The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-08
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.inaudibly. a general eheerfest fol-
T lowed and an attempt was made 10
/ keep Il up for another hour. But after
half an hour OF yelling, singing, baai
playing and bandana waving, they
decided to quit. which they did with
surprising suddenness
Platform Is Read.
II was here that Senator Beverage
announced the readiness Of the plat
form, which was read by William
Drape Lewis, OF the law school OF
the University Of Pennsylvania.
Lewis got close attention for the
platform, which was about 4,le0 words
long and which contained all of the
measures which were incorporated in
! the national platform Of the Independ~
| ence party four years ago.
! In addition there was a demand FOR
the recall of the judicial decisions an
( Alaska plank with plea for the gov
eminent ownership of Alaskan rail-
roads, a plank favoring the reappoint-
ment of Roosevelts country life com
mission. and 81 high cost of living
/ plank. which was very cautiously
| worded The platform was adopted
| Yociferousiy.
John NJ Parker. Of Louisiana and
Judge Ben Il. Lindsay, of Colorado.
both baffled aspiraats for the vice pres
/ idential nomination. started the second
Mace ball rolling ny nominating John
/ son.
findsay's oratorieal oil had burned
| low In his Roosevelt speech, and the
! lights huttered feeblv I'm talking for
/ Johnson. Parker who looks like a
I hard hitter, made Il lively address.
I Then followed Fred Lands, of Indiana.
| who compared Roosevelt and Johnson
| to two dreadnaughts, and said that
/ they were enough for one year. Lands
! also said that the law prevented the
! retail anarchist from carrying a con-
cealed deadly weapon. and that 1t ought
| 10 prevent "A wholesale anarchist from
carrying a concealed statesman. Ray
I mond Robbins Of Illinois. Jimmie Gar
/ field, OF Ohio. BIN Finn, OF PennsyI-
vania and Clifford Pinchot. also of
| Pennsylvan helped in the boosting.
So did Governor :. 4. Nesey, OF South
Dakota, aud 'Johq r. G4~de, OF New
/ York. the latter one OF the few col
0red men vino managed 10 get into
tho convention as delegate. The last
and best johnson speech was made by
&. : Wheeler, Of California, a man
with ing voice and real sentiments.
] which he expressed 20 the delight of
everybody in the hall
! AT g.. so the convention nominated
johnson Then the guard NJ the door
drew back and who would step In but
the colonel himself, closely followed by
( Governor Johnson.
Colonel in Good Voice.
The colonel had been reading copy
on the platform all night and most Of
the afternoon, aud he showed the Eff
fects Of mental toll But he was In
! good voice, The notification had been
matte outside by "a committee of fifteen,
I told off by Beveridge. The two candi-
dates spent most of their time tossing
} bouquets at each other.
J The colonel said that in the hour of
/ darkness and peril and need, when
j Barnes had beaten him and Stimson
( down at the polls in 1910. he got a
I cheering letter from Sehnsou. Johnson
! had lust won in California, and II X.
thought 1t very magnanimous in him
+ 70 write expressing confidence In a
/ beaten man He said that he had no
| possession which he would rather hand
ldown TO his children and his Childrens
children than that letter.
! johnson returned in kind He said
! that RooseveIts good bye to the Re-
! publican party was the hodest, bravest
/ thing he had ever done IN his bold,
/ brave public career, and that il never
! could he forgotten.
Then the band plsyed the doxology
and the first convention OF the Pro-
gressiVe party vas II an end II will
be the Progressive party in some States
only Bill Finn will call 1t the Wash
fngton party in Pennsylvania because
Penrose. with much forethought. copy
rightcd the Progressive name right af-
ter the Republican convention. But
the word Bun Moose will designate IL
In the mouths of the populaCe. and the
moo Of the moose viii call the Roose-
Welt men from one national hilltop to
another AS long as they continue TO
thread their newly found trails that
lead whittier none of them as yet has
tho IA l1uaSt