Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-08-14
ROOSEVELT NAMED;
GOV.JOHNSON FOR V.P.
Bull Moosers Chose Their Nomi-
nees by Acclamation
ColOneIs Nomination as Third Party
Candidate Preceded by EulOgistic
Speeches

Chicago, Aug. 7.-After drawing
with his own hand a platform that
eight years ago he would have de-
nounced as incendiaIy, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt of Oyster Bay. N. Y, was
tonight nominated for president of the
United States by the newly-born pro-
gressive party. hiram W. Johnson.
the energetic progressive governor of
California. was nominated for vice.
president Both were named by &C.
clamatiOn. Both hurled themselves
outside the breast works of the Re-
publican party when they accepted
the nominations, which they did ten
minutes after johnson had been &C.
claimed as the convention choice for
second place on the ticket.
Thus two former valiant Republi-
cans. grasping hands across the con-
tinent go forth from .Armageddon to
battle, Roosevelt for third term in
the whitehouse, johnson for the seat
now held by the Hon. James Sherman
of Utica. The tumuIt and the shout
ing have died. The delegates and
alternates have departed. A new
party. standing on a platform which
promises everybody everything, and
whose only sound features are lifted
bodily from that of the Independence
party of four years ago, has been put
on wabbly feet. Whether it will
learn to walk by election time depends
chiefly on the personal popularity of
Theodore Roosevelt, who alone is
responsible for its existence.
Today's proceedings, which com
pressed the whole actual business of
the convention into a few crowded
hours, were but the echo of the Re-
publican convention of June. The
two nominees selected by the minority
Of that convention were named today.
The men who were forcibly prevented
from running that convention ran
this one. Even the nominating
speeches. conned by rote for delivery
liam Prendergaet Of New York, who
had been chosen to nominate Roosevelt
in June, today for the first time had
the chance to deliver the address
which for eight weeks he had carried
on the ferVid tablets of his memory.
Repression was not one of the
features of the oratory That skyrocket-
ed about the Coliseum from II 80 in
the morning till at night. Roose-
Welt, nominated and seconded by half
a dozen of the nation S most euphem-
istic boosters, was described as the
embodient of all the human virtues
that as vet have been invented.
Prendergaet, referring from time to
time to the faces OF Washington.
Jefferson and Lincoln, the RoOsevelts
of their little times, which were
borne on the convention banners. de-
scribed him finally as defying the
raging, warning elements like the
granite bulwarks of the cliffs, that
lion hearted citizen. Theodore Roose
Welt = Prendergast also alluded to
the colonel as a brother of the race
which moved one of the elected negro
delegates FROM Florida to observe:
He ain t no brudder oh de cullud
race. -
Judge Ben B. Lindsey who swayed
and swung like a reed in a gale as he
spoke, allowed that not even Abraham
Lincoln himself had so we'll deserved
the gratitude of the righteous and the
hatred of the uprighteous as Roose-
Welt. Alexander Hamilton mot the
first reactionary, thanked God that
there had been a Dixie land because
it had given birth to Roosevelt's
mother. Hamilton came from Georgia
and has long gray locks, which he
shook as he spoke to emphasize his
eloqUence.
Only Jane Adams of Hull house
spoke earnestly and clearly without
oratorical fourishes or campaign
buncombe in seconding the nomina-
tion.