Evening journal., 1916-06-17
noise OF DELEGATES
browns OUT PARROT
LomaSney Wants Democrats
TO Help Free the
Irish
WOMEN HISS AT
SUFFRAGE NOES"

ST. LOUIS. June 1.-THE Demo-
cratic party kept faith with the
squirrels. Its final session was
tumultuous one, in which frenzied
members Of various faiths sought
the floor in an effort TO preach their
doctrines
Martin Lomasney. OF Boston. Gre
ated the widest scene when he tried
10 tell the delegates about the
wrongs Of Ireland Mr.. Lomasney is
we'll known in Boston, which has
named a popular mixed drink after
him, II Is composed of whiskey,
lemon juice, sloe gin and orange
peel
However. Mr.. Lomasney did not
say anything about this. and not very
much concerning Ireland. either. He
rose from the Massachusetts, delega-
/ ton wild-eyed, just after the reading
of the platform. In his hand he held
a paper and he waved il high above
his head. The delegates at first tried
to howl him down. At last curiosity
conquered. They could not resist the
desire to learn his particular phoba.
Wants Democrats 10 Aid Irish.
Ollie James. the permanent chair
man. eyed the man in the aisle coldly
and under his penetrating gaze Lo-
masney grew incoherent He insisted
that he wanted to say something. but
even after he had received the priv
ilege OF the floor he continued to
shout that he must be heard, and only
under the widest urging would he
go on and reveal what IL was which
he wanted to say.
The Lomasney resolution was aim
ed to commit the Democratic part!
to work for the freedom of Ireland i'm
mediately after the war The resu
luton was at once referred to thl
o. committee on resolutions, and whei
. the Democrats left town they forgo
, TO take the plank with them.
= Just as the convention adiournet
Lomasney again sought the floor q
talk about Ireland. but in the nois
70 of the departure of a thousand del,
gates he could not be heard Eve
~ Robert Emmett Burke. of Illinois. CAV
!; him no encouragement.
Mr. Lomasney was not the onl
=, wid-eyed individual in the closin
session. Suffrage set the delegate
4 by the ears. Delegates and spect
tors joined in the discussion. and Sc
ator Pitman, OF Nevada, was all b,
= howled down with Back TO Reno
by Maryland and Texas while he wi
defending the suffrage plank
Bill Stone gave a convincing der
onstration of the necessity Of sle'
for statesmen in his address in fav
AZ of the platform. and Governor Ferg
r son of Texas talked earnestly abo
a. the sediment of the country"
. Women Hiss Suffrage "NOes."
II was not until the voting bega
nj though. that the fun reached its fas
&, est and most furious measure III
It. women who had formed "the Sile
,s Lane" on the first day Of the conve
tion were not so silent today. The
10 we're Kisses whenever an anti-su
pc frage vote was announced. Moreove
IL almost every chairman insisted {
is tacldng a little speech to the al
'e nouncement of the result OF the vo
y of his State Possibly the most el
d. quent was the gentleman from Was
ington, D. c., who said there is q
old proverb which says be kind
IN women. for God counts their tear
r [ washington NOlth SIX hbths
w. little earlier a man in the A
- kansas delegation said that his Sta
,A was not bound by the unit rule. a
~, that he wanted 10 vote against t
,r suffrage plank He did not succeed
he Most of the votes we're delivered
re more or less elocutionary mann
ms like that Of the gentleman from MOI
a Carolina who announced in a sad a
re sotto voice. North Carolina yoi
so eleven yes" and then, in hap
ms crescendo, "and thirteen no."
ch II took a minute and a half
le adopt the platform following the
- feat of the minority report on 81
rage There was a moment Of siler
as Senator James looked about
somebody to move an adjournment
Ic 81 ask unanimous consent to q
j TO the convention about lrelan
shouted Martin Lomasney. And u
the Democratic convention broke
le' records. It had nominated a vi
ION president in three minutes, but It
60 iourned in twenty-five seconds
ey. over a heavy track
on