Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-05-21


nominated for President and Benjamin
Hanford for Vice President amid villa
enthusiasm.
William ID. Haywood refused to al
low his name TO go before the couven'
tion, saying that he believed he could
nerve the party best by remaining in
the ranks.
Memorable Occasion at Theater.
"And we shall go marching, march
ing, marching, tramping over hill and
dale, wading through bog and moor,
through the thickets of thorn and
furze as through the softer paths in
the rose gardens, up mountains where
the rocks are Jagged and through
swamps where the morasses are deep,
until at last we shall have planted
the red flag of human brotherhood
upon the dome of the capital at Wash
ington and upon every city hall in the
United States.'
Thus. in the words of John SpargO,
the red spectre of human brotherhood,
the spirit Of the Parliament of Man,
the Federation of the World" raised
its head in Chicago yesterday.
An Historical Occasion.
II was a solemn occasion. Few who
were there realize the great solemnity
of it. But, then, nobody ever did
realize the solemnity of really big
things. This was only the inaugura'
tion of the national Socialist eonven-
tion in Chicago. To the mind of the
Grass materialist it was merely man,
John Spargo, talking TO a lot of people.
But Clio, the must of history, may have
another word about that.
IL was not "democrat weather "
That great old teacher of Socialism,
the Sun, who tries to show people that
the world is round and everybody in
it pretty good sort of fellow,
erawled up out of Lake Michigan and,
disdaining the other streets of Chicago,
sent his brightest rays down into Ran
dolph street.
As early as half-past seven o'clock
the Socialist answered the call. From
Maine, from California, from Okla
homa, from Minnesota, they thronged
the streets and the corridors of the
Garrick theatre, exchanging greetings
and ideas. This was two hours before
the doors were opened for the big wei.
come rendered the visitors by the Chi
cago Socialists. Slcuths from the
Central station mingled in the crowd
looking for a man with an earthquake
concealed on his person, but tneir
sleuthing was vain for once.
Publicity Men Are There.
Mingling in the crowd were the rep
resentatives of practically every great
magazine and newspaper in America,
the magazine men, as matter OF
course, being Socialists themselves and
in sympathy with the movement.
When the doors were opened the
great crowd thronged into the Garriek
theatre. 1t was an unusually quiet
crowd. Here and there a man was
humming "La Marseillaise," but that
was all. There was not the earnest
vire-pulling, the strenuous efforts 10
"'line 'em up" seen at republican OF
democratic conventions. All was az
peaceful as the peaceful day itself.
Then the curtain rose on an Assem-
blags which will pass down into his
tory. In the chair sat Marcus II
Taft, formerly candidate for cireui'
judge on the Socialist ticket. without
a word Of formality, without cheering
noise or applause, the gathering settled
down to the business Of the, program
The sublime sarnestness Of these men
ana women, Tor nearly n third Of those
present were women, beat its way Into
the mind of the beholder.
There for a Purpose.
II was easy to see that these people
meant business. There was no flap
doodle. These men had come to Chi
cago with a purpose. The very air wal
heavy with that purpose.
The representatives Of one OF tho
greatest Of the Eastern magazines, II
not the greatest, leaned over TO hi
neighbor and whispered, ale Sermen'
du ieau de paume."
That was IL. These men were meet
ing with the same earnestness, the
same informality, the same deadly, al
belt subdued energy, which has char
aeterized that great meeting in thu
tennis court in Paris one hundred an,