The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-19
A Great Demonstration Followed Announcement of the Official Vote and Chairman Lodge Was Unable to Restore 0rder--Sup- porters of Other Candidates Make Nomination Unanimous.
Convention Adjourned Immediately After the Presidential Nomina- tion Was Announced Until To- day When a Running Mate for Taft Will Be Selected. ..

Chicago, June 1S.--For President of the United States. William H. Taft of Ohio.
 Taft on the first ballot; Taft by TOP votes: Taft by the unanimous choice of the convention.
 Such is the record of the culminat- ing day of the Republican convention of 1908, effected amid scenes of tumul- tuous enthusiasm. and after a nerve racking, continuous session lasting nearly eight hours. With President named and platform enunciated, there remains only the nomination of the Vice. President to complete this mo- mentous work. Tonight the whole city is given over to wild exultation in honor of the new candidate wh ose try.
 The picture within the walls of the vast ampitheatre as the presidential candidate was named today was one truly grandiose in its magnitude In front, to the right and left. below and above the billowing sea Of humanity restless after hours of waiting and stirred from one emotion to another in fever of expectancy for the culmi- nation vote.
 Tho favorite sons of other States had been named, save Knox and LaEeol- lepte and now on the roll call came Ohio. As the Buckeye State was reached. the tall gaunt form of Theo- dore E. Burton, with student-like face and severe black clerical garb, ad- vanced to the platform to nominate ohao's candidate. He spoke ferventiy with the ringing voice of an evange- list, which went through the great building. The close of his speech of nomination was the signal for loosen ing the long pent up feeling Of the Taft legions. Instantly the Ohio deleEates were on their feet. other Taft States following, while the convention hosts In gallery and on floor broke into mad demon nstratfon.
 Taft. Taft, w. H Taft" canc in roar from the Chicagoans
 MEGAPHONES SWELL TAFT
 TUMULT INTO THUNDER
 Megaphones seemed to spring from concealed places and swell the Taft tumult Into thunder. A huge blue silk banner bearing the famfliar features of the statesman secretary was swung before the delegates. awakening a fresh whtrlwInd of enthusiasm.
 All semblance of order had been abandoned and the delegates arena was a maelstrom of gesticulatinE men, the guidons of the States were snatched up by the Taft enthusiasts or borne under by the storm of disorder. The band was lnaudible. a mere whfs- per above the deafening volume of sound. For ten, fifteen, then twenty minutes this uproar continued. It was a repetition of the scene of yesterday when the name of Roosevelt threw the convention Into a frenzy. repeated In intensity and almost In duration. But there Is limit to the physical re- sources of throat and lungs; relays had .s.A ka0v -kak tHA tired voices died down to a hoarse shout and finally subsided.
 This lull now gave the opportunity for the speech seconding Taft's noml- nation by George H. Knight of Cali fornia, his big round face beaming forth on the sympathetic multitude and his splendid baritone voice yelling forth Nike the tones of great church organ. Californla's tribute to Taft was brief and fervid. Now there was an- other Hull in the Taft movement while the remaining candidates were placed in nomination.
 It was late in the afternoon before the convention literally sweltering with the intense heat and weary after near ly saven hours of continuous session. reached the end of the flood of eio- quence and the decks were cleared for the culminatlng act. But. no; Just as the last swell of oratory, the second ing speech for La Toilette had died away. like a cyclone from a clear sky burst a La Toilette demonstration which swept the convention from its very bearings. It was the same deaf ening wave of sound that had greeted Roosevelt yesterday and Taft a little while before; intense and maddening and with the vital ring of genuine en- thusiasm. It seemed as though Wis consin had suddenly peopled every foot of the galleries. The delegates sat calm and waiting, except the frantic Wisconsins. but the convention for the time-being was in the possession of the galleries.
 Now a singular transformation oc- cured. gradually the whirlwind veered from La Toilette to Roosevelt. A ban ner bearing the Roosevelt portrait and waved from the gallery was the signal for the change. but in the confused babel of voices there was no distin- gushing where the La Toilette cheers ended and those for Roosevelt began.
 Amid thls pandemonium and with the galleries in full control. Chairman Lodge decided upon heroic action In or- der again to make the convention mas ter of It's affairs. He ordered the roll call of States to begin for the vote on President Such call, under such circumstances of intense confusion has probably never before occurred in the history of national conventions. The Secretary was powerless to make his call of the States heard above the