The Anaconda Standard, 1912-09-07, p.1

[WEATHER FORECAST. FOR SATURDAY. Probably showers.] [boxed notice, left of the masthead] The Anaconda Standard. [WEATHER FORECAST. FOR SUNDAY. Probably showers.] [boxed notice, right of the masthead] VOL. XXIV.—No. 4. ANACONDA, MONTANA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ## Column 1 # A. O. H. CHOOSES STATE OFFICERS ## WASHOE SMELTER IS VISITED BY DELEGATES TO HIBERNIAN CONVENTION. # BALL IS A FEATURE ## New officers of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and ladies' auxiliary are installed at joint exercises at A. O. H. hall—Will visit Gregson Springs and Warm Springs today and then delegates will go to their homes—Thanks are given citizens of Anaconda. The grand ball last evening, the election of officers yesterday and the visit to the Washoe smelter in the forenoon were the principal things accomplished by the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the ladies' auxiliary of the order at the second day of their convention. The ball last evening in the large hall of the Anaconda division of the order was a pleasant affair. The ballroom was beautifully decorated with the national colors and excellent music helped make the occasion an enjoyable one. Missoula was chosen as the meeting place for the next biennial convention of the order. Numerous changes were made in the constitution of the order and a policy of closer co-operation between the state officers and those of the local divisions was decided upon. It was determined to begin a campaign for the extension of the order. ### List of Officers. The following officers were elected by the Hibernians: President, James Cummins of Butte; Vice president, Frank Fitzpatrick of Anaconda; treasurer, Martin Durkin of Great Falls; secretary, Neil Collins of Anaconda. The ladies' auxiliary elected the following officers: President, Mrs. Bridget Kelliher of Anaconda; vice president, Mrs. Ella Farley of Missoula; treasurer, Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Division 4, Butte; secretary, Mrs. Mamie Lenahan of division 1, Butte. All these elections were made by acclamation. After the ladies had completed their business they adjourned to the A. O. H. hall, where there was a joint installation of officers. Mrs. Hugh Daly of Gregson Springs installed the officers for the ladies' auxiliary and T. J. Kelly, former vice president, of Anaconda, inducted the newly-elected officers into their positions. The Hibernians passed resolutions thanking the local division and the citizens of Anaconda for the entertainment given the delegates to the convention. Another resolution thanked the members of the choir of St. Paul's church for its services during the convention. Today will be given over to pleasure. The delegates will be taken to Gregson Springs and Warm Springs, where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Daly and Dr. J. M. Scanland. All automobile owners who have promised the use of their machines for the entertainment of the delegates are requested to have their machines in front of A. O. H. hall at 10 o'clock this forenoon. The delegates attending the convention of the ladies' auxiliary follow: Mrs. Nora Murphy, past state president, Butte; Mrs. Hugh Daly, state president, Gregson Springs; Mrs. Mamie Lenahan, state secretary, Butte, and Mrs. Mary Lavey, Missoula, state treasurer. Deer Lodge—Mrs. Johnstone, county president, Bridget Kelliher, Bridget Duffy, Theresa Flanagan, Mamie Brennan, Catherine Sorenson, Margaret O'Neill, Margaret Carragher, Mary McDonnell. Missoula No. 1—Mary Morris, county president; Anna Shable, Ella Farley, Mary McCarthy, Eliza Duffy, Helen Lyons, Theresa Jones, Elizabeth Osborne. Silver Bow—Nora Murphy, Mamie Lenahan, Kate Himes, Margaret O'Connell, Margaret Murphy, Lizzie Burke, Katie Holland, Mamie Malia, Annie Shea, Nellie McCarthy and Mary Cosgrove. Division No. 4, Silver Bow county—Mrs. Lewis, Margaret Monley, Mary Cabot, Susan Lynch, Bedelia B. Boland, Nora Rowan, Bridget Kelly, Julia Boland. The committees from the ladies' auxiliary follow: Credentials—Bridget Kelliher, chairman; Mary Lewis, Mary Johnston, Mary Morris, Margaret Monley, Kate Himes, Ella Sha[h?]le. Rules of order—Ella Farley, chairman; Nellie McCarthy, Susan Lynch Lizzie Burke, Bridget Kelly, Mary A. Duffy, Catherine Sorenson. Press—Mrs. Mamie Malia, Miss Mary Cosgrove, Miss Margaret O'Neill, Miss Margaret Cariher, Mrs. Mary Johnston, Mrs. Bridget Kelly, Miss Julia Boland, Mrs. Mary Morris and Mrs. Osborne. Visiting Hibernians—Mrs. Duffy, chairman; Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Monley, Miss Mary Cosgrove, Miss Katie Holland and Miss Annie Shea. The Hibernian delegates follow: State President John J, OMeara of Butte, State Vice President Thomas Kelly of Anaconda, State Secretary P. H. Kenny of Butte, State Treasurer C. H. Regan of Great Falls, State Chaplain Bishop Lenihan of Great Falls. Silver Bow county—Pat Cleary, C. H. Gallagher, John J. Crowley, W. P. McCarty, Maurice Goggins. Division No. 1, Silver Bow county—James Connolly, John R. Murphy, P. J. Sullivan, Jerry Egan, Daniel Leahy, Judge J. J. Lynch, Peter Shannon, T. J. McCarthy, Patrick Craig, John Gribben. Division No. 3, Silver Bow county— (Continued from Page Four.) ## Column 2 # SUSPENDER JACK STAMPEDES HERD ## OSCAR STRAUS NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK BY PROGRESSIVES. # A REAL DARK HORSE ## Convention at Syracuse just ready to ballot on Hotchkiss and Prendergast, with Straus in chair, when former cowpuncher throws his bomb—Then delegates collect their scattered wits, jump into band wagon in a bunch and Jack is hero of the day. Syracuse,N. Y., Sept. 6.—Oscar S. Straus, former secretary of commerce and labor in the cabinet of President Roosevelt, was unanimously acclaimed the nominee for governor of the progressive party by a stampeded convention this afternoon. Straus' nomination came about under dramatic circumstances. The former cabinet member, acting as the convention's permanent chairman, was about to entertain a motion from former Lieutenant Governor T. L. Woodruff to expedite the roll call on the names of State Chairman William Hotchkiss and Comptroller William A. Prendergast of New York when a delegate from New York county leaped to his chair and demanded to be heard. "It's 'Suspender Jack' McGee," cried a voice from the gallery. Chairman Straus looked puzzled. McGee, who got his name in the Indian country by riding a broncho into camp with suspenders used as reins, moved toward the platform. "They say I am crazy, but I know what I am doing," he cried as he swung to the platform steps. ### Taken by Surprise. Chairman Straus looked with surprise on the man who tossed his rough rider hat on the floor and demanded the right to make a nomination. "Whom do you wish to nominate?" asked Chairman Straus. "Suspender Jack" paused a moment and then cried: "I nominate the illustrious and Hon. Oscar S. Straus." The delegates seemed stunned; then a few of them cheered. Straus gave an amused laugh at "Suspender Jack" bowing before him. McGee kept on with his speech and the first few faint cheers from half a dozen or more delegates gradually grew into a pandemonium that swept the convention hall from end to end. Standards were wrenched from their supports and delegates yelling and cheering for Straus, paraded the aisles, turning the convention into bedlam. Chairman Straus at first shook his head deprecatingly at the growing ovation. He turned to friends and remarked: "This must not be; I can't accept." ### Pushed Into It. Chairman Hotchkiss left his seat among the delegates and rushed to the platform. Placing his hands on Straus' shoulders, he said: "You must accept; all the delegates are for you." Scores of delegates pressed toward the platform to urge Straus to make the decision. Then Mr. Hotchkiss burst from the group that surrounded Straus and held up before the crush of excited delegates a sheet of yellow paper on which was written "He accepts." Quickly the word passed through the hall and another demonstration followed. State Chairman Hotchkiss acted as chairman in place of Straus. The nomination of Hotchkiss for governor was withdrawn, as was the name of Mr. Prendergast. [photograph block, spans columns 2-6, below the columns above] DELEGATES TO THE A. O. H. CONVENTION IN ANACONDA [photograph: a large group of men and women, seated and standing in rows in front of a stone hall; the lintel above the doorway carries the lettering A. O. H.] —The Standard Photographer. ## Column 3 [cartoon, spans columns 3-5 at the head of the columns] DREAMING OF THE GUNNING SEASON [illustration: an elderly man asleep in a rocking chair, a hat marked VOTER on the floor at his feet; in his dream-cloud three men in caps, one in a broad hat with spectacles, and bundles of scrolls marked CAMP[...], SPEECH, CA[...], SPEEC[H], SPEECH; signed [Berryman?]] —From the Washington Star. # WOMAN TAKES STAND TELLS OF VICE RING ## POISON IN BLACK BOTTLE BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED DEATH OF ENGINEER. Chicago, Sept. 6.—Details of the inner workings of the alleged vice ring at West Hammond, believed to have claimed John Messmaker, a railroad engineer, as one of the several victims who are said to have been slain by poison, was revealed today before Judge John Owen's court when Mrs. Ethel Parker, known as Frankie Ford, took the stand and, for the first time in court, told her story of Messmaker's death. Mrs. Parker told of the "black bottle" which she said Henry Foss, keeper of a resort, always kept back of the bar, and declared that in her opinion a drink was given Messmaker out of this decanter the morning of the day he died. She declared that on one occasion Foss said he would "fix" Messmaker if he did not keep away. ## Column 4 # REBELS AGAIN GET OVER BORDER LINE ## GENERAL SALAZAR CROSSES THE BOUNDARY AND ENGAGES AMERICAN TROOPS. El Paso, Texas, Sept. 6.—Entrance of Mexican rebels into the United States and subsequent engagement with United States troops below Hachita, N. M., as reported today to Gen. E. Z. Steever at Fort Bliss, Texas, mark the sixth invasion of American territory in the last few weeks. It is probable that the border patrol along the Sonora line will be strengthened, say officials at Fort Bliss, from where General Steever commands the department of Texas as well as the Arizona and New Mexico borders adjacent. Only three troops of Third cavalry are stationed near Hachita. It is asserted that Inez Salazar, the rebel chief, operating below the New Mexico border, is intent on causing international complication, consistent with his disarmament of the American settlers in the state of Chihuahua. ## Column 5 # ROOSEVELT MEN WIN BY JUDGE'S RULING ## DECIDES NAMES OF ELECTORS SUPPORTING COLONEL SHALL GO ON BALLOT. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 6.—The Roosevelt presidential electors won another round in the legal battle to get them off the republican ticket in Kansas today. Judge W. H. Sanborn of the United States circuit court of appeals denied the injunction asked by the supporters of President Taft's candidacy to prohibit the eight Roosevelt electors being placed on the general election ballot in November. The case was argued Monday in Denver and the written decision was received by Morton Albaugh, clerk of the United States circuit court here, late today. The injunction was asked on behalf of 13 Jewell county men who had signed the nomination petitions of the eight Taft electors defeated in the recent primary. Judge Sanborn held there there [sic] were no rights of which any man would be deprived which could be considered by a court of equity and that the only recourse that the Taft men had was in a court of law. [two stray marks] ## Column 6 *[headline spans columns 6-7]* # *NOT BECAUSE OF HIS PERSONAL AMBITION* ## *Bull Moose Gathered in Helena Have Dixon's Word for It That Colonel Roosevelt Simply Answered the Demands of His Countrymen. Leader to Arrive Today.* Staff Correspondence of the Standard. Helena, Sept. 6.—Senator Joseph M. Dixon told the first state convention of the progressive party tonight that Theodore Roosevelt was not a candidate for president because of personal ambition. On the contrary, the senator said that Colonel Roosevelt had told him while the Chicago convention was fighting over the seating of contested delegations: "I care nothing about the nomination. I entered the fight to save the republican party for future usefulness. Purge the roll. Eliminate me. Nominate Senator Cummins or Governor Hadley." ### The Big Show. Today Senator Dixon was the big show of the convention. Inexperienced in the ways of running an affair of this kind, the delegates who drifted into town by various trains during the afternoon and early evening were content to wait until the manager of Roosevelt's campaign arrived and put them on the right track. ### Much in Earnest. The delegates are quite in earnest about the business that is to come before them. They got a start on organization tonight and appear in a fair way to get their ticket nominated and be prepared to receive Roosevelt when he arrives tomorrow night. They got as far as naming a committee to prepare a draft of a platform, instead of permitting that to be done by a committee of one delegate from each county. E. J. Edwards named this committee. On it are Sam Gordon of Miles City, G. A. Horkan of Forsyth, H. C. Crippen of Billings, W. D. Rankin of Helena and J. L. Slattery of Glasgow. ### Bielenberg Mentioned. N. J. Bielenberg of Deer Lodge is the only man whose name has been mentioned as a candidate for governor so far and Mr. Bielenberg hasn't said that he would decline if the nomination were tendered him. Senator Dixon had promised that he would deliver some hot shot. It was, viewed from the third-party standpoint. He made reference to some of the attacks that had been made upon him personally and attacked the progressiveness of members of the republican state central committee. Incidentally he said that the third-party managers didn't worry about the fact that Montana primaries had been carried by Taft delegates because at that time they were busy with bigger game and Montana didn't cut much ice in their figuring anyway. He said that the invisible empire had spent $16,000 in his city of Missoula in order that they might spread throughout the country the fact that Dixon had failed to carry his home city. He predicted victory for Roosevelt, said that Wilson sentiment was waning in the East and that Taft wasn't worth discussing. Roosevelt is due in Helena tomorrow night at 7:45 to remain until Sunday morning. ### All Go to the Depot. There were not many delegates on hand when Thomas Everett of Fort Benton called them to order at 2:30 o'clock. It was explained that there were many more followers of the colonel in sight, but that they had been delayed by late trains. Anyhow, Senator Dixon hadn't arrived and it was suggested that it would be a nice thing to adjourn and have the convention in a body greet him at the depot [column continues: the line ends "de-" and the next column begins "pot"] ## Column 7 This was enthusiastically agreed to. At 4 o'clock there were about 150 gathered at the station when the train from Missoula arrived. Senator Dixon stepped off, attended by about 40 of his people from Missoula. There were loud greetings and the representative of Theodore Roosevelt stepped into an automobile and bowed his acknowledgments. The ordinary delegates and the band took street cars. The loyal ones disembarked a couple of blocks from Sixth on Main street, got the band lined up and, headed by a sturdy quartette carrying a mounted head of a bull moose, they marched to the corner where the senator's automobile had halted. In this formation they marched to the Grandon hotel, where a suite of rooms had been reserved for the senator. Here the senator again bowed to the bull moosers and disappeared, leaving the wearers of the bandanas to disperse until 8 o'clock. ### A Confirmed Optimist. Senator Dixon was more than glad to be interviewed. He had received glorious information on his way across the country. He depicted every state as being in a state of revolution against both of the old parties. Vermont, he said, had been considered the one doubtful state, but he was satisfied with the result there. He thought that any one who imagined that the bull moose party would not sweep the western part of Montana at least was suffering from mental trouble in an advanced stage. California, he pointed to with pride, although admitting that he had known all along that Roosevelt electors would be found to be the choice of the people of that state. Sentiment for Governor Wilson he found was waning throughout the country, according to the observations he had made. President Taft's strength he dismissed with what he intended to be profound contempt. There really was not any claim regarding Roosevelt and the bull moose party that Senator Dixon wouldn't make if he were given the slightest opening. ### Hall Nicely Decorated. The auditorium was well filled by 8 o'clock and more arrived, and the band played. Time had been spent in decorating the hall and the platform and galleries looked particularly attractive. Huge flags covered everything, with bunches of green hung from the galleries. On the platform were two bull moose heads, one a magnificent specimen. Pictures of Roosevelt were hung everywhere there was an opportunity to display the familiar likeness. One little one of Senator Dixon reposed on the left. Dr. William Sloan of Helena offered prayer. There was no opposition to the committee report that Senator Dixon be made temporary chairman. He was escorted to the platform by Sam Gordon and Conrad Kohrs. There were some seconds of demonstration when the senator appeared. He was introduced by Chairman Everett. Mr. Dixon slad [sic] that he was glad to see that the men and women of Montana were not out of touch with 90,000,000 of their fellow countrymen. He touched upon progressive conventions in different parts of the country. ### Tells How It Started. How Theodore Roosevelt got into the contest, Senator Dixon explained at length, beginning with the growing desire of people within the republican party for a change. Senator La Follette's movement and its so-called collapse was described. The speaker said that Roosevelt had been urged time and time again to enter the contest. He did not want to run, he said, but tried his best to keep out of it, and it was not until he had been told that he was the last and only hope of the progressives that he consented to sacrifice himself and hurled his hat into the ring. "The greatest sacrifice, the most heroic act of Theodore Roosevelt's life," said Senator Dixon. He continued his story of the preliminary campaign. Telling how the Roosevelt men waited for 30 days in their headquarters for some state to report Roosevelt delegates elected. Then came Pennsylvania, where, Senator Dixon said Senator Penrose had told him that if they got 10 Roosevelt delegates in that state Penrose would consider it a personal disgrace. He went on with the results of the campaign from state to state. His mention of Pennsylvania brought forth a cheer. Illinois stepped by without notice from the delegates. He took up Montana and claimed that the state would have been as overwhelming for Roosevelt as had Pennsylvania if tho voters could have expressed their preference. But the invisible empir[e?] was at work, he said. "The Amalgamated spent better than $16,000 to carry Missoula. What a sweet morsel they had to roll under their tongues that Dixon's home town had gone for Taft. ### Passed up Montana. "The real truth is that we were so busy looking after the big states that we didn't pay any attention to Montana. The result did not cut much ice. The New York newspapers didn't pay any attention to it. Its effect that was so much desired was lost." The story of Chicago was retold He denied that Roosevelt had declined to withdraw. Senator Dixon said that h[e?] (Continued on Page Four.)