Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
QUESTION
ST|RS DELEGATES
Southerners Rejected May
Take Protest to Floor of
Convention.
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in the song, James r. Garfield, of
Ohio. being one of the most earnest
in the cheers.
America was followed by Dixie
but the leader had difficulty in get
ting the band and the singers to-
gether. and The song was not much
of a success.
IT was 12:47 o'clock when Chairman
Beveridge announced the arrival of
Colonel Roosevelt at the Coliseum.
This was enough for the delegates
and the galleries. They jumped to
their feet and cheered. . A minute
later the coolnel appeared on the
stage almost as if by magic.
In the midst of the deafening din
ne stepped on to the insulated speak
ing platform under the big sounding
board.
He smiled his appreciation Of he
demonstration and bowed to the right
left. With a broad grin .e waved
greetings to friends on the stage and
floor. At this period the doors of the
Coliseum were thrown wide open. and
the hall was filld to capacity.
Colonel Waves Bandana.
TIL delegates meantime stool on
their chairs and cheered until the
rafters rang. They waved flags and
bandanas in a perfect riot of colors
we want Tedy,' chanted many
delegates.
= others gave the call of the bull
moose. Still others sang, but the
great majority just yelled. In the
midst of the uproar an Oklahoma del
egate tore the State standard from
us place and started up the centre
aisle. In d minute the aisles were
hlied with a confused, hysterical
crowd of shrieking men and women.
Minnesota swung in behind Oklahoma
and as h GROVE dashed through the
alsles Washington, Massachusetts.
OHIO, West Virginia, Kansas. bir-
glnla n a dozen other States poured
INTO the throng. Banners, standards.
nags, hats. red handanas were thrown
up aver the heads of the delegates.
A banner. bearing the catch note
from the speech of Senator Beveridge
yesterday, Pass, Pass Prosperity
Around was roundly cheered.
Some one threw the colonel a red
bandana handkerchief, and stand
ing on the platform, he led the moh
IN a series of cheers. waving the
handkerchief.
Women Climb to Platform.
While the demonstration was at it's
helsht Mrs. Roosevelt, clad in black,
appeared in a box to the left of the
platform. She carried a red bandana
handkerchief and waved it enthusi-
astlcally. Mrs. Roosevelt was accom-
by George Roosevelt, a nephew
of the colonel.
As the Ohio delegation forced its
through the crowded aisles up
to the platform one of the delegates
yelled: Here's Taft's own state
From the Illinois delegation Miss
Adams was lifted I'D over the
press stand, She climbed u,on the
platform and joined the colonel. He
greeted her with a handshake and the
Roosevelt grin. She took her place
beside him. Way up in .he band
gallery the musicians struck up ON
u II ASeldh SOlultTS. FROM Inc
delegates the words of the hymn rose
in a confused murmur. hTe colonel
stepped forward, raised both hands
and led the singing, chanting the
words himself. AS the song was con-
Mrs. Sunderland. OF Los
Angeles. an elderly woman. briskly
scaled the platform. She was cordially
greeted by the colonel.
Gets Southern Greeting.
Two Alabama delegates, one a
Union veteran, the other a Confed-
orate,l marched up TO the platform
arm in arm. and shook hands with
Colonel Roosevelt. They We're j. &.
Hollingsworth, who served in Lees
army, and John NJ. Green, who fought
in an Illinois regiment.
GIVE us a Southern Democrat for
Yice-President and Wen break the
solid South" they told Colonel Roose-
Welt.
The second day of the Progressive
national convention opened with a
well-defned fight over the negro ques-
ton vieing for first interest with
Colonel Theodore R~oosevelt's deliv-
cry of his confession of faith" to his
followers in the Progressive cause.
Some of the delegates declared that
the elimination of the Southern negro
from participation in the formation
Of the new party had become the
paramount issue of the convention.
Eastern negroes joined with thei9
brothers from the South in denuncia-
ton Of certain things that occurred
at an all night meeting of the creden-
tials committees when the last of the
Southern negro delegates We're barred
the fioor of the convention by
a close vote of the committee.
The vote stood II II 16 against the
negroes--those from Mississippi-and
Immediately Julius T. Mitchell, of
Rhode Island, and other Eastern
negroes Joined in crying that the de-
ballot in the ote a been
by a questionable proxy on the
committee. Fairly suffering indig-
nation, the negroes announced that
they would carry the matter 10
Colonel Roosevelt for a personal rul-
ing on the point.
The vote on the Mississippi case