The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-12
PRESENT ELEVEN
FOR NOMINATION
That Number Of Candi-
dates Are Placed Be-
fore Convention.
JOHNSON HITS SNAG
Wheeler Is Heckled in Nomi-
mating Californian--Is
Reminded Of Hearst.

CHICAGO, June 1i.--Eleven cam
didates for president were received
in nomination by the republican ma
tional convention in the first eight
hours of its session today
wood led off. Lowden followed.
with Johnson third and the rest of
the list following.
Eight straight hours the conven-
lion sat hearing nominating and
seconding speeches. At 5 o'clock
Chicago time, Senator Sutherland OF
West Virginia. the last OF the list.
was placed in nomination.
An upfoarious i0-niinute demon
stratlon followed the nomination of
General Wood by Henry Allen gov
ernor OF Kansas. Frank Knox Of
New Hampshire the Wood floor
leader. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson
of New York, sister of the late The
odore Roosevelt, delivered the Wood
seconding speeches, Mrs Robinson.
describing General Wood as n man
Of Theodore Roosevelts type,
brought the convention to It's feet
repeatedly as in ringing tones she
denounced tho Wilson administra-
ton for its course in the world war.
Last 40 Minutes.
The demonstration which followed
Woods nomination, lasted 40 min
utes. When it died down, Frank
Knox Of New Hampshire, the Wood
floor manager. and Mrs Douglas
Robinson of New York made
speeches seconding General Woods
nomination.
Mr.. Knox, a former private of the
Rough Riders, told the convention
that New Hampshire. the generals
native state. regarded him mot as
a ton of the state, but as a son of
the whole nation"
The speaker got lot of cheers.
but not so much as did Mrs. Doug
las Robinson OF New York, still in
mourning for her brother, Col.
Roosevelt, when she took the plat
form TO second General Woods
nomination. The first woman ever
TO perform that function in a ma
tional convention, she got n rousing
ovation when she was introduced
by Senator Lodge.
To top the demonstration Mrs.
Robinson waved her hand. She
spoke with a clear, carrying voice
with crisp enunciation, apparently
heard with ease to the depths of the
hall.
Mrs. RobiRson declared she
wanted Leonard wood for president
mot because he was my brothers
friend, but because he Is his typo
OF man"
Arkansas yielded to Illinois and
Representative william Rodenberg
OF that state. was presented to nomi-
nate Governor Lowden.
A big man with big voice, Repre-
sentative Rodenberg spoke without
manuscript, beginning deliberately
and warming up the Lowden sup
porters to repeated cheering.
Representative Rodenberg got his
greatest applause when he came to
his enconium OF Governor Lowden
as n business man and an admins
traitor OF ability in economic and fl
nancial lines
AS soon as the speech was over
the Lowden demonstration began.
his delegates among his supporters
carrying large pictures OF the candi-
date tackled to wooden standards. A
procession got under way almost i'm
mediatcly. headed by Iowa delegates
bearing aloft a six foot lithograph
OF the governor.
A long banner orging "a business
map for president" was carried in
tho Lowden procession.
The Illinois. Iowa, Oklahoma,
connecticut, Arkansas and Kentucky
delegations showed up among the
Lowden partisans In the parade.
Again the lights were on for the
movie men and 1t aroused another
wave of noise.
a group OF oklahoma delegates
varied the harmony by introducing
refrain "Lowden, Lowden. Frank O..
Lowden."
Praises 40 Minutes.
When 1t had gone forty minutes
Just as long as the Wood demonstra-
uon' the first attempt was mado to
STOP tho noise. Senator Lodge had
given the chair to former Senator
Beveridge OF Indiana and the latter
landed his gavel on the chairman's
anle so that It shook the platform.
but the Lowden forces thought they
ought TO make the demonstration a
niue longer and Senator Beveridga
sent Tor some of tho leaders OF the
Lowden delegation and asked them
70 use their influence to quiet the
Fosyentlon floor so as to speed up
Xhe noise abated little and most
OF tha delegates took their seats but
the galleries kept II up while Sena-
H.