph E. Davies of Madison, Wis.'
was elected secretary. John I. Mar
tin, of St. Louis, was re-elected aer-geant-at-arms.
It has been announced by friends
off Governor Wilson that he had de
cided definitely not to resign the
.governorship ot New Jersey during
tho presidential campaign.
ROOT AND PARKER
Tho following editorial . wag
printed in tho Houston (Texas)
Chronicle of Juno 21st, jseveral daya
prior to tho democratic national con
vention: Ono of tho Chronicle's valued
readers asks this question:
"Is it possible tho samo man, or
tho samo influence, controls tho na
tional committees of tho republican
and democratic parties? If not, how
do you account for tho selection by
the republican committee of Root to
be temporary chairman of their con
vention, and of Parker by the demo
cratic committee to be temporary
chairman at Baltimore?"
It is well to know which commit
teemen voted for Judge Parker be
fore entertaining any fixed opinion
regarding the influence that put him
forward to "sound tho keynote" for
tho democratic party in tho insur
gent year 1912. With tho record of
tire voto in the committee before us,
we think the Jacts make their own
answer. Here is the poll of the
committee on the election of a tem
porary chairman for the democratic
convention:
For Judge Parker Norman E.
Mack, New York; Clark Howell,
Georgia; R. M. Johnston, Texas;
Edwin O. Wood, Michigan; Roger
Sullivan, Illinois; Thomas Taggart,
Indiana,' Thomas P. Browne, Ver
mont, and J. Fred C. Talbot, Mary
land. For Representative Henry
Josephus Daniels, North Carolina;
Robert Ewlng, Louisiana, and Jolin
E. Osborne, Wyoming.
For Senator-elect Ollio James
P. L. Hall, Nebraska; Urey Wood-'
son, Kentucky, and Martin Wade,
Iowa.
For Senator O'Gorman, of New
York John T. McGraw;i'West Vir
ginia. For Senator Kern of Indiana
Robert S. Hudspeth, New Jersey.
Nothing in Judge Parker's politi
cal career indicates that he is cap
able of uttering the kind of keynote
that would inspire the democratic
hosts of the nation, in both tho old
parties, with real hope of progres
sive government under a demo
cratic administration. Ho is a man
of respectable ability, whose ap
pointments to public office, and
whoso nomination for public offices
to whom the people as a rule have
refused to elect him, have invariably
been handed to him by the political
agents of tho corporate monopolists.
That is true in the present instance.
The committee on arrangements, a
minority of tho democratic national
committee which is about, as to most
of its members, to quit office and
give way to new members, has by
plurality vote selected Judge Parker
to preside over the temporary or
ganization of the Baltimore conven
tion. Mr. Bryan, it is said, will oppose
Judge Parker's election to this office
from tho floor of the convention.
If ho does and w hrmA h win
it will force the issue at the begin
ning between popular and corporate
control of tho convention.
Nothing is more clear than the
fact that, if the democratic party
hopes to win the presidency this
year, it must afford the discontented
rank and file of both tho old parties
an opportunity to voto for a presi
dential nominee who stands squarely
opposed to corporate control of tho
party and of the national govern
ment. It is our deliberate judgment that
a majority of the rank and file vot
ers, without regard to party, have
determined to vote for that kind off
a man, if they can find him any
where in the list of the several nomi
nees, and it is reasonably certain
right now that the republican con
vention will not nominate a nam
this kind.
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