The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-23


 Chicago. June 22-The credentials com mittee report as a whole then was adopt ed This ended the contests and the con ventlon then took up the report of the committee on permanent organization. It recommended that the temporary organi- zation be made permanent.
 There were cries of speech, speech" and Senator Root stepped forward Tho demonstration continued several minutes. Mir, Root introduced Henry J. Allen of Kansas to read the Roosevelt statement, and to pronounce the Roosevelt yaledic- tory.
 1 When lie announced he was about to rdnd q statement "jlist placed in my hands from Col Theodore Roosevelt. r | the Roosevelt adherents broke into cheers nr8se brought cries. I've want Teddy
 While Allen stood waiting for quiet, New Jerseys delegates tore thelr standard from the iron pole and started down the pathway California was next in line. Minnesota. Nebraska, Indiana, West vir- ginia and Oklahoma joined the process sion and the thing was on in earnest.
 West Virginia took her place In line. Out of a sea of heads and arms the standards were raised as the procession passed around the hall. Pennsylvania, Maine and North Carolina got in line. By this time the noise was terrific
 As the column reached the Louisiana section some one grabbed at the stand ard. Louisiana delegates objected and a scuffle ensued that changed the course of the parade. One of the marchers sue ceeded in getting possession of the H. linois standard, although none of the H. linois delegates Joined the procession. Finally the parade ran into squad of police, These were in the rear of the hall. The standard bearers were damned in a side aisle and finally dispersed, finding further progress impossible The cheer ing, however flag waving and whistling went on unabated.
 Root Finally Gets Order
 The demonstration had been in prog ress q minutes when Senator Root got order. MT. Allen, when he had obtained attention, asked that the delegates keep still; that what he had to say was no, intended co start demonstrations but to set out the position of progressive repub- llcans He was listened to attentively for time and first read the Roosevelt statement.
 The statement was received with groans and misses.
 Allen declared that Roosevelt upon his retirement from the White House. left an overwhelming republican majority, q record on which Taft was elected and a progressive platform. He pointed to the democratic gains made since then
 'We will not participate with you in scuttling the ship, Allen said. We do not bolt We have fought you here five days for square deal. We shall sit in protest and the people who sent us here shall judge us."
 Roosevelt's Yaledictory
 Colonel Roosevelt's address. read by AL len, follows:
 Upon clear majority of the dele gates many elected by the people. under the direction and with the encoura cement of Mir Taft. the majority of the national committee by the so-called steam roller methods and with scandalous disregard of every principle of elementary honesty and decency stole SO or 90 delegates, put ting on the temporary roll call a suff!- cient number of fraudulent delegates to
  people, and to substitute a dishonest for an honest majority.
 'The convention has now declined s1 purge the roll of the fraudulent deieeates placed thereon by the defunct national committee. and the majority thus ln- lofsed fraud was made majority only because 1t included the fraudulent dele fateS themselves. who all should have had seats others occupy. If these had oc- curred it would be a fraudulent unit.
 hThey could have sit on one another's cases. If these fraudulent votes had not been cast and counted the con- vention would have been purged of their presence. This action makes the committee in no proper sense any long CT q republican convention represent ing the real republican party.
 "Tberefore, I hope the men elected as Roosevelt delegates will now decline to vote on any matter before the con vrtion do not release any delegate from his honorable obligation to vote