The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-06-19

] had heard all the contests and would
make its report in less than an hour.
1t had been expected that this COM
mittee's report, owing to the fight put
up by the allies, would be delayed
and this announcement caused quite
stir.
One Of those interesting little in
/ cidents Of a convention followed when
/ Chairman Burrows announced that
Henry Baker, of Minnesota, and Judge
James d. Connor, of Indiana dele
gates to the Republican convention of
/ 1856 were present and that he would
, introduce the two to the convention.
| Mr.. Baker was the first to appear.
He waited a second or two for the
other veteran, Judge Connor, who
trotted out and stood beside him while
the convention got on its feet to cheer
! these two old men who had been
| present at the party's birth.
1t was then time for the parade of
| the marching clubs which had been
arranged as one of the side shows
of this convention. 1t began with
/ the AmeriCus club from Pittsburg,
who marched into the hall at the tap
of the drums, passing through the hall
in front of the platform from east to
west. They carried striped umbrel-
las some with stars and stripes and
some black and yellow
| When the Pennsylvania delegates
marched through the hall, the rafters
rang with the regular repeated shouts
of the Pennsylvanians, Knox. Knox,
Knox" Then came the Blaine club
from Cincinnati, George B. Cox's
bunch of rooters, all decked out in
red ties, grey top hats, and black cut
aways. The Taft delegation from
Ohio made a great uproar over the
Blaine club.
With the band playing that cheer
full tune "Tammany," the Cannon
shouters from Danville, came in view,
bearing q big banner labelled Uncle
Joe's neighbors." Some delegates
from Michigan, Oklahoma, New Jersey
and few other states as well as the
Illinois delegates jumped up and
cheered these friends of Uncle Joe.
They wore straw hats with a red
white and blue band. The band
changed its tune to that of the hymn
illinois" and to this somewhat weepy
music the Cannon brethren passed
! slowly through the hall There was
another Knox club from Philadelphia
in their wake. They wore beautiful
pearl grey derbies, red ties and trod
the boards to the tune of Dixie"
shouting Knox we must have"
The convention crowd was after all
getting quite show, and was in a
much better spirit. The Marion club
of Fairbanks men, led by a white
coated band and wearing white hats,
came in cheering for Fairbanks. Up
jumped Senator Beveridge, and be-
hind him the Indiana delegation,
shouting for the tall man from Indi-
ana. But the best hit of this con-
vention act came when the Ohio Glee
club, composed Of about fifty mem
bers, marched in and gathered in front
of the patform where sat the Ohio
delegation and began to have a con-
cert. Before they had begun to show
the vast audience they could do some
thing in the singing line it looked
as though the concert would be brok-
en- up by one lone individual in the
west gallery just over the platform
whose wierd cry of "F-A-I-R-
BANKS" sounding like the cry of
a lost soul In the desert, began to get
the crowd. But the glee club soon
got to work
The glee club sang in perfect time.
1t was such good music that the con-
vention became very quiet so that they
could enjoy it the more. OF course
Charles P. Taft had the Ohio men
give that glee club a great cheer.
The parade OF the marching clubs
entertained the convention for about
thirty-five minutes Then the con-
Vention got down to real work.
Senator Fulton, of Oregon, climbed
up onto the stage to present the re-
port of the committee ON credentials.
The report upheld the work of the
national committee in every contest
and declared that the temporary roll
of delegates should be made the per-
manent roll. The fight which Forak-
er men. the Fairbanks men and the
Knox boomers had theatened to make
on the floor of the convention did not
materialize. No minority report was
presented.
When the question of the adoption
OF the credentials committee report
was put to the convention by Senator
Burrows the noes" were very weak.
Most of them came from the Fair
banks men. The allies had plainly
| decided to save their strength for the
report of the committee on rules at
this session of the convention.
Chares F. BrOOkeT, of Connecticut,
chairman of the committee on perma-
nent organization, had a clerk read
his report which recommended the Sc
lection of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
! of Massachusetts,, as the permanent
| chairman and making all of the other
temporary officers permanent. This
report was adopted unanimously and
then Senator Burrows announced that
Senator Stewart l.. Woodruff, of New
i W.. L.