Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-18

| AIlliu tIe lulHulI the DaIlu STRUCK UP
| but the crash of the brass and drums
was completely lost in the babel OF
| sound which welled up from IA DOC
| throats
For the first minute Senator Lodge
stood waiting to proceed, occasionally
raising his hand for silence, only to
awaken a defiant yell twice louder
than before.
Five minutes passed and instead of
abatjng the uproar was increasing.
The sergeant -at-arms moved up a
chair for the presiding officer, and
Senator Lodge sank back to await a
lull in the storm.
Five minutes, 10 minutes, Is minutes.
There was no lull, no abatement A
hoarSe roar had taken the place of the
detached yells.
-Four, four, four years more" came
in deafering choruses from the full
sweep of the gallery, each -four, four
exploding like the boom of heavy ar
tillery
Fifteen minutes, 20 minutes, 25 min
utes
Now delegates We're joining in the
outbI eak. Some had mounted chairs
Texas. Kentucky, TennesSee-and We're
going madly One delegate at the left
had torn off his coat and was whip
ping it wild about his head Texas
and Kentucky appeared to be the CEN
ter 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 in motion with
waving flag and newspaper and his
voice joining in the general pande-
monium.
Thirty minutes, 35 minutes, 40 min
utes. As minutes.
A full three quarters of an hour
had passed in this bcwildering confu-
sion of sight and sound. For a time
some fear was felt by some that
stampede was imminent. But the po-
litical generals We're glad to give the
enthusiasm of the multitude this out
let of expression and at no time was
there the slightest apprehension among
them that the well-devised plans
would miscarry through some over
towering movement. Frank II. Hitch
cock, the Taft manager, moved about
the floor, smiling as the tumult was
at it's height.
'The cheers for Roosevelt today will
be for Taft tomorrow he said, with
confidence -
With the subsistence of the Roose-
welt storm. Senator Lodge completed
his stirring speech. and then the con-
vention turned to the reports of the
~ rrl,
order of business brought a majority
report against the resolution offered
by James Francis Burke of Pennsylva-
mia reducing the representation of
states to a basis of the Republican
vote cast by those states Mr.. Burke
presented a minority report in which
II of the states concurred.
A sharp contest occurred on this
question, bringing for the first time
before the convention some Of it's best
known orators, including Burke of
Pennsylvania, Governor Wilson of
Kentucky, the veteran Kiefer of Ohio.
Ex-Governor Herrick of Ohio. Kennel
Of Arkansas. Buckingham of Illinois,
Wadsworth of New York. Mudd of
Maryland. Ex-Governor Yarmouth of
I-o'i9idii''' anu 'iiV iVSi' oi"''i li'i"
Georgia, Henry Lincoln Johnson.
The resolution was finally defeated,
by the close vote of SOC against All, n
margain of II votes in total of 977,
three delegates being absent. The
change of a single state might have
altered the entire result Although de-
feated Mr.. Burke said the result had
shown a tremendous growth of senti-
mcnt in favor of this restricted repre-
sentation and that in his opinion the
success of the plan appeared beyond
doubt.
The final details of the platform are
being arranged by the platform COM
mittee tonight and this accomplished,
the convention will be equipped tomor-
row to make it's declaration of policy