The Washington herald., 1908-06-16
CONVENTION SPEAKERS.
NOMINATING SPEECHES.
BARKlS is WILLIN';
SO is FAIRBANKS


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Presidential candidates union. which pro-
vide that no cigars presented 70 visitors
shall cost more than 10 cents. and really
should be the A. j. Beveridge perfecto-
six for Sand Mr. Hammond's dream OF
Havanlzing himself into the nomination
was rudely dispelled.
Allowed TO Gossip.
Interesting as a discussion OF what they
will be told to do about a second place
candidate is to the delegates and the
spectators, there are certain limitations
10 the subject Il gals even a delegate
TO stand in the Annex and repeat, We'll,
l think IL will be Fairbanks" hour after
hour, while the man who has him by the
lapel of his coat says. We'll. I think it
will be Dolliver." Consequently. the
Roosevelt rumor was brought out. busted
of. and exhibited. II was asserted that
there was a meeting in progress where
the tried-and-true Roosevelt men were in
session. prickng the balls of their thumbs
and signing an agreement in rich, red
blood 10 name the President for a second
elective term. The tried and true who
had no blood were furnished with red ink
The reporters gallopcd over 70 the place
and found nothing there. but when they
got back former Representative Phillips,
OF Pennsylvania. was running around In
circles In front Of the hotel emitting loud
screams and declaring he intended to
name Roosevelt, whether or 70. Jonathan
Bourne began looping the loop with him,
and they got a whirling dervish exhibi-
tion for some time. The Taft people
smiled Complacently and said they feared
nothing. They pointed 20 the fact that
they maintained and retained some 700
delegates, holding them in the hollow OF
their hands. so 70 speak, and that while
they could not prevent Mr.. Phillips or
any one else who felt so inclined from
leaping boldly into the arena and naming
the President. they felt reasonably GER
tain that the attempt would fall fat.
Galleries Have No Votes.
They pointed out that while II IS easy
TO stampede the galleries. it has been
carefully arranged that the galleries shall
have no votes. Moreover. the delegates.
they say, have been hearing speeches for
some years, many Of them thirty or forty,
and II was reasonable to suppose that,
after the hullnbaloo was over. they would
stolidly vote for that noble countenance.
William Howard Taft
Senator Jonathan Bourne. who is the
chief Roosevelt boomer. harbors the per-
sistent idea that IL he can. in any way.
get the magic word Roosevelt" mention
ed IN the Coliseum. either before time for
voting or at voting time. the delegates
viii rise with a wild whoop and nominate
the President. Mr.. Bourne is not partic-
ular when this happens He would Just
as lief get II over with before Temporary
Chairman Burrows makes his speech; or,
II II seems opportune, before the opening
prayer tomorrow.
He thinks il would be a waste Of time
TO have the convention in session longer
than the two minutes required for him 10
scream Roosevelt" and the delegates
to roar Aye," All preliminaries like
committees and contests and speeches he
deems superluous. After the nomination
is made he thinks the delegates might
so home and wait TO have the platform
communicated 20 them in the shape Of a
message from the White House. where.
he AYERS. II is going to be made anyhow.
Guard Against Stampede.
Bourne springs around Chicago all day
and creates more excitement than he has
since the night he discovered the S5.OCO.OOO
conspiracy The Taft people began riding
hard on all Of their gates early to-day.
and will keep it up until that calm. cold.
and International orator, Representative
Theodore Burton, of Ohio. delivers his
few well-chosen remarks and hands out
the name of Taft, after which, they de-
clare. it will be all over.
The Taft people were greatly cheered by
the arrival OF Nicholas Longworth. Mr..
LongwOrth cleared the atmosphere con-
siderably by announcing that il would be
Taft on the first ballot beyond doubt. and
that the Presidents name would not go
before the convention as a candidate. II
has often been noticed that when Mr..
Longworth beyond-peradventures any
thing, that thing is as good as settled.
The pleasant and entertaining Knox OBJ
seQuies were continued by n band concert
and a parade, and tho other candidates
kept their headquarters open. but nobody
seemed 70 know what for. The strange
fact about this convention is that every
candidate but Taft has a headquarte.
Taft doesn't seem TO need one. His thrifty
manager handed out no 40-cent cigars Ia
visitors. They are smoking them them
selves.
Youths start Excitement.
At that. there was what might be
termed an ebullItion Of Taft enthusiasm
in the lobby of the Annex about O'Clock
Three youthful maniacs. plastered with
Taft buttons and Taft ribbons, got in
front Of the desk and shouted: He's
all right! Who's all right? Taft. Taft,
Taft,''
Tie crowds OF people in the lobby lis
tened politely and waited to see II the
young men would perform again
They were chilled, and did not repeat.
Whereupon the low hum Of conve, sation
could be distinguished again, the low hum
that hCmmed increasingly. 7 think Il
VIII be Fairbanks" and 1T Is my opinion
II will he D0lliver."
Taft may be all right as the young men
said. but * did not appe-r TO interest
anybody present so far as could be
observed.