The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-06-26
MOST REMARKABLE
CONVENTION EVER HELD
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than outside of it.

Guided by the national committee fol
those which the committee had seated
and on this motion the vote sustained
| the committee by safe majority
Soon after this another test came on
the vote for temporary chairman
| Senator Root of New York was put
forward by the Taft faction for this
Office and Governor McGovern of Wis
consin as the candidate of the com
bined opposition to Taft. On this vote
the Taft forces not only won, but
by gain of five votes over the first
vote taken. In every test vote TAX
en- the Taft forces won out by safe
majority and in some instances by a
decided majority.
The committee en- credentials, ap.
pointed by the convention, sustained
the national coramittec in their report
of the legally elected delegates and
the convention sustained the rport OF
the committee on credentials. On the
final vote taken on the nomination OF
candidates for president, Mr.. Taft re-
ceived more votes than he received
on the first test vote taken, the vote
which nominated him being SCI,
which perhaps represented his
strength in the convention, and which
he could safely count upon when
needed.
We presume no more disorderly
convention was ever held and the in
genuity of the presiding officer was
tested to the limit to preserve the
lsemblance of order. During the time
THAT Victor Rosewater presided over
the preliminary proceedings OF the
convention he made little effort to
preserve order and as a resalIt It was
difficult to hear anything that was
said. When Senator Root, as tenn
pOrary chairman, took the gavel an
improvement was made. He is not
only a prince among men, but par
Humanitarian of the highetS order He
was able to hold the convention down
Ito a point of control so that business
could be transacted although at times
his control was threatened. The con-
duct of the delegates, upon the hoor,
was not at times free from censure for
fist fights were not an unusual thing.
The hall, however, was so well poLiced
that disorders of this character were
promptly suppressed and order re-
stored.
/ One could not help but notice the
want of fidelity on the part of the del
Eegates towards candidates OF their
choice. Evidently no one among the
delegates had thought of Governor
Hadley, of Missouri, as a probable
candidate for president of the United
States before the convention met and
vet when the governor came before
the convention to address it in behalf
of measure favored by the Roosevelt
people, a demonstration was started
ton into a frenzy and from all parts
of the hall could be heard the cry OF
I"Hadley for president" This contin'
ued for perhaps twenty or thirty min
utes when a woman seated in the bal
cony arose and waving flag which
she held in her hand shouted, Il want
Teddy" and Immediately she switched
the boom from Hadley to Roosevelt
The woman w1s escorted from the bal
cony to the platform. where she Sc
cured a picture of her hero, which
she held aloft and thereby kept up the
demonstration for the colonel for prob
ably thirty minutes The Taft people
as rule spent little time in making
demonstrations for their candidats
and sat quietly awaiting the conclus
ion of the demonstrations made II
behalf OF others.
It was not until the address OF Mr.
Harding, of Ohio, when he presented
the name of Taft as candidate fOl
president that any marked demon
stration was made in his behalf.
Those who had counted on there be
ling a want of enthusiasm for Mr.. Tai
had occasion to revise their opinions
because when the speaker mentioned
his name, for thirty minutes or mor'
no greater outburst of enthusiasm wa
shown for any one than the demonstra
ton in his behalf.
One who had occasion to study thu
situation becamse convinced that l
was not the cheering that determined
the action of the convention and tina
the delegates could not be stampedet
by any demonstration which the tn
genuity of politicians could organize
The delegates knew what they Wer'
there for and who they were in favo
of and no amount of cheering ant
l.o;.o could ctarnodo them