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Show !'H ffc I IP E m m mm m n n Ml Jj j Progressive Leader Makes "Confession of Faith" jjg I Speech Before National Convention In- g I ierrupted by Thunderous Applause. I BEVtlDSE IS PERMANENT CHAIRMAN j Negroes Object to Action of Credentials Commit-is Commit-is tee Regarding Southern Delegates Un- j seated Delegates Appeal to Teddy. m rjjjvf Chicago, Aug. 6. Despite Lho fact yjjj $ tnat Colonel Roosevelt was expected 7(fi -j to reach the convention hall soon aft- fq er noon, delegates to the National fjg a Progressive gathering were slow again i In renching their seats. At ten min- amj utesito 12 there were not more than M i 200 delegates on the floor. pjL- t As 12 o'clock approached the dele- iS I gates began to pour into the hall rjj f from all sides. A number of the dele- rjj'jf gates had formed an impromptu pa- 'h rade owntow-n Four or five ba's fgi same with them and for a time me fgt oJr was filled with conflicting tunes. I Women delegates again -were a cen- ter of Interest. Many of their sisters i'5. in the suffrage movement gathered rg outside the Coliseum distributing .Z I tracts and emblems to the suffra- '3, 1 Sette cause. Temporary Chairman l i Beverldgo reached the stage shortly M r after 12 o'clock . Ten mlnues later fJa the delegates tedious were com- J pletoly filled. 'jjf The party representatives filled I; Ml the period of waiting with songs an ! ' PartJ' yells Occasionally there came Jni the long, low "moo" of the bull jjj ' moose. The Colorado delegates ap- lijt peered with a blue banner reading j "Colorado is for RooseeIt" The women delegates In various I ' state organizations stood up on chairs 1 urllh the racond Joined In the cheerr, I f and songs' "that kept things in an I uproar until the gavel fell g Suddenly the Colorado folk sprung : a big sign and carried it about the I hall. It read- I I "No more Guggenheim; no more 1 '. Bovine, no more Angel Archie' for us Down with the bosses." I ' The Coloradans explained that by I "Angel Archie" was meant A. .i. jl ' Stephenson of that state, sometimes called "Big Steve " ' Michigan Has Song. I Tt became apparent the convention , would not be called to order until 3 i word came that Colonel Roosevelt ; was read to appear The Michigan ! delegates started a new soug, which 3 soon was caught up by other delegu-1 j dons until practically the entire flooi , was singing. This is the way it went. I , Follow, follow, " We will follow Roosevelt; g Anywhere, everywhere, ij ; "We will follow on." 5j At 12:35 Senator Beverlrige Inter's Inter-'s ; rupted the singing by rapping for ' order. Rev. Father Androw Spezt of- ; i fered th prayer. I : The galleries near the stage wcro i crowded, but at the further end of ; the hall were many empty seats. (jft1 The audience applauded the brevity m . of the priest's prayer. Chairman Beveridge had read a tel-R tel-R egram from Col William R. Nelson of the Kansas City Star It was dated Ml Magnolia Miss, and was as followo: M i "Lord, how 1 wish I were with you. . What a great day, the launching of ItjJB a party of imagination, hope and W prospects. We can afford to give the rtfi other fellows their memories and dls-M dls-M appointments. The past has no ln-g ln-g terest for ub. The future is our fruit. 5r G've Colonel Roosevelt my love. I fjjfi hare never missed a chance to place 'jjm a bet on him and have never lost Wjw when there was a square deal. The JS Lord 1b surely with us. He has given 2af us tho men as well as the opportu-J opportu-J nitj. I cannot help but feel what a JjR narrow escape we had in the Juno is-M convention. Roosevelt might have jM been nominated there. My congratu-MJS congratu-MJS latlons to everybody and regret that S I cannot be with you." I All Sing "America." I i Wild applause followed the reading j of the telegram. When it had been 4 read the entire audience rose and ) eang "America" under the lendcrahlp 'l of a musical director. James R Gar- field or Ohio was one of tho most S earnest in the cheers. jf "America" was followed by "Dixie," W f but the loader had dlfllculty in get- tlug the band and the singers to- gether, and tlio song was not much HJ i of a success. Ijf U was 12.17 when Chairman Bev erldgo announced the arrival of Colo-nol Colo-nol Roosevelt at the Coliseum. This was enough for the delegates and the i gallories. They Jumped to their feet and cheered A minute later the colonel appeared on the stago almost as If by mnglc. The doors of the Coliseum were thrown wide open during tho dem- oustration and tno hall was filled to capacity. ; In the midttt of the deafening din tho colouel stepped onto the Insulated .; speaking platform under tho big i: sounding board. He smiled Ins appreciation of the demonstration and bowed to the right and left and, with a broad grin, waved f greetings to frlendG on the stage and il floor. t $ Tho delegates meantime stood on their chaire and cheered until the Jf raftcrg rang. They waved flags and bandanas In a perfect riot of colors. The G. A. R. fife and drum corps on the stage marched to where the colonel stood and each veteran got a warm greeting and handshake. Then surrounding the former president the fifors and drummers played a number num-ber of patriotic tunes. Wo Want Teddy. Th baud In Its far away loft at the end of the great hall also was playing, play-ing, judging from the antics of the leader but scarce a strain of music could be heard, "We want Teddy," chanted many delegates. Others gave the call of the bull moose. In the midst of the uproar an Oklahoma Ok-lahoma delegate tore the state standard stand-ard from its place and started up the center aisle. In a minute the aisles were filled with a confused hysterical crowd. Minnesota swung in behind Oklahoma and as the crowd dashed through the aisles, Washington, Massachusetts, Ohio, West Virginia, Kansas, and a dozen other states poured Into the throng Bands, standards flags, hats, red bandanas were flung up over the heads of the delegates. Over the Cojgrado delegation appeared the "No more Guggenheim", sign As the emblem appeared before the nlalform Colonel Rooseolt turned and waved toward it with a grin. Another uproar up-roar started. A banner bearing the catch note from tho speech of Senator Beveridge yesterday. "Pass prosperity around." was roundly cheered. Some one threw the colonel a red bandana handkerchief and, standing on the platform, he led the mob In a series of cheers, waving the handkerchief. Colonel Rooseelt wore an ever-broadening, ever-broadening, characteristic smile as he turned first In one direction and then In another, acknowledging the greetings greet-ings showered uuon him One of his visitors on the stage was General John H. McDowell, head of the Tennessee division of the United States Confederate Veterans The colonel said he hoped to bring the north and south together. Mrs. Roosevelt, clad in black, appeared ap-peared In a box to the left of the platform plat-form She carried a reu bandana handkerchief and waved it enthusiast. Ically Mrs. Roosevelt was accompanied accompa-nied by George Roosevelt, a nephew of the colonel. As tho Ohio delegation forced its way through the crowded aisles up to the platform, one of the delegates yelled, "Hero's Taft's'own stuce." A few miuutcs after Colonel Roosevelt reached tho Coliseum stage, the vacant va-cant spaces In tho galleries quickly filled up and standing room came to be at p premium. The hall held one of Its largest crowds whon eventually tho colonel began to speak. From the Illinois delegation Miss Jane Addams was lifted up over the press stand, climbed upon the platform plat-form and joined the colonel He greeted her with a handshake and the Roosevelt grin. She look her place beside him. AVay up in the band gallery gal-lery the musicians struck Up "Onward, Christian Soldiers." From tho delegates dele-gates the words of the hymn rose In a confused murmur. The colonel stopped forward, raised both hands and led the singing, chanting tho words himself As the song was concluded, Mrs Sunderland Sun-derland of Los Angeles, an elderly woman, briBkly scaled the platform. She was cordially greeted by the colonel. col-onel. Two Alabama delegates, one a union veteran, the other a confederate, inarched up to the platform arm In arm, and shook hands with Colonel Roosevelt. They were J. C. Holllncs-worth, Holllncs-worth, who served in Loo's army, and John M. Green, who fought in an Illinois Ill-inois regiment. "Givo us n southern Democrat for vice president and wo'll break the solid south." thev told Colonel Roose velt. "Good," the colonel responded, "I'll do my very best to do It." The excitement subsided a trifle, but it broke out again aa the band swung into tho "Battle Hymn of too Republic" Colonel RooHevelt led tho crowd in the singing. Timothy L. Woodruff, clad in a white flannel BUlt, defied tho cool weather and led the New York delegation dele-gation in cheering Colonel Roosevelt. While mo3t of the delegates wore clad in heavy clothes, Mr. Woodruff asserted that oven flannel was too warm for him to work in so strenuously. strenu-ously. Two negroes wearing delegates' badges climbed upon the stage, The critical negro question was In tho minds of the crowd and as the colonel reached out a hand to each of the - &$$$!$& ' ' -.i. Imam IS UkdO0WmJ IN EARNEST -j?P tCOPVRlGtiTTfia .BY AMERICAN PREsTAo-SOCIATlCNi I mill i i iiiHBaaB5mmHmgmiiaB3igaitBiin,ii i iiiiini n incaoammMHii 11 negroes those around them fell back For a minute the three stood in a little knot The colonel gesticulated and talked excitedly As tne colonel concluded, one of the negroes reached over and pounded him on tho shoulder. shoul-der. The three stood hand in hand and the crowd yelled. QJ.ne of the women who pressed forward to greet Colonel Roosevelt carried a "teddy bear" She Insisted that the colonel shake hands with the bear as well as with herself Ver effusively he grabbed the fuzzy bear by the paw and gave it a vigorous shake. In a gallery appeared Mrs. W. T. Davis of Chicago, the woman who invaded in-vaded the floor of the Republican na-tioual na-tioual floor and led a Roosevelt demonstration. dem-onstration. She was hurried to the platform, whero Colonel Roosevelt shook hands with her The demonstration demonstra-tion had been in progress 15 mimU.es before the delegates recognized Mrs. Rocevelt in the box. Thry turned to her with a cheer and she rose and bowed to acknowledge the choers. Order was finally restored, the demonstration dem-onstration having lasted 57 minutes. When the crowd was quiet a flashlight flash-light picture was taken. A murmur of dismay swept the crowd as a tiny tongue of flame flickered under on of the big white cotton bags that surrcundod tho hall. Up along the iron celling beams of the big hall climbed a uniformed fireman He reached the bag and with his bare hands rolled mi the 'blazing cloth and extinguished the flames. A cheer closed the incident. Colonel Roosevelt had spoken but a few words beforo he began to interpolate in-terpolate new matter in his prepared address. "We want to eay to those who aunt their conservatism," he said, "that we are the real conservatives " The delegates sat in somewhat amazed silence as the colonel paused There was a great cheer as he added- "For the only wise conservative is the wise progressive." Chicago, Aug 6 The second day of the Progressive national convention conven-tion opened with a well-defined fight over the negro question vioing for first interest with Col. Theodore Roosevelt's delivery of his "confession of faith" to his followers in the Progressive Pro-gressive cause. Some of the delegates declarod that the elimination of the southern negro ne-gro from participating in the forming of the new party had become tho paramount Issue of the convention Eastern negroes joined with their brothers from the south in denouncing denounc-ing certain things that ocenrred at an all-night meeting of the credentials committee when the last of the southern south-ern negroes wero barred from the floor of the convention on a clone vole The voto stood 17 to 1C against the negroes, and immediately Julius T Mitchell of Rhode Island ano other negroos joined In crying that tho deciding de-ciding ballot had been cast by a questionable proxy on tho committee. Fairly sputtering indignation, the negroes announced they would carry the matter to Colonel RooBevelt for a personal ruling on tho point Tho vote on tho Mississippi case came In a secret session of the com-mitteo com-mitteo at 3 o'clock this morning, a few hours after both white and negro ne-gro delegates from Florida had been barred. "This matter is not settled yet." said the Mississippi negroes when they learned of the decision of tho credentials committee. "We will lay the roattor before Colonel Roosevelt himsolf today and if necessary we will carry the fight to the floor of the convention." Negroes Are Indignant. The negroes were indignant and excitedly voluble throughout tho session ses-sion of the committee, which began at 8 o'clock last night and continued until nearly daybreak. The Mississippi Mississip-pi contest was tho last to bo taken up and It began shortly after midnight mid-night The national committee had been voting to unseat the negroes, and they appealed primed for oratory Half a dozen of them told the committee com-mittee that to seat the white delegation dele-gation headed by Provisional National Committeeman B. F. Fridgo was equivalent to disfranchising tho negro. The Fridgo delegation was elected at a convention, tho call to which was addreaaed to "white" cltlr.ens of Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. The negroes were not al-' lowed to take part. Fridge told the committee that the call was written for him by John M. Parker of Louisiana, Louisi-ana, who had urged him to accept tho place as a Rooseelt committeeman from Mississippi. Several of the negroes In tho ousted oust-ed delegation wore among the delegates dele-gates to the Republican national convention con-vention who stood by Colonel Rcfse-velt Rcfse-velt and deserted the Republican convention con-vention in Chicago to attend the first Progressive convention when plans were made for the third party They had issued a call for a Progressive Pro-gressive convention in Mississippi bo fore Fridge was selected as national committeeman. At the instance of Senator Dixon they said, they withdrew with-drew this call to allow Fridge to assume as-sume charge. But when they discovered dis-covered that Fridge's call was addressed ad-dressed only to "7hite" voters they called another coiucntiou and elected ten white men and ' ten negroes to cast Mississippi's vote in the Progressive Progres-sive convention. Fear 'Lily White' Scheme. The negroes bitterly complained that the limiting of tho Fridge convention con-vention to "white" citizens invalidated that gathering. They declared that the seating of the Fridge delegates would mean a "lilly white" Progressive Progres-sive party in the south. After a lengthy debate Committeeman Committee-man Richard W. Child of Massachusetts Massachu-setts proposed seating the Fridge delegates, del-egates, but disapproving the Fridge plan of calling a "white" convention. At tho end of an hour many of tho committee had quit the room. A vote was taken. It was so close I hat a half dozen committeemen scurried out to round up the absent members But they had departed for bed. Tho ote was disregarded and another vote was taken This time by a vote of 17 to 1C the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, that we regard the Fridge delegates as entitled to seats in this convention, but disapprove that part of the call containing the word 'white." We approve of the position taken In the letter written to Julian Harris of Georgia by Theodore Theo-dore RooBevelt." Julius T. MItcholl of Rhode Island and Dr. George L. Cannon of New Jersoy, both negroes and members of the committee, Jed the fight for the negroes and they were in a bitter mood whon the fight ended. Mitchell declared that the deciding vote in the convention was cast by a questionable ques-tionable pioxy. given In blank and hurriedly secured. "We aro willing to do almost anything any-thing In the name of harmony," said Dr Cannon, "but not in the name of injustice." Confronted with this decision of tho credentials committee and the mass meeting of Indignant negroes held here last night to protests against Colonel Rooaevelt's position in tho matter, tho delegates today woro In an uproar over the negro question. The colonel was determined to stand by his announced views and his influence was seen in tho action of the credentials committee. The situation threatened a bitter fight on the floor of the convention, should the negroes adhere to their intention of carrying the contests to that polnL Will Take Up Report. It wns expected that the report of the credentials committee would be taken up lato today prior to tho establishment es-tablishment of permanent organization organiza-tion and after Colonel Roosevelt had delivered his address. The address is the feature on today's convention program. pro-gram. Colonel Roosovelt will bo escorted es-corted to the Coliseum soon after noon. His escort will consist of tho members of tho special committee of fifteen named yesterday, it iB probable prob-able his address will occupy at least three hours Then, according to plans of leaders. Former United States Senator Albert J Bevbridgo of Indiana will be selected se-lected porraanent chairman as was done In the case of Elihu Root in the Republican national convention. Judjje Ben B. Lindsay of Denver was chosen for permanent chairman, but is said to have asked to be relieved re-lieved becauso of 111 health. The rules committee of the convention conven-tion adopted the suggestion of Colonel Colo-nel RooHevelt that tho lmsis of representation rep-resentation in future Progropsivo conventions con-ventions be ohnngod. The now rules provide that one delegate b named for each congressman and senator and one additional bo chosen for each 10,-000 10,-000 votes cast for the Progressive party In tho last previous election. The resolutions committee worked on the platform until a late hour Inst night, hearing suggestions on all varieties va-rieties of planks and discussing the platform In an executive session. Today It was expected that a subcommittee sub-committee of seven members would be appointed to confer with Colonel Roosevelt regarding the platform and with him this sub-committeo expected expect-ed to how out the particular planks which In abbreviated form will cover the ground with one or two exceptions, excep-tions, of all the more radical issues. |