The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-06-11
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of those on the floor mounted chairs
and waved Wood banners.
Approximately 200 delegates, more
or less, were taking part in the chs ell
ing and flag waving. Many Of these
on the floor yelled like real Indians
and they looked like Indians with the
hair of the woman ana the collars of
The men decorated by the falling
feathers.
cts Wood-Let's CO." also was
printed on many of the blue and
white banners waving over the Wood
groups. When the demonstration had
been on 10 minutes the inevitable
procession started. 1t was led by de-
legates from Minnesota and it started
shaking its way about the convention
hall just as Senator Lodge had come
to the front of the platform and
raped for order He went back
again and sat down as the parade
gathered momentum.
1t looked strange to many of the
old-timers to see women for the
first time among the marchers.
Changing their slogan the circulating
Wood people took up eve Want
Wood" as their marching cry.
The convention managers saw pros
poets of a very long session when the
demonstration went on and on.
They guessed the supporters Of the
other candidates would try to out-do
the Wood people with the result that
balloting might be long delayed.
The demonstration which followed
Cen. Woods nomination lasted 40
minutes. When it quoted down
Frank Knox of New Hampshire, the
Wood floor manager and Mrs. Doug
las Robinson of New York, made
spe eches secondmg 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 70
son of the state, but son OF the
whole nation" The speaker got
lor of cheers but not as much as dld
Mrs. Douglas Robinson of New York
still in mourning for her brother, Col
Theodore Roosevelt, when she took
the platform to second the nomlna-
tier.
Mrs. Robinson declared she want
ed Leonard Wood for president. mot
because he was my brothers friend
bu. because he is his type of man.
"No, man can tell me" said MIS-.
Robinson, chat had Theodore Roose-
vels OF Leonard Wood been IN the
Wh:e House tha Germans would
have marched through itlSlum 10
nothing more than liEgin- words O
protest. We never want Il man who
waits between right and neutrality
She was loudly cheercd.
Senator Lodge soon got hearing
and the roll of the states was con
tirued. Arkansas yielded to linn
OF, and Rep. William Rothenbcr
wa presented to nominate Gov.
Lowden. As soon as the speech was
over the Lowden demonstration be-
gan. His supporters carried large
pictures of the candidate tackled TO
wooden standards.
A procession got under way headed
BY Iowa delegates bearing aloft
siA-foot lithograph of the governor
A long banner urging "a business
man for presidency" was carried IN
the Lowden procession. The Low
den supporters were rs well organ
il cd as the Wood delegates
Miss Dorothy Disney, daughter
OF a Muskogec oklahoma delegate,
v a. carried about the hall on the
shoulders Of two Oklahoma delegate.
The Lowden procession seemed to be
some acccssions Of supporter ]
from the various state PAGES rs it
moved about the hall. The Connect
cut delegation fen in with it,
Fifteen minutes after the demon
began it apparently was
gaining Roadway and Chairman