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Show acclaim he was escorted to a place on the stage, decorated with a gold badge and handed the convention gavel. Senator Heveridge then delivered his l-.eynote speech. He spoke for more than an hour and a half, expressing some of the advanced ideas of government govern-ment adopted by the new party and paving the way for the even more progressive proposals to be made later to the convention by Colonel Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The temporary chairman was given the closet attention throughout. Once he mention President Taft. in connection with his approval of the Payne tariff law. and instantly there came a storm of jeers and groans from the crowd. The standing committees were appointed ap-pointed in the usual way and then before be-fore the first day'.s proceedings were brought to a close James ft. Garfield H. W. J0HN80N Governor of California of Oliio moved the appointment of a committee of fifteen to invite Colonel Roosevelt to appear before the convention conven-tion Tuesday at noon. The, motion was carried with a whoop and, with due ceremony, the colonel formally accepted. ac-cepted. Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California seemed agreed upon Monday Mon-day night as the vice-presidential nominee nom-inee of the National Progressive party to make the first fight of 'the new political po-litical organization with Colonel Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt said, before he left Oyster Bay, that he favored the selection of a southern Democrat as vice-presidential candidate. The field was canvassed carefully and it is understood un-derstood that the colonel's suggestion was abandoned only when it became evident that it was impossible to decide de-cide upon an available man. Missionary Eears Many scars. San Francisco. Bearing sixty knife wounds inflicted by Chinese pirates in the province of Sze-Chuen, A. W. Sheldon of lierkeley, Cal., a missionary mission-ary teacher, returned Monday on the steamer China. |