Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-08

reccss.
An amendment adding four women
to the National committee as mem i.
bers-at large was greeted with APP
plause and the rules We're adopted
without debate.
Henry J. Allen Of Kansas announce
ed that the platform would not be
ready for an hour and a half and re-
newed the motion 10 suspend the rules
and nominate. This time the motion
went through without serious objec-
ton.
Roll Call for Nominations.
'rhe clerk will call the roll of states
for nominations for President of the
United States announced Chairman
Beveridge.
Alabama, called the clerk.
j. q. Thompson arose alabama
yields to New York. he announced
But here the proceedings were in
terrupted.s for William A. Prender-
CAST of New York, scheduled to nom
ii.ate Roosevelt. was not in the hall.
Searehers hurried out TO find him and
the band filed in the wait
After the hunt for Prendergast had
been on for 20 minutes, he appeared.
round of cheers greeted him as he
was Introduced and the Bull Moose
call sounded through the hall. A hush
OF silence followed and Prendergast
began his speech.
Prendergast's Speech.
Mr.. Prendergast said in part:
We have arrived at the crowning act
of the convention.
This great gathering owes its being
to a mighty protest by the American
leople against those who have poison-
ed the wells of democracy. 1t repre-
sents the martial spirit of mankind,
that, from an immemorable time has
charged back upon those who would
place obstacles in the way of the
march Of human progress. While APP
preeiating the stupendous nature of the
task before it, the national progressive
party declines to accept tie cynical doc
trine ascribed to Napoleon. that Cod is
on the side of the heaviest battalions
and Processes its sublime faith in the
teaehing Of Abraham Lincoln that
right makes might.
1t is inspired with this faith that
we have undertaken and accomplished
the formation of new party. in order
that those who would free the nation
from moribund principles of govern
merit might within this organization
exercise those traditions of personal
Independence, which originally gave
the American people their place of hon
or in the family of nations.
THE platform which You have adopt
cd is the guarantee of the genuineness
Of your democracy. II fortifies every
theory Of government which has ever
given strength to the American com
monwealth. 1t says to the American
citizen:
we recognize the social and indus
trial issues of the time. We present
remedies for them. In a correct appre-
citation of these issues you will under
stand the difficulties that beset you.
You cannot expect the relief you re-
auire from either OF The old parties
because, like Ephraim chained to his
idols they do not dare face these prob
lens in that spirit that has won every
triumphant concession to human rights
that has marked the history of civiliza-
ton.
In the virtue OF our cause we have
sterling faith. In the vitality of its
principles we believe as we do in the
inherent honor of American manhood.
In the great strength which this move
ment has already demonstrated and
viii continue to exhibit we have that
confidence that can only come to those
who are borne along by the impulse of
? spiritual conviction.
But, while virtuous the cause and
vital the principles and strong the force
hehind them. human experience tells us
that their conquering way will be slow
aud difficult unless the legions are led
by ono whose spirit Is their spirit. and
whose qualities of leadership are equal
to the task of moulding public opinion
and establishing new epoch in Amer
lean History
such leadership embraces the genius
of Washington. the craftsmanship of
a Jefferson. the Democracy Of a Lincoln.
1t is personihed IN him whose name it
viii be my privilege TO present to You
as the candidate of this party for the
office of President of the United States
Of America.
My candidate is more than a citi-
zen; he is a national asset. In this
mGmentous period of political doubt,
when the nation has to decide whether
it VIII or how it VIII grapple with the
great economic problems of the time,
there is no man in American lie who
presents such credentials for the task
as he.
This candidate has success writ
ten OF every page of his official career.
He has fought the most vicious forces
In American life and conquered them.
He surrendered The presidency Mt a
time when his reelection would have
been a certainty, in the hope that 9th
er hands would prosecute successfully
the task he did not have time to finish.
That task hes been treated with inter
mittent loyalty and has largely been
left undone. We ask that the task be
again entrusted to him whose loyalty
to principle has never faltered and
whose breadth of experience qualities
him over all men for the duty.
He presents the most striking and
eventful civic career in American his
tory. He is essentially American in
that there is hardly phase of national
experience which he's not felt the ef-
fet of his personality, through attrition
and association.
While his early environment would