The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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THE CANDIDATES NOMINATED
New York left its seats and massed in the aisles. Cannon
became hemmed in by the men with the picture and was
forced to crawl under it to escape. Alaska started a tour of
the hall, with the eagles mounted on totem poles held high in
the air. A young man with a megaphone climbed to the
stage and led a series of yells of "Roosevelt! Roosevelt!"
During ten minutes the yelling had been continuous.
STILL THE UPROAR CONTINUES
Cannon came back out of the gangway with his torn flag
and waved it. Men were congratulating Black as he made
his way back to the New York delegation. Mayor Harrison
was sizing up the performance and admitting to himself that
for a cut and dried convention this exhibition did fairly well.
For fifteen minutes the applause had been continuous.
A little girl, Louise Roberts, from the California delegation,
was held up to the convention on the shoulders of a man
standing on the stage. Another little girl, Naomi De Foe,
from the Michigan delegation, was placed beside her. Both
were waving flags. On the floor and in the galleries the dele-
gates and spectators still shouted. The men with the picture
were making a circuit of the hall.
When, after twenty-three minutes of tumult and cheering,
Chairman Cannon finally secured order, the secretary read a
history of the flag which Mr. Cannon had been waving.
Grasping the flag and waving it over his head, Mr. Cannon
said: "It prophesied victory in i860; its life has been baptized
on many a battlefield since, and it is safe in the hands of
President Roosevelt."
Cheers followed and were increased when Mr. Cannon
recognized Senator Beveridge of Indiana, whom he intro-
duced in these words: