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WITH 350 6F‘ THE ROOSEVELT DELEGATES DECLIN[NG TC VOTE,
THE PRESIDENT RECE IVED 561 VOTES ON THE
FIRST BALLOT.
ROOSEVELT BOLTS TO LEAD NEW “PROGRESSIVE” PARTY
Vice President Shérman Named for Running Mate Without Any Opposi
tion—The President Received 20 More Votes o i
Than Needed to Nominate,
' Convention Hall, Chicago.—With
nearly 350 of the Roosevelt delegates
declining to vote and hastening away
at adjournment time, to tender to
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt the nom
ination of a new party, the fifteenth
Republican national convention at
the end of a long and . tumultuous
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WILLIAM H. TAFT.
session renominated William Howard
Taft of Ohio for president and James
S_choolcraft Sherman of New York for
vice president.
Taft Gets 561 Votes.
President Taft received 561 of the
1,078 votes in the convention, or 21
more than a majority.
The decision of the Roosevelt peo
ple, under the direction of their lead
er, to refrain from voting, left no
other candidate near the president.
The announcement of the Taft victory
was greeted with chéering from his
adherents and groans and hisses
from the opposition.
When it became absolutely certain
that Mr. Taft would be nominated
without great difficulty, the leaders
in comtrol of the convention decided
to give him as a running mate his
companion on the ticket In 1908.
All others dropped from. the race,
and Mr. Sherman was the only can
didate regularly placed before the
convention. A motion from New
Hampshire to make the nomination
by acclamation was declared out of
order. There were many scattering
votes on the roll call.’
The convention amid much confu
sion then adjourned sine die.
Chairman Root announced a call of
the roll of the states for nominations
for the presidency.
Alabama was passed. Arizon was si
lent. Down the list silence followed
the calling of each state until Ohio
was reached. A cheer greeted the
state, and Warren G. Harding arose
to place President Taft in nomina
tion. Then it was discovered that
{owa had forgotten to nominate Cum
mins, and Root ordered that the state
be called, again. Silence greeted the
seecnd call, for the Jowans had de
cided not to nominate Cummins, but
to vote for him. ¢ |
Then Ohio was called again and
Harding tock the platform, greeted by
scattering cheers, to nominate Taft.
When New York was called there
had been a murmur of disappointment,
for William A. Prendergast sat still
in his seat, although he had been ex
pected to nominate Roosevelt.
Taft Is Nominated.
_ Frequently during his speech, Har
ding was interrupted by applause and
cheers. When, finally, he reached the
name “William Howard Taft,” floor
and galleries burst into life. Hats and
handkerchiefs were swung in the air
and a steady roll of cheering swept
through the hall. In the galleries
women as well as men joined in the
demonstration, which lasted for 16
minutes.
After seating all contested Taft
delegates except those from Texas,
the convention came to order again
oans 0 s S e e
Hotels Got $5,000,000.
Chicago.—More than $5,000,000 was
expe‘nded by delegates, politicians and
convention visitors in the last ten
days, according to estimates made by
Chicago hotel managers. Of this sum
it is estimated $3,500,000 was expend
ed for fod, drink and sleeping rooms,
the remainder being distributed
" among the theaters, amusement parks
and retail stores. It is estimated that
Chicago entertained 200,000 visitors
during the convention.
at 2:12 p. m,, and took up the Texas
cases,
The credentials committes report
on Texas followed the report of the
national committee, favorable to Taft,
and was adopted, district by district,
without roll call. The only delegates
given . Roosevelt were im the Third
and Fifteenth Texas districts, .both of
which the national committee had
originaly awarded him. ;
. -It was generally understood that
with the completion of the organiza
tlon, the Roosevelt people would de
clare their position of non-participa
tion in further proceedings of the con
vention, .
The report of the committee on per
manent organization, recommending
that the temporary list of officers
headed by Senator Root, be made per
manent, was adopted.
Senator Root came forward amid
deafening noise of cheers, whistling,
bowing and other signs of approval
and disapproval.
The demonstration lasted several
minutes, Mr. Root standing, smiling,
waiting for the noise to subside.
When at last it became quiet, Mr.
Root made a brief speech of thanks.
He introduced Henry J. Allen of Kan
sas to make a statement.
“No Physical Bolt.”
Henry J. Allen’s speech was a dec
laration that the Roosevelt people re
pudiated this convention and its
work, and without a physical bolt ap
pealed to the people. ]
"At no time was there an indication
of a walkout of Rcosevelt delegates.
They expressed their revoit by si
lence.
How Taft Was Named.
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In the closing moments of the con
journment a resolution was adopt-
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Colonel Stone and Pussy.
The Coliseum was full of oddities
outside of politics. A Dig gray cat
put in an appearance shortly after
the doors of the Coliseum were open
ed and mounted to the platform, from
where it surveyed proceedings until
Sergeant-at-Arms “Bill” Stone stepped
on its tall, accidentally. This seemed
to annoy pussy and her—or his—walil
of annoyance almost filled the hall. It
took Colonel Stone several minutes to
square things with the offended fe
line.
e SEAUERENTSKPRISE FRIDAY TUNE 28, 1012.
ed giving the national committee pow
er to declare vacant the 'seat of a
man on the regular committee refus
ing to support the regular nominee of
1912, R >
In the closing moments of the ccn
vention, a resolution was passed un
der the gavel, giving the national
committee the power to fill all vacan
cies and empowering the committee
to declare vacant the seat of any
members who “refuse to support the
nominees of this comvention.”’
Former Representative Hemenway
of Indiana introduced the resolution.
Such of the delegates as had not
left the hall crowded closely about
the platform while the resolutions,
announcements and customary rou
tine of the closing hour was gone
through with,
Band Plays “Praise God.”
At 10:30 Delegate Estabrook of
New Hampshire moved that the con
vention adjourn with delay, and the
motion was adopted. The delegates
filed out in absolute silence. As the
last of the delegates left the hall, the
band played, “Praise God From Whom
All Blessings Flow.”
Former President Theodore Roose
velt was nominated for president on:
an Independent ticket, in the dying
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM AS
_ADOPTED BY THE TAFT
CONVENTION.
The Taft platform as adopt
ed by the convention lauds
the record of the Republican
party for the past sixleen
vears.
Reaffirms faith in protective
tariff, wants peace, favois sci
entific inquiry into high cost
of living, but doesn’t blame
the tariff for it—indorses idea
of sound currency, übholds,
authority of courts, but asks
for less cumbersome and cost
ly system.
Is opposed to special privi
leges and monopoly and wants
Federal trade commission; also
favors conservation, adequate
navy, blaming Democrats for
restricting it, wants the mer
chant marine, parcels = post,
government protection, against
floods, especially in Mississip
pi, safety at sea and condemns
lynching.
hours of the Republican naticnal con
vention in which he had met defeat.
Followers of Colonel Roosevelt
gathered in Orchestral hall, less than
a mile from the Coliseum, and pledg
ed their support to the former pres
ident.
In accepting the nomination Colo
nel Roosevelt appealed to the people
of all sections, regardless of party af
filiations, to stand with the founders
of the new party, one of whose car
dinal principles, he said, was to be
“Thou shalt not steal.”
The informal nomination of Colo
nel Roosevelt was said to be chiefly
to effect a temporary organization.
The work of organization will be
pushed rapidly state by state, At a
later time, probably early in August,
it is intended that a national conven
tion shall be held. Colonel Roose
velt, in accepting the nomination,
said he did so on the understanding
that he would be willing to step aside
if it should be the desire of the new
party when organized to select an
other standard bearer.
Roosevelt Nominated.
The speech nominating Colonel
Roosevelt was made by Comptroller
William Prendergrast of New York,
who was to have presented the celo
nel’s name to the convention.
Dean William Draper" lLewis of the
University of Pennsylvania Law
school, who was to make one of the
seconding speeches, delivered the ad
dress which he had prepared for the
Republican convention,
Representatives of 22 states com
posed the notification committee,
which informed Colonel Roosevelt of
his nomination and, in a sense, stood
as sponsors for the movement.
The committee consisted of Comp
troller W. R. Prendergrast of New
York; Meyer Lissner of California ;
former Congressman Richmond Pear
son of North Carolina; Frank Knox
of Michigan; Matthew Hale of Massa
chusetts; A. R. Garford of Ohio; Da
vid Browning of Kentucky; Everard
Bierer, Jr., of Utah; Walter Thomp
son of Vermont; Judge Oscar R.
Hundlet of Alabama: Judge Ben J. N.
Lindsey of Colorado; Andrew Rahn
of Minnesota; Judge Stevens of
Towa. Judge Lowder of North Dako
ta: William Allen White of Kansas:
John C. Greenway of Arizona; ex-
Gov. John Franklin Fort of New Jer
sey:; Col. E. C. Carrington, Maryland;
Pearl Wight of Louisiana; Lorenzo
Dowe of Washington: Walter Clyde
Jones of Illinois and Frank Frantz of
Oklahoma.
i lHadley Sticks to Taft.
Jefferson City, Mo.—Governor Had
ley, on his return, declared his de
termination not to join Roosevelt’s
third party movement. “I believe I
can render more service to the people
as a member o fthe Republican party
than by joining in the formation of a
third party,” he said. ‘“While I have
in no way changed my mind as to
the correctness of that for which I
bhave contended, I say that no politi
cal party ever will exist in which men
will not use authority unfairly.”
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everything under this head; we have goods to fit any
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Extraordinarily pretty line of '
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FITZGERALD, - GEORGIA. 1§) ;I;>§
Saturday Night at the Grand
The Brenau College Girls' Quar
tette, said to be fine entertainers,
will be at the Grand Opera House
next Saturday night.
% This Quartette is sent out to give
entertainments by the Tallalulah
Falls Conservation Association, Mrs,
Helen D. Longstreet, President, who
has a number of similar organiza
tions from various colleges of the
State, who are giving entertainments
for the benefit of the Tallalulah Falls
Conservation Association, in order
to keep this wonderful handy-work
of nature from falling into the hands
of a greedy and unscrupulous cor
poration, who tlesire to rob the peo
ple of Georgia this great beauty-spot
of America, You make no mistake
when you hear the quartette and the
cause for which the girls will sing.
There should not be standing roormn
in the Grand Sa‘urday night.
Every patriotic citizen of Fitz
gerald and surrounding country, who
loves dear old Georgia and her tra
ditions, should lend a helping hand'
to keep from the clutches of agras,p-I
ing and greedy -corporation the
grandest recreation spot in the Uni-l
ted States that compares favorably
with the mountain scenery, pictur-l
esque water falls and wooded land-|
scape of Switzerland. |
Added to the corc:rt will be sev-l
eral reels of up-to-date pictures thatg
will please a!l who attend.
Amission: Children, 15c¢; adults,g
25¢.
Refer Tippins Bill To
Voters, 1s Amen. . .at
When the Tippins comes uj for
debate next Monday morning Rep
resentative J. O. Adams, of Hall
county, will introduce an amend
ment providing that before the law
shall become effectivz it must be
ratified by a vote of the people
This amendment will seek to have
the bill submitted to the voters in
the general state election next Sep
tember.
Mr. Adams takes the position that
if any changes are to be made in the
prohibition law they sbauld be ap
proved by the veters. This is the
attitude of Governor Brown, who has
promised to veto the Tippins bill
unless it carries such a clause.
Indications are, however, that
Mr. Adams’ amendment will be
voted down and that the bill will
be sent to Governor Brown withoot
any provision «for its admission to
the people. Many of the strongest
advocates of the bill do not believe
jit can be passed over the governor's
veto.
AL Fresco Parry.
The social function of the week
among the younger set was the al
fresco party at the residence of Dr.
J. C. Fussell on Wednesday after
noon from 10 to 12 o’clock, given by
Misses Jewel Garbutt and J. C. Fus
sell, in honor of Misses ' dpa and
Louise Oliver, ©of Abbeville, and
Marie Garbutt,who leaves next week
for an extended visit to Brunwick.
The spacious veranda was decor
ated with ferns and cut flowers,
from one corner of which refreshing
punch was served. gi
Several guessing contests furnish-!
ed amusement for the occasion, Miss.
Edna Oliver being the successful
contestant, was favored with a dain
ty embroidered handkerchief, while
Miss Paula Peacock very gracefully
received the booby prize, a stick of |
candy. These gifts were delivered
by Mrs. Alvin Hardman Thurmond'
with an impromptu speech, the re-l
cipients responding with appro
priate recitations, which were great-l
ly appreciated. Later a dainty ice
cream course was served.
The guests included Misses Allie
Mays, Edith Griner, Edna and Louise
Oliver, Marie Carbutt, Paula Pea
cock, Annie Laurie Jolley, Eleanor
Allen, Rhea Wise, Jewel Garbutt,
Ruth Harley, Mamie Goethe, Dorothy
Jones, J. C. Fussell.
WATERMELONS, CUCUMBERS,
Squashes and Garden Vegetables,
some choice Pickels, fresh and
fine. See J. J. Larisey, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. 49-tf
The Merry Widows and Old
[aids Will Cross Bats
The base ball fans of the city and
the general public as well will be
interested to know that plans are
on foot for another “Merry Widow
vs. Old Maid” ball game, which will
take place in the near future.
Fitzgerald has had several games
of this kind in the past and they
have furnished so much fun and
amusement, not only for themselves.
but the players as well, that practi--
cally every everybody begins to
look forward to them for weeks.
ahead of time. The boys are now
engaged in getting their custumes:
in shape and we will possibly be
able within the next week to give
the line-up and the date of the game, .
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Georgia Firmen To
Meet in Fitzgeraid
The Georgia State Firemen’s asso
ciation in session at Americus yes
‘terday, completed ali business of the
sixth annual convtiom 2and ad
journed to meet :it*gdaad, Ceor
gia, next year. iu the eisction
of officers, Chi f Tuu.ius cal! -atyne,
of Savannai, was re-eleceed presi
dent: Chief Cummings, of Atlanta,
vice-president; Chief Frank Rey
nolds, of Augusta, treasurer; Chief
lugene Burch, of Hawkinsville, sec
retery; Chief Wilkerson, of Fitz-.
gerald, statistician.
There were two invitations exten--
ded to the -conveution for its next
meeting, one from Fitzgerald, and
one from Griffin. The Fitzgerald
selection met general approval.
There were other invitations in
hand, but only these two were ac--
tually extended. :
DR.B.S.CLAY,D. V. M.
VETERINARY
Physician and Surgeon..
Headquarters at
GRAY BROS. STABLES. PHONE NO. &
Fitzgerald, Ga.