The Forrest City times., 1908-06-19
45-MINUTE DEMONSTRATION.
fandemonIum Reisns When Senator Lodges Electric Sentences Men ton Magic Name-"Four Years
 More" Cry t4,0co People.

piodGHl the long expected Roosevelt yell, whirlwind of enthusiasm which ragged within the vast amphtheater of the Coliseum for fully 45 minutes We'd nesday. and for time presenting to the timid the specter of a Roosevelt stampede. This demonstration was de cidedly the feature of day otherwise notable for stirring speech from the permanent chairman of the eonven- ton, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, for much practical procedure in placing the convention on smooth running basis. and for the final defeat of the plan to reduce the representation of Southern states at future conventions.
 Probably the most important act of the day, and the one having greatest significance was the adoption of the report of the Committee on Creden- tials, seating the Taft delegations practically in toto. If there had been any lingering doubt of the Taft strength it disappeared before this de- cisive action, which, in effect, placed upwards of TOO delegates in the Taft column. Equally important and even more remarkable was the final aecep. tance of this report by the allies without the formality of dissenting minority report and without carrying the question to the floor of the con Venton for the open fight which had been long threatened. Instead of this, l tn ble; those who had promised. trouble quietly accepted the inevitable, and thus the path was cleared for the full filment of plans already well matured for the nomination of the head of the ticket The .fayorite sons still have. however, their bands of steadfast sup porters. who will show their loyalty when the first ballot is taken.
 Lodge Sets Of the Fireworks.
 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.
 The applause had hardly died away when MT. Lodge launched his sentence which electrified the Gssemblage into its first real demonstration of wild en- thusiasm.
 The president exclaimed Mir. Lodge, lis the best abused and most popular man in the United States to- day"
 This was the long gawaited signal Instantly a shout broke from the gal leries and was echoed back from the floor, at first only tempest of detach- ed yells and cat-calls and shouts of Teddy" but gradually gathering force and volume until it swelled to a whril- wind of sound and motion as delegates and spectators rose en masse. mount ing chars. waving banners, hats. hand kerchiefs, flags, newspapers. anything which could be seized upon to add tur | bulence to the scene. Amid the tu- mutt the band struck up. but the crash of the brass and drums was complete ly lost in the babel of sound which welled from 14.000 throats.
 Five minutes-ten minutes-fifteen minutes
 Four, four four years more" came in deafening chorus from the full sweep of the gallery, as if preconeert- ed, each -four, four. four" exploding like the boom of heavy artillery.
 Fifteen minutes-twenty minutes twenty-five minutes
 Now delegations were joining in the 1 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 1t wildly above his head. Texas and Kentucky ap- peared to be the center of the agita- tion on the floor New York viewed the storm with calm. and so did Ohio except strangely. one of the lonesome i Foraker delegates Judge Marcus Shoop. who, mounted on chair, kept l both arms in motion with a waving flag and a newspaper and his voice joining in the general pandemonium
 Roosevelt Today; Taft Tomorrow"
 Thirty minutes-thirty-f minutes forty minutes-forty-fiy minutes i full three-quarters Of an hour had l passed in this bewildering confusion 1 of sight and sound. For a time some fear was felt by some that a stam- l pede was imminent. But the political generals were glad to give the pent-up | enthusiasm of the multitude this out l let of expression. and at no time was there the slightest apprehension 1 among them that the welldeyised plans would misearry by some over towering l movement. Frank H. Hitchcock. the 1 Taft manager moved about the floor. smiling as the tumult was at it's l height
 '.The cheers for Roosevelt today will be for Taft tomorrow" said he. with confidence.