TAFT HD SHERMAN
Republican National Convention
Names Standard Bearers
OHIO MAN GETS 702 VOTES
Temporary Chairman Reviews Work
of Republican Party Praises
dent Roosevelt for Refusing to Ac
cept Nomination for Third Term
Chicago June 1G Amid miles of
bunting and thousands o flags used In
decorating the interior of the big Col
iseum and with practically all dele--gates
in their seats from the various
states territories and possessions of
the nation together with thousands
of enthusiastic spectators Harry S
New of Indiana chairman of the na
tional committee called the
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JULIUS C BURROWS
lican national convention to order at
noon today After prayer by Bishop
P J Muldoon of Chicago Chairman
New was presented with the gavel
which will do service during all ses
sions of the present convention Fol
lowing this the official convention
Jcall was read by Secretary Elmer
Dover of Ohio after which Chairman
New introduced Senator J C Burrows
of Michigan as temporary chairman
Mr Burrows on assuming the chair
made a speech in the nature of a
keynote for the Republicans in the
campaign He spoke in part as fol
lows
Senator Burrows Address
Four years ago the Republican
party in national convention submitted
the record of its achievements to the
American people announced its pol
ices for the future and invoking con
tinuance of public favor placed in
nomination for the office of president
and vice president of the United
States Theodore Roosevelt and
Charles W Fairbanks who were elect
ed and the platform approved by a
popular vote of 7623485 a record un
exampled in the history of political
parties since the foundation of the
government receiving the indorse
ment of 32 states out of the 45 with
iut 13 in opposition
Since the last national Republican
convention four years ago our popula
tion has increased from 81500000 to
87500000 while 4000000 of immi
grants from every quarter of the globe
have found welcome to our shores and
protection under our flag
During the last four years our
flocks and herds have increased in
value from 2998000000 to 4331000
000
The value of our farm products
irom 5917000000 to 7412000000
Our product of gold from 74000-
000 to 90000000
The accumulation in savings banks
of 2815000000 in 1903 was augment
ed to 3495000000 in 1907
Two millions of spindles in our cot
ion mills were added and the domes
tic cotton used in our factories in 1907
amounted to jver 5000000 bales as
against 3924000 bales in 1903
In spite of the disquieting condi
tions incident to the regulation of
Tates on interstate railroads 20000
miles of new trackage have been ad
ded in the past four years
The output of pig iron the barom
eter of trade in 1007 was 257S1000
tons as against a little over ISOOuOCO
tons in 1903 and our exports of iron
and steel increased from C9GC42000 in
1903 to 1S1531000 in 1907
Our exports of manufactures ad
vanced from 4CS OC00O0 in 1903 to
740000000 in JS07
Our imports of raw material for
tise in domestic manufacture in
creased from 3300C0000 in 19C3 to
5447000000 in 1907 while our
exports in the calendar year of 1907
were nearly 2COOO0OCO0 an increase
of 30 per cent ever those of four years
ago rne mnis and lactones tem
porarily closed by reason of financial
disturbances are rapidly resuming
operations calling labor back to profit
able employment
This record of material activity in
jaeld and forest factory and farm
mines and mills during the last four
lyears might be indefinitely extended
but this is quite sufficient to show the
development and robust condition of
our industrial life
Praise of the President
f In the broader field of the worlds
drama where the nation are actors
our country has taken a conspicuous
and commanding part Having become
a world power our influence is world
wide and always exerted in the inter
est of peace and the betterment of
mankind
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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT 7Sj
was that in which the president him
self took the initiative halted the
armies of Russia and Japan bringing
about an honorable and it is to be
hoped enduring peace
Yet nothing has added so much to
his just fame as his persistent and ir
revocable refusal to break the un
written law of the republic by accept
ing a nomination for a third term By
his act of self abnegation he places
his name and fame in the secure keep
ing of history by the side of that of
the immortal Washington
SPEECH OF SENATOR LODGE
Permanent Chairman Makes Stirring
Address
Chicago June 17 The second day
of the Republican national convention
brought the long expected Roosevelt
yell a whirlwind of enthusiasm which
raged within the vast amphitheater ol
the Coliseum for fully forty five min
utes and for a time presenting to the
timid the specter of a Roosevelt stam
pede Roosevelt for four years
more came in a deafening chorus
from the full sweep of the gallery
each four exploding like the boom
of heavy artillery Texas and Ken
tucky appeared to be the center of the
agitation on the floor New York
viewed the storm with calm and so
did Ohio except strangely one of the
lonesome Foraker delegates Judge
Marcus Shoup who mounted on a
chair kept both arms in motion with
a waving flag and a newspaper and
his voice joining in the general roar
This demonstration was decid
edly the feature of a day otherwise
notable for much practical procedure
in placing the convention on a smooth
running basis the stirring speech of
Permanent Chairman Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts and the defeat
of the plan to reduce the representa
tion of southern states at future na
tional conventions
Speech of Senator Lodge
Gentlemen of the Convention I
thank you most sincerely for the
great honor you have done me in
choosing me to preside over your de
liberations I shall not delay or de
tain you with many words Your resolu
tions will set forth the principles of
the party and declare the policies up
on which we will ask for the support
But the crowning act in this drama the DeDDle oL the united States
My duty is merely to aid you so far
as I can in the orderly and prompt
transaction of the business which has
brought us together That business is
momentous nothing less than to
name here the two men who speaking
with the simplicity of truth will be
the next president and vice president
of the United States
The response of the people to the
policies urged by the president has
been so emphatic that it has been
made clear once for all that the gov
ernment of the United States is
never to be dominated by by money
and financial interests and that the
political party which permits itself to
be ruled by them is doomed to defeat
The policy of the Republican party
in dealing with these new and formid
able questions which have taken con
crete form in enormous combinations
of capital and in great public service
corporations has been formulated and
determined That policy is to use
government regulation and supervision
for the control of corporations and
HENRY CABOT LODGE
combinations so that these great and
necessary Instruments of commerce
and business may be preserved as use
ful servants and not destroyed
cause they have threatened to become
dangerous masters
This policy is the absolute opposite
of government ownership and all like
measures advocated by our opponents
which tend directly to socialism and
to all its attendant miseries and evils
It is in pursuance of this policy
shaped and settled during the past
few years that old laws have been
enforced and new ones enacted
Nothing is more destructive to the
respect for law the chief bulwark of
civilized society than to place laws
upon the statute book in order to still
public clamor and satisfy the people
but which it is never intended to en
force The worst laws imaginable are
those which are allowed to rust un
united States today He has been
more abused than any president ex
cept Washington Lincoln and Grant
He possesses the love and confidence
of the American people to a degree
never equaled except by Lincoln and
Washington May it not be said in
sober truth that the fearless perform
ance of a sworn duty is not without
its exceeding great reward
But the work has not ceased with
the enforcement of existing laws A
Republican congress and a Republican
president have placed new laws upon
the statute books designed to carry
out the Republican policy of govern
ment regulation in a safe reasonable
and effective manner The Elkins law
aimed at preferential rebates which
have been the curse of our transporta
tion and our business the railroad
rate law which made the supervision
of railroads more effective and the
pure food law which has been in the
highest degree beneficent to the mass
es of our perple are all monuments of
the policy and the labors of the Re
publican party
The president who has led his
party and the people in this great
work retires by his own determina
tion from his high office on the 4th
of March next His refusal of a nom
ination dictated by the loftiest mo
tives and by a noble loyalty to Ameri
can traditions is final and irrevocable
Anyone who attempts to use his name
as a candidate for the presidency im
pugns both his sincerity and his good
faith two of the presidents greatest
and most conspicuous
which no shadow has
That man is no friend to Thoodoro
Roosovelt and docs not cherish his
name and fame who now from any
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WILLIAM H TAFT
motive seeks to urge him as a candi
date for the great office which he has
finally declined The president has re
fused what his countrymen would
gladly have given him he says what
he means and means what he says
and his party and his country will re
spect his wishes as they honor his
high character and great public service
But although the president retires
he leaves his policies behind him To
these policies the Republican party
stands pledged We must carry them
out as we have begun regardless alike
of the radicals of reaction and the
radicals of revolution We must hold
fast to that which is good while we
make the advances which the times
demand
W H TAFT FOR PRESIDENT
Ohio Man is Chosen on First Ballot
Amid Uproar of Enthusiasm
Chicago June 18 For president of
the United States William H Taft of
Ohio
Taft on the first ballot Taft by 702
votes Taft by the uuanimous choice
of the convention
Such is the result of the culminat
ing day of the Republican national
convention of 1908 effected amid
scenes of tumultuous enthusiasm and
after a nerve racking continuous ses
sion lasting nearly eight hours
The picture within the walls of the
amphitheater as the presidential can
didate was named was one truly
grandiose in its magnitude In front
to the right and left below and above
the billowing sea of humanity restless
after hours of waiting and stirred
from one emotion to another was in a
fever of expectancy for the culminat
ing vote The favorite sons of other
states had been named save Knox and
LaFollette and now on the roll call
came Ohio As the Buckeye state was
reached the tall gaunt form of Theo
dore B Burton advanced to the plat
form to nominate Ohios candidate
He spoke fervently with the singing
voice of an evangelist which went
ringing through the great building
The close of his speech of nomi fition
was the signal for loosing the long-
pent up feeling of the Taft legions
Instantly the Ohio delegates were on
their feet other Taft states following
while the convention hosts in gallery
and on floor broke into mad demon
stration
Taft Taft W H Taft came in
a roar from the Ohioans Megaphones
seemed to spring from concealed
places and swell the Taft tumult into
thunder A huge blue silk banner
bearing the familiar features of the
statesman secretary was swung before
the delegates awakening a fresh
whirlwind of enthusiasm
All semblance of order had been
abandoned and the delegates arena
was a maelstrom of gesticulating men
The guidons of the states were
snatched up by the Taft enthusiasts
or borne under by the storm of disor
der The band was inaudible a mere
whisper above the deafening volume
of sound For ten fifteen then twen
ty minutes this uproar continued It
was a repetition of the scene when
the name of Roosevelt broke the con
vention into a frenzy repeated in in
tensity and almost in duration But
there is a limit to physical resources
of throat and lung relays had not
been established and at last the tired
voices died down to a hoarse shout
and at last subsided
This lull now gave the opportunity
for the speech seconding Tafts nomi
nation by George A Knight of Califor
nia his big round face beaming forth
on the sympathetic multitude and his
splendid baritone voice swelling forth
like the tones of a great church or
gan Californias tribute to Taft was
brief and fervid Now there was an
other lull in the Taft movement while
the remaining candidates were placed
in nomination
It was late in the afternoon before
the convention now literally swelter
ing in the intense heat and weary
after nearly seven hours of continuous
session reached the end of the flood
of eloquence and the decks were at
last cleared for the culminating act
But no just as the last swell of ora
tory the seconding speech for La
Follette had died awayf like a cyclone
from a clear sky burst a LaFollette
demonstration which swept the con
vention from its very bearings It was
the same deafening wave of sound
that had greeted Roosevelt Wednes
day and Taft a little while before in
tense and maddening and with the
vital ring of genuine enthusiasm It
seemed as though Wisconsin had sud
denly peopled even- foot of the gal
leries The delegates sat calm and
waiting except the frantic Wiscon
Eins but the convention for the time
being was in the possession of the
calleries
Now a singular transformation oc
curred Gradually the- whirlwind
veered from LaFollette to Roosevelt
A banner bearing the Roosevelt por
trait and waved from the gallery wa3
the signal for the change but in tho
confused babel of voices there was no
distinguishing where the LaFollette
cheers ended and those for Roosovelt
began
Amid this pandemonium and with
the galleries in full control Chairman
Lodge decided upon heroic action in
order again to make the convention
master of Its affairs He ordered the
roll call of states to begin for the vote
on president Such a call under such
circumstances of intense confusion
has probably never before occurred in
the history of national conventions
A ballot was taken to nominate a can
didate for president while the conven
tions was cheering frantically for a
man whose name had not been pre
sented to the convention The votes
were being counted for Taft while the
people were shouting for Roosevelt
The delegates however cast their
votes uninfluenced by the clamor of
the crowd More than this the first
states on the call Alabama and Ar
kansas had been relied upon by the
Roosevelt enthusiasts to start the stam
pede for the president but they hela
by their instructions while the stam
pede raged all about them The secre
tary was powerless to make his call of
the states heard above the deafening
clamor Seizing a megaphone he
shouted the roll of states Alabama
Arkansas but his voice was swal
lowed up in the mad uproar Gradual
ly however the curiosity of the multi
tude conquered their enthusiasm and
they lapsed into silence to hear the
result of the roll call A hush of ex
pectancy hung over the assembly as
the call proceeded Hasty summaries
showed that Taft was far in advance
When New York was reached the Tart
column totalled 427 Ohio carried
the Taft total to 511 twenty more
than enough to nominate Still the
call went on till the final result was
announced by Chairman Lodge For
Theodore Roosevelt 3 votes for Jo
seph B Foraker of Ohio 16 votes for
Charles W Fairbanks of Indiana 40
votes for Joseph G Cannon of Illi
nois 61 votes for Robert LaFollette
of Wisconsin 25 votes for Charles E
Hughes of New York 67 votes for
Philander C Knox of Pennsylvania
68 votes and for William H Taft of
Ohio 702 votes
Nomination Is Made Unanimous
A great shout went up as Lodge con
cluded his announcement and with
one accord the cohorts of Cannon and
Knox and Hughes and the other he
roes joined in a common tribute for
the candidate of the party General
Stewart L Woodford for Governor
Hughes leaping upon a chair moved
to make the nomination of Taft unani
mous Senator Penrose for Knox and
Boutell for Cannon and Henry of
Georgia for Foraker and Wisconsin
for LaFollette seconded the move
ment for an unanimous vote The
vote was given with a ringing cheer
SHERMAN FOR RUNNING MATE
New York Congressman Wins Second
Place on Republican Ticket
Chicago June 19 Congressman
James S Sherman of New York was
nominated for vice president by the
Republican national convention this
CONGRESSMAN SHERMAN OF
NEW YORK
morning Mr Sherman was placed in
nomination by Timothy L Woodruff of
New York and the nomination was
seconded by Speaker Cannon of Illi
nois who took the platform amid a
scene of wild enthusiasm
The uncertainty over the vice pres
idency lasted all night but this morn
ing it was found that Congressman
Sherman was far in the lead and early
assurance was given that the Taft fol
lowers wouM support him
REPU3LICV rLAYFORM
Acoptcd by the r2 onrl Convention
at Chicago on June 18
The piriform declares that no such
progress haj been zi since the days
of Washington as linger the Roosevelt
administrate u and tfcet under the
guidance of Leyujiian principles the
American natcn hes grown rich and
great revision or tc tariit by a spe
cial session of cznzTc immediately
after the iuaururaticn of the novr
president is pledged the recent cur
rency measure is approved postal
savings banks are favored the
strengthening cf the anti trust law by
amendments is advocated further
legislation in the regulation of rail
roads an in behalf cf labor is urged
advocates putting a limitation on the
power to issue injunctions favors more
and better road construction in rural
districts condemns any state laws or
regulations that deprive the negro ct
the franchise indorses waterways andj
vecvatiQn ot naturaL resources
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