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ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 4, 1 9 1 2
BIG BULL MOOSE
IS ROOSEVELT
Nominated as Anticipated
by Wild Acclamation
AS WAS GOV. H. W. JOHNSON
Across the Continent Ticket Briefest
Speeches of Acceptance on Record
Prendergast Nominates Roosevelt
as "The Man Courageous" Planks
From Which the Progressive Plat
form Is Built
Chicago, Aug. 8. For president,
Theodore Roosevelt.
For vice president, Hiram W. John
son. Roosevelt and Johnson this is the
national ticket of t he Progressive
party.
The patform on which' they will
stand is hewn from the doctrines
enunciated in the colonel's "confession
of faith."
Both candidates were nominated by
acclamation at the Coliseum early last
evening. While the delegates shouted
in wild jubilation, varying the yells
and shrieks by singing "Onward,
Christian Soldiers" and the "Battle
Hymn of the Republic," the nominees
made a triumphal entry into the hall.
In brief speeches they accepted the
nominations a new departure in na
tional conventions after which the
delegates sang the "Doxology" in
thundqring chant and after listening
to a benediction adjourned sine die at
7:24 p. m.
Mr. Prendergast, who placed Col
onel Roosevelt's name in nomination,
spoke of the colonel as "the man
courageous" of American politics and
declared him to be a national asset.
Among others seconding the col
onel's nomination were: Miss Jane
Addams of Illinois, Judge Lindsey of
Colorado, General II. C. King of New
York, Union veteran, and Colonel T.
P. Lloyd, a Confederate veteran,
General McDowell, Tennessee com
mander of the Confederate Veterans;
former Governor Garvin of Rhode Is
land. When it came time to pick Roose
velt's team mate the governor of Cali
fornia was nominated by John M.
Parker, a New Orleans Democrat,
who had been considered for the
place, and seconded by Judge Ben
Lindsey of Denver, whose friends bad
worked to land him for the second
place.
F. R. Gleed, a negro delegate of
New York, was among the many to
second the nomination of Governor
Johnson.
As Colonel Roosevelt and Governor
Johnson took their places side by side
on the platform a demonstration broke
loose. The delegates leaped to their
chairs and cheered. Colonel Roose
velt waved his hand to the crowd, but
Johnson stood, evidently a trifle ill at
ease.
"I come forward," said the colonel,
"to thank you from my heart for the
honor you have conferred upon me
and to say that of course I accept. I
have been president, I have seen and
know much of life, and I hold it by far
the greatest honor and the greatest
opportunity that has ever come to
me to be called by you for the time
being to the leadership of this great
movement for the common people.
"I thanic the convention for my run
ning mate."
The colonel was roundly cheered as
he eulogized Johnson.
"We have nominated a proper man
for the vice presidency," he said. "We
have nominated a man fit at the mo
ment to be President of the United
States."
When the cheers that greeted the
close of Roosevelt's speech subsided,
Beveridge introduced Johnson.
"It is with the greatest solemnity,"
he began, "that I come here to tell
you that I enlisted for the war."
A cheer interrupted him. He
pledged himself to aid Roosevelt in
the "fight for the common good," and
concluded:
"I had rather go down to defeat
with Theodore Roosevelt than to vie
tory with any omer presidential can
did ate."
When Johnson finished, Beveridge
announced that the convention would
end its session by singing the Doxology
and by listening to benediction by Rev.
James Goodman.
The delegates, standing In their
places, joined in the chanting of the
old Puritan hymn.
The rhythmic chant rose in a great
volume from the thousands In the hall.
As it died away Rev. Goodman stepped
forward and invoked the divine bless
Ing.
When Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
got up and started to tell the crowd
about Armageddon and the battle of
the Lord , he was talking not a crowd
of old political rounders, but to a
clean-faced bunch of house fathers
and young fellows who knew that they
had to report to their mothers when
they got back home.
The colonel knew perfectly well
what kind of a crowd he was talking
to, and he was just about as unoffi
cial and offish as a man could be
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA
Hiram W. Johnson
Roosevelt's Runnlngmate
When he came upon the platform he
had the air of a man who knew that
he was going to talk to average rep
resentative citizens from Casco bay
to the Golden Gate.
Meanwhile about 500 delegates were
madly cheerLag Mrs. Roosevelt, who
sat over in that box which, in June,
was given over to the millionaires'
wives headed by the wife of John Hays
Hammond, but which this time is ap
propriated by a lot of hard working
women with shirt waists.
The colonel did not own the con
vention so much as people thought he
did. It was a convention of sincere
and convinced enthusiasts. They
were for Roosevelt because he was the
man who seemed to embody their
ideal, but if they had suspected him
of being a self-seeker or "fnnr-flnoh.
er" they would have turned him down
in a moment. It was not at all likp
one of Mr. Hearst's Independence
League conventions in New York, al
though a personally-conducted con-
ventnon of Roosevelt's.
These men were decidedly religious.
If you started to sing "Onward. Chris
tian Soldiers," you could get more
of an answer from this crowd than
you could if you started with a "turkey
trot" in the Democratic convention.
Everybody's Doin' It" went in Balti
more and it went in Chicago at the
time Taft was nominated, but if you
wanted to get a response from the
Progressives you had to sing "Nearer,
My God, to Thee."
The grim and almost religious at
mosphere which characterized the
crowd was manifest especially in the
hour or so before Chairman Beveridge
called it to order. It was due to meet
at 12 o'clock, but the colonel was not
ready. So the outfit put in its time
by singing the "Battle Hymn of the
Republic."
VERMONT FIRST
PROGRESSIVE TEST
Expect to Gut Down Republican
Majority In Sept.
New York, Aug. 11. Vermont is
the first state in which it will be pos
sible to get an idea of the strength of
the third party movement in this cam- !
paign. The election in that state oc
curs in early September. The Pro
gressives will have a full state ticket
in the field, their candidate for gov
ernor being a Congregational minis
ter. Republican majorities in Ver
mont are traditional and the size of
the majority is generally taken as an
indication of the result in the nation
in November.
The Progressive party has opened
headquarters in Burlington, and
Charles H. Thompson of that state is
probably to be a member of the execu
tive campaign committee of the Pro
gressive national committee. Worf
comes from Chicago that it is the pur
pose of .both Colonel Roosevelt and
Governor Johnson to campaign in Ver
mont in the effort to reduce the Re
jublican majority, if not to carry the
state .
The Repubicans are alive to the ne
cessity of making a good showing in
Vermont, and the state chairman and
national committeemen have been
promised some outside speakers to
assist, if they were desired.
The Republicans will do well to
make a hard fight in Vermont; it also
behooves the Democrats to make a
good showing there, for should the
Bull Moose candidates poll a big vote
in Vermont it would give them stand
ing in other states. The result in Ver
Hont will be watched eagerly by Re
publicans, Democrats and Progres
sives alike. There will come the first
test of strength.
Congressman Murray a Bendict
Boston, Aug. 12. Congressman
William F. Murray was marriel last
night to Miss Mary A. Lappan of
Dorchester, daughter of Mrs.
Margaret and the late J. Edward
Lappan. i
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WOMEN
'S VOTES
OF IMPORTANCE
Progressives Played a Trump
Card For Them
JANE ADDAMS GIVES STRENGTH
Her Name Respected In Every Civi
lized Country Expected She Will
Speak In New England Suffrage
Question Worries Both of the Old
Parties Plans of Democrats and
Republicans to Win Favor
New York, Aug. 11. Whatever the
weaknesses of the third party candi
date and platform, Republicans and
Democrats alike recognize the fact
that Colonel Roosevelt's cause was
strengthened a. Chicago by the in
dorsement of Jane Addams of Hull
house and by the declaration for equal
suffrage. The name of Jane Addams
is known and respected wherever in
this country or abroad men and
women are laboring to make the world
better. She has in the past opposed
Mr. Roosevelt's military policy and
has refused until the Chicago con
vention of last week to join the ranks
of his supporters. Hers was the most
discriminating among the speeches
seconding his nomination and yet the
editorials in the newspapers and the
despatches from the scene of the con
vention show her speech to have been
hailed with great enthusiasm.
The Roosevelt managers hope to
have Miss Addams speak once in Bos
ton, once in New Y rk and in Phila
delphia, Pittsburg and Chicago for
their candidate. She has announced
that she will make a number of politi
cal speeches, but that these must
come after and be apart from thirty
speeches which she has promised to
make under the auspices of the Equal
Suffrage organization. It remains to
be seen how far Miss Addams will go
in supporting the personal candidacy
of the colonel.
It was probably Miss Addams more
than anyone else who finally succeeded
in winning Mr. Roosvelt to support
equal suffrage unequivocally. This is
a burning issue in many a western
state. It took California by storm
and women will be largely responsible
for the victory if Roosevelt and John
son carry that state in November.
Political Advertising.
Burlington,
The women of Arizona are initiating
an amendment to the constitution in
that state giving the women the vote.
Washington gave the women the vote
several years ago and women have
voted in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah
and Idaho for many years. It is a
live question in many of -the middle
western states.
The Democrats are worried, much
more than the Republicans, about the
effect of the Progressive party's es
pousal of equal suffrage. . Governor
Wilson was hopeful that the split in
the Republican party in such states
as California, Washington and other
western states would - enable him to
come off an easy winner. Now that
a national party has declared for equal
suffrage it is the intention of tne equal
suffrage advocates to make "votes for
women" an issue in ail states which
have not yet granted the vote to
women. The Democrats hope to off
set the popularity of equal suffrage as
an Issue by homely talks upon the
tariff, illustrating from the platform
and in campaign literature their claim
that the housewife always bears a large
share of the so-called burden of the
protective tariff. They hope to im
press upon the women interested . in
politics that the cost of living is a
more vital issue for them than the
right to vote.
Whatever Governor Wilson's atti
tude toward equal suffrage may be, he
has not declared for it, and many of
his party leaders are bitterly opposed
to women voting. Singularly enough,
President Taft says that when a
very young man he favored equal suf
frage, but that now he favors giving
the vote to women when a majority of
the women desire it. In other words,
he would submit the question to the
women to decide.
Instructions to C. T. A. U.
Notre Dame, Ind., Aug. 11. A
sensation was caused at the conven
tion of the Catholic Total Abstinence
union , now in progress here , when the
president pf the union, Rev. Peter
O'Callaghan of Chicago, announced
that he had received a communica
tion from the pope commanding that
the members of the union have no con
nection with the Prohibition party.
REAL SERVICE.
And ho gave It for his opinion
that whoever could make two
ears of corn or two blades of
grass to grow upon a spot of
ground where only one grew be
fore would deserve better of
mankind and do. more essential
service to his country' than the
whole race of politicians put to
gether. Swift
Political Advertising.
Equalization of the Tax on Money Loaned
Urged in the Republican State Platform
Believing thatlthe individual is entitled to every privilege extended the corpora
tion by law, the Republican State Convention adopted a plank in its platform that
favors the equalizing of the tax on money loaned as between savings institutions and
the individual lenders of money.
This plank, enacted into law, would tax all moneys alike. The individual lender
and the banks would pay the same tax.
The effect of such a law, it is contended, would be to keep the money of
Vermonters invested at home, through the individual, and not loaned outside the
state, and will help you to buy and develop farms, will aid people of moderate means
to own their own homes, and will have an important effect in building up industries
in this state.
The plank is clear, concise and to the point. It reads:
We recommend changes in the law that will equalize the tax of individual
lenders of money and savings institutions, and urge that as far as practicable
the ultimate benefit of such lowered rate be assured the borrower.
We urge the General Assembly to consider the merits of a uniform low
rate of taxation of money, loans and credits as a means of increasing the public
revenues, State and local, of bringing easier conditions to the borrow er, and of
stimulating home industry.
This no doubt means something to every reader of this paper.
Vt., August 12, 1912.
HEROIC RESCUES
AS BOAT UPSETS
Two Missing and 19 Saved In
Oorch3ster Bay
FULL MOTOR BOAT CAPSIZcS
Only the Careful Watch and Quick Ac
. tion of the Lifesaving Crew Saved
Many From Drowning Sullivan,
McDonough and Driscoll Have Close
Escapes While Rescuing Women
and Children
Boston, Aug. 12. Two boys are be
lieved to have been drowned when the
overcrowded motor boat Pippin cap
sized in Dorchester .bay yesterday af
ternoon with 21 on board from a high
wind and rough sea.
John Smith and Michael Hartigan
have not been seen since the accident.
The lifesaving crew began dragging
for their bodies today
The last seen of oe two boys they
were climbing into a small tender.
They rowed away in it, it is thought.
It is believed that this boat, too, cap
sized, and it is feared that the two
boys were drowned.
In addition to the tragedy the acci
dent abounded in narrow escapes from
death and heroic rescues.
Twenty-one people, including a
party of eighteen Roxbury young peo
ple and three sailors, were plunged
into the waters of Dorchester bay when
the motor boat Pippin capsized near
the end of the Head House pier.
It was only the prompt work of the
men of the lifesaving crew which
averted an even greater tragedy.
Christopher J. Sullivan and John D.
McDonough of the crew yesterday
made a name for themselves. The
former, after doing yeoman's work in
the rescue, dived down into twenty
feet of water for little Martha Glynn,
who had been given up for drowned.
The Ipswich boy caught a glimpse
of the little girl's body far below the
surface and without an instant's hesi
tation he dived from the lifesaving
launch. He just reached the uncon
scious girl when he was unable longer
to endure the pressure and lack of
air. He rose to the surface and,
drawing a long breath, swam down
again. It was over a minute before
he appeared bearing the little girl in
his arms.
Political Advertising.
REPUBLICAN STATE
Even then it was feared that she
was dead and the crew worked over
her for hour before she finally drew
breath. ''
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John McDonough, a South Boston
boy, dived diown ten feet and brought
to the surfaae Lillian Robb, who had
gone down for the last time.
Next Timothy J. Driscoll of Rox
bury appeared on the surface with
Catherine Hageman and May Kenney
clinging to his neck. He was some
distance from either of the launches
of the life saving crew, and might
have gone down again had not the
small boat of the corps from the
beach reached nim just as he was
giving up.
MORTON AS JUDGE
Fall River Man to Succeed Judge
Dodge, Promoted
Washington, Aug. 11. President
Taft sent to the senate the nomina
tion of James M. Morton, Jr., to be
United States district judge in Massa
chusetts to succeed Frederick Dodge,
elevated to the circuit bench.
James M. Moron, Jr., is the son of
Justice Morton of the supreme bench
of Massachusetts. He is an attorney
in Fall River and is corporation coun
sel for a number of the largest mills
about that city.
K. of C. To Meet In Boston
Colorado Springs, Aug. 11. Boston
has been selected as the meeting place
next year of the Knights of Columbus,
in session here. A resolution was
passed naming Washington as the
1 choice of the order for building a na
I tional home.
Banking By Mail
The Hyde Park Savings Bank in
sists that deposits sent to that Bank
are absolutely safe.
No depositor ever lost a dollar by
sending money through the mails to
the Hyde Park Savings Bank.
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