The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-08
Thousands Sing the Doxolo-
gy After the Progressive
Party Nominated Its Can
didates Yesterday.
ROOSEVELT GIVES
JOHNSON TRIBUTE
All Questions Arising Salts
factorily Settled by Con-
vention. - An Impressive
Scene in Coliseum.
palladium Specially

CHICAGO. Aug. S-Theodore Roose-
welt of New York for president: Gov.
Hiram w. Johnson of California for
vice president.
This first national ticket was nomi-
mated by the first national convention
of the Progressive party at 6:5S
o'clock last night.
Accept" cried Col Roosevelt to
the great Coliseum audience. "of
course. l accept l have been presi-
dent and I have seen much of life. I
measure my words when l say I
count this the greatest honor of my
life. to be called to lead this move
ment in the interest of.all the Ameri
can people"
Accept" said Gov Johnson, who
had stood with Col Roosevelt on the
platform as the formal announcement
was made. why. / enlisted for the
! war, and I serve wherever drafted.
will follow this greatest of leaders
wherever he points the way. I prefer
defeat with Roosevelt to victory with
any other presidential nominee"
End Convention In Reverence.
strange to political conventions The
delegates and spectators stood rever-
emily and sang Praise God. From
Whom All Blessings Flow" While
they remained standing a benediction
was said. The gavel fell declaring the
convention adjourned without day, and
the 10000 men andswomen who had
felt the earnestness and solemnity of
the final hour passed out into the
streets
Men who long have been in touch
with Col. Roosevelt say that never
had he demonstrated publicly and so
strongly the sincerity of his feelings
I'm the Progressive movement as he did
when he came upon the platform after
his nomination had been made by un-
animous vote.
The convention adopted a platform
satisfactory to the colonel. Then IL
nominated for the presidency a candi-
date eminently satisfactory to itself
1t declared by acclamation. after a re-
markable series of speeches. that Il
would have no other than Roosevelt
for the leader of the new party Then
Ii sent for him to come TO the conven-
tion to accept the nomination he an
nounced his readiness to accept In his
speech of Tuesday. III the convention
still wanted him.
johnson Was Drafted"
Gov. Johnson literally was drafted
into the vice presidency This was ev-
ident to even the casual observer. He
and his friends believed his work as
California's governor only partly done.
and that 1t would be turned over to
hands not in sympathy with the John
son idea of free California"
John NJ. Parker of New Orleans.
representing all the southern states.
placed him in nomination. Judge Ben
Lindsey OF Denver moved his unani-
nous Nomination. provided California
would give him up to the nation. C. s.
Wheeler. representing the California
delegation. made the formal tender in
a speech eulogizing the worth and SER
vice OF the Californian and the ticket
was complete.
II was a convention without a roll
call. Not once was the list of states
tolled over upon a contested motion
or upon a nomination. Whatever diff
erence had existed had been smoothed
lover in committees or conferences to
which representatives Of all sides
were welcome.
All Questions Settled.
The negro question. hoped by the
old line politicians to become the split
ting wedge of the new party. had been
settled by the uttersnce of Col Roose-
welt on Tuesday, subsequently trans
ferred into the platform. The score of
minor matters had been cared for
wherever important. and there was no
dissent to the platform as IL was pre-
sented by the committee on resolu-
tions.
1t was Controller William A. Prem
degast of New York who placed the
colonel in nomination. There could be
no difference of opinion after the line
of seconding speeches. Judge Lindsey
had spoken for the great west and
particularly the progressive Demo
Gratis
Miss Jane Adams simply dressed
in white, spoke for the women and for
) the delegates Interested in the human
lity features of the pending fght. Hers
was one of the great speeches of the
day, and her appearance In making a
: seconding address in behalf of the
presidential nomination in a national
convention was in itself a marker in
the political history Of the nation
] For the southland. particularly
Tennessee, the home state of Col.