Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-08-05
PROGRESSIVE PARTY ENTERS
ARENA OF AMERICAN POLITICS
With OPENING.OF CONVENTION

prices and have already done so. he
said
They can still issue watered stock
and they surely will do So They
can still throttle other business men
and the United Cigar stores compan-
les is doing 50. They can still corrupt
our politics and at this moment are
indulging in that practice.
At that time Beverage had been
talking about an hour A chorus Of
jeers and groans greeted Beveridge's
attack on President Taft and the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. The long
low call Of the Bull Moose was
heard for the first time in the demon
stration.
Throughout Senator Beveridge's
speech a persistent spectator in the
gallery interrupted several times with
the shout How about the liquor
question:
Beveridge ignored him and there
were shouts Of put him out Sena-
tor Beyeridge concluded at S:O7 ami d
an outburst of PROLONGED applause.
Senator Dixon endeavored to have the
band play "The Battle Hymn Of the
Republic. The band could not un-
derstand in the confusion and they
played the Battle Cry Of Freedom"
Finally the delegates in the fr)nr of
the haH began to sing the Battle
Hymn and the band joined in. The
four verses were sung with the dele
gates standing.
House Of representatives rules,
amended in many particulars were
presented as the rules of the conven-
ton. They were adopted without de-
bate.
A new rule barring contested dele.
gates from voting on any question be.
fore the convention was included in
the amendments and was greeted
with cheers. It was as follows:
In the event Of contest regarding
the right Of any delegate or alternate
to sit in this convention notice Of
such contest shall be filed with the
secretary, and any delegate or alter
nate whose seat has been contested
in good faith shall stand aside and
not be permitted to vote as mem
ber of this convention until his Gre
dentials shall have been accepted by
the convention, provided, however,
that in the makeup Of The temporary
roll of the convention the recommen-
dations Of the provisional national
committee shall be accepted as prima
facie evidence of the right to sit as
delegates or alternates in this conven-
ton, without the right to vote until
the credentials in question shall have
finally been determined by the con
vention itself"
The roll Of states was then called
for the naming Of the members of the
various committees. The roll had pro
sceeded as far ais California when
motion was carried to dispense with
a further reading, the state delega-
tions sending their voters to the
desk.
Former Secretary Of the Interior
James r. Garfield Of Ohio was recog-
nized and from his place on the floor
moved the appointment of commit
tee to invite Colonel Roosevelt to APP
pear in the convention at noon to-
morrow to deliver an address and
also to escort him to tine Coliseum,
The motion was enthusiastically sec
onded. Chairman Beyeridge declaring
that the ayes seemed to have it.
and it was so ordered.
The committee named was as fol-
lows: E. A. vanvalkenserg, Pennsyl-
vania; oscar H Straus, New York;
J. Franklin Fort, New Jersey; John
M. Parker, Louisiana; Miles Poindex-
ter, washington; Leslie Coombs, Ken
lucky; Julian Harris, Georgia; M OIL
Dawson, West Virginia; J. n. VIII
hanson, Jr.. North Carolina; George
e. Watkins Michigan; Nicholas Biel-
enbourg, Montana; Chester H. Roweli,
California; Joseph R. Baldwin, Mary
land Ben p. Lindsey, Colorado John
IL Stevens, Iowa.