The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-08
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 now?" and another was Columbus, New Mexico, is for Teddy!" The Michigan delegation hoisted a banner of purple and gold which announced: Roosevelt in 1912 carried Michigan by 60,0OO. This year wA will give him 100000"
 A canvas half the size of an ordi- nary stage drop was carried by a, half dozen six-foot Westerners It bore a picture of log cabin and this an- nouncement: North Dakota, the pioneer home of Roosevelt, demands that he be the next sPresident' The band played Marching Through Georgia Everybody shouted the words. Then it struck up Dixie and rebel yells rent the air. America
 The Star Spangled Banner and half a dozen other patriotic and roIIicking tunes were reeled off in quick success l sion. but the emotion crazed delegates grew tired of singing and resumed their slogan of we want Teddy! We want Teddy!''
 | / Forty minutes had passed, MT. Per kins and National Chairman Murdock seemed to be growing apprehensive. There appeared to be some fear among the cooler heads who had eau I tioped that the convention be not stampeded at the start by the nom ination of the Colonel-that the as- ] semb1age would take things into it's l own hands.
 Leaders Fear Stampede.
 Following a nasty whispered con- | ference with Perkins and Murdock, Robins banged his gavel ,furiously in a vain attempt to restore quiet. The tumult only increased. Delegates be- gan to discard their hats and tie red bandana handkerchiefs about their foreheads. A~dozen thus arrayed and looking for all the world, like band of pirate chiefs reached /the stage, waving a banner announcing 'tRoose- welt first, last and all the tine.'' Then came another with Why take do. T. R. is a leader. not a trai1er.'' Again and again there rolled i through the Auditorium the demand of 'fWe want Teddy!" after there was shot above the heads of the fuming crushing mob of the stage a trans parency bearing the following:
 Roosevelt, 4,119,53S votes.
 "Taft, 3,4S4,9sO votes.
 'Let the people ru1e.''
 II Teddy will not pussyfoot,' read another banner. 'rWe Will. Be AL mighty Ashamed of Ourselves if We Allow Anybody to Hoodwink Us Into Nominating Any Man for President Except T. R. emphasized still an other transparency.
 Goddess of Liberty Appears.
  This sentiment seemed to appeal strongly to the delegates for when it was planted squarely on the stage so , that it could be read by every person : in the body of the hall, there were . ye11s of:
 Teddy for ours and noN one else!" "we want Feddy!" "we'lp have Ted dyi'
 Enthusiasm was beginning to wane . when there was half carried, half dragged to the stage woman of Junoesque type, dressed as the God Idess of Liberty. She carried a flag, (which she waved vigorously. The cheering had then been under way more than an hour. Her appearance injected new life into the demonstra- , ton. Also it started another process sion of the States. This time scores l upon scores of the frenzy-wrought delegates, who had walked to the hall under a downpour of rain, opened una- brel1as.
 r Chairman Robins cautioned the del [ egates to shut their umbrellas fearing that eyes might be damaged. and to this one request of the chairman they responded. But. when he started again = Ito wield his gavel, after an hour and . E minutes had been consumed in riot g ous uproar. there were shouts of de- g ris1on.
 d The Bull Moose Call l. As MT. Robins resumed his seat the e tumu1t took on added vigor, and the
 call of the Bull Moose, initiated years -|ago, was sounded for the first time. Ii n was taken up with enthusiasm by del n egates in all parts of the hall. = Fifteen more minutes went by. The t demonstration was subsiding. This n time MT. Robins made no attempt tc . bring it to an end Gov Johnson o1 . California had cautioned:
 Let it die of it's own accord. It has .- gone on long enough, however, to con- | lvince me that this convention will
 nominate only one man and his name lis Theodore Roosevelt. ''
 Quiet practically had been restored
 when delegate from Kansas shout ', led:
 Il Give us TeddyI Give him to us or
 a platform of peace, protection, pre- paredness and Prohibition
 -'Noi Noi" was the cborused re n sponse, even from the gallery IN, T. Prohibition for us''
 Record Breaking Demonstration a Ninety-three minutes of cheering a- shouting, handclapping and noise
 making of every character had endet "a when MT. Robins drew from the in e side pocket of his well fitting cutawa! U coat the manuscript from which h . had been reading, and, before resum - ing, cautioned the assemblage to per y init him to finish with as few inter S ruptions as possible.
 - The demonstration exceeded the pre-
 vious record, for such affairs, of on 7S hour aid 29 minutes established in tn T. Democratic convention in Denver il
 1908 in behalf of William Jenning d Bryan, which had exceeded by fou 'f minutes the record made the sam 'e year in the Republican convention il 'f Chicago, when Roosevelt's supporter
 sought his nomination over William le Howard Taft.
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