Arizona republican., 1912-08-07
FIRE BROKE OUT
 IN COLISEUM ROOF
The Address of MT. Roose- welt Touched Upon All Subjects Which Wave of Progressivism H a s Thrown to the Surface
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCEl
 CHICAGO, Aug. 6-The second days session of the national progress sive convention was given over all most entirely to Roosevelt who in ad dtion to delivering his long awaited "Confes5ion of faith" answered at some length and with a good deal of earn estness rIs question as to his attitude on the negro question. The delegates cheered Roosevelt more than an hour when he appeared suddenly on the platform of the Coliseum. The rafter5 rang with the noise of the demOnStra tion.
 While awaiting ROOsevelts arrival most of the delegates had joined In an mprOmptu song that they would fol- low him wherever he should lead. This was the spirit of the reception accorded the former president and it was with this spirit with which his ad- vanced ideas of prOgressiveness were received The session had other thrills. 4 photographic flashlight set fire to one of the smoke retaining bags hung among the decorations above the crowded galleries. Temporary Chair man Beveridge and Roosevelt called on everybody to remain qriet and the band started to play as two firemen climbed ID into the steel girders of the roof and snatched the burning bag from it's place and eXtinguished the fire. The doors of the convention hall had been thrown open to the pubic after Roosevelt reached the Coliseum and the big auditorium held one of it's greatest crowds The same spectator in the galleries who yesterday fired a ouery at former Senator Beveridge de- nanjed to know of the colonel what about th7 lquor traffic As delegates yelled shut up, put him out Roosevelt waived his hand towards the man ana said:
 "Oh, go to the primary school or something" Then added: Let me get along with my speech"
 There were cheers and cries You are all right
 And please" added the colonel let this now be as much of a monologue as nossible When the colonel had con- cluded. the convention adopted the re- 
 and also a rule requiring that all reso- lutions submitted from the floor ell sent to the resolutions committee without debate. The permanent or ganization was postponed until to- morrow when the platform IS 10 De adopted and Roosevelt and his running mate will be nominated for president and vice president.
 The Keynote.
 MT. ROosevelts speech strikes keynote for his followers and supper ters in the new party. It lays doWi the plan of battle to be waged oy tht national progressive party. He dls- cusses those principles under tWelNt subdivisions, namely: the helplessness of the old parties; the right or the neoDle to rule; the courts ana tht DeOple; constructive control or tht trusts: rights of the wage worker the farmer: the tariff; the high cos of living; currency: conservation Alaska and international affairs lh' two old parties" he said. are huSkS with no real soul within either, dlN' ided on artificial lines, boss-rldden ah' privilege controlled, each tumble O incongruous elements, and neither dar ing to speak out wisely and fearlesslA what should be said on the vital IS sues of the day" As opposed to thl' incongruitv and insincerity of actor he asserted that the national progres sive platform will be "a contract Wlti the people" with definite and con crete provisions to be carried out l the people ratify the contract on eiec tion day as exactly and honestly al if if were actually enforceable unde the law"
 No HeIo From the Old Party Machine
 Neither the republican nor the dem ocratic platforms or managers shoN any adequate recognition of the mlgh tv fact that we are now in the mids of a great economic evolution Ihi irresistible movement for economi change and improvement must gIided by both common sense an the highest ethical standards" in or der to prevent reasonable eVolutlo from becoming dangerous revolution The democratic party, as i3 indicate hv it's present record in congress, lack inc common sense; and the republica marty. by it's record of stolen dele gates at the Chicago convention, lack the ethical standard "The men Wh presided over the Chicago and Bait more conventions. and the great boss es who controlled the two conventlpf