The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-19
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 49, 1912
NOMINATION. OF TAFT is INDICATED BY FIRST DAY OF NATIONAL CONYE0

phone TO tho erect CnaV IL Ihe ioon@
blocking the aisles didn t retire vol |
UNFAIRLY he would have them thrown |
out. Il
The persons in the aisles looked at
the serried ranks Of bluecoats who
lined every wall like a fricze, and got
ont of the aisles.
Rosewater Drops Gavel.
Then it was that Victor Rosewater,
who looked like a nice little arts and
crafts doll from the back of the hall,
let fall his gavel;
"The convention will come to or
der,' is what the lip readers say Rose
water said. Nobody got the message
by ear.
At this stage of the proceedings
arose Governor Hadley OF Missouri,
lean. paunt and tenor voiced, and asked
| if he might address the chair, Then
Hadley suddenly remembered that the
Invocation had not been offered, ana
he sat down,
The invocation was delivered by Rev.
James f. Call of ST Malachi's church
Secretary Hayward then read the tenn
! porary roll.
Meanwhile alignments, offensive and
! defensive, were being made. The Tatt
people were massed in the center OF
! the stage, with Penrose looming, up
/
with Mckinley on one side, Crane on
I the other, and Barnes, with his hair
nicely slicked down over his forehead,
standing close by, To the right was
! William L. Ward of the Roosevelt
| forces reading a newspaper; Borah;
! looking calm and serene, and Cecil
Lyon, clad in a large, square yellow
There appeared to be no belligerence
in the crowd, although Bill Finn arose
now and then and passed up and down.
scowling darkly at Barnes's back hair.
Hadley Gets Hearing.
Governor Hadley rose again when
the formalties were over, and re-
peeted his request for an audience. 1t
was granted and at the voclferous de-
mand of "Plstform by multitude
of delegates, the governor climbed the
stairs and faced the delegates.
Meanwhile the galleries were boot,
ing for Root part of the time and
warbling that they wanted Teddy the
rest of it. The same voices Joined IN
both songs,
Mr.. Hadlev, in a brief and impas-
stoned speech, told the delegates that
the roll made up by the national com
rnittee was a very bad roll. that 1T CON
tanned the names of sixty delegates
who had absolutely no right to be In
the convention, and that if the tenn
porary chairman was elected by any
such roll, he could not answer for the
consequences. BE moved the adoption
Of roll which, he said, was an honest
roll. and which he offered.
Thereupon James f. Watson, the
ardent Taft man of Indiana, mounted
the stairs with a point of order. His
point Of order was that any motion
about ANYTHING before the convention
had convened was out Of order, too far
out to be worth considering.
Mr. Rosewater thought differently
and through the verbal proxy said that
he would stand for forty minutes de
bate on the subject before he came to
a decision, twenty minutes being al
lowed TO a side.
This decision appeared to cheer the
Roosevelt people nightly. When Had
ley came forward to start the argu;
ment they cheered for one minute and
forty seconds, which up to that hour
was the record.
Missorrian Presents Points.
Governor Hadley briefly announced
again his motion and the fact that Rose
water had ruled that point OF orde1
against the motion seemed to be wei
'Tnstead of following the ilustriou'
example OF our distinguished leader, WI
liam Mckinley. when he presided In
convention and invited full debate anf
onsideration Of a point Of order. tn
present chairman has asked only for {
brief statement from each side sait
, Governor Hadley.
The mention Of Mckinleys nam
evoked no applause,
Il assert" he went on, that th'
question is whether the national commit
? tee OF the Republican party has the alb
solute power to form temporary rol
for this convention which can only b'
: changed by report from committe'
Of this convention, or whether this con
ventlon itself shall say who shall 81
In IL
, IF It Is in the power OF twenty-sevel
men to say who shall sit In this conven
: tion arbitrarily and without appeal. fhel
we have reached the end OF representa-
tive government in this country"
a round OF cheers greeted this attacl
o on the national committee. The dele
gates listened to Hadley with quiet at
tention
Il I'VE know but one government in thi
@ country" he said; government by po
p litlcal party.
: ''If a political convention can be con
lt troled by a group of men within tn
e party, then have we established politica
oligarchy? Then have We given a fey
i men control over party and conven
'r tion?'