Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-23
THE THIRD DAY
Adoption Of Platform and Nominations
Hold the Boards.

| Hold the Boards.
The final details of the national plat
form having been arranged by the
| platform committee, the convention
was equipped Thursday morning to
make its declaration of policy and pro-
coed to the selection of candidates.
The session opened at 10 O'Clock In
stead of at noon, as heretofore, so that
a full day might be had for the dis
cussion of principles and men, The
platform went before the convention
early in the day and its adoption was
followed by the speeches placing in
nomination the candidates for presi-
| dent
Several changes in phraseology were
made in certain planks of the platform
as presented to the committee. There
were also some alterations of an es-
sential character in some Of the more
important declarations, so that the
platform as adopted is in some par
| ticulars, though in no essentials, diff
| ferent from the draft of the document
which was prepared in Washington.
The presentation of the report on
permanent organization was the signal
for Senator Burrows to yield his place
as temporary chairman and to escort
to the platform the permanent chair
man of the convention, Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts. Mr.. Lodge, trim
and businesslike, looked as from a
later generation than the white-haired
retiring chairman. His voice, too, had
that resonant New England twang
which made it ring out to the farthest
corners of the galleries, carrying met
aphor and sarcasm which started the
listeners to attention and applause.
1.-THE president" exclaimed Mr..
Lodge. lis the best abused and most
popular man in the United States to-
day"
This was the long-awaited signal
Instantly a shout broke from the gal
leries and was re-echoed from the
floor, at first only a tempest of de-
tached yells and cat-calls, and shouts
of Teddy" but gradually gathering
force and volume, until it swelled to
whirlwind of sound and notion as
delegates and spectators rose en-
| masse. mounting Chairs, waving ban
ners, hats, handkerchief, flags, news
papers, anything which could be seized
upon to add turbulence to the scene
Amid the tumult the band struck up,
but the crash of the brass and drums
was completely lost in the babel OF
sound which welled from $4,000
threats.
Wonderful Demonstration.
For the first minute Senator Lodge
stood waiting to proceed, occasionally
raising his hand for silence, only to
awaken a defiant yell twice louder
than before. Five minutes passed and
instead of abating the uproar was in
creasing. The sergeant-at-arms moved
up chair for the presiding officer and
Senator Lodge sank back to await a
lull in the storm. Five minutes-ten
minutes-fifteen minutes.
There was no lull, no abatement. A
hoarse roar had taken the place of the
detached yells.
-Four, four, four years more" came
in a deafening chorus from the full
sweep Of the gallery, as if preconcert-
ed, each -four, four, four" exploding
like the boom of heavy artillery,
Fifteen enthusiastically minutes
twenty-five minutes.
Now delegations were joining in the
outbreak. Some had mounted chairs
Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee - and
were gesticulating madly One dele
gate, far to the left, had torn off his
coat and was whipping it wildly above
his head. Texas and Kentucky ap-
peared to be the center of the agita-
ton on the floor New York viewed
the storm with calm and so did Ohio
except, strangely, one of the lonesome
Foraker delegates, Judge Marcus
Shoup, who, mounted on a chair, kept
both arms in motion with a waving
flag and a newspaper and his voice
joining in the general pandemonium.
Thirty minutes-thirty-hv minutes
forty minutes-forty-five minutes.
"A lull lnI66-QudlbClo VI al hOuI udu
passed in this bewildering confusion
of sight and sound. For time some
fear was felt by some that a stampede
was imminent. But the political gen
erals were glad to give the pent-uI
enthusiasm of the multitude this out
let of expression, and at no time was
there the slightest apprehension
among them that the well-devised
plans would miscarry by some over
cc~erins movement. Frank 4. Hitch
cock, the Taft manager, moved about
the floor, smiling as the tumult was al
its height The cheers for Roosevelt
today will be for Taft tomorrow" said
he with confidence.