Omaha daily bee., 1912-06-23


| Mississippi Roosevelt delegates enteres
the hall from a meeting in their head
quarters and announced the election o
S. ID. Rsdmon Of Jackson as the firs
national committeeman of the new party
Massachusetts delegates with their cry
Massachusetts,. Roosevelt eighteen. first
last and all the time" arrived next
| Policeman Stops Perkins.
When George W. Perkins starred Il
mount the companion WY to the stag,
a policeman stopped him and he hat
some difficulty In explaining his right L
stage seat.
Mrs Roosevelt, who witnessed2the en-
counter, was observed to laugh heartily
When the hall had been packed the
entire audience rose and Joined In sing
ing America" after which the delegates
greeted Governor Johnson and opened
the formal part of the meeting.
The governor was preparing to speak
| when the Oklahoma delegation arrived.
| BY this time the nonarrival of the Penn.
sylvania delegation was causing com
\ ment.
ITO any man with red blood in his
| veins" said Governor johnson. lit is al
ways pleasure to fight fraud. and espe-
cially to fight fraudulent convention.
THE delegates present represent a ma
jority of the legally elected delegates tn
the national republican convention. They
propose to do right here and now just
what they were elected to do
The governors speech was interrupted
with a wild burst of cheering.
we came here with the mandate Of
the people Of California. You came here
with the like desigp-to carry out not
the will of a rotten boss in Pennsylvania
or crooked one In New York or a
United States senator In Massachusetts,
but to carry out the mandate OF the peo-
pie to nominate Theodore Roosevelt.
BY fraud he has been robbed Of
that which was his. We. the delegates,
free and untrammeled. have come here
to nominate him tonight"
Uproar of Applause.
These words brought the great audience
to It's feet with shout and for some
time there was an uproaf of applause.
THE time has gone by when. in this
country any self-consututed representa-
tive of the people can deny to the people
that which is theirs" Governor Johnson
continued. ''tha time has passed when
men can first by chicane or unfair
means put candidate upon the people
whom they don't want
so we have come here tonight to right
q wrong, and just as certain as we are
here tonight the people will rule. Every
man who embarks this course UNDER
stands full well the responsibility which
Is his, recognizes the obstacles to be over
come, but we've learned out in the west
that whenever there is great wrong
to be rlghted, the people win take up
the fight and win It,"
Resolution Read.
Governor johnson described the CAM
paign Of Colonel Roosevelt against the
bosses and declared that the delegates
assembled proposed ito see that Mr.
Roosevelt gets his reward. He then In
troduced Senator CIapp. Senator Clapp
of Minnesota read the resolution nomi.
mating Colonel Roosevelt. 1t was adopted
with cheer. The resolution follows:
We. delegates and alternates to the re-
publican national conveation, represent
ing clear majority Of the voters of the
republican party In the nation and rep
resenting clear majority of delegates
and alternates legally elected to the con-
vention In meeting assembled. make the
following declaration:
We were delegated by a majority Of re-
publican voters Of cur respective dis
tricts and states to nominate Theodore
Roosevelt In the republican national con-
yention as the candidate of our party
for president and thereby carry out the
viii or the voters as expressed at the
primaries. We have earnestly and con-
scientiously striven to execute the com.
mission entrusted to US BY the party
voters.
For five days we have been denied
justice In the national convention. This
result has been accomplished by the ac-
tion O. the now defunct national COM
mittee IN placing upon the preliminary
roll OF the convention, and thereby seat
ing upon the floor Of the convention. u
sufficient number Of fraudulently elected
delegates 10 control the proceedings OF
the convention. These fraudulent dele
gates, once seated, have by concerted ac-
ton with one another put themselves
upon the permanent roll, where they
constitute an Influence sufficient to con-
troll the convention and defeat the will
of the party as expressed at the primar-
les.
We have exhausted every known means
TO hold off this conspiracy and to pre-
urtl
but without success.
We were sent to this convention bear
ing the most specific instructions to
place Theodore Roosevelt In nomination
as the candidate OF our party for presi-
dent and we therefore deem 1t to be our
duty TO carry out these Instructions In
the only practicable and feasible way re-
manning open to us.
Therefore, be 1t resolved that we, rep
resenting the majority of the voters of
the republican party and Of the dele
gates and alternates legally elected to
the national republican convention, In
compiiance with our instructions from
the party voters. hereby nominate Theo-
dore Roosevelt as the candidate OF our
party for the office of president OF the
United states: and we cali upon him to
accept such nomination la compliance
with the will OF the party voters.
Ana ana De II further resolved, that Q com
forthwith notify Colonel Roosevelt OF the
action here taken and request him 10 ap-
pear before US In this hall as soon as
convenient.
Prendergast Talks.
Mr. Prendergass then made the nomi-
mating speech.
Il am very glad,' said Mr.. Prendergast,
that the opportunity Is afforded me to
speak here tonight 80 that YOU may see
that all people Of New York are not
quite 80 benighted as Governor johnson