Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-20
hadleY's Great Ovation.

FAoIcJ y aTCdt oNSLiCns
Chicago, June 20.-The session OF
| the convention witnessed a demon.
stration. 1t lasted forty minutes and
served to draw all eyes toward the
figure Of Governor Hadley OF Mis-,
souri,. 1t was q demonstration made
by the Roosevelt following, to be sure
but it was the Missourian who evoked
1t and was significant in showing tina
some of the coloneps followers would
like to see him nominated. The racket
lasted forty minutes. While 1t was in
progress one of Bill Films lieuten
ants, William II. Coleman, jumped on
the platform. Three cheers for Had
ley, our next PRESIDENT" said this
Pennsylvania, and many of the
Pennsylvania delegates and others
were seen to cheer.
The cheer began when Governor
Hadley came forward to reply to a
statement made by Representative
Watson, the Taft floor leader. 1t was
quite expected apparently, but, seeing
Its spontaneity, the Roosevelt people
at once seized 1t for a demonstration
for the colonel, which they had been
Just itching to make IN the hope OF
stampeding certain delegates to the
Roosevelt side before a vote was
taken on the question debated as to
the right of the men seated by the
national committee In the contested
cases to vote on the selection of th'
committee on credentials.
The Hadley cheer was thereupon
turned into a Roosevelt cheer, but II
the demonstration that followed
helped anybody that person was Bert
Hadley. The real part of the racket
was Tor Governor Hadley Of Missouri
That was perfectly plain to any on
locker.
Woman YeIIs For Roosevelt.
A large part Of the racket stirred
up, once the thing got going, was
played by a woman, who seemed tC
know just what to do and worked
with a will. She was Mrs. Becky j
Davis, the wife of a Chicago lumber
man, it was said. She sat In the weSt
gallery. Beside her sat George X
4 VI liNilbNttI Ii VI IhopsC ~ . AVN
York ~lleutenants and once secretary
Of the New York county committee.
After the noise had been going or
about ten minutes this woman drew
all eyes toward her by getting up il
her seat next to the gallery railing
and, unrolling a Autograph of thu
colonel, began waving it II throw
ing kisses at the delegates on the t1ool
below. She wore 4 big black hat, s
white embroidered gown and carried
a big bunch of pink sweet peas. BE
fore she got through she had beer
brought down to the floor and lifted
up to the press seats, where she criet
Roosevelt, Roosevelt while the Taf
delegates laughed at her. The thing
finally got so ridiculous that the pc
lice made her get down, and Mr.. Man
chester was seen to escort her back t
her seat In the gallery.
Watson Started It.
For two hours and a half the dele
gates had been listening to the argu
ments for and against the motion o
Governor Hadley that the names OF tn
men seated by the national committe
be stricken from the temporary rol
and the contestants put In their place.
Curiously enough, 1t was Mr.. Watson
himself who was responsible for bring
ing the mention of Governor Hadley'
name which started the ball rolling
The Indiana statesman, in closing tn
argument, said that it was no time {
decide the question which had bee
raised. This was the signal for som
of the Roosevelt delegates to start tn
outbreaks Of protest, and Senator Roo
had to pound with his gavel.
The Taft men at last began to &C
was that soon after all the delega
lions were on their feet, the two fac
lions cheering the two men who wer
standing together on the platform.
The counter demonstration of tn
Taft men went right along with tn
Roosevelt parade. but they stopped
cheering after awhile and contentei
themselves with simply watching tn
parade of the Roosevelt men an
laughing at them. After the demon
stration had proceeded for abou
twenty minutes the Roosevelt men bt
gan the regularly repeated cry of Nv
want Teddy; we want Teddy; we wan
Tsddyr
. Then he seized a ~megaphone prev