Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-06-18
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s The Crowd Went Wild,

The Crowd Went Wild.
This was the long waited signal. |
Instantly a shout broke from the gal
leries and was echoed back from the |
floor; at first only tempest of de-
tached yells and cat calls and shouts |
of Teddy" but gradually gathering
force and volume until it swelle1 to
a whirlwind of sound and motion. as
the delegates and spectators rose en-
masse, mounting chairs, waving ban.
ners, hats, handkerchiefs, flags. rews-
papers, anything which could be
seized upon to add enthusiasm. Amid
the tumult the band struck up, but
the crash of brass and drums was
completely lost in the babel Of sound
which swelled from $4,000 throats.
They Veil for Teddy.
For the first minute Senator Lodge
stood waiting to proceed, occasionally
raising his hand for silence, only to
awaken the yell twice louder than
before.
Five minutes passed, and inste ID If
abating, the uproar was increasing.
The sergeant-at-arms moved chal.
to the presiding officer and Senator
Lodge sank back to await lull in the
/ storm.
\ Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen
minutes. There was not a lull, NJ
abatement. A hoarse roar had taken
place of detached yells.
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L: Four, four. four years more ;
= came in deafening chorus from !:
i !: the full sweep of the gallery, as :
4 : if preconcerted, each four !:
1 !: four" exploding like the boom of !:
/ :: heavy artlAery. !:
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Shout for As Minutes.
Fifteen, twenty, twenty-five min
utes. Now the delegations were join
| ing in the outbreak. Some had
mounted chairs; Texas, Kentucky
1 Tennessee, were gesticulating madly
One delegate, far, to the left, had tor
of his coat and was whipping it wild
II above his head. Texas and Ken
tucky appeared to be the center o
( agitation on the floor. New Yorl
York viewed the storm with calm, 81
s did Ohio, except, strangely, one o
the lonesome Foraker delegates
Judge Marcus Shoup, who, mounted
on a chair, kept both arms in motion
with waving a flag and newspaper
and his voice Joining the general pan
demonium. Thirty minutes, thirty
five minutes, forty, forty-fve.
Looked Like Stampede.
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{. Full three-quarters Of an hour I
: had passed in this bewildering !
= confusion of sight and sound. /.
I: For a time some fear was felt !
!: by some that stampede was !.
!: imminent.
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But the political generals wer
THREE glad to give the pent-up en-
thusiasm of the multitude this outIe
I OF expression, and at no time wa.
there the slightest apprehension
: among them that the well-deviset
plans would miscarry by some over
poWering movement Frank H. Hitch
cock, The Taft manager, noved abon
the door smiling as the ,urauit was a
, its height.
For Taft Later.
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Cheers for Roosevelt today !:
; will be for Taft tomorrow said /.
I: he with confidence. !:
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With the subsistence of the Roose
velt storm, Senator Lodge completed
his speech, and then the conventio,
turned to reports of other commit
tees. That on rules and order 0
business brought majority repor
against the resolution offered b,
James Francis Burke Of Pennsylvan's
reducing the representation of state
to a bisis of Republican votes cast b.
those sia.es. Mr.. Burke presented
minority report in which seventeen
of the states concurred.
Burke Resolution Killed.
The sharp contest occurred on thi
question bringing for the first tim,
before the convention some of ii.
best known orators, including Burk,
of PENNSYLVANIA, Wilson of Ken
tucky, veteran Kefer of Ohio, ex
Governor Herrick Of Ohio; Ren.me
of Arkansas, buckingham of Illinois
Wadsworth of New York, Mudd o
Maryland, Ex-Governor Yarmouth, o
Louisiana, and the negro orator iron
Gerogia, Henry Lincoln Johnson. Th
resolution was finally defeated by tn
close vote of sos against to All TO
the resolution, a margin of III vote
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