The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-18
TAFT DELEGATES ARE
 ONLY ONES THAT HAVE
 4 GHOST OF A SHOW
Never Has There Been Such a Com pIete Ignoring of Opposition as Shown By Credentials Com
 mittee To Anti-T Taftites.

Chicago, June 17.-(Special.) )-They got up a yell in the republican national con- vention today. It lasted nearly an hour to be more exact 47 minutes. At the rate 1t was going it could have been pro- longed to a week. It was one of those photograph affairs. Needless to say, 1t was about the President. Senator Lodge was speaking and began to tell his aud tence of the final and rrevocable at- titude of the President not to accept an- other term.
 -Four years, four years, four years more of Theodore" thundered man with B megaphone stationed in the gallery. The great audience caught it up and there were cheers and cheers for Roosevelt. Then came a pause and another mega phone man sounded off, Nominate him now"
 The name of the Secretary of War was not mentioned. There were calls for Bev- eridge, Cannon, Fort, Foraker and other republican stars. The name of MT. Taft was unheard It was all for Roosevelt. An enormous fuzzy Teddy bear as oig as Taft himself was dragged into the convention hall. It sat upon the presid- ing officers desk and was cheered at worshipped. The bear finally found its way over into the Oklahoma delegation and was sat up in the chair of an ab- sent delegate. There 1t will answer the purpose of the absent delegate. The in animate thing embodies the cardinal prin- ciples of the convention delegates. The Freddy bear will vote straight and is typical of the whole show.
 While all this cheering was going on in the galleries the delegates themselves played the part of spectators resigned themselves to their seats and calmly wait ed for the crowd to cheer itself out. A half dozen of the 1000 took off their coats and got mighty. busy, but there was noth- ing doing. To begin with, the chances of some excitement were spoiled at 3 o'clock this morning. After an all-night farcical session the credentials committee concluded it's labors and brought in re- port indorsing the action of the national committee in giving to Taft all the con- tested delegates.
 Last night resolution was defeated to cOnSlueT lnc cdotS ci pioS. iiiS 'NSC was to give the attorneys of the allies ] chance to talk and bring to bear infiu- ences to prevent their taking the cases before the convention itself. The scheme worked just as the managers desired it. The committee reported for the Taft del- egates and the convention adopted it. There was no protest. Even Senator Bradley seeing theu selessnes sof a fight, abandoned all idea of addressing the con- vention There has never been at a na- tional convention more complete slaughter of contesting delegates than has been witnessed here.
 This convention is being likened to the one which nominated Harrison in 1892 They cannot be compared. The Harrison offceholders running that con- yention gave some consideration to the delegates of James G. Blaine, in several instances state delegations were divided between the two candidates.
 There is no yielding here. It is all one way. One of the heaviest loads Harrison had to carry in 1892 was the federal of fceholders through whom he gained his nomination. Harrison did give the oppo- sition a run for it's money. Hitchcock has not given them the pretense of square deal. w. D.