The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

lady who is said to have broken up
brought about the election of Mayor
Thompson You can't stop her. says
an ardeDt admirer
1.-The crowd would like very much
to have little music by the band, and
Roosevelt men are protesting violently
to the management because it is not
playing.
THE lady with the screech has
started again and marvellous to relate
she can be heard above the pande-
monium.
Chairman Has No Control
Women and men all over the gal
leries, at least 100 of them. have torn
red, white and blue decorations from
the galleries and are waving them
bangs with his gavel and the crowd
yeils back very plainly, Mind your
own business
1.-The band is allowed to play now,
but can scarcely be heard 1t is an
extraordinary fact that the piercing
noise as the band cannot do.
Just now two very strong men have
been put to pounding the bass drum
and that noise is heard.
There is one intelligent Roosevelt
man in the house. On the side of the
out one of the great thick yellow
windows. The light of the setting sun
pours into the hall in a binding
stream and the yelling is really mag
nificent. Four days of rain and here
comes sunlight for Roosevelt.
Kate Rutherford of Chicago, able
as she is, is not the only great female
demonstration for Roosevelt, for there
stands Elizabeth Marbury, prominent
ly known as the female Daniel Web
ster. waving a flag and carrying on a
complete demonstration OF her own.
Excitement is catching and even
the delegates are on their feet joining
in the noise because they can't help it.
Individual descriptions give no idea
of this Roosevelt outburst.
Look where you will, you see some
man, red in the face, his eyes staring,
yelling with all his force. There are
at least five thousand such.
THE chief sergeant-at-arms every
little while hammers with his gavel,
usually it is not heard. If it is heard
the crowd yells more loudly in indigna-
ton at the suggestion that it should
stop
Harding. nursing a little boom of
his own, that has not yet been ex-
posed to the fresh air, is getting tired
of the demonstration and means to
been yelling through his megaphone
presumably giving orders to the SER
geant-at-arms. Kate Rutherford has
been expelled, politely. from the
speakers platform and is now in the
press gallery, a kind young reporter
inviting her to Yell your head off
here
THE delegates, obeying orders.
have sat down and stopped their
demonstrating.
THE noise in the galleries is dying
away, the Roosevelt demonstration
apparently is to be killed off, within
IS minutes
at would have lasted an hour if t. e
management had permitted it, and
twice that time, if it had been en-
couraged in the usual way.
what would the sickly little booms
sobbing their hearts out in this hall
not have given for a demonstration
Of that kind.
Harding has succeeded in making
himself heard. He rebukes our
guest saying, After making such a
demonstration as you have you should
be willing to allow us to proceed with
the business of the day
THE shouting dies away at the end
of forty-three minutes. Roosevelt has
had his day in court, having been con-
demned and sentenced to exile before
his hearing If Roosevelt has it in
him this treatment will give a really
radical party to the country.
1.-The extreme reactionaries, who lit
orally never learn are hoping family
that a little delay may make Root s
nomination possible, but there is lit
tie serious thought of that