Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-19
SENTIMENT IS FEARED
LaFolIette Demonstration
Causes CONSERVATION.
CONSERVATISM IS ON WANE
Safe and Sane" Leaders See Sig.
nifcance in Popularity.
FUTURE IS FULL OF MENACE
May Upset Traditions Of Nation and
Go to Smash Is Apprehension
of Old Republicans.


Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
CONVENTION HALL. CHICAGO. June
19-In the cold. gray dawn OF the morn
ing after, the most significant feature OF
| the scenes attending the nomination by
the national convention at Its session yes
terday of Secretary OF War Taft FOR re-
| publican standard bearer in the campaign
of 1903 is admitted to have been the
demonstration for Senator La Toilette
In the opinion of many big politic6
| figures here-conservatives all-the DEM
onstration was full of sinister significance
and may mean q number OF things that
they do not care even to think about.
It Is difficult to gauge with accuracy
the violence or probable duration OF this
La Toilette demonstration had 1t been
permitted to continue solely on Its own
merits. for after the uproar following the
placing In nomination Of the Wisconsin
Senator had been going on for a while
1t became merged with a Roosevelt dem
side by side. And this particular phase
of the incident Is held to be distressing
by itself-by the conservatives. who have
not had much show out here-inasmuch
as IL ln0ICaJeS the triumph Oh IdutCaloNI
and the popularity OF radicals.
! I don't know that too much emphasis
can be placed upon the significance Of
this little proposition. mako the state
| ment after talking. not with lot Of i'm
questionable people whose opinions do
men, big men. whose names are known
pretty nearly as we'll in the various
states OF the Union as In Washington.
Menace Is Defined.
Here is what one Of them said this
morning on the subject:
II can not imagine anything more CAL
culated to I'LL with alarm the heart OF
every man loyal to the traditions and
purposes Of the republican party than
the La Follette-Roosevelt demonstration
yesterday. To my mind 1t shows that
| we-that Is, the American people-are
losing our conservatism, our grip on the
big ideas. under the influence " hich. dur
ing the past half century. this country
has grown strong and great.
1T is q misstatements Of the facts. to
my mind to say that the La Toilette
demonstration lasted only few minutes
and Immediately became merged in the
tive that at least half the people in the
Coliseum were cheering for La Toilette
all the time and did not know the third
termers were doing their best to switch
all the noise to President Roosevelt.
Il am afraid, I tell you. I am afraid"
This gentleman did not say-but I
learned it elsewhere from republican po-
tentates who were on the platform-that
when this combined Roosevelt-La Toilette
affair came off the real people In charge
of the convention got more worried than
they have since Chairman News gavel
fell for the initial rap last Tuesday. They
went so far in endeavoring to stop the
growing Roosevelt racket as to send out
A. AA oaA %tnnt
Roosevelt pictures-springng up all over
the hall from the midst Of spectators and
delegates-be taken down. And by this
method and by Chairman Lodges liberal
use of the gavel they finally had the row
under control.
The Coliseum was shamefully over
crowded. An Official Of the fire depart
ment told me this morning that about
5000 people crowded into the hall yester-
day. The seating capacity OF the Coliseum
is 1850. And yet. with 1900 people per.
mitted to pass the gates. at least 1000
holders of genuine. authenticated conven-
ton tickets were kept outside. They were
laughed at when they kicked.
Chicago Pulls Worked.
But every man with a pull with the
local people-who had the police on
the doors just where they wanted them
had no trouble at all in getting in
side Consequently when the roll Of
states was called for the nominations
every seat was taken. every aisle was
jammed and hundreds of people stood be-
hind. the tiers of seats and in every
blessed square inch of space. I hate to
think of what would have happened II
| there had been panic or anything OF
the sort
Incidentally. the reason given for not
admitting holders of authorized seats
was that the building was overcrowd-
ed. This was true to the extreme-the
everlasting extreme. But 1t was so
simply because the Chicago local pulls
Representative Mann o. Illinois who
is about as conservative as they come and
as reliable an eight-day clock. told me
this morning he knew one man-just
one Chicago ''personified drag"-who
had. personally and unaided. put more
than a thousand people into the Coliseum
people who had no shadow Of right to
be there. too.
But what's the use of talking. There
were 5000 people in The hall. There
| mated.
Gen. George Harries climbed into Chi
cago yesterday. about noon. spent several
pleasant hours-at least he said they were
in the Pompeiian room OF the Annex
with Washington friends-and left for
Kansas City at 5 o'clock. He was dis
| tressed to death at not being able to at
tend even one session of the convention.
| but was on business trip ana saw his
| duty and did 1t.
Representative Jim Sherman Of New
| York and Representative Lucius n. Lit.
| tauer Of the same state, who brought the
Sherman boom to Chicago. had finished
breakfast this morning by quarter OF
| s and had started out looking for trouble.
This is the great day." said Mr. Lit
tauer. Il think Sherman will be nominal
ed in mighty few hours"
Much Heat Prostitution.
| There were twenty-five cases Of heat
prostration cared for In the emergency
| hospital at the Coliseum yesterday. In
view Of the almost maddening heat and
| humidity it is a wonder there were not
more
| There is universal sorrow here this
morning among the telegraph operators
and newspaper men and others who knew
and loved Col. Ham Young. The an
nouncement Of his death this morning
was absolutely unexpected. It was known
he had been overcome by the heat during
| the activities at the Coliseum yesterday.
and had gone to the home Of a son. who
lives here complaining Of a pain In his
| side Col. Ham was dear old soul. and
| will be missed way down deep in the
heart of every one who knew him.
John l. McIlhenny. civil service commits.
sioner. has been In Chicago for the past
| three days nursing the Louisiana delega-
| ton.
Commissioner McIlhenny is much agi-
tated over the failure Of the lilly
whites to get more than half recognition
| in the convention. He says he feels that
Not hA v.hf OF