TAFT AND SHERMAN ARE RENOMINATED
Poll of Yotes Gives Talt 561; Roosevelt, 107; La Follette, 41; Cam
mins, 17; Hughes, 2; Present, bat Not Voting, 344.
BOLTING DELEGATES NOMINATE COLONEL ROOSEYELT
Chicago.—Amid exciting scenes of
turbulence and disorder, which at
times bordered upon a riot, the Repub
lican National Convention wound up
Its labors by nominating Willjam How
ard Taft of Ohio for President and
James Schoolcraft Sherman of New
York for Vice President.
President Taft was renominated at
9:28 o'clock, p. m., by a majority of 21
votes. The total vote cast for him
was 561. Vice President Sherman did
much better. His vote was announced
a* 597.
The vote on the Presidential candi
dates was:
Taft 561
Roosevelt 107
Cummins 17
La Follette 41
Hughes 2
Not voting 344
Absent 6
Total 1,078
President Taft's and Senator La Fol
fette's names were the only ones form
ally presented to the convention. The
E EJCO LIS E U M
votes for the others were cast by dele
gates who insisted on following their '
instructions and two who favored Jus- '
tice Hughes.
111 the meantime, followers of Theo
dore Roosevelt named him on a third, I
or progressive ticket, at a "rump" con- I
vention in Orchestra Hall. Mr. Roose- I
velt accepted the nomination, and in |
a brief speech told his delegates togo I
home, organize State tickets, place a j
ticket in each Congressional district j
and then call another great national i
convention at which he would accept !
the nomination at the hands of pro
gressives of all parties.
In the regular convention Mr. Taft j
was nominated on the first ballot.
Mr. Taft was placed in nomination !
by Judge Harding, of Ohio, who ex- j
tolled the virtues of the President and J
scored the enemies of the party.
The convention adopted a conserva- 1
tive platform, very similar to the plat- j
forms of the Republican party in past j
years.
The vote on Vice-President was: I
Sherman, 597; Borah, 21; Hadley, 14; j
Merriam, 20; Beveridge, 2; Gillette, 1. j
Three hundred and thirty-eight dele
gates were present but did not vote, j
Eighty-five were absent.
Mr. Roosevelt's "rump" convention !
in Orchestra Hall was by far the most '
exciting meeting ever held in this city, j
It was presided over by Gov. John- I
son, of California. Among those pres- I
ent were Senator Dixon, Former Gov- j
ernor Fort, of New Jersey; Frank A.
Munsey and all of the Roosevelt dele- |
gates who were thrown out of the reg- I
ular Republican convention by the Taft
steam roller.
The Roosevelt delegates who refused |
to bolt with him comprised such lead- j
ers as Governor Hadley, Stubbs and !
Borah. They and their delegates re
mained in the regular Republican con
vention, but did not vote.
President Taft was renominated at
the end of a wild and riotous day which
had produced everything from argu
ment to fist fights.
The final session of the convention '
began at 1 45, when Senator Root's j
gavel whacked the table.
The convention had been adjourned j
to meet at 10 o'clock, but at that hour
only a few delegates were in their
seats. It was a weary and faded look
ing lot that came slowly into the Coli
seum. Not only had they been getting
little sleep, but the long sessions j
meant sandwiches for sustenance until j
veil along in the evening.
E | The Washington contests involved a j
. j Presidential primary. The Roosevelt I
• j men in the Pennsylvania delegation |
i | began singing "John Brown's Body." |
■ j There were few raps of the gavel, and j
1 j Senator Root and others on the plat- !
form sat and smiled throughout a 1
j great deal of the noise. Whistles and j
| toots imitating a steam roller came j
j from some of the delegates. A rolling j
i pin was lifted high on a pole, provok- j
j ing more laughter.
H. T. Halbert defended the minority I
[ report on the Washington case and !
said that he had a statement to make I
on behalf of the minority members of
the committee.
The issue in the Washington case, j
Mr. Halbert said, was one of simple
morality. "The acceptance of the re-!
port of the majority," he added, "will j
put before this convention one of two j
alternatives, defeat or Theodore
Roosevelt."
There was laughter from the Taft ;
forces and cheers from the Roosevelt
i men.
' "Merrily we roll along," they sang,
the chorus filling ttie convention hall.
' John C. Dight, a Pennsylvania man,
! got up on his chair and shrieked
j through a megaphone: "One more
stiff for the undertaker!"
[ There were few vacant seats in the
[ gallery when the day's proceedings be
| gan and few left their seats through
| the long session.
The session was opened with pray
jer by John Wesley Hill. He is a
j close friend of President Taft and has
I been stumping for him. He prayed 1
| fervently for the President and that
the country might be spared from rev
| olution.
The Mississippi contests were taken
up and the Taft delegates, as usual,
soated with a viva voce vote; this viva
voce vote began soon to provoke
j hoots and yells. First would come j
| the "ayes" in a great volume of sound
I and then the "noes" in what seemed
to be even greater volume, and when
Senator Root would announce that the
ayes had it the Roosevelt men yelled
derisively.
When the Washington delegates at !
: large were reached a Roosevelt dele- .
j gate interrupted the proceedings with,
a Doint of order. i
! Asked to etate It, he said: "Our
Complaiut i«s that the steam roller is
exceeding the speed limit."
Even Chairman Hoot had to laugh.
"The chair will rule the point or or
der is sustained—the justification is
that we have some hope o£ getting
home on Sunday," he said.
"Pennsylvania nominates Jim Wat
son of Indiana for Coroner," came a
minute later through the megaphone.
The galleries were laughing and
cheering in turns. Chairman Rose
water happened to pass by the Penn
sylvanians. One of Flinn's biggest
henchmen picked him up like a baby.
"Now we got Rose water!" came the
cry.
! A big Texan sitting opposite grab
j bed Rosewater and held him up in the
air in return. It was all done in a
! spirit of fun, but little Rosewater did
not seem to enjoy it greatly. Lidly, a
j Californian man for Roosevelt, started
| the "We want Teddy" cry, but the
delegates were too tired to keep it go
j iug very long.
Finally Miss Flo Jacobson, a profes
sional singer, got up in the band gal
lery and sang "My Country, 'Tis of
Thee."
All the delegates got up and for a
while things quieted down. It, started
up wiili the resumption of business.
The session was clearly the most dis
orderly yet.
It was 2:45 when the credentials
committee finished its report. The per
manent organization committee's re
port naming Senator Root as perma
nent chairman was received and adopt
ed. The Taft men rose to their feet
cheering.
Air. Hoot came forward ail was
cheered by the Taft forces. After
thanking the convention he asked for
unanimous consent for some remarks
from Henry J. Allen of Kansas, a
Roosevelt man. The Kansan said if he
had quiet he would guarantee not to
put any sand in the gasolene.
Then -Mr. Allen said: "The first ;
thing I shall do is to read to you a i
statement placed in my hands by the '
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt."
This was unexpected except by a
few who had seen the statement. It
brought (he Roosevelt men to their
| feet. They stood on chairs, waving
; hats and flags and holding up pictures
of the Colonel.
While the cheering went on Repre
sentative and Mrs. Nicholas Long- i
worth came in and took their seats.
The Roosevelt men began to parade,
filing slowly through the aisles. The
| congestion became so great that the {
police began turning them back. They
I refused to take their seats, however, ;
; and kept on pushing through the |
j crowded aisles. The standards of i
Massachusetts, Maine, South Dakota, i
West Virginia, North Carolina, Okla
homa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indi
ana, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio and
California were carried around, and
j some of their bearers seemed to be
half frantic.
Mr. Allen said when order was re
stored: "This statement from Mr.
Roosevelt and any comment I have to j
j make on the case is not for the pur
pose of creating a demonstration in
! this convention. I will not read the
j whole of his statement because the
delegates have it in their hands.
Mr. Root let the Roosevelt demon-
I stration goon for twenty minutes be- j
i fore trying to restore order. With a
! few raps of his gavel it subsided.
It was 3:JO when Mr. Allen began
reading the Roosevelt statement. !
! There were a good many interruptions.
At the Colonel's request that the i
Roosevelt delegates should not vote !
there were cheers and jeers.
"If a man doesn't know when he's
dead his friends ought to know," said |
a man in the gallery and there was an
uproar.
After the hullaballoo over the Col
onel's statement and Mr. Allen's re
marks was over the regular program
me was taken up.
First came the report of the rules
committee and then ex-Vice-President
Fairbanks, chairman of the committee
on resolutions came forward to read
' th# platform. The Taft men cheered
him.
I No minority report on platform was
presented by the Roosevelt men. Sen
ator Owen of Wisconsin offered the
La Toilette platform containing the
Senator's well known doctrines.
Both sides cheered when the vote
on the platform wan announced. It
was 666 ayes, 16 absent, 343 not voting
I and 53 noes.
The roll call on the platform havin;
been completed and announced time
| came for the presentation of candi
j dates for the Presidency; it was »:55
j o'clock.
When lowa was reached there was a
hush, but no response came,
j The first mention of Mr. Taft's name
i by Warren G. Harding, who came for
| ward to nominate Taft when Ohio was
| called, was the signal for a Taft de
monstration. The Taft men jumped up
1 on their chairs, but the Roosevelt men
i sat silent. There was practically no
! cheering among the spectators.
The Taft demonstration got going
I when a man grabbed a silk banner
with Taft's picture on it and started
| a Taft parade. Another man came
j forward on the platform with a picture
of Mr. Taft. Taft men kept howling
I like dervishes. Mr. Harding got hold
j of the Taft banner and waved it.
Chairman Root began rapping for
| order before the demonstration for
I Taft had been under way more than
j ien minutes. The Taft men were still
j parading and hurling invidious re
i marks at the Roosevelt men sitting in
i their seats. They provoked only smiles
j in return.
The Taft demonstration lasted twen
! ty minutes. Then Mr. Harding resum
ed his speech. When he said a mo
! ment later President Taft "was the
i greatest progressive of his time" there
! was a storm of boos. The police had
to get busy in several places. There
was great confusion for a few mo
ments. A row started when a South
Dakota delegate "booed" and a Taft
delegate sitting near hit him.
At the conclusion of Mr. Harding's
, speech. Mr. Root introduced John
; Wanamaker of Pennsylvania, who sec-
I onded Taft's nomination.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler also sec
! onded Taft's nomination.
Senator La Follette was putin
nomination by Michael B. Olbrich of
Wisconsin.
He said the fight to-day was one
against industrial despotism.
When he named La Follette the
| Wisconsin men and some of their syin
j pathizers raised quite a respectable
| racket crying "We want Bob!"
! Robert M. Pollack of North Dakota
! seconded this nomination,
j The delegates had now missed lunch
j and dinner; they began sending out
j for sandwiches for their evening meal
and munched them while they listened
! to tile speeches and waited for the
i vote.
They began to call the roll at 8:25
| ■). m.. there were the same cheers
from the Roosevelt men when the Cali
\ fornia delegates refused to vote.
When Illinois was reached Gov. De
j neen got up and said: "Under the
provisions of our primary law some of
! us feel that we have no option but to
! cast our votes for Theodore Roose
| velt." Mr. Roosevelt had not been in
1 nomination.
The President was nominated when
Washington was rrjched. This State
gave him the 540 necessary for his
nomination. All of the West Virginia
delegates refused to vote. This was at
9:30. There were no other refusals
after that. The Taft men got up and
cheered at the end. A band at one of
the entrances began to play and an at
tempt was made to keep the cheering
going, but it fell absolutely flat.
The result was announced at 9:35.
It was: Taft, 561; not voting, 344;
Roosevelt, 107; Hughes, 2: Cummins,
17: La Follette, 41; absent, 6.
"William Howard Taft, having re
ceived a majority of the votes is de
clared renominated for President of
the United States," said Chairman
Root. There was no motion to make
the President's nomination unani
mous. This is unprecedented.
Mr. Root proceeded at once to call
for the nominations for Vice-Presi
dent. The band, however, struck up
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee." Every
body in the hall, even the Roosevelt
men got up and sang.
On the roll call for candidates for
Vice-President Alabama yielded to
New York, ex-Representative J. Van
Veehten Olcott, presenting the name
of Vice-President Sherman.
Arkansas seconded the nomination.
There was no other nomination.
New Hampshire moved to make Sher
man's nomination by acclamation, but
there were some cries of "No!" The
roll had to be called under the rules
any \\ ay. People began to pour out of
the hall and delegates who bad sat for
nearly eleven hours could uot be kept
any longer.
The ballot for Vice-Presdent was as
follows:
James S. Sherman, 597.
Herbert S. Hadley, 14.
Howard Gillette, 1.
Senator William E. Borah, 21.
Charles G. Merriam, 20.
Albert J. Beveridge, 2.
Present but not voting, 352.
Absent, 71.
Senator Root was named as chair
man of the committee to notify Presi
dent Taft, and Thomas H. Devine of
Colorado, chairman of the committee
to notify Mr. Sherman.
At 10.30 Delegate Estabrook, of New
Hampshire, moved that the convention
adjourn without day, and the motion
was adopted. The delegates filed out
in absolute silence. As the last of the
delegates left tne hall, the band play
ed "Praise God, from Whom All Bless
ings Flow."
So closed a National Convention of
unusual length that from start to fin
ish had been a human interest story, a
crowded week of humorous sideligktr
aud interesting incidents.
ROOSEVELT NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT
AT THE BIRTH OF NEW PARTY
In Speech o! Acceptance Appeals to East, West, North and South
lor Support and Galls on Bis Delegates to Go Home,
Feel Public Pulse, Then Reconvene, and Ratify. '
SELECTS A COMMANDMENT TO REPRESENT BIS PLATFORM
Chicago.—The third party is here.
An hour after William Howard Taft
had been renominated by the Republi
can national convention, Theodore
Roosevelt was the nominee of the Na
tional Progressives, assembled in Or
chestra Hall.
A little later he had accepted the
nomination and had asked those who
assisted in launching the new move
ment to convene again in six weeks
and ratify their indorsement of his
candidacy.
The fight -was on. -»
It was Roosevelt's answer.
Never was a new political party
formed under such dramatic circum
stances. The California delegation
was the first to arrive.
They marched to the platform while
everybody yelled.
Assembled in Orchestra Hall were
the delegates who had been instructed
to come to tJ»e Republican national
convention and nominate Roosevelt.
With them were the contestants
whose cases had been thrown out by
the National Committee.
They were determined, enthusiastic,
and they were flanked by a great gath
ering of Roosevelt supporters —a shout
ing, cheering, singing, screaming, de
fiant crowd that could say but one
thing: "We want Teddy!"
It was a simple ceremony, but most
significant when viewed in its relation
to the country's affairs.
A resolution was passed nominating
Roosevelt. He spoke in reply accept
ing it. |
The proceedings were marked by
wild enthusiasm.
The party was born. Governor Had
ley, of Missouri; Governor Deneen, of
Illinois; Senator William E. Borah, of
Idaho, and Senator William Bristow,
of Kansas, were conspicuous for their
absence, but the crowd cared nothing.
The people in the hall —men and wo
men alike —felt they were able to
make the fight themselves and they
were content. And when the nominat
ing resolution had passed and Colonel
Roosevelt had taken the platform it
seemed as if human strength aud hn
man voices fcould do no more.
A speech nominating Colonel Roose
velt was made by Comptroller William
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A. Prendergast, of New York, who was
to have presented the Colonel's name
to the convention. Dean William
Draper Lewis, of the University of
Pennsylvania Law School, who was to
make one of the seconding speeches,
delivered the address which he had
prepared for the Republican conven
tion.
"I want to say that if a popular pri
mary were held in New York to-day j
Mr. Roosevelt would poll more votes
than Mr. Taft," said Mr. Prendergast.
"I do not believe that in his inner con
sciousness the President can look with
any honest pride upon his nomination, i
because he knows it was obtained by
men who have no place in decent so
ciety."
During the cheering that followed
the Pennsylvania delegates arrived j
aud were loudly greeted. Resuming !
his speech, Mr. Preudvgast advanced 1
the ten Commandments as the particu
lar slogan of the new party.
"I make special reference to that
commandment: "Thou shalt not steal,"
he said.
"We place Colonel Roosevelt In
nomination to-night—we, the people of
the United States, the sovereign vot
ers of this land, will elect him in Nov
ember," Mr. Prendergast concluded.
Representatives of twenty-t wo States
composed the notification committee
which informed Colonel Roosevelt of
his nomination, and in a sense stood
as sponsor for the movement. The
committee consisted of Comptroller
W. A. Prendergast, of New York;
Meyer Lissner, of California; Former
Congressman Richmond Pearson, of
North Carolina; Frank Knox, of Michi
gan; Matthew Hale, of Massachusetts;
James R. Garfield, of Ohio; David
Browning, of Kentucky; Kverard Bier
er, Jr., of Utah; Walter Thompson, of
Vermont; Judge Oscar R. Hundley, of
Alabama; Judge Ben B. Liudsey, of
Colorado; Andrew Ralin, of Minne
sota; Judge Stevens, of Iowa; Judgu
Lowder, of North Dakota; Willian Al
len White, of Kansas; John C. Green
way, of Arizona; ex-Governor .John
Franklin Fort, of New Jersey; Colonel
E. C. Carrington, of Maryland; Pearl
Wight, of Louisiana; Lorenzo Dow, of
Washington; Walter Clyde Jones, at
Illinois and Frank Frantz, of Oklaho
ma.
Colonel Roosevelt was escorted to
the hall by this committee, accom
panied by Senator Dixon and Governor
Stubbs, of Kansas. As the Colonel en
tered the hall there was a storm of
applause. The people leaped to their
feet with a shout, and for live minutes
there was pandemonium. Col. Roose
velt mounted the platform and waved
his hands, smiling with delight at the
reception. Whmen he said he would
accept the nomination there was an
other frenzied demonstration.
"Governor Johnson," said Mr. Roose
velt, "you and the honestly elected
delegates, and you, my friends, con
trast this with the Coliseum conven
tion this afternoon. Mark the differ
ence between a people's convention
and a convention operated with a
steam roller.
j "It is fitting that a convention born
in theft, should go out in theft, be
cause I understand when half of tha
Massachusetts delegation refused to
i vote the temporary chairman, follow
ing in the footsteps of the National
: Commitee, saw an opportunity to get
two delegates that had not been got,
I and seized so that a stolen convention
! should end appropriately."
The Colonel expressed his gratifica
tion to the delegates who stood by
| him. He told them togo home, find
out the sentiment of their people aud
then meet in "mass convention to
nominate for the Presidency a pro
gressive candidate on a progressive
platform, a candidate on a progressive
I that will enable us to appeal to the
Northerner and Southerner, Easterner
j and Westerner. Republican and Demo
; crat alike, in the name of our common
American ciUzeusljiß."