Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-07-05

Dakota hit a Mississippi delegate IN
Vermont" A few minutes later there
appeared in the han a news sheet an
nouncing In big headlines: Riot in
G. o. P.-BloOdshed.'
Another bit Of excitement came
when the Massachusetts delegation
was being polled. The Is Roosevelt
| delegates refused to vote, and Chair
man Root ruled that their alternates
should be called. This raised a fine
row and MI. Root received all that
comes to an unpopular umpire in a
ball game, except the pop bottles.
He stuck to his decision. ID every
umpire must do, and the row grad
ually subsidized.
Putting Them In Nomination.
Having given up the fight, Colonel
Roosevelt was not put in nomination.
But Ohio responded nobly for Prest-
dent Taft with an eloquent speech
by Warren G. Harding OF Marion.
Mr.. Harding is a large man with a
large voice, and he kept the crowd
cheering by safe references to the
Grand Old Party and its achieve
ments. Several times he drifted into
eulogistic passages concerning Mr..
Taft, but the Roosevelt army didn't
like these and made its dislike known
so noisily that Chairman Root had
| to make n of his rapid advances to
the front with cutting rebuke for the
discourtesy shown the speaker.
Coming all the way from Europe
to second the nomination Of his
friend, Mr.. Taft, John Wanamaker
delivered an address that doubtless
was very excellent. But only those
close to him could hear his words.
HE may be a fine merchant but he's
no speaker" said Policeman Rafferty,.
why didn't he stay In Europe?
There was considerable surprise at
the silence Of Iowa, in view Of the
hopeful talk of the Cummins shouters
before the last session. But Wiscon-
sin made up for this loss by sending
Michael B. Olbrich, the boy orator Of
Madison, to the platform. Mr.. Olbrich
never entered an oratorical contest
without emerging with the first prize,
and at the Coliseum he endeavored
to live up to this reputation. With
mighty voice and gesture, he told the
delegates all about the long and soul
wearying fight which had been made
for progressive policies in govern
ment by a son of the Badger state.
He called forth the repeated applause
Of the Wisconsin and NORTH Dakota
delegates and the shrill creams OF
| approval of a young woman in the
east gallery who continually pounded
of her with a small flag. But that
seemed to be the full measure Of the
results accomplished by MI. Olbrich.
He spoke for an unc~onscionably long
] time, and at last in response to re-
peated demands to name your man
he sprung on the astonished audience
the name of Robert Marion La Fol
lette. UP leaped the Wisconsin rs
and, assisted by a fow scattered knots
Of s%houters, they managed to make a
tremendous amount of noise for SO
few people. But then the young
woman in the gallery helped i'm
mensely.
Taft FIaunted In His Face.
During Mr.. Olbrich's speech two
men made their way along the grid
ers of the roof and let down a banner
with Taft's picture upon 1t, so that
the worthy president was staring the
young orator in the face. The entire
gathering resented this discourtesy
loudly, but Chairman Root didn't mind
nearly so much as he did the action of
some Roosevelt men who, earlier in
the day, flung from the north gallery
a placard reciting his opinion of the
Penrose machine in Pennsylvania.
The latter manifesto was quickly re-
moved by virtuously indignant police
men.
Incidentally, Mr.. La Toilette took an
awful chance Saturday afternoon. He
sent to Chicago and had read to the
convention a statement to the effect