Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-06-27
ROOSEVELT
AND FAIRBANKS
Ticket Formally Nominated by
Republicans at Chicago
NOT A ~SSENT VOICE

PrOgram--"Uncle Joe" Cannon
Waves Banner Used In Every
Convention Since 1860, While
Vast Multitude Swayed In Ex-
act Measure and Went Wild
With Enthusiasm - Senator
DOlliver dominates Senator
Fairbanks For Vice President,
Giving an Eloquent Endorse
ment of Indiana Candidate
Chicago, June 24.-The swift, sure
current of public opinion, for the Sec
ond time in the history of Republican
conventions, resulted in the selection
of a national ticket without a dis
senting voice. Theodore Roosevelt for
president and Charles w. Fairbanks
for vice president received every vote
in the convention.
Regardless of the fact that the nom
ination of one a been assured for
months and the other for days the an
nouncement of the choice was accom-
panied by a r~esounding demonstration
which attested the candidates pOpu-
larity. The cheering was led by fig
ures known through the breath of the
land and echoed by a mighty throng
of enthusiastic men and radiant wo-
men assembled in the Coliseum to wit
ness the crowning feature, as well as
the close of the national convention
which marks the s~emi-centennial OF
the Republican party in the United
States.
No less than 10000 men and women
participated in the ratification of the
party program, 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 f1uttered from every
hand as though stirred by a gale.
When Former 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 thell
ranks when occasion j~ustiies exhibi
ton of that quality. For % minutes
the great throng told its appreciation
of the conventions choice for pres1
dent. The name of Roosevelt came
from every throat. The New York
DELEGATES paraded the hall shouting al
the tops of their vioces. Other dele
cations Joined the procession and the
Hell-ordered body of half an hour be
tore was a shifting mass, every sem
blance of organization gone.
While the demonstration was at its
height Chairman Cannon stepped tt
the front of the stage. He held in hi
hand the banner which was waved il
1860 when Lincoln was nominated an
whichrAassbeen used in every conver
ton since. The flag showed the wea
and tear of many similar contest:
'Uncle Joe" waved it vigorously an
kept time with his body. Soon tn
whole convention was swaying in e,
act measure.
The chairman tired and his plaC
was taken by a young man VII
grasped the Flagstaff firmly in on
hand and, with a megaphone, led tn
yelling. He started the call "Roos,
welt. Roosevelt, Roosevelt" repeate
over and over again with the systel
of a college yell. 1t was taken up b
the throng and the cry of Rooseve
rang over the hall in volume so gres
and so terrific that the sounds of
hundred steam whistles would hay
been dwarfed in comparison. The de
egates in. their eagerness to exhib
approval of the nomination accepte
every signal for renewed cheering.
Atlittle colored boy from Georgi
Sand later a pretty little girl, dresse
IN a dainty frock of white, were lifte
tosthe platform, and they waved fiag
with as much vigor as their more lust
preceptor.
At the conclusion or every seconr
ing speech the performance was T
~ peated, and the speakers themselv'
were generously a%pplauded.
When Senator Fairbanks had bee
nominated for vice-president the
was no diminution in the demonstr
ton. Voices were hoarse, but Il
noise for the choice was just as una
imous as it was in filing the fir
place in the ticket.
1t was 1880 o'clock when Speak
Cannon called the convention to {
der. without preliminaries of a
kind he announced the order of t
day and instructed the secretary
call the roll for nominations for pre-
dent. BY agreement, Alabama, {
first state on the roll, yielded to n,
York. That was the signal for I