Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-06-24
Republicans Name Him For the
Presidential Candidacy.
SHERMAN HIS RUNNING MATE
New York Legislator Nominated For
Vice President-Stirring Scenes In
chIcaao's Big Coliseum-Lodge and
Burrows Make Speeches.

WAnam II. Taft OF Ohio.
For vice president OF the United
States, James s. Sherman of New
York.
This is the ticket OF the Republican
party put into nomination at tho ma
tional Republican convention held in
the great Coliseum in Chicago.
The picture within the walls OF the
vast amphitheater as the presidential
candidate was named was one truly
grandiose in its magnitude. In front,
10 the right and left, below and above
the billowing sea Of humanity, restless
after hours of waiting and stirred
from one emotion to another, was in
a fever Of expectancy for the culmln-
ating vote.
The favorits sons of other states
had been named save Knox and Lid
toilette, and now on the roll call came
Ohio. AS the Buckeye state was
reached. the tall, gaunt form of Theo
dore f. Burton, with student like face
and severe black clerical garb, ad.
vanced to the platform to nominate
Ohio's candidate. He spoke fervently
with the singing voice of an evange-
list, which went ringing through The
great building. The close OF his speech
Of nomination was the signal for loos.
ing the long pent up feelings OF the
Taft followers. Instantly the Ohio
delegates were on their feet, other
Taft states following, while the con
vention hosts, in gallery and on the
floor, broke into mad demonstration.
Taft, Taft-W. H. Taft" came in a
roar from the Ohoans. Megaphones
seemed TO spring from concealed
: places AMI swell the Taft tumult into
thunder. A huge blue silk banner,
bearing the familiar features of the
statesman-secretary, was swung be-
fore the delegates, awakening a fresh
whirlwind OF enthusiasm.
Order Disappears.
All semblance of order had been
abandoned, and the delegates arena
was a maelstrom of gesticulating
I
snatched up by the Taft enthusiasts D
borne under by the storm of disorder.
The band was inaudible-a mere
whisper above the deafening volume
OF sound.
For ten. fifteen, then twenty min
utes. this uproar continued. II was a
repetition of the scene when the name
OF Roosevelt threw the convention into
a frenzy, repeated in intensity and al
most duration. But there is a limit TO
the physical resources of throat and
lungs RELAYS had not been estab-
llshed. and at last the tired voices
died down to a hoarse shout. and at
last subsidized.
This lull now gave the opportunity
for the speech seconding Taft's nomi-
nation by George II. Knight OF Cali
fornia, his big round face beaming
forth on the sympathetic multitude,
and his splendid baritone voice swell
ing forth like the tones of a great
church organ.
CALIFORNIA; tribute 10 Taft was brief
and fervid Now there was another
hull in the Taft movement while the
remaining candidates were placed I'm
nomination
1t was late ip the afternoon before
the convention. now literally swelter-
ing with the intense heat and weary
after nearly seven hours of continu-
GUS session. reached the end Of the
food of eloquence and the decks were
at last cleared for the eliminating
act-the ballot. But no, just as the
last swell OF oratOry, the seconding
speech for Lafollette, had died away,
like a cyclone from a clear sky burst
a Lafollette demonstration, which
swept the convention from its very
bearings II was the same deafening
wave Of sound that had greeted Roosc-
Welt and Taft, intense and maddening,
and with the vital ring Of genuine en-.
thusasm. IL seemed as though Wis
consin had suddenly peopled everv
foot of the galleries. The delegates
sat calm and waiting. except the fran.
TIC WisconaIns; but the convention 70:
the time bcr lon
IF the gailere1
Now q slu a craation ,oc-
,urred aqua ths hrIwind yeered
from l.afolette 10 Roosevelt A ban
ner. bearin. the Roosevelt portrait
and waved from the gallery, was the
signal for the change, but in the con
fused babel of voices there was no dis
tinguishing where the Lafollette
cheers ended and those for Roosevelt
began.
Amid this pandemonium and with
the galleries I'm full control. Chairman
Lodge decided opon heroic action in
order again TO make the convention
master of it's affairs He ordered the
roll call of states 10 begin for he
vote on president
Such a. call under such circum.
stances of intense confusion has prob
ably never before occurred in the his
tory of national conventions. The
secretary was powerless 10 make his
call for states heard above the scafen-
ing clamor. Seizing a megaphone, he
shouted the roll OF states-Alabama,
Arkansas-but his voice was swal.
lowed up in the mad uproar. Gradu-
ally. however. the curiosity OF tho
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