The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-08-08
The new PARTY
Given a FiRe Start at Chicago
Convention
ENTHUSIASM IS GffAT
BCveridge of Indiana Sounds the Key
note in One of the Most Master
ful Speeches Ever Heard
Editorial Correspondence

| CHICAGO, Aug. 5:-lt was worm the
price of railroad ticket, twice over,
to hear the keynote speech of Former
U. S. Senator Albert J. Beveridge Of
Indiana, today, in acceptance of the
honor of temporary chairman of the
convention of the National Progress
Sive party. AS keynoter Beverage
certainly stands in the first rank.
The provisional committee was espec-
tally fortunate in its choice of the
Hoosier to sound the keynote. 1t not
only sounded but it resounded through
the mighty Auditorium building; it
made the great arched steel girders
ring hundred feet above the conven-
tion floor; it stirred the great audi
ence assembled to listen; it will keep
on sounding and resounding all over
this broad land until the Ides of No
vember usher in a glorious victory for
the new political party.
Senator Beveridge spoke for nearly
two hours, but no one grew weary.
He was interrupted continually by
applause-not machine manufactured
but spontaneous and sincere, and
time and again he had to raise his
hand in mute appeal to the multi
tude to subside, so that he might
proceed. His speech was analytical,
logical, exhaustive but not exhaust
ing, setting forth the ends and aims
of the new party. 1t was eloquent,
masterful, convincing. The perora-
tion was about the finest oratorical
effort I have ever heard; it was cleo
trifying. He closed by quoting one
stanza from Julia Ward Howe,s "Bat-
tie Hymn of the Republic" as fol-
lows:
"He has sounded forth his trumpet
that shall never call retreat;
she has lifted out the hearts of men
before his judgment seat;
"Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer
Him, be jubilant, my feet;
sour God is marching on"
The effect was magneulc. The great
audience, which had been in complete
sympathy with the Indianan through
out, rose to its feet, stood on chairs,
shouted, yelled, cheered, waved hats
and bandannas and was delirious for
ten minutes. The band, in it's cage
away up among the steel rafter at
the rear end of the Coliseum, struck
up the air and the immense audience
sang Mrs. Howe's production-four
stanzas, closing with the one quoted
by Beverage. Then they cheered
some more, and Beyeridge raped
with his big gavel and the convention
quoted down and proceeded with
business.
1t is conceded by those who heard
Mr.. Beverages speech that it is one
of the greatest oratorical efforts of re.
cent years and that its effect will be
far reaching. Here are a few sent
ences which jotted down while the
speech progressed:
''The people vote for one party and
find their bud of hope turned to ashes;
then they vote for the other and the
result is the sAme.''
political conventions are held by
the people, but behind the scenes the
bosses manipulate the game"
Notorious bosses are in control in
several states that must be carried to
elect president"
"The pernicious interests use both
parties; they are the invisible govern
fment which control the visible. This
invisible power constitutes . real
danger to the people"
"The people want to be free from
the bosses, and the Progressive party
is here to free them"