The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-08-22


gregational church of this city, was
interviewed by the Daily Republican,
relative to the third party convention
which he attended in tina city last
week.
what do you think of the conven-
ton, Mr.. Mair?" he was asked.
What do | think of it? Well, sir,
it was a big, "a very big convention.
| never attended a national political
convention before, and have no init
mate knowledge of the size and spirit
of other meetings of the kind, but
heard policemen and others who had
witnessed many national conventions
say that for size, intensity of spirit
and o~ratory it was surpassed.
The opening day was Monday. Fully
ten thousand people were present in
the Coliseum when Temporary
Chairman Beveridge called the con-
vention to order. There was UNI
bounded enthusiasm from the first
minute to the last. The second day
was a record breaker for attendance.
There were fifteen thousand people
in the building during the great dem
%onstration of SIS minutes for Roose-
welt and his two hour speech. That
demonstration was something never
to be forgotten. Half a dozen bands
furnished the music and thousands
of lungs the noise, and together they
produced an effect hat seemed at
times almost to lift the great steel
~rafters off the building. The noise
was so great at times that one could
not have heard heavy thunder. All
sorts of noise producing devices were
pmn1nVp1 Thnrn wprn vnllC., thprp
was the mooing of the moose which
always brought out roars of laugh
ter, for it vas something original
and certainly effective. There was
marching, singing of the old hymns,
religious and secular, waving of ban
ners, whistling and stamping of feet.
1t was pandemonium. After this had
continued fifteen or twenty minutes
Beveridge thought it was time to get
down to business and ave the table
a tremendous whack with the big
govel. 1t simply electrified the null
titude, and the noise hat followed
his first effort to restore order was
%deafening. Several times he pounded
the table, and always with the same
effect, till it seemed that the resound-
ing whacks on the table we're part OF
J the program. =
4 et Roosevelt's Speech.
"At the end of 5S minutes of this
. kind of thing, Roosevelt began his
speech, and for two hours outlined
, his policies. 1t was something new ir
> American politics for a candidate
for the presidency to appear before
the nomination was made. At the
> conclusion of the speech another
demonstration equal to the first oc
Cured, and it vent on for AS min
, utes. The convention took itself YER.
seriously. The delegates believed
e they we're called to Chicago to pro
tect and to preserve the rights ant
privileges of the people. At first thu
Chicago papers considered the con
v@ention as a sort of huge joke, ant
their reports of the proceedings wer'
tainted with ridicule and prejudice
a but long before the convention ad
journed the whole city realized tina
e the spirit and purpose and size of tn
convention had a most serious signi
ficance, and the treatment of tn
meeting by the press was finall.
quite different. | am of the opinion
that the Roosevelt ticket is going t
t surprise the country by the magni
tude of the support it will receive a
the November election. We can nc
dodge the fact that right or wron
Roosevelt has the largest persona
' following of any man in America to
S day, and we do know that i
every state with in the last 81
: months where the people have ha
e the privilege of expressing themsel
yes at the polls Roosevelt has bee
e the easy winner, North Dakota an
n Wisconsin excepted. The fight is be
tween the third party and the demo
cratic party"
it $50 far as you could discover, Nj
n MAR, what vas the character o
those composing the convention?
L. I'lt The Character Shown.
~ 81 can probably best answer thi
= question by telling you who were nc
It there. The low browed professions
~ w~ard-heeler was not there. The polit
ical boss as we understand the mean
| ing of that word vas lot there. TIL
Southern federal Office holder wa
not there. The trained, seasoned an
j. powerful Office holder and political
I; We're not there. The convention wa
made up of representative men an
|. women. j say women for there wer
several m delegates, Miss Jan
. Adams of Chicago, being at tn
y uedu vi luc lllIllOlS cIeSdtIOu. MAN
of the delegates were taking part i
: politics for the first time. Every elias
st and calling 1 think was represented
There were several prominent demo
Gratis in the convention. John M
Parker of New Orleans and Gen. Nc
Dowell of Nashville, We're two O
these. The latter has been a life Ion
democrat and is an ex-confederat
soldier. He made n of the notabl
speeches of the convention, and Wi
stump the state of Tennessee thi
: fall for Roosevelt. The leading spirit
of the convention, and who were i
n control, and it was control too, TO
never vas a meeting of this kin
more absolutely dominated by TIL
minds of a select few than was thi
convention, are some of the mos
distinguished citizens of the country
The organization was perfect. Their
was no friction, and leaders and dele
gates were a unit in everything. Blu
the forces were organized perfectly