The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-09
WILD DEMON
STRATION GREETS
NOMINATION
CContin ued from Pare OssS

minutes Of applause, and IL was not
any TOO fulsome AT that.
Call Of the roll of states for nom
mating speeches was begun at ll:47.
Alabama temporarily passed, Alas
ka did not answer. and Arizona final
/ IL Welded 70 New York
Senators Smoot and Crane arrived
at Hos. and Immediately put their
\ heads together talking earnestly
just back OF the chairman place.
Il was noted that the great sound
| ing board had been moved forward
TO the very front Of the little speak.
| ing platform. branching out In front
OF the big platform. Workmen had
been on the job nearly all night.
! Harding started things going al
Ill:l3. There was more confusion
u the hall than at any other ses-
I sion and considerable difficulty was
experienced in clearing the aIsles.
Complete order was not obtained
until HIS Harding asked that
he audience arise during prayer.
offered by Bishop William F. Nc
i Dowell
The secretary then reported the
[ Minnesota delegations choice OF
/ Chester A Congdon as national com
mitteeman from Minnesota. and that
ot J. W Talbot as committeeman
from South Carolina
These were confirmed.
Smoot then read his report OF har'
mony conferences with the Progress
, sives II was received with cheers
by the galleries and scattering
cheers from the delegates.
Arizona yielded 20 New York
Gov Whitman then put Justice
Charles Evans Hughes in nomina-
ton.
An attempt 20 have Col Roose-
velt's hint that ne would address
he Republican convention IL IN.
vited. taken up. proved aborrive.
Delegate Leon Weinberg. OF Mary.
land. had a resolution all ready. pro.
viding that an invitation BE- issued
but was forestalled when informed
that unanimous consent was neces'
sary TO consideration.
The prospect at noon vas that the
nominating and seconding speeches
would continue fer al least three
hours, and probably more.
Gov Whitman. nominating Justice
Hughes, said
? I'VE are assembled here 70 name
= the standard bearer OF the great Re-
I publican party. We are here In re-
= spouse 70 the demand Of the Amer.
r ican people that a minority presiden,
:. give way 10 a leader. rep.
: resenting the will Of the majority
o We are here 70 select the next pres.
ident Of these United States
The national horizon Is dark and
troubled. From afsr. the lurid fash
es OF a world war remind Va Of our
own citizens killed and our own
y flag insulted. To the south we see
anarchy encroaching On our borders
Al Washington the president watch
"a and waits
J. Yet we must not think the fash
2. before Us an easy one. The country
J. Ia still al peace and the maintenance
: Of peace will be plausibly claimed
by the Democratic party. That party
J. hopes that the country VIII coon for
g get the insults 20 our national honor
g II is Us belief that the people will
s not long remember the vacillatinS
: diplomacy clothed in glittering rhet
;. ORC which has alarmed our people
{ discredited our standing among the
, nations and brought Us 70 the verge
= Of war.
+ n form OF prosperity In in the
a land and few. perhaps. realize its
D temporary nature, or pause TO an
J alyze It's causes"
Here Whitman cited the European
\ war as giving unnatural prosperity
? IT the devout prayers Of all man
\ fulfilled, which God grant. the fright
ful holocaust OF war will end al
r quickly and UNEXPECTEDLY a. II be
gan, and the products OF Europeai
labor will pour in upon us, undeter
REQ by tariff barrier. at prices ruin
Gus 20 our trade and industries" h
continued.
I'VE must choose a man so Erea
hat he may meet. az true Amer
can. the supreme national issues
81 not only OF the hour. but those q
p the future.
!. our party II rich in men Undue
with the true spirit OF Americanisn
mo one Of them can claim pr,
+. pondersnce Of the American spiri