The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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NEWS THAT 18 N.EW8, WHEN IT
IS NEWS, FOR ALL.
FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE UNO
Happenings the Wide World Over of
Important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
The threatened tie-up of the gov-
ernment departments on July 1 be-
cause oí the failure of congre to
pasa the big appropriation bills is not
likely to occur, according to cabinet
officers, who believed that, in most
instances employes of the depart-
ments who hold their positions under
statute can be kept at work after July
1, whether congress passes the appro-
priation billa or not.
President Taft has sent to the sen-
ate nominations of Brigadier General
W. W. Witherspoon, now in command
of the department of the gulf, to be
major general, and those of Clarence
R. Edwards, now chief of the bureau
of insular affairs; Colonel George F.
Chase, now a detailed inspector gen-
eral, and Colonel E. J. McClernand of
the First Cavalry, to be brigadier
generals.
The president's message to con-
gress this week will urge the pro-
vision of funds for the government.
For forty minutes Monday the
house enjoyed itself over the situa-
tion in which the republican party
finds itself because of the Chicago
convention's result. Representative
Philip Campbell of Kansas started it
by having read a letter written by for-
mer President koonevelt in 1908 ex-
tolling the virtues of President Taft,
then a candidate. Republican ap-
plause greeted phrases quoting ful-
some praise for President Taft. Dem-
ocrats laughed uproariously. When
the reading was finished Representa-
tive Hefiin of Alabama had read one
of the Chicago statements by Colonel
Roosevelt. The democrats had a lot
of fun by applauding loudly at the
numerous references to '•fraud" and
"rascality."
BRIAN'S APPEAL TO
THE PROGRESSIVES
SAYS HAS PROOF OF HIS RIGHT
TO STAND IN CONVENTION
AND OPPOSE PARKER.
HIS WHOLE HEART IN THE FIGHT
"Democracy Has Been People's Pillar
of Fire By Night—Don't Rob Party
of Right at Dawn," Was
His Plea.
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STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Standing of clubs in Texas league:
Clubs— Games. Won. Lost. P.C.
Houston 74 47 27 6:15
Dallas 76 41 35 53!)
San Antonio ...76 A2 34
Waco 74 40 34 541
Beaumont 71 33 38 465
Austin >..75 33 42 440
Fort Worth ....73 30 43 411
Galveston 71 29 42 408
Captain La Porte of the French
steamship Lecoeur, which arrived at
Tampa, Fla., Saturday, brought news
of the finding at sea of the body of
Captain Coudal, who commanded the
missing French steamship Belle Isle,
which sailed from Norfolk for a Eu-
ropean port and has not since been
beard of. The body was found off
Cherbourg, France. . 1
vAi Palzer, the local heavyweight
with "white hope" aspirations, knock-
ed out Bombardier Wells, the heavy-
weight champion of England, in the
third round of a scheduled ten-round
bout at Madison Square Garden, Nev
York. Friday night.
While digging for the new pier Fri-.
day at Texas City a coffin containing
the remains of a child was unearthed,
which was supposed . to have been
washed from Galveston at the time of
the flood. It was aga^n buried under
the concrete foundation of the wharf.
This is the third coffin which has
been dug out while building the docks.
L. M. Stone and his 14-year-old sou
# were drowned near Lufkin Friday
when a canvas boat in which they
were rowing capsized in a pond. Mr.
Stone could have eseaped, as lie could
swim, but evidently decided not to
leave his son and was unable to reach
the shore with the boy. -
The police at Detroit. Mich., declare
•to have positively identified $4,000
found on Martin Powell, who was ar-
rested a few days ago. as money
stolen in the $375,000 bank robbery at
New Westminster, tí. C., in Septem-
ber, 1911.
The interstate commerce commis-
sion ordered the readjustment of
transportation rates on lime in car-
loads (rom Various producing points
In Texas, Arkansas Missouri and Ala-
bama to New Orleans and practically
" other Louisiana destinations.
5. F. Beaumont, one of the veteran
I the Southern Pacific,
" and t'. F. Con-
perhaps fatally in-
tlte boiler of their engine
lnesday. The .TccMent
three-quarters
main line of
Baltimore, Md.—Following is a full
text of Bryan's speech on temporary
chairmanship:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the Convention: 1 rise to place in
nomination for the office of temporary
chairman of this convention the name
of Hon.'John W. Kern of Indiana (ap-
plause), and in thus dissenting f >m
the judgment of our national commit-
tee, as expressed in its recommenda-
tion. in its ratification, I recognize
that the burden of proof is upon me to
overthrow the assumption that the
committee can claim that it is repre-
senting the wishes of this convention
and of the party and of the nation.
(Cheers.)
"I call your attention to the fact
that our rules provide that the ratifi-
cation of the committee Is not final.
(Cries of nO, no, and applause.) I re-
mind you that the very fact that this
convention has the right to accept or
reject that ratification is conclusive
proof that the presumption in favor of
this convention is a higher presump-
tion than that in favor of the wisdom
of the committee. (Applause.)
Proof of Their Confidence.
"If any of you ask me for my cre-
dentials; if any of you inquire why I,
a mere delegate to this convention
from one of the smaller states, should
presume to present a name and ask
you to accept it in place of the name
they presented, I beg to tell you, if it
needs to be told, that in three cam-
paigns I have been the champion of
the democratic party's principles (ap;
plause) and in three campaigns I have
received the vote of 6,500,000 of demo-
crats: (Applause.)
"If that is not proof that I have the
confidence of the party of this nation,
I shall not attempt, to furnish proof.
I remind you that confidence reposed
in a human being carries with it cer-
tain responsibilities, and I would not
be worthy of the confidence and the
affection that has been showered upon
me by the democrats 'of this nation if
I were not willing to risk humiliation
in their defense. (Applause.)
Must Make Some Enemies.
"I recognize that a man can not
carry on a political warfare in defense
of the mass of the people for sixteen
years without making enemies, and I
recognize that there has been no day
since the day I was nominated in Chi-
cago when these enemies have not
been industrious in their efforts to
attack me from every standpoint.
"The fact that I have lived is proof
that I have not deserted the people.
(Long continued applause.) If fór a
moment I had forgotten them they
would not have remembered me.
"I take for my text the text that
the committee has been kind enough
to place upon the walls for my use:
" 'He never sold the truth to serve
the hour.' (Long continued applause
and cheers.)
"That is the language of the hero
of Monticello, and I would not be
worthy of the support I have received
if I were willing to sell the truth to
serve the present hour. (Long con-
tinued applause and cries of 'Good
boy/)
Bryan's Fight for Harmony.
"We are told by those who support
the committee's recommendation that
it is disturbing harmony to oppose
their conclusions. Let me free myself
from any criticism that any one may
have heretofore or may attempt here-
after. Is there any other delegate in
this body of more than a hundred
who tried earlier than I to secure har-
mony in this convention? (Cries of
'No.')
"I began several weeks ago. I an-
nounced "to the subcommittee that I
would not be a candidate for tem-
porary chairman. (Applause and
cheers.)
"I might have asked for it with the
presumption that at the end of six-
teen years of battle, when I find the
things I have fought for not only
triumphant, not only with my party
(great applause), but even in the re-
publican party. (Applause.) Under
these conditions I might have asked,
without presumption, the modest
honor of standing before this com-
mittee and voicing the rejoicing of my
party (great applause), but I was
more Interested in harmony than I
was in the chance to speak to this
convention. Not only that, but I ad-
vised this committee to consult the
two leading candidates, the men who
together have nearly two-thirds of this
convention instructed for them. I ask-
ed the committee to consult these two
men and get their approval o' some
man's nomination, that there n>áht be
Bo contest in this convention.
Voice In Selecting Chairman.
"My friends, what suggestion could
1 have then made more in the interest
of harmony than to ask this commit-
tee to allow two-thirds of this conven-
tion a voice in the selection of its tem-
porary chairman? (Great applause.
"In the discussion before the sub-
committee the Triends of Mr. Clark
and Mr. Wilson were not able to
agree; one supported Mr. James and
the Other supported Mr. Henry. But
in the full committee the friends of
Mr. Wilson joined with the friends of
Mr. Clark in the support of Mr. James,
and yet the committee turned down
the joint request thup made.
"1 submit to you that the plan fol-
lowed was the plan for the securing
of harmony, and that the plan which
the committee followed was not de-
signed to secure harmony. (Aj*
plause.)
Epoch-Making Convention.
"Let me for a moment present the
qualifications of one fitted fot this
position. This Is no ordinary occasion.
This is an epoch-maRing convention.
(Applause.) We have had such a
struggle as was never seen in politics
before. I have been in the center of
thi^ fight, and I know something of
the coure that it has brought forth
and something of the sacrifice that
has been required.
"I know that men working upon the
railroad for small wages, with but
little laid up for their retiring years,
have defied the railroad managers and
helped us in thig progressive fight at
the risk of having their bread and
butter taken from them. I have known
men engaged in business and carry-
ing loans at banks who have been
threatened with bankruptcy if they
did not sell their citizenship, and I
have seen them defy these men and
walk up and vote on the side of the
struggling masses against predatory
wealth. (Applause.)
Right to Sing Song of Victory.
"I have seen lawyers risking their
future, alienating men of large busi-
nesses, in order to be the champion of
the poor. I have seen men who have
never made a speech before go out
and devote weeks to public speaking
because their hearts were stirred. It
seems to be that now, when the hour
.of triumph comes, the song of victory
should be sung by one whose heart
has been in the fight.
"John W. Kern has been faithful
every day in those sixteen years. It
has cost him time, it has cost him
money and it has cost him the wear of
his body and his mind. He has been
free always with all that he said, and
four years ago, when the foundation
was ¡aid for the present victory, it was
John W. Kern who stood with me on
that Denver platform that demanded
the election of senators by direct vote
of the people when a Republican Na-
tional Convention had turned it down
by a vote of seven to one (applause),
Kern's Work for Principles.
"He helped in the fight for that
amendment authorizing an income tax
and he has lived to see a president
who was opposed to us take that plank
out of our platform and put it through
a senate and house among thirty-four
states of the union which have rati-
fied it (applause). And now he is
leading the fight in the senate to
purge that body of Senator Lorimer,
who typifies the supremacy of cor-
ruption in politics (great applause).
What better man could we have to
open a convention? (Cries of Parker
and hisses and hisses.) I repeat,
what better man could we have to
represent the .American spirit of de-
mocracy ?
Not a Personal Affair.
"I assume that no friend of Judge
Parker's will contend that he was en-
tirely satisfied in 1908 with either
the candidate or all of the plans or
purposes of our party. I remind you
that this is not a question where per-
sonal ambitions or personal compli-
ments or the pleasant things are up-
permost. We are writing history to-
day and this convei. tion will announce
to the country whether this conven-
tion will take up the challenge thrown
down at Chicago by a convention con-
trolled by the predatory wealthy, or
answer it by putting_ourselves under
the same control and giving the peo-
ple no party to represent them. (Long
continued applause.)
Appeals for Independence.
"I appeal to you. Let the com-
mencement of this convention be such
a commencement that the democrats
of this country may raise their heads
among their fellows and say: The
democratic party is true to the peo-
ple. You can not frighten it with your
Ryans, nor buy it with your Bel-
monts. (Long continued applause and
cheers.)
"My friends, if this candidate se-
lected by the committee were an un-
known man, we would judge him by
the forces that are back of him and
not by you gentlemen who may try
to convince yourselves that you owe
it to the committee to sustain its ac-
tion, even though you believe it a mis-
take.
"That, my friends, is not the ques-
tion. We know who the candidate is,
as well as the men behind him. We
know that he is the man chosen eight
years ago, when the democratic party,
beaten in two campaigns, decided that
it was wo. th while to try and win a
campaign under the leadership of
those who had defeated us in the cam-
paign before. (Applause.) The coun-
try has not forgotten that the conven-
tion was influenced to its act by the
promise of large campaign funds from
Wall street, and they have not for-
gotten the fact that after the corpora-
tion management had alienated the
rank and file of the party, Wall street
threw the party down and elected the
other man. (Great applause.)
(Renewed hooting, cries of "Parker"
and cheering for Bryan.)
Mr. Bryan—The democratic party
has led this fight until its action has
stynulated a host of republicans to
imitate them. I will not say they
have acted as they have because they
acted first; I would rather say that
they at a later hour than we have
caught the spirit of the time and are
now willing to trust the people with
the control" of their own government.
(Applause.) We have been traveling
in the wilderness. We now come in
sight of the promised land. During
all the weary hours of darkness pro-
gressive democracy has been the peo-
ple's pillar of fire by night; I pray
you delegates, now the dawn has
come, do not rob our party of the
right so well earned to be the people's
pillar of cloud by day. (Great ap-
plause and cheering.)
HUNDREDS OE PEOPLE
KILLED BY I
SEVERAL BUSINESS BLOCKS DE-
STROYED WITH MILLION-DOL-
LAR LOSS NEAR WINNIPEG.
THE WORST STCRM EVER KNOWN
Special Trains With Surgeons and
Nurses Leave tor Scene—Parlia-
mentary Building Was Bad-
ly Shaken.
Winnipeg.—It is estimated that 400
persons were killed and property loss
of $1,000,000 entailed by a tornado
which, after a day of thunderstorms
and high winds, struck Regina, Sas-
katchewan, at 8 a. ml Sunday. The
local telephone offices were wrecked,
and it is feared that fifteen girls em-
ployed there were killed. The tele-
phone exchange building, the Stand-
ard block, the First Baptist church
and the Baird &-Bottle building are
among the structures destroyed.
• Several business blocks and apart-
ment houses and several residences
were wrecked. Wires are down and
details are slow coming irj,.
Strikes During Afternoon.
• The city power plant is out of com-
mission and there is no light.
) Every vehicle in the city is being
used as an ambulance.
All wires except one telegraph wire
are down. This one wire is crowded
■with private messages from people
•who wish to send word of their safety
to friends and relatives.
Special Leaves for Scene.
• A special train left Winnipeg with
doctors and nurses and telegraph and
telephone repair men.
' It is believed that 200 lives had
been lost. A number of bodies have
been taken from the wreckage.
' The tornado came from the south
and first struck the new parliamen-
tary building, just completed at a cost
of $2,000,000. The building is of steel
and concrete, and while it still stands,
is badly shaken.
300 Houses Destroyed.
The storm swept northward, mow-
ing a path six blocks wide through
the fashionable residence district.
Along Victoria street, from Sixteenth
and Eleventh streets, 300 houses were
destroyed and many people killed. Au-
tomobiles, filled with people, were
hurled high in the air and dropped
blocks away.
At Eleventh street, in the business
district, warehouses, banking institu-
tions and retail stores were sent into
heaps of ruins, while the air was fill-
ed with the wreckage. Passing the
business district the Canadian Pacific
railroad tracks were reached. Six big
grain elevators were toppled over like
ten-pins, the timbers being piled in
heaps.
Continues Destruction.
Most of the fire department stations
escaped the storm and water pressure
was not impaired, so fires were con-
fined to the ruins where they started.
The storm continued northwest from
Regina through Central Saskatchewan,
doing great damage, but no loss of life
is reported outside of Regina.
The confusion following the storm
at Regina was such that to determine
the number of fatalities was out of
the question. Every ambulance in the
city was worked to the limit, carrying
the bodies of the killed and scores of
the injured persons to the hospitals,
which were filled early in the even-
ing, and to a number of improvised
hospitals in some of the larger build-
ings left standing. Crowds of volun-
teers all over the city are assisting
in the work of searching the wreck-
age.
Pea Crop Reported Large.
San Antonio, Tex.—Reports from
Mexico are to the effect that, despite
the revolution, the pea crop of So-
nora and Sinaloa, two states on the
west coast, has been a record-break-
er. The crop will total 35,000 tons
for export. The growers of these
peas are receiving 3M¡c a pound for
the output. At that price the crop
will, net the planters $2,500,000. The
greater portion of the peas will be
shipped to Spain, although a good
quantity will go to Cuba.
Harbor Island Improvements.
Aransas Pass, Tex.—Work is prog-
ressing rapidly on the wharves and
docks being erected by the Aransas
Pass Channel and Dock Company on
Harbor island, and they are expect-
ed to be ready for operation by the
first of August, when the first trans-
Atlantic steamer is expected to arrive.
Big Gin at Conroe.
Conroe, Tex.—Dirt was broken this
week tor the erection of a large and
commodious and up-to-date two-seven-
ty-ftaw gin at Conroe. which will be
Completed in time for this year's cot-
;ou crop.
NOT IN POSITION TO TAL !
Colored Man's Theory Mipht Hive
Been All Right, But There
Were Exceptions.
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Douglas Fairbanks, out in Chica* ;,
went into a barber shop the other day
to get a shine. He found three negro
bootblacks there. As one of them
rubbed Fairbanks' shoes the subject ef
women came up. .
"Ah tell yo\" said the negro who
was working on the "Officer 666" ac-
tor's shoes, "women is a peculiah
thing. Yo' gotta know just how to
handle huh or yo' goln' to git the
worst ufit. Lots of times she'll git.
mad at yo' an' then yo' gotta talk to
huh. Talk to huh—that's the way to
mastah huh. She won't stand to' no
beatin' or nothln' lak that. Talk to
huh. That's the way Ah handle ma
wife." v
Another negro working next to him,
looked up. "Whah did yo' git that
black eye yo' got, Rufe?" he asked.
"Well, ma wife done it, hut—"
"Why didn't yo' talk to huh?"
"How could Ah?" came from the
first. "She had me by the throat wit
my wind shet off."
Man's Usefulness.
Mts. Edward R. Hewitt, president ef
the Woman's Municipal league, wae
discussing in New York the movement
for cleaner streets.
"Now that women have gone in for
cleaner streets," she said, "we'll prob-
ably get them. Don't mistrust wom-
an's Influence. It is everywhere at
work."
Then, with a smile, Mrs. Hewitt ut*
tered this epigram on her sex's be-
half.
"Few are the men who would have
reached the top of the ladder if their
wives hadn't steadied it for them."
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The gossip of today may be the su-
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