The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-08-10
| HIRAM v JOHNSI|N
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
WITH JUDGE LINDSEY AS PERMA-
NENT CHAIRMAN AGREED
UPON FOR NEW PARTY.
SOUTHERN NEGRO DELEGATES
The Mississippi Negroes Were Thrown
Out Completely on the Ground
That the White Delegates
Were Regularly Elected.

Chicago, Ill.-With prayer, with the
singing of hymns, with the fiery en-
thusiasm by all present, the national
progressive party was launched here
at noon Monday when Senator Dixon
of Montana called to order the first
convention of the new party.
The list accounted for about eighty
men. There were 1900 delegates and
more than 300 alternates with cred
entails in the hall when the conyen-
ton opened
To look at it, this was not whit
different from the largest national po-
litical convention ever held except,
perhaps, in the matter of the conduct
and the character of delegates:
Rev. DR.. Dornblaser, a Lutheran
clergyman, concluded a rather re-
markable invocation with the Lords
prayer, it, seemed as though a thou
sand bowed heads responded, sentence
for sentence, to the minister's lead
There was another instance, per-
haps, more striking than that: When
Senator Beverage concluded his eff
fective keynote speech with a perora-
ton that ended in a refrain from the
Battle Hymn of the Republic" Sena-
tor Dixon called on the band to play
that well known anthem, while the
great mass of delegates rose to sing
to the music. The band leader in
MI ho
DOM" Shouts of NO! MOI" from all |
over the house stopped the music, and
the call went up to the band to. play
the Battle Hymn Of the Republic"
Don't know it," came back from
the bandstand, whereat hundreds of
the delegates clambered upon their
chairs and spontaneously started the
familiar hymn.
In few seconds the band caught
the music and a thousand or more
voices on the floor and in the galleries
'Welled into a powerful chorus that
gave a touching effect to the closing
moments of the first session of the
newborn national party. Il
Governor Hiram W. Johnson of Cali {
ornia seemed agreed upon as the vice s
presidential nominee of the national
progressive party to make the first I
light of the new political organization
nth Colonel Roosevelt.
Early in the evening Judge B. Lind
ey of Denver, a former democrat,
ad been agreed upon as permanent =
hartman of the convention. Colonel
Roosevelt had Endorsed the recon-
lendation of Judge Lindsey and the .
Ian had been entirely approved, by
le delegates. d
Later, however, Judge Lindsey call
q upon the colonel and had a long Il
llk with him. He said he had been y
Offering from asthma and did not
'el physically capable OF taking up :.
.e work. Under these circumstances, g
olonel Roosevelt agreed to release ~.
lm, and while it had not been finally g
ecided, it was thought to be likely ~
lat former Senator Albert J. Beve- ~
dge OF Indiana, the temporary chair
an, would be continued as perma. .e
mt chairman y
Colonel Roosevelt said before he ~
It Oyster Bay that he favored the ="
lection OF Southern democrat as
CO presidential candidate. The field "
&c o,,r,,.oa a....u-. ri
rstood the colonel's suggestion was F.
andoned only when it became evil
Mt that it was impossible to decide W.
on an available man. M
The California delegation passed a
solution saying the state could not
are Governor Johnson, but it was
id Monday night the governors 3D.
ends would not insist upon this at en'
ude 90
IN the event of Governor Johnson's ne
it is planned to have him LIN
Re the stump in the East, while eie
lionel Roosevelt is campaigning in IL,
West. The governors qualifica-
Ms as campaigner were said to Ane
a strong factor in his favor.
When Colonel Roosevelt reached aol
lcago Monday he put in a stormy
hours before he succeeded in POI
aightening out the tangle over the
ltestlng negro delegates from the ~
18th. After he had been welcomed
a crowd Of several thousand per aoi
IS and had made a speech in the
eet in front of his hotel, he went to
headquarters and took the helm.
he Florida and Mississippi cases. -
lch had not been ruled upon by the W . -
visional national committee. were r
ced before him in detail, and a ~
rp difference Of opinion developed u
he Roosevelt camp. A number of noa
Northern supporters told him 49,
lkly that they disapproved of the coo
cy OF barring all negro delegates ~ -
n the South. -
was urged that such q position 80
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