The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-28
ROOSEVELT NOMINATED BY NEW PROGRESSIVE PARTY National Convention to Be Held in August After Mass Meetings in Each State---The Colonel Accepts Nomination
 and Work of Organiza-
 ton Begins.

Delegates from the Coliseum con venSion arrived in body and marched into the hall, headed by Senator Clapp of Minnesota and the Minnesota delegation, which joined the California delegates on the staga. The New Jersey delegation to the convention followed Minnesota to the stage, headed by former Govern or Fort Another outburst greeted the delegation, whose leader waved alofU iseum convention floor.
 Here comes Texas!" shouted someone as Cecil Lyon made his way down the aisle with National Con- mitteeman Sidney Beiber of the Dis trict of Columbia.
 Roosevelt Family There.
 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Miss Ethel, Ker. init and Archie Roosevelt arrived early and occupied box near the stage.
 When the Roosevelt family ap- peared Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Long, worth waved and smiled in recogni- tion of the cheers While this dem- onstration was going on some of the Ohio delegation arrived and received tumultuous welcome. Mississippi delegates entered the hall fresh from meeting in their headquarters, and announced the election of s. D. Redmond of Jack son as the first national committee man of the new party
 Massachusetts delegates, with their cry, Massachusetts, Roosevelt, eighteen first, last and all the time, :" next arrived.
 When George P. Perkins started to mount the companionway to the stage, policeman stopped him anl he had some difficulty in explaining his right to a stage seat.
 When the hall had been packed, the entire audience arose and joined in singing America" after which the nor Johnson as he opened the formal part of the meeting,
 The governor was preparing to speak when the Oklahoma delegation tarrived. By this time the non-arrival of the Pennsylvania delegation was causing comment.
 ''To any man with red blood in his veins," said Governor Johnson, tits always pleasure to fight a fraud, and especially to fight fraudulent convention.
 "The delegates present represent a gates to the national Republican con. vention. They propose to do right here and now just what they were elected to do."
 ''We came here with the mandate of the people of California. You came here with the like design to carry out-not the will of a rot ten boss in Pennsylvania or a crooked one in New York, or a United States senator in Massachu- sets, but to carry out the mandate of the people to nominate Theodore Roosevelt
 "By a fraud he has been robbed of that which was his. We, the delc- gates, free and untrammeled, have come here to nominate him tonight"
 These words brought the great aud fence to it's feet with a shout, and for some time there was an uproar of ap- plause.
 "The time has gone by when in this country any self-constituted rep resehtotive of the people can deny to the people that which is theirs," Governor Johnson continued.
 "The time has passed when men can foist by chicanery or unfair means a candidate upon the people whom they don't want
 So we have come here tonight to right a wrong, and just as certain as we are here tonight the people will rule. Every man who embarks in this course understands full we'll the responsibility which is his, recog- nizes the obstacles to be overcome, out we have learned out in the West that whenever there is a great wrong to be <righted, the people will take up the fight and win it."
 The governors speech was inter- rupted with a wild burst of cheering.
 Makes Nominating Speech.
 
 William A. Pendergast made the nominating speech, following the in- troduction of the Clapp resolution. During the cheering that followed the Pennsylvania delegation arrived and were loudly cheered.
 Resuming his speech, MT. Fender gast described some of the details of the Republican convention, and pic tured some of the Republican leaders in the convention.
 The ten commandments MT. Pen dergast advanced as the particular slogan of the new party.