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The first test vote after the an.
nouncement Of the Roosevelt valedic.
tory came on the adoption of the party
platform. The affirmative vote was
666. Roosevelt delegates present and
not voting numbered 343. There were
SO nays. Sc of them from the La Fol.
lette states of Wisconsin and North
Dakota.
The name of Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette of Wisconsin was placed be,
fore the convention, but Colonel Roose.
velt's wishes were carried out by his
followers and they remained silent
during the call of the states for nomi.
nations.
Many of the delegates however. car.
ried out their primary Instructions
and voted for the colonel
On the voting for president the
Roosevelt delegates again as rule re-.
manned silent. The detailed vote was:
Taft, Sol; Roosevelt. 1917 La Fol.
lette, Al: Cummins. II; Hughes, 2;
not voting. 344; absent, 6.
In the confusion just before ad.
journment resolution was adopted
giving the national committee power
to declare vacant the seat of any man
on the committee refusing to support
the nominees of the regular conven.
ton of 1912.
With the adoption in its entirety Of
the credentials committees report. fol-
lowing it's adoption piecemeal, the per.
mament organization of the Republic.
can national convention was reached
shortly after 3 p. ma point in the
proceedings, usually one of the phases
of the second day, in ordinary con.
ventions.
The committee on permanent organi.
zation recommended that the tempo.
rary organization be made perman ent
Senator Root yielded the gravel 70
Representative Olmstead OF Pennsyl
vania while the motion was put. It
carried. There were cries of Speech,
speech" and Senator Root stepped
forward.
1t had taken nearly five days for
the committee to get to its permanent
organization, an unprecedented state
of affairs.
Roosevelt VaIedictory.
The demonstration continued several
minutes. Then Senator Root spoke
Il thank you, my friends, from the
bottom of my heart" he said. My
first act as permanent chairman of
this convention is to ask unanimous
hat Inl, fr1 l,o lot
Of kansas-our Republican brother,
Henry J. Allen be permitted to make
a statement. 1t that all right? The
chair hears no objections"
Mr.. Allen then came forward to
read the Roosevelt statement and to
pronounce the Roosevelt valedictory."
When he announced he was about to
read "a statement just placed in my
hands from Colonel Theodore Roose.
welt" the Roosevelt adherents broke
into a demonstration and cheering and
renewed cries of I'VE want Teddy"
Mr.. Allen when he had obtained at
tention. asked that the delegates keep
quiet: that what he had TO say was
not intended to start demonstrations
but to set ont the position of Pro-
gressive Republicans. He was listen
ed to attentively for time and first
read the Roosevelt statement.
I'VE have reached point he said.
"where a majority of the Roosevelt
delegates feel that they can not longer
share in the response for the acts
of this convention We have contend
ed with you until we have exhausted
every parliamentary privilege in the
effort to have placed upon the roll the
names of men legally elected.
I'VE will not participate with You
In completing the scuttling of the ship.
We will not say 10 the young men OF
the nation, who. reading political his.
tory, with their patriotism, long to
catch step with the party of their
fathers, that we have nothing better
to offer them at this hour than this
new declaration of human rights that
discarded political committee as it's
last act holds greater power than
majority of over 100000 voters. We
don't bolt We merely insist that YOU,
not we. are making the record. And
we refuse to be bound by it. We have
pleaded with you 10 days. We have
sov=hs with you five days for q square