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Show Hid E3oraId-lcpub!!Ga- Oaily and Sunday, for Fiftoon Oonfs a Uosk, fho Oroafosf Newspaper Bargain in the Oreaf l7ost n, X. Salt Lake Smelter Settlements Lead. 7.30. rrW Silver. 66V2C 02. THE Copper (Cath.), $27,425. "f PfP A T tl ;Zinc (St Loui3)f 513.00. iiijiAuo Inter-Moanta- ln Vol. 12. No. 22. m TTiV A TT II 17 Av it I I Republican. 1 TfTvTCr TO)' ' I Try a classified want ad. Busy men always turn to the classified page when they want help. A I Tuesday and Wednesday Warmer. Fair; EATHKH. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY, JUNE G, Salt Lake ITeraM. PRICE FIVE CENTS 1916 n Vol. 174. No. 32. 11 MOTES LEADS FIELD MIJSS BE(SIM llliWE h u0) iT TE1 MM P0 LODGE IS READY KEYSTONE AMERICANISM,. HUGHES GENERAL If Roosevelt Won't Support the J TO GO OVER TO OF REPUBLIC AN PLATFORM 1 5 - us-lice- , the Colonel Will Be Told T0D0 His Worst COLONEL'S SIDE Massachusetts Senator After f Roosevelt, However, Is Not Expected To Go To Extremes When He Can Practically ' Dictate Man of His Own Choosing BY ARTHUR . J. BROWN 5. con-venti- on Politics Progressives Playing the national committee voted Progressive Although today to defer any nomination by the 'Progressive Convention until Saturday, and named a steering committee to confer with the Republicans, the olive branch is scarcely more than a twig. The Progressive leaders are playing politics and a great many disgusted observers are quite willing to take oath it is peanut politics. This morning- the intimated they were willing to take Judge Hughes, provided he issued a statement that he favored preparedness and a firm foreign policy, and would resign from the supreme bench immediately following that declaration of .faith. Inasmuch as Mr. Hughes has not made any statement he has 110 intention of making any, and has several important decisions to announce next week, which effectually prevent him from saying a word varc read- - to seen the Progressive-leaderpolitically, it can readily-bwelcome anything that cannot occur. - -- s e and Perkins Confer Republicans leaders arc Although the Republican and - in nightly Progressive and daily conferences they have gotten nowhere. Murray A. Crane of Massachusetts. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, Senator Weeks, Senator Sherman of Illinois, Chairman Charles D. Hilles of the Republican national committee, and Senator Reed Smoot of Utah have been with Chairman George XV. Perkins all afternoon. Tliev were with him last night and they arc together tonight in a conference which legan at S o'clock ami will proktbly continue until long after this has been printed in Salt Lake. They cannot accomplish anything because Colonel Rooevelt insists upon being nominated and the men who represent him dare not agree to anything else. It should W deduced from the foregoing that the probabilities of reunion arc not good, although nolxnlv of adult age and capable of connected thought needs to lie told that olitics is a secretive game where only 1 per cent is strength and the remaining 99 per cent bluff. At the nirancnt they arc about to yield both Republicans and Progressives will I? protesting their loudest that they would rather go down their consciences to be' ravished in one red burial blent which licentious the Jlic opposition is putting forward. by proposals For instance, George V. Perkins, who pays most of the expenses of the Progressive party, and is therefore entitled to do most of tin. talking, said tonight that he is "for harmony between the two conventions" ami will "use every ounce of my ability to bring it about." Yet he wishes it understood that not for one minute will be lose sight of the fact that "you can. pay too high a price for almost anything and you certainly can pay too high a price for harmony. , than-permi- ) t, to Show Perkins WantsMr.Something Perkins is quite anxious to go home All of this means that Trom Chicago with something more profitable than a forlorn hope to finance, but docs not wish the fellows across the table to think that he is on the bargain counter. Concerning the nominee in case Colonel Roosevelt agrees to support the ticket provided Justice Hughes is discarded and a third man chosen, he has not even been selected. Curiously enough on the eve of a Republican national convention with the calmest and most levelheaded bunch of delegates that were ever gathered together the strongest with those delegates is by no means certain of a nomination and the third man who will get the honor has not been even tentatively decided. The first job is to induce Mr. Roosevelt to quit behaving like a small 1xy who wants to break the dishes because he cannot play with them. After that has. been done and the colonel has been brought to that sweet reasonableness that ought to bring brethren together in harmony jjie third man can be chosen. He may be Senator Weeks or Senator Sherman or Senator Root or P. C. Knox, and their chances are according to the order in which they are named here. With Delegates Strong Hughes Justice Hughes is the strongest name with the delegates and Frank ; TI. Hitchcock, who comes as near representing him as anybody, since V nolxxly represents him, declares there are already enough delegates committed to Hughes to nominate him. "Justice Hughes will receive more rotes," said Mr. Hitchcock, "on the first ballot than the combined vote cf the 'favorite sons' candidates and his nomination on an early ballot inevitable." One of the reason w hy delegates are declaring for Hughes as. rapidly as they arrive is that they wish to put a quietus on the Roosevelt lootn. They have been told and they believe it, in fact, everybody here believes it. that Hughes is the only Republican who can win without the Roosevelt support. They are quite willing to shift to somebody else, especially in view. of the miusoleumlike character of the Hughes retafter icence, once they arc assured there is no chance for Roosevelt-anwill he else. them assured has the latter support somebody , There is no enthusiasm for Hughes, although more delegates are Vreadv to vote for him than for anybody else, because nobody knows v.hcrc he stands, the word nolxxly being used to indicate the common is d ( Continued on Pae OFFENSIVE T ZENITH Senator Sutherland, Who Is Active in Its Framing, Suggests That All Other Features Be Built Around It Backers of Other Candidates CHICAGO, June 5. Although the disposition among Republican leaders is Muscovites Everywhere Are decision on the platform to the convention '.itself, consideration SENATOR SMOOT AND Who Fostered Movement for was given today to outstanding features. The advance preparation which Using Large Numbers of Men characterized other conventions has been lacking, but Senators Lodge,. Borah, HILLES VISIT PERKINS New Yorker Now Fear It Has Sutherland and many others in the Senate and House have had suggestions and Guns and Attacks Are , probably will form the .basis These weeks. under for consideration many Assumed Such Proportions for discussion in the committee .on resolutions when it gets to Violent Along Bessarabian work,, with Convinced Leaders Republican the as the convention final' It Cannot Be Controlled judge. Front and Dniester Region Every effort will be made in the Rank and File of Progressives are followed, if platform,, to incorporatesuggestions some Progressive party Is Determined to Make MANAGERS OF 'FAVORITE Ideas.A recall probably will SUCCESSES ACHIEVED not be approved plank Roosevelt Their Nominee by leaders in platform , . -- " ' The nominee of the Republican national will be Justice Charles E. Hughes, or a third man. There docs not seem even the remote possibility that it will be Theodore Kooevclt, since it docs "not appear that he has over 100 delegates in the convention. If he and his supporters do not agree to support some Republican, Hughes will be nominated and Mr. Roosevelt will be asked to do the worst he knows. If he will come into the reservation, and be good, he can have a potent voice in deciding who the nominee shall be. CHICAGO, June ' Conferences With Progressives Says He Will Do So as Soon as Weeks Releases Him UMOOSERS PLAYING POLITICS 1 BOOM-A- - SONS' MAKE NO HEADWAY ROOT MAY BE COMPROMISE Republican Leaders to Obtain 5. After Senator Harmony Are Willing to ConCHICAGO, June Massachusetts had encede the Veto to Roosevelt; scries of conferences with in a gaged Will Allow Him to Select Man supporters of Colonel Roosevelt in both Republican and Progressive parWhom He Would Support ties, it was reported tonight that Senator Lodge will be 'for the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt as soon as he is released from his pledge to PERKINS SENDS FOR LODGE support Senator Weeks. Over the telephone Senator Lodge answered the report as follows: CHICAGO, June 5. the several candidates "I have not said to anyone that I the for Republican presidential nomwould support any one other than Senaination are in a preplexing predica-men- ti tor Weeks. I am going to nominate tonight.: Having fostered senhim and support him.' Other than voting for Senator Weeks my mind Is timent in favor of Justice Hughes until they fety sure Colonel Roosevelt , open." 4 For Sake of Harmony. was difinitely eliminated, they now Soon after noon today Senator Lodge fear they cannot control the Hughes had a ions talk with Georfc'e W. Per- movement. . ." V kins, head. of the Roosevelt adherents. was the it grow to the proIt was said thn that the meeting During day "in the Interest of harmony," and that portions of a boom. Effort is being "candidacies were discussed." Neith- made to concentrate all elements er of the participants, however, would against it,, and indications are that say anything further. Karller In the day Mr. Perkins met K. the veto of the Progressive party, of Philadelphia; A. Van Valkcnburg of course, means Colonel John T. King of Bridgeport, Conn.: which, s disapproval of Hughes, Roosevelt Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, and he former Senator Hemingway of Indiana. may sought as a check. This meeting took place in a private Harmony above everything else is house and it was said the purpose, the desire of the leaders. Without it succeeded. whatever It was, had not answer would the nominee . hour. purpose any dinner Senator the During Lodge was with former Secretary because It Is recognized that unless the Meyer, the leader of the forces seeking Republicans and Progressives get tothe Republican nomination for Colonel Roosevelt and tonight there were con- gether their chance of success at the ferences between Senator Lodge and polls is very slim. other Roosevelt adherents. Will Give Moonevelt Ve1o. , ' " . ; , Senator Lodge is to place Senator Weeks in nomination. It Is ''expected h will keep his pledge to support his colleague so long as he is a. factor in the voting but his sudden Intlmacy with the principal Roosevelt workers (Continued on Page 6.) To obtain harmony the Republican leaders are willing to concede to Colonel Roosevelt the veto power in some form. Some of the leaders say he should be willing .to select one or two men who would be acceptable to him from the list of candidates in the field. Others think he should suggest men for consideration by 'convention leaders, and practically all of the party chiefs are willing to admit that any of the candidates definitely rejected by Mr. not be nominated. Roosevelt could, Impartial ' observers within the Republican ranks do not consider that the unexpected growth of the Hughes boom is necessarily an indication of personal popularity of the justice among the delegates. Those who promoted It in opposition to what proved to be an exaggerated estimate of the General Storm Throughout expected demand for the nomination ol were surprised at its growth. Roosevelt in Most Severe but State, The Individual candidates were working independently and therefore there Northern Part. was io canvass of "the extent to which Hughes was the second choice of their supporters. This was found to be far ROCK, Ark.. June 5. (Continued on Page 6.) LITTLE persons are reported killed and more than a hundred Injured InAr- a series of tornadoes which swept kansas this afternoon. 'All means of communication are crippled and it Is feared the list of dead and injured will be greatly increased by later reports. The dead thus far reported are as follows: Judscnia. White county. 23 known dead and 50 injured. Senator Smoot Making Efforts Ileber Springs, 18 dead. 4 He Lark, Dallas county, dead. to Have All From the State Cabot, White 4 county, 5 dead. dead. Hot Springs. See Convention. Morrillton, 1 dead. 2 Greenland, Washington county, .dead. RY ARTHUR J. BROWN. North Arkansas appears to have suffered most severely, although the storm Chicago, June 5. With the arrival of was general throughout the state. Governor Spry and W. D. Candland, tod of the town morrow the At Judsonla Utah delegation to the Rewas said to have been swept away. publican national convention will be on bodies and fifty injured the ground. Headquarters were opened Twenty-fiv- e had. been taken from the ruins by morning at room 530 Auditorium already at 10 o'c lock, reports said. hotel, where Utah visitors are regisThe Little Rock dispatcher's office of tering as fast as possible and seeking the Iron Mountain railroad received a convention tickets. Senator Smoot is report that eighteen persons had been trying to enable air of them to witkilled at Judsonla, White county, and ness the great gathering and will probthat there are eleven dead at Heber ably be able to do so. Senator Sutherland and Congressman Immediately after this reSprings. port was received the wires failed. All Howell, delegates at large, arrived this ether means of communication were morning from Washington, and Mayor cut off. Abbot R. Hey wood of Ogden, also of Wire service is 'almost paralyzed the delegation, arrived from his home throughout the state and many hours city, accompanied by Mrs. Hey wood. pr.obably will elapse before the full ex- Others who reached here during the tent of the storm is known. day were former Senator Charles Near Morrillton a negro was killed of Ogden. Allen M. and a negress was blown away. ' She of Logan. James M. Klrkham Fleming of Lehi. has not been found. A white woman Dr. K. P. Hammond of Moab. accomand several children also were hurt. panied by his son, also Mr. and Mrs. A peore or more of persons were inMoroni Helner of Salt Lake.. A. B.' jured on the outskirts of Little Rock Apperson is expected tomorrow. Harry and towns close to the city. Reports S. Joseph came in this morning from indicate that hundreds of buildings Cincinnati and John Pingree will be have been blown down throughout the here tomorrow with G. A. Becker of - - 59 Killed in Tornadoes in Arkansas : UTAHNS ON DECK IN WINDY CITY ' one-thir- . Hol-lingswo- state. Ogden. framing, but a strong fight will be made for an indorsement of woman IN IMPORTANT euffrage. In what the three senators have done thefirst thought has been to give the greatest prominence to Americanism. Senator Sutherland has gone so far as to suggest that this word should he used as a key to. the whole Lai. V ryp n superstructure, all other declarations being built around a ringing proI nouncement in favor of American nationalism. His belief Is that a satis' factory platform could be constructed upon that principle and that even the I tariff plank could be made to tit into a declaration'for Americanism only. While not committing themselves entirely to this plan of procedure, other 8 platform builders support an declaration for nationalism. .Some of them are. Inclined to the belief that this plan might result in too great restriction and thus exclude many necessary matters. Some also are getting away from the thought that the should be exceptionally brief.platform "We do not want .to be uselessly StSXATOR. LODGE. prolix," said Senator Borah soon after his arrival today, "but we can not, and ' must not overlook the fact that the Republican is out.of power, and. that being theicasewe owe it to the country to party, a comprehensive .'statement of .'the, basis of our present appeal for support. If we had a Republican President his record might be sufficient platform in itself. Not thus situated, we are called upon to say what w'e propose to "do and,'being Incidentally, to point out "some of the mistakes of our opponents. We should not deny ' ourselves this opportunity ' in our desire to be epigrammatic." DEMOCRATIC 'POLICIES CRITICIZED. As the draft stands It is at once a criticism of the Democratic management of foreign affairs as .vacillating and unsatisfactory, and ' a pronouncement in favor protection of ' the lives and - property of American citizens at home and abroad. The Democratic ' direction of affairs in connection ;wlth Mexico will be attacked with special severity as totally inadequate to the demands of the situation, but no declaration for actual Intervention in Mexico is contemplated now. An arm j' and navy adequate to the protection of American Interests will be advocated as the best means of preserving, peace and pro, , t tecting the national honor. The tariff plank will, include not only the usual Republican pronouncement in support of the principle of protection, butthere 'will be an assertion of the inadequacy of the present tariff law to meet revenue demands. will be asserted , that, but for the. stimulus of 'the war, business in the United States would have suffered many hardships, as a result of the Underwood-Simmon- s would law, while at the same time the. have been continuously empty. Promise ' will be made of an treasury immediate revision that will be to'' the advantage both of the national- treasury and of In the interest of private business. A tariff commission will be demanded . the stability and equality of the. tariff. - '&C' N - f SECTORS Austrians Are Subjected to Severe Shelling, While Numerous Teuton Positions Are Captured as Well as 13,000 Prisoners In Volhynia STILL ITALIANS RETIRING out-and-o- ut - , -- : ! . . . of-th- ": . , , . ; , - . . - . . WILL APPEAL TO PROGRESSIVES. Much attention Is to be given tofeatures of the platform which, it is believed, will appeal to the Progressive element and to the former members of the party who supportd Colonel Roosevelt four, years ago. To this end tentative planks have been prepared covering most of the distinctive points of Progressive platform in 1912. These do not include an Indorsement of t the recall, but they do embrace-thsubject of woman suffrage. It Is the belief of the framers of these provisions that ;the declaration along should be so comprehensive and clear "as .to leave no Progressive lines for opposition on. this score. The advocates- - of the suffrage provision ground expect a fight, but say they have an equal chance to win. Senator Lodge, it is conceded, will be chairman-of-thresolution's committee. He has filled this position In previous conventions and it is believed his experience, as well as his knowledge pf$ legislation and of forelg-- and domestic affairs will greatly facilitate its work, lie is credited with the authorship of,tothe proposed declarations concerning foreign affairs, but he discuss the platform in any of its phases. refused today -- te e . w e -- -- The long, LONDON, June 5.offensive of the general Russians against the Teutons seemingly has begun. From both Petro-gra- d and Vienna come reports that the Russians are actively engaged over a front from the Pripst river, east of to the frontier a - distance of about ' , Brest-Litovs- Rou-man- ia k, 250 miles. The Russians everywhere are usin large numbers of guns and men, and, according, to Petrograd, have achieved successes on many important sectors, taking 13.000 prisoners and a number of guns, and destroying or capturing Teuton positions. Along the Bessarabian front, in' the Dniester region along the lower Stripa and in Volsynla "the Russian attacks have been particularly violent. In the region cf Olyka, in the zone of the fortress triangle, the Russian guns have shelled a front of more than fifteen miles in length, held by the Austrian archduke, Joseph Ferdinand. Verdun Situation Unchanged. Around Verdun bad weather has set in and as a result the infantry of both sides have kept to their trenches and only bombardments have taken place. No new changes In position are recorded. Around Vaux and Damloup, northeast of Verdun, the bombardment on both sides has continued with considerable intensity, while to the west of the Meuse the shelling has been only intermittent. On the remainder of the front In France, except around Ypres, the situation is reported quiet. About Tpres, however, the Germans and Canadians are continuing the violent fighting that has been in progress since last week, when the Germans, under & terrific rain of shells,, captured Canadian positions which later were retaken in hand to hand and bombing encounters. Returning to the attack Sunday, the Germans again forced the Canadians (Continued on Page 2.) Vol-hynl- an Constitution REPUBLICAN PLATFORM TO Set Aside by INCLUDE SUFFRAGE PLANK U. S. Senate "v',:-.- - Special Measure of Some Sort Necessitated by Four-da- y Adjournment. June 5. Members of WASHINGTON, were much exercised today over what they insisted was a violation by the. Senate of the constitutional provision that neither House shall adjourn for more than three days at a time' without the consent of the . other. The Senate adjourned Saturday until noon Thursday, the leaders counting recess because of the that a three-da- y intervening Sunday. Republican Leader Mann, supported by Representative Garrett of Tennessee and other House brought the matter parliamentarians, formally to the attention of Speaker Clark today and the speaker agreed that a very bad precedent had been set. Later Democratic senators suggested informally that the Houue dispose of the situation by adopting a to a four-da- y adjournment. .consenting l"t was said tonight this might be done, or, that if a quorum of the Senate could be mustered, a session of that body would be called for Wednesday. CAHS TIEIJ L'I IX Ill'TTK. Butte. Mont.. June 5. Street cars were nor operating today in Butte. The union has strike of the Workingmen's tied up transportation and miners walked or rode to their work in jit. ney ... Task of Getting It Into Shape Entrusted to Senator Sutherland and Borah . . - "' ' BY ARTHUR J. BROWN". June So'; far as is humanly possible in advance of the ;v CHICAGO,' resolutions committee, it has been decided there shall be a woman ?s suffrage plank in the Republican national platform as well as in the Progressive platform: Senator Lodge, who is to be chairman of the Republican committee on resolutions, has opposed it bitterly, but weight of opinion among the leaders is against him. The plank has not been written, but both Justice Hughes and Colonel Roosevelt have been advised and it will be included, and both are in favor of it. The task of getting it into shape AVill, be entrusted to Senator Sutherland of Utah and Senator Borah of Idaho, both of whom have taken an active part in forcing the matter upon ': - the attention of the senators arrived from Washington today. After a few hours devoted toi canvassing the' situation with the leaders with whom he came into contact, Senator Borah expressed the opinion that there are several presidential possibilities who can unite the Republican party" and weld 'it into a force that ..ill achieve victory. He was told that the Roosevelt stock seerrd to be going down, but he advised that this opinion should not be taken seriously. "You never can tell about the Roosevelt stock." he remarked. One unqualified statement made by the Idaho senator was that the Republicans and Progressives would found voting together for the same candidate in November, whether they made an netual coalition in Chicago or not, and another was that the plat " . - form would contain an equal suffrage plank. "I believe there are severM mfn who can be tiominated.this week," he said, "and who will unify the Republican and Progressive force, at any rate, they will be united at poll time. The Republican platform ought, to be a progress! ve. I believe the platform will Indorse woman suffrage and Americanism will predominate. Americanism, of course, covers many things, but the Republican party should leave no doubt in the minds of the people of the country as to what they stand for when they draw up their platform. This has made some questions dominant, but it has eliminated other questions that would have arisen If the war had not occurred. Many of these latter questions ccme under the head of social justice planks and must h. given consideration." |