Putnam patriot., 1912-06-28
few raps of his gavel it subsided

few rsps Of his gavel 1t subsided
 It was S:20 when Mir. Allen began reading the Roosevelt statement. There were good many interruptions,
 At the Coloners request that the Roosevelt delegates should not vote there were cheers and ieers.
 If man doesn't know when he's dead his friends ought to know. said a man iii the gallery and there was an urroar.
 After the hulIaballoo over the Col onels statement and Mir Aliens re marks was over the regular program, me was taken up.
 First came the report of the rules committee and then ex.Niee-President Fairbanks. chairman of the committee on resolutions came forward to read the platform. The Taft men eheered him
 No minority report on platform was presented by the Roosevelt men. Sen ator Owen of Wisconsin offered the La Toilette platform containing the Senator's well known doctrines.
 Both sides cheered when the vote on the platform was announced IL was 666 ayes, l6 absent, S4S not voting and 5S nees.
 The roll call on the platform having been completed and announced time came for the presentation of eandi dates for the Presidency; t was 5;55 o'clock
 When Iowa was reached there was a hush but no response came.
 The first mention of Mr. Taft's name by Warren U Harding. who came for ward to nominate Taft when Ohio was called. was the signal for Taft de monstration. The Taft men jumped up on their chairs. but the Roosevelt men sat silent. There was practically no cheering among the spectators.
 The Taft demonstration got going when a man grabbed a silk banner with Taft's picture on it and started Taft parade. Another man came forward on the platform with a picture of Mr Taft. Taft men kept bowling like dervishes. MT, Harding got hold of the Taft banner and waved 1t.
 Chairman Root began rapping for order before the demonstration for Taft had been under way more than ten minutes. The Taft men were still psrading and hurling invidious re marks at the Roosevelt men sitting in their seats. They provoked only smiles in return.
 The Taft demonstration lasted twen- ty minutes Then Mr Harding resum- ed his speech. When he said a mo. ment later President Taft was the greatest progressive of his time" there was storm of boos. The police had 10 get busy in several places. Thera was great confusion for few mo ments TOW started when Soutk Dakota delegate "booed" and a Taft delegate sitting near hit him.
 Al the conclusion of Mr Harding speech. MT. Root introduced John Wanamaker of Pennsylvania, who sec onded Taft's nomination.
 Dr Nicholas Murray Butler also sec. onded Tafts nomination.
 Senator La Toilette was put in nomination by Michael B. Olbrich of Wisconsin,
 He said the fight today was one against industrial despotism. When he named La Toilette the Wisconsin men and some of their sym pathizers raised quite a respectable racket crying We want Bobia Robert M Pollack of North Dakote seconded this nomination.
 The delegates had new missed lunch and dinner; they began sending out for sandwiches for their evening meal and munched them while they listened to the speeches and waited for the vote.
 They began to call the roll at s:25 D. m.. there were the same cheera rom the Roosevelt men when the Call iornia delegates refused to, vote.
 When Illinois was reached Gov De neen got up and said: Under the provisions of our primary law some c: IS feel that we have no option but to cast our votes for Theodore Roose gelt" MT. Roosevelt had not been in nomination.
  Washington was reached. This State gave him the $40 necessary for his nomination. All of the West Virginia delegates refused to vote. This was at 930. There were no other refusals after that The Taft men got up and cheered at the end. A band at one of the entrances began to play and an at tempt was made to keep the cheering going but it fell absolutely flat. The result was announced at 9.35 It was Taft. 561; not voting, 344; Roosevelt. 107; Hughes, g. Cummins. IT; La Toilette, 41; absent 6.
 William Howard Taft, having re- ceived a majority of the votes is de clared renominated for President of the United States said Chairman Root. There was no motion to make the Presidents nomination unani- nous. This is unprecedented
 Mir. Root proceeded at once to call for the nominations for YieePresi- dent The band, however, struck up