The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-06-19

His references to the Democratic
party and the fling he took at Mr..
Bryan in speaking of persons of
self-confessed superiority and chronic
discomfort" were all received with
cheers. Then he began to talk about
the president until he got off his
torcN-like remark which set fire to
the hill.
There came burst of applause like
the fizZing of fuse before the bomb
goes off, just before the real outburst
when he said that the president had
enforced the laws as he had found
{ them on the statute books"
Whats the matter with Roose-
/ velt,' yelled man in one of the gal
leries. The Taft people watched this
outburst and saw it subside, but then
a second or two later the real bomb
! exploded.
1t was 1853 when Mr.. Lodge with
a sweeping, graceful gesture spoke of
the president as the best abused and
most poydlar man in the United
States today. 1t was 2:43 when he
resumed his speech.
The applause getting started at diff
ferent points in the galleries and
around the sides of the hall swept
through the edifice at times with the
! roar of storm to die away and be
resumed again with almost cyclonic
force at times. After 1t had been 60
ing two minutes Mr.. Lodge raised
his hands at the crowd in front of
him and sat down,
1t had not been going but a few
minutes before it began to spread
among the delegates. The Wisconsin
men, the Oklahomaites and some of
the southerners sitting in the north
western part of the floor getting up
to join in. Two Connecticut men got
restive and jumped up with an Ameri-
can flag. Mr. Lodge smilingly raised
his hand again and whispered some
thing to General Woodford on the
platform who stood up to watch the
thing better. A man, who was after
wards said to be H. N. Fairbanks, a
brother of the vice president, who was
sitting on the platform very near Mrs.
Longworth and her husband, got up
and led the yelling, waving a newspa-
per. He was one of several men and
women who at different points kept it
/ going. The Knox men who had par
AIDED through the hall with their col
ored umbrellas were scattered all
through the place now, and they did
very effective work with their UNI
brellas. After the thing had been go
| ing on for ten or fifteen minutes
somebody gave signal to the band.
Hail to the Chief" was what the
band played. Then came an attempt
at "a Hot Time In the Old Town
! Tonight" but this was a failure be-
/ cause there was a hot time already
and the band ceased and took no fur
ther part. The applause had been 60
ing 27 minutes then and had become
spasmodic when John o.. Sheath, of
Pennsylvania, got up in the Pennsyl-
vania delegation and turning on the
horse power began shouting -Four,
four, four years more" A woman,
said to be Mrs. e. w. Fisher, of
| Pittsburg, sitting under the east gall
lery, jumped up, produced big Am
erican flag and waved it at the crowd
of delegates taking up the same cry
The Oklahoma men and a good
many of the western and southern del
egates seemed to join in this cry, but
/ the galleries were still doing most
Of the work. There were enough
folks shouting this cry of -four, four,
four years more" together to make
1t something of a noise. You could
not get away from that, but those
who were looking for the frenzied
stage to come did not, see it.
After the shouting had been going
on thirty-three minutes, Mr.. Lodge
got out of his chair, picked up the
| gayel and raped for order but no at
tention was paid him. When the out
burst had lasted forty minutes the
teddy bear incident was sprung That
started up the old chant of four years
more again, for few minutes. SEN
ator Scott, of West Virginia, who
had apparently been waiting an op-
portunity rushed to Senator Lodge
saying:
We'll never get anything done
here. The delegates and alternates
are not doing this. Why don't you
stop it?"
'If you'll devise some way of stop
ping it I'll do it," responded Senator
! Lodge with a smile.
Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey,
also appealed to Mr. Lodge to stop
the racket. Ex-Governor Herrick sent
note to Senator Lodge, suggesting
that Senator Lodge ask the secretary
of the convention to explain to the as
semblage the reasons why order was
necessary.
Il can do that myself without NAL
loy's help" was the chairman's re-
ply.
At the forty-seVen minute mark of
the outburst some of the delegates be-
gan to hiss.
The cheering still kept up.
"If / had my way, I'd slur that
gang in the galleries out" said Mr..
Lodge to those around him. "They
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