NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering JUSTICE CHARLES E. HUGHES for President, and Charles W. Fairbanks for Vice President—that is the Republican ticket nominated at Chicago. President Woodrow Wilson for...
...It was Wilson and Marshall...
...in the eyes of most political observers, appears to have been "ruthlessly murdered" at Chicago during the convention week...
...Francis Der-went Wood to help make the fate of the faceless men a little more bearable...
...THE OUTCOME of the Democratic convention at St...
...Roosevelt —¦ represented most assiduously at Chicago by Perkins-made desperate efforts to secure the Republican nomination...
...Yes, they are intended to be removed at night, exactly like a set of false teeth, and they are easily cleaned with a little potato-juice...
...Faces Shot Away One of War's Ghastly Tolls MAKING artificial faces is an industry—or an art—that has been stimulated by the war...
...with a platform meeting entirely the approval of the present Administration...
...and declared that President Wilson had refused steadfastly to let the nation be pushed into war, for he was "patriot before he was a politician...
...While the Old Guard bosses of the Lodge, Penrose, Crane, Cannon, Dtpew type of Republicans were able to frame and "put over" upon the convention a thoroughly reactionary platform, they nevertheless found it entirely beyond their power to dictate nomination of any of their "pet" reactionary candidates upon an assemblage of delegates who were thoroughly imbued with the idea that Charles Evans Hughes was the "man j of the hour...
...Before the war he was a taxi-driver...
...The following instance is quoted as giving an idea of Mr...
...The bitter cup of the earnest but misled Bull Moosers Was filled to overflowing when Roosevelt declined their nomination, except on "conditional terms" which made these delegates feel that the refusal was in effect final, and that the party they had served so zealously and so devotedly had proved in the end to be merely the instrument of an unscrupulous, double-dealing and thoroughly reactionary leader...
...The Bull Moose party, just a few j minutes after the nomination of Justice Hughes on the third ballot by a vote of 949 1-2 out of a total of 987— which was later made unanimous— hastened to nominate Roosevelt as the Progressive Party candidate for President and John M. Parker of Louisiana as the Bull Moose candidate for Vice President, by acclamation...
...Compromises and conferences between the Roose-vent crowd and the Old Guard Republican crowd - were held from day to day...
...His nose had been carried away almost entirely and his left cheek torn open from his ear to the corner of his mouth...
...Louis was a foregone conclusion long before the delegates gathered...
...They are light to wear, they fit like gloves, and the men declare that they give no discomfort whatever...
...praised the Democratic administration for enacting "more progressive remedial legislation than had ever been written on the statute books since the nation's birth...
...When he saw himself with his mask for the first time,' said the sculptor, 'he jumped for joy.' " The sculptor tells how these "false faces" are worn, thus: "My 'masks,' as we call them, consist of plates of thin copper, silvered, and then painted to match the hue of the patient's skin...
...Like most of these victims of facial disfigurement, he has had to undergo operation after operation...
...Munition makers, reaping vast profits from the hysterical propaganda for "preparedness" used every effort to force Roosevelt upon the ¦ Republican convention...
...Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, as chairman of this convention eulogized this Administration...
...President Woodrow Wilson for reelection as President, and Vice-President Thomas R- Marshall for reelection as Vice President—that is the ticket nominated at the Democratic convention in St...
...its "watchful waiting" policy in Mexico...
...Louis...
...Big Business was "whooping it up for Teddy...
...It did, however, serve to make the Roosevelt followers in the Progressive party convention "furiously angry" and "sick at heart...
...For the first time in years political observers were generally agreed that the Republican convention of 191G, while boss-controlled as far as the platform and routine proceedings were concerned, was entirely beyond the control of any boss or set of bosses as to the candidate, because of the steadfast attitude of delegates who had come with a fixed idea of making Justice Hughes the standard bearer of the party...
...This suggestion created not even a ripple of concern among the Republican delegates...
...He received his wound on May 13 of last year...
...Thousands of men come back from the trenches alive, but with faces blown away...
...Meanwhile the delegates to the Progressive convention were soothed, cajoled, and "jollied" into delaying the action they had come many miles to Chicago to take—the,, nomination of Roosevelt—while the Roosevelt managers employed every means at their command to force his nomination upon the Republicans...
...its dependence upon "reason and humanity in solving difficut and critical international problems...
...Now, made at least presentable by the wonderful 'facial mask' which Wood has contrived for him a mask consisting of false nose, cheek, and a 'mustache' which conceals his injured lip, ex-Trooper Everitt is plying hi old trade again and doing well at it...
...This party was betrayed by its "father"— Theodore Roosevelt—and by its "financial angel"—George W. Perkins of Morgan and the Harvester Trust—and...
...In this they failed...
...It remained for an Anglo-American sculptor, Mr...
...Finally, he was brought to a London hospital on September 2, and up to a couple of weeks ago, despite the fact that his wound had entirely healed and surgery admittedly had done all that it could for him, he remained a sad sight...
...Most of them can be kept in place by means of 'ether gum,' such as actors use, but in cases of artificial eyes aud noses 1 prefer to 'build' them on to spectacles, which assist to keep them in place and which themselves are held firm by means of a couple of small straps at the back...
...A writer in the New York Sun reports that these men without faces have the hardest fate of all the war cripples, because their appearance is so ghastly that they are "shunned by all save the most stoical of their fellows...
...Wood's work: "The most pathetic ease was that of a trooper named Everitt, whose face had been broken by an explosive bullet...
...The Progressive Party...
...Roosevelt, finding himself beaten, made telegraphic endeavors to secure the nomination of the reactionary Senator Lodge of Massachusetts—his friend and co-worker through many years of political life—as a "compromise candidate" for the Republicans...
Vol. 8 • June 1916 • No. 6
