The evening world., 1912-06-26
FLOODOF ORATORY
|NSHORT SESSION
OF CONVENTION
Adjournment Taken Until
Eight O'clock Tonight to
Await Committee Reports.
BALTIMORE is SORE.
Expected Flood of Money
Has Not Arrived-Many
Tickets on Sale.
BALTIMORE is SORE.

Special From san G VII; Of The Evening
CONVENTION HALL. BALTIMORE,
Ma. June a.-rhe Democratic conven-
tion marked tine to-day to listen to
spread eagle oratory by Democrats
speakers. The committees appointed last
night did not meet until this morning
and had merely organized when the
convention met at noon. Accordingly
an agreement vas reached to adjourn
until s y clock tonight.
The convention. having no business,
might as well have adjourned. but that
Is not the Democratic way. The Demo-
Gratis In convention believe In giving the
people plenty Of talk and the party Is
full OF takers. One after another they
mounted the platform to-day and mads
short speeches to the delegates and spec
tators. First came ex-Gov. Folk OF
Missouri. and then Senator Rayner Of
Maryland.
That standard old Democratic war
horse Henry ID. Clayton. chairman of
the Judiciary Committee Of the House
OF Representatives. then yielded to an
invitation to address the convention.
Congressman Clayton appealed to the
ladies voting and non-vOting to aid the
Democratic party. Inadvertently lie
started quite a demonstration by re-
marking that he did not know the can
didate upon whom the nomination OF
the party might fall.
some SHOUTING az THE WILL
soNlTEs.
The Wilson delegates seized upon
the moment as propitious FOR an ad-
vertisement OF their candidate. By
vocal force they kept the outburst
going Ave minutes, when the band
came to their assistance and stretched
the demonstration ten minutes longer.
The galleries took no part in the noise.
Senator Gore OF Oklahoma. in a speech
10 the convention. appealed for. peace a.
any price. at any sacrifice. The sug-
gestion was well received by the dele.
gates.
The Oklahoma Senator appeared to be
afraid that the convention will do some
4 thing foolish. He described the Repub-
lean party as a petrifled mummy which
nothing can possibly revive unless the
| democracy committed suicide by divid-
! Ing itself.
| Mayor Preston Of Baltimore. a Demo-
! cratic live wire who has Presidential
boom on. and Ex-Governor Campbell Of
! Ohio spoke briefly.
The convention adjourned until s
o'clock this evening.
MANY CONVENTION TICKETS ON
SALE.
A striking feature OF this convention
! is the comparatively small attendance
OF spectators. The hall was not half
Allied at noon to-day. Yesterday there
were thousands Of vacant seats. while
swelterine thousands surSed around the
doors outside. Citizens OF Baltimore
complained that there had been bad
work Of some sort in the distribution
OF tickets. One thing Is certaln-there
are plenty Of tickets on sale; more
I tickets than the demand lust.fes.
Baltimore In not so JOYFUL about the
| con, entiJn to-day as II was when tao
Nat!onal Committee made the award siH
months ago. 1t was tn. expectation OF
the city that the Democratic Convention
would assay up like gold mine. BAL
timore has had experience with Elks
conventions and similar affairs and pop
ular imagination pictured a national
political convention would prove to he
the same sort OF blowout.
Accordingly Baltimore was turned into
a great lodging house. Lofts ofiae
buildings and private residences nave
been converted into sleeping places. rhe
smaller hotels damned their rooms and
corridors with cots. Elaborate arrange
ments were made to feed the multitude.
Then the convention came and most Of
the converted office buildings. lofts and
dwellings, are still equipped with their
beds and cots which have been un-
touched by q human form. A national
convention, Baltimore has found. does
not attract an immense hotel dwelling
throng OF visitors
NO Big RUSH OF MoNEY-sPENp
ING VISITORS.
There are e,eoo delegates and alternate,
and about 100 newspaper men here
forming the active body OF workers. To
say that there are more than 10000 othei
visitors actually down here by the con
vention TO remain through the session.
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