Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-06-21
Feature Yesterday of Repub-
Iican National Gathering
Was Extraordinary Brief
ness of Its Deliberations.
PANDEMONIUM FOLLOWS
SUDDEN ADJOURNMENT
Mammoth Crowd Within Coli
scum Cheers Itself Hoarse
for Roosevelt, Cummins, La
Toilette, Taft and Hadley,

/ (By Morning journal special Lessed Wire.
! Chicago. June 20--Five minute.
was the entire duration of the tive
h, sessions Of the republican nationa
convention today, with a recess OF four
hours between.
| The first session was convened al
noon. lasted four minutes; the second.
one minute.
The feature of the noon session was
the prayer Of the Very Rev. Walter T..
Sumner, dean of the Protestant Epls-
copal cathedral, of Saints Peter and
Paul. of Chicago, and the applause
which followed. This prayer differed
from that offered at the opening ses-
sion on Tuesday, when Father Calla-
CHAN adhered strictly to the usual
form of the Roman Catholic ritual.
Likewise, from the invocation yester-
day by Rabbi Stolz, which was color
less and general In It's terms.
Dean Sumner dealt directly with
J the sensational factional conflict pres
ent In the minds OF every person In
the enormous audience In whose be-
half he spoke. and prayed that there
should he granted to the members of
1.-THE convention, .'self restraint. cool
Judgment and all wisdom. that their
deliberations may insure to the nation
civic righteousness, Industrial peace
and social justice"
The entire gathering. both on the
floor and platform, and In the gal
l.. al. al Nos "a
oeation, and as he closed. broke into
quite general hand clapping.
The afternoon session was remark
o bic not so much for the fact that It
lasted bit less than one minute, as
for the extraordinary conditions
which ensued on its adjournment
Almost with the fall of Chairman
Roots gavel, there broke out a pan
demonium of cheers which lasted al
most as long as that of yesterday. II
had scarcely definite cause, though
its immediate occasion was the effort
of n man i'm the west gallery to swing
the great gathering into unison with
the cry, 1--WE want Teddy
1t started all right, but almost i'm
the LaFollette. Hadley and
Cuminns enthusiasts began an oppo-
sition turmoil. with the result that
within less than a minute there was
simply one meaningless chaos of noisc.
Presently the group of men In :he
south gallery, back OF the platform.
brought four or five megaphones into
play with, I'VE Want Teddy"
A smashing rainstorm was in pro-
gress outside; so the people simply
stood where they were and shouted
each to his taste.
Under cover of the racket and at
first unnoticed by the crowd. there
began to gather on the platform "A
body OF big policemen. first one and
then another. then two and three, un-
til few minutes afterward there
were ranged along the curved edge at
the back of the platform. some twen-
ly bluecoats under personal command |
Of Assistant Chief Schuetler.
Then II began to be commented |
that Chairman Root. Secretary Glea
son. Sergeant at Arms Stone and his
assistant, Colonel Thayer. had never !
eft the platform at all. The crowd
soon began TO ask the reason for this
show OF force.
One of the reasons for the i'm
nense crowd which had gathered. was
he general impression that Colonel
Roosevelt would come into the con-
'ention and make a speech: also there
Vas considerable reason to assume
rom the morning newspapers that
oday would bring to pass the much
discussed battle between the factions,
perhaps bolt of the Roosevelt adj
iereDts; possibly an attempt to hold
rival convention simultaneously on
he floor Of the same hail. There had
,een a tremendous addition TO. almost
doubling of the police force on duty
4 the hall and In the morning Chief
II Police John McWeeny had taken
command at the Coliseum.
The crowd which waited for the
torn To cease waE good humored. but
/ was situation fun OF possibilities
nd the convention officials were
aking no chance. Assistant Chief |
was losth TO turn the people
nat into the storm. So for more than
N hour the police guard surrounded
he platform and the convention Of :
Icers kept their places on the stage
While the crowd yelled itself tired
At last the rain began TO slacken
nd the police "got busy" at once. !
emily hut grimly edging the people