The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-28

Chicago, June 23.-The swift, sure
current of public opinion for the sec
ond time in the history OF the Repub-
Iican conventions today resulted il
the selection of a national ticket with
out a dissenting voice. Theodore
Roosevelt for President and Charles
w. Fairbanks for vice president re-
ceived every vote in the convention.
Regardless Of the fact that the NOM
ination of one had been assured for
months and the other for days, the
announcement of the choice was &C
companied by a resounding demon
stratiOn, which attested the candi-
dates universal popularity. The
cheering was led by figures known
through the breadth of the land and
echoed by u mighty throng Of enthusi-
astfc men and radiant women, assem-
bled in the Coliseum to witness the
browning feature as we'll as the close
of the national convention that marks
the semi-centennial of the Republican
party in the United States.
No less than 10, 900 men and women
participated in the ratification of the
party programme, and the consequent
roar of cheering and hand-clapping
was deafening. The band stationed
high among the Orders of the hall
was drowned by the tumultuous I'M
bounded demonstration. Hats were
tossed in the air. state emblems were
waved and flags-beautiful ~tri-colored
Shimmering silken flags-f1uttered
from every hand, as though stirred by
a gale.
When Governor Black, OF New
York, made his speech nominating
Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.
self as President, the delegates in the
Republican convention proved there
is no absence of enthusiasm in their
ranks when occasion justifies exhibit
ton of that quality. For twenty-five
minutes the great throng told its ap-
probation of the conventions choice
for President. The name of Roose-
welt came from every throa The
New York delegates paraded the hall,
shouting at the tops of their voices.
Other delegations joined the process
sion, and the we'll ordered body of
half an hour before was a shifting
mass, every semblance of organize
ton gone
~ III AIIC IdllO1 a OF l.
height Chairman Cannon stepped TO
the front of the stage. He held in his
hand the banner which was waved in
1860. when Lincoln was nominated,
n which has been used in every
convention since. The flag showed
the wear and tear of many similar
contests. Uncle joe waved it vigor-
Ously and kept time with his body.
Soon the whole convention was sway
ing in exact measure. The chairman
tired and his place was taken by a
young man, who graSped the flag staff
firmly in one hand II with a mega
phone led the yelling. He started the
cali Roosevelt, Roosevelt. Roose-
Welt" repeated owe and over again
with the system of a college yell. 1t
was taken up by the throng and the
cry for Roosevelt rolled over the hall
in volume so great and so terrific that
the screeching of a hundred steam
whistles would have been dwarfed in
comparison.
The delegates in their eagerness to
exhibit approval of the nomination
accepted every signal for renewed
cheering. A little colored boy from
Georgia and later a pretty little girl,
dressed in a dainty frock of white
were lifted to h platform, and they
waved flags with as much v1gor as the
luSty preceptOr.
After the crowd had yelled itself
hoarSe, it permitted the band to par
ticipate in the demonstration. The
leader chose patriotic music, and the
familiar words were taken up by the
convention and sung with earnestnesS.
The band changed into rag-time, and
the convention found that cheering
was better timed to the music.
There was no pause in the enthusi-
asm. Several times Speaker Cannon
walked out OIL the projection to the
platform extending between rows of
press seats and lifted his hands for
order. The crowd thought he was
leading the applause and paid no at
tention. When from sheer exhaus-
ton the throng lesseneG it's tunHlt,
Speaker Cannon found his opportuni-
ty. Going to the very edge OF the
platform ne knelt n pounded the
1oo for order. When he had gained
the attention of the convention he
announced that the flag he a been
waving was sacred to the party as
the national emblem waved when the
eloved Lincoln was the cnoice OF the
first Republican convention. His
speech caused another outburst in
honor of the flag.
Pandemonium broke loose again