Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
THE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
Vast Body Called TO Order by
Chairman Harry New and julius
G. Burrows, of Michigan, Made
Temporary Chairman.


Temporary Chairman.
CHICAGO, JUNE 16.-Thousands of
delegates, visitors from all parts of
the world, still more of politicians,
spectators and hangers-o on today wend-
ed their way from all parts of Chicago
to the center of the universe, at least
for few days, the Republican ma
tional convention hall-the Coliseum.
Hours before the schedule time for
opening of the convention immense
throngs were about the big building.
The people came early to avoid the
rush, but the rush could not be avoid
ed for the crowd was so great. The
plan to avoid the rush began too early.
Great preparations were made to
handle the crowd. Scores of police
men were on hand and the sergeant-at-
arms stood within the building attend
ing to the last details and was prepar-
ed to throw the doors open an hour be-
fore the scheduled time.
The city is in gala attire. Every
business house on State street is a
mass of red, white and blue bunting
and American flags. Wabash avenue
is like a triumphal parade ground from
the loop district to the Coliseum at
Sixteenth street. The leading hotels
are elaborately decorated within and
without.
Within the convention ball early
this morning the scene was really
beautiful and stirring. The interior of
the great building fairly groaned under
the folds of bunting and flags of every
nation on the globe. Many large par
ties of ladies started early for the con
vention hall.
The Pennsylvania delegation adopt
ed a resolution, as was expected,
which will go to the platform com
mittee, favoring change in the repre-
sentations at the national convention.
The change advocated is on basis of
one delegate to ten thousand votes
cast at the previous election for presi-
dent.
The sole hope ofthe allies for beating
Taft lies with the Credentials commit
tee, which for the coming 48 hours or
more will hold the center of the stage
of the convention. There is little rea-
son to believe the committee will over
turn the verdict of the National com.
mittee on the matter of contested seats
in sufficient number OF cases to prevent
Taft's nomination on the first ballot.
1t is not improbable that there will
be few reversals, because since the
action of the "steam roller'' proceed
ings of the National committee the
unsuccessful contestants who really
believed that they had a good chance,
have been working hard to get their
claims in the strongest possible shape
The strongest lawyers among the allies
have been engaged to work in commit
tee with this material under the leader
! ship OF Mayor Bonwaller, of Indiana,
Frank Smith, of Illinois, and James
Scarlet, of Pennsylvania. Congress
man Sloat Fasset, of New York, will
make the final charge on the Taft forti-
| fications.
1t may be said that the Credentials
committee is as fully as strong for Sec
retary Taft for president as the Natl.
onal committee, and when the final
roll of the Convention is made up on
Thursday or Friday, Secretary Malloy
will find it practically the same as to.
day.
| President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has not received
assurance that his labor proposal for
! the platform will be dealt with to his
satisfaction. He has by no means
given up hope, saying: "Our demands
are moderate and we hope that the Re-
publican party will give them proper
consideration"
The Republican convention, which is
to name cadidates for president and
vice president, and make declarations
which will be the articles of faith of
the party which has for the greater
part of half century governed the
United States, started on schedule
| time at noon.
Every man was occupying a dele
| gates seat in the great convention