The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-18
Enter Cabot Lodge.


proved, with only a few scattered votes
in opposition.
Enter Cabot Lodge.
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 retir-
ing chairman. His voice, too. had that
resonant New England twang which
made it ring out to the farthest corners
of the galleries, carrying metaphor and
sarcasm which started the listeners to
attention ard applause.
THE fevered fancy of an uneasy
dream" was his indictment hurled
against the policies of opposition par
ties.
The applause hardly died away when
Mr. Lodge launched his sentence which
electrified the assemblage into its first
real demonstration of wild enthusiasm.
cIaque Starts Demonstration.
THE president" exclaimed Mr.
Lodge, sis the best abused and most
popular man in the United States to-
day"
This was the Iong-awaited signal. In
stantly shout broke from the galleries
and was echoed back from the floor aft
er a tempest of detached yells and cat
calls and shouts of Teddy" but grad
ually the whole gathering Joined in the
outbreak.
Some had mounted chairs-Texas.
Kentucky, Tennessee-and We're gestic-
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left, had torn off his coat and was
whipping it wildly above his head.
Texas and Kentucky appeared to be
the center of the agitation 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 i'm motion with
a waving flag and a newspaper, and
his voice joining in the general pande-
mOnium.
Kept at 1t Until Exhausted.
Thirty minutes-thirty-fiv minutes
forty Enthusiastically minutes.
A full thTee-quarters of an hour had
passed in this bewildering confusion of
sight and sound. For a time some fear
was felt by some that a stampede was
imminent But the political generals were
glad To give the pent up enthusiasm of
the multitude this outlet of expression,
and at no time was there the slight
est apprehension among them that the
well devised plans would miscarry by
some oVerpOwering movement. Frank II.
Hitchcock, the Taft manager, moved
about the floor smiling. as the tumult
was at its height.
'"Fhe cheers for Roosevelt today will
be for Taft tomorrow said he with con-
fidence.
Contest on the Floor.
With the subsistence Of the Roosevelt
storm Senator Lodge completed his stir
ring speech and then the convention
turned TO the reports of the other COM
mittees. That on rules and order of bust
ness brought a majority report against
the resolution offered by James Francis
Burke OF Pennsylvania reducing the rem
resentation of states TO a basis of Re
publican votes cast by those states. Mr.
Burke presented a minority report, in
which seventeen of the states concur
red.
A sharp contest occurred on this ques-
ton, bringing for the first time before
the convention some of its best known
orators. including Burke OF Pennsylva-
mia, Governor Wilson of Kentucky the
veteran Kiefer of Ohio. Ex-Governor Her
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