Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-17

All tne committees get uOWn 10
work the first day. The committee on
permanent organization settles on
permanent chairman. The credentials
committee ought to be ready TO report
at the opening of the second days SEES.
| sion-that Is, dav after tomorrow--in
the morning at probably 10 o'clock. At
| this time the permanent roll is report.
ed. and the permanent chairman elect.
cd, rules adopted, National committee.
men named and other routine work
cleaned up.
The Real Work.
Next the convention turns to its real
work-the adoption of the platform
and the nomination Of a man to run
for the highest Office within the gift
of the people. The platform Is read.
| If there Is n minority report this will
be read also, perhaps containing many
serious differences. The convention
will fight this out, If a fight is in or
der.
Then, having settled the platform,
the candidates will be nominated.
| There Is nothing mysterious about
this nomination. The secretary begins
TO call the roll. The States are called
in alphabetical order and then the
Territories. First on the list of States
comes Alabama. If Alabama has no
candidate, the chairman Of the Alaba.
ma delegation will rise and yield to
some other State further down the roll
which he knows has a candidate, and
the chairman or some other member
OF that delegation will then rise and
make the nomination.
How Nominated.
For instance, Taft will be put in
nomination by the Ohio delegation.
Warren G. Harding, who ran against
Harmon for Governor last year, being
the man selected to nominate Taft.
Every nominating speech is accom-.
panied by loud and vociferous cheering
and at this and other points attempts
are made to stampede the convention
Tor some man or another.
After all the nominating and second.
ing speeches are made and everybody
is tired of yelling, the ballot is taken.
Ordinarily the State delegations vote
as unit. the unit rule being put
through II possible. Hawaii's delega.
ton is instructed for Taft but many
delegations promise to be split. The
chairmen OF the delegations rise and
announce the vote. II may be "Ohio
-forty.eight delegates; thirty for Mr..
Roosevelt, eighteen for Mr.. Taft" or
something like that.
The balloting begins with Alabama
and ends with Porto Rico.
,Vice-President Next.
! After the Presidential candidate is
decided upon. the Vice President Is
named. The Vice President doesn't
cut much ice. anyhow, and he cuts less
about the time of National conven.
ton than at any other. A man is pick.
ed out who Is geographically, political.
ly and morally all right and sometimes
the Presidential candidates personal
preference Is regarded. Sometimes
the Presidential nominee knows about
} II beforehand and sometimes he
doesn't. They have told It on Taft
that he was the last man to find out
that Jim Sherman would be his run.
ning-mate.
! When the nominees have been set.
; tied. committees are appointed to wait
upon them and notify them of the hon.
or. and to receive their formal accept.
ance, which is read to the convention.
having usually been typewriter and
lying In coldstorage Tor some weeks
awaiting the happy, spontaneous call
of the people. Then the convention
adjourns and the campaign is on.
1 All of this program may be upset to.
morrow because of the possibility of a
bolt. or of the credentials committee
taking some action that may change
the aspect of the matter. or of Teddy
:, Roosevelt coming through with anoth.
err unexpected move, or something
else. There hasn't been a real sen.
sation In Republican circles for long
time. or course there was that bolt
In 1896 at the Republican convention
In st. Louis. when some OF the Free.
Silver brethren left the fold. The
scheme was to get together the bolt.
ers and the Democrats at the Demo.
cratic convention in Chicago, and to
nominate Henry NJ. Teller. the Colo.
RADIO Senator and the Republican who
led the bolt. But when the Chicago
convention came of. William Jennings
Bryan, who had been grinding out
copy as a political reporter at the st.
I Louis conclave. showed the fat In the
fire by making his famous cross-of
gold, crown.ofthorns speech and grab.
bling the nomination for himself
Not much Doing Lately.
! or late years the nominations have
been made certain long beforehand.
! Four years ago Hitchcock, Taft's cam.
Ipaign manager. conducted series of
vigorous political maneuvers that sew.
ed the National committee up so tight
for Taft that practically every contest
among the State delegations was de.
cided In his favor. History has repeat.
ri itself this year, but there Is this
year also one Theodore Roosevelt who
will not stand for the steam-roller
methods II that is what he thinks they
are.
Radical Difference.
Il Republican and Democratic conven.
tions differ radically in one important
respect. In Democratic conventions q
two-thirds vote Is necessary to nomi-
nate. the rule going back to the days
of Jackson and 1882. In the Republi.
J can convention only a majority vote
Is necessary. There are 1913 dele.
gates to the convention which meets
In Chicago tomorrow, hence $40 are
necessary to nominate.
i Chicago's hotels and clubs are
crowded today and excitement Is at