Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-11
Radical Progressives Charge
Their Leaders With Bad Faith
Stunned By Rooseuelts Conditional Refusal OF
Nomination, They Make Perkins and Others
Targets for Their EXAMINATIONS.

the delegates. which rose to a loud
clamor
Mr. Perkins voice is not loud one
and as he started to read the Roose
welt message there were calls for o
K. Davis to read it. Mr.. Perkins turn
ed over the manuscript to MIR. Davis
less delegates the Roosevelt sugges
i ton that both parties get behind Sen
ator Lodge and make him the fusior
candidate.
There were choruses of NO! No! MOI
to the name of Lodge.
I'VE are sold out. boots and breeches.'
cried man in the gallery, but wher
MIR. Davis read the name Theodore
Roosevelt" there was the same ole
sharp applause which always greets it
Robins Takes Command.
Then up jumped Chairman Robins
Delegates thought that Lodge was to
be pushed through the convention
without a moments thought. Some
man in corner yelled No" then
another man in another corner. and
another and another and another. un-
til a hundred men were yelling their
displeasure, and then two hundred and
then five hundred, and then thousands
of men and women on the floor and in
the five rows of galleries were madly
shouting.
Robins had not the slightest thought
of letting Lodges name be- placed be-
fore the convention. He had merely
risen to put parliamentary question.
delivered the Roosevelt message. he
said:
For a week l have been under much
criticism. - 1 may have done well or
poorly"
'uoorly." shouted some one. and on
top of it a. friend yelled: What is
the matter with Perkins,
He's all right" came the answer
Mr.. Perkins counsel since the crisis
came has been to let the party make
name in nomination at this juncture
until the colonel himself said so.
4 hate delayed pass" said a dele
gate, evidently foot ball player
In answer to Perkins arose John M
Parker. now the nominee for the vice
presidency. He is fighting type of
man. slender, straight, keen eyed and
alert He looks like soldier. When he
spoke in the old progressive way of
criticism against the republicans, and
declared that the dilatory tactics of
the week had done much toward wreck
ing the progressives. he was made the
center of tremendous ovation. Then
there was silence. but again the out
cries broke loose when in a voice reso-
nant and angry he cried This is a per-
manent party.
Reads Perkins Bitter Lecture.
And then he started into reading Per-
kins a bitter lecture and appealed for
leader. He said the party had been
traitorously treated by parleying with
the republicans. He blamed Perkins
for the situation in which the pro-
gressives found themselves, ready to
nominate a man who might not accept.
"At one blow" he cried. you will
drive back to the democratic party peo-
pie who think they have been betrayed.
These men and these women in this
convention are the finest l have ever
seen. They are people whom no man
can deliver to any other party"
Every man in the auditorium jumped
to ehis feet. and acclaimed John M.
Parker a new leader, radical and a
fighter. Four years ago he was a demo
crat.
AS the terrible hubbub continued,
Chairman Robins with his great big
machinist's hammer began pounding
for order. He finally effected the sem