Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-03
HOT Job READING
A HOT PLATFORM
HELD BY GLASS
Senator Repeats Democratic
Principles at Fifty-Six
Words a Minute.


/; SAN FRANCISCO. July 3.-Senatol
] Glass began reading the platform II
the convention yesterday at the rate
i of hftv-six words minute. The plat
! form exceeded 5000 words Without
/ interruptions for applause of espec.a l.
! ~ appreciated passages. the 1 AIDING
: continued an hour and fof.y m mute $
The advance estimate of time likely t
he required for tn. actual pr"sentat, or
of TIL. committees majority rSpor,
i Was some. hing more than Two hours
: Waen the airect deci.r& elon !oT ra III
fication OF the ueaiy M&s reached II
the reading there was another dem.
onstration, about half the delegate;
again getting TO then .eet and che RI ne
tie words o. the platform.
.N.:en he flashed the league plank
: hator Glass d. pared from mis- manu-
-,,''5t % lal:
80 ml..i for the league of nations
ard my .oive, | reg -'et TO say, is i'm
pdneu from fgat "s 20. dat DECLARE
ian.
The remark was answered by APP
iiiiuse from some of IN. delegates and
, spec GATORS.
Pianks Are Appiauded.
Nearly every plank got a little rise
OF applause when it was read. but the
1iecla .a,on of the platform We're not
tle most part they became restless be-
fore he reading VAS han completed. The
InonotOny of the proceeding apparently
was too tame for them and they showed
. in many ways that they were anxious
tor the floor fight to begin.
Senator Glass worked hard at the
rea-iig ana i,auseu many times to wipe
the ptrSpirat!on from his face.
Its no; job he remarked. just
after he had read the agriculture plank.
Its hot PLATFORM shouted dele
gate and there was ripple of laughter
ana cheering. So far the convention
was go.ns shloo h!y enough.
One OF the biggest demonstrations was
ri. en- the suffrage plank. calling on the
legislatures of three southern demo-
cratic states to ratify the suffrage
amendment. Led by the women dele
Ieniion floor got to their feet and
cheered. while the standards of Ten
nessee, Florida and North Carolina, the
three states specifically named in the
appeal for ratification. were carried to
the speakers stand and held high up be-
fore the delegates.
Standards Put in Cluster,
was brought up and put into the clus
ter, while the band played ''Oh. You
Beautiful DOLL"
There was a disagreement over both
the New Jersey and Louisiana stand
ards. but after little showing and
tusseiing both of them were carried
out of place and put with others up
in front.
Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby of New
York got the Louisiana standard
started forward over the protest of
some of the Louisiana delegates, but
a ter she had carried it a little way
a man took it and put it into place
with the big assemblage around the
platform.
parade in which practically all of
the standards joined was organized
when the demonstration had been 60
ing for FIVE minutes. The marchers
tramped around the hall to the tune
ofs"There'll Be Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight" and then the organ
dropped into Smiles" and most of
those on the floor took up the words
of the song.
1t was thirteen minute demon
stration when it had concluded, but
the suffrage. leaders determined to re-
gard il as a good omen.
When order had been restored Sem
ator Glass again took up the reading.
There was some more hurrahing few
minutes later when Senator Glass. at
the end of the long list of things the
party proposed to do for women, said
III dHoehet asioo " shoSo he0i e"o pioe-
form:
''If we have omitted anything we
mean that. too"
Chairman Glass read the Mexican
plank to some applause and when he
came to the Irish plank there was a pre-
Urinary demonstration by the Irish
sympathizers among the delegates and
in the galleries.
'IIl have to read it in my own
brogue,' said Chairman Glass to the
accompaniment of a roar of applause
and cheers.
When the applause did die down he
added:
my American brogue"
There was another wave of applause
to that.
The plank merely expressing sympathy,
for the aspirations of Ireland for self
government, made no mention Of recog-
milton Of the Irish republic and was
read and passed without any great dem
onstration OF approval or disapproval.
Shouts Of 'okeh" and good" answer
ed the reading Of the plank on Armenia
Then when Chairman Glass struck
some Of the routine planks he read them
over like a congressional reading clerk
disposing of Presidents message three
lines at a time. The audience caught
the humor Of the burst of speed and re-
turned with shouts Of go to it" and
more speed" as the chairman tumbled
the sentences over one another.
Two Hours to Read Platform.
The reading Of the platform was con-
cluded at 12:F o'clock, two hours and
seven minutes after it began. At the
concluding words the band started up
again and the delegates stood and cut
loose with a crash of applause. Then
there were some more cries for Bryan"
and clamoring for the fight over adop-
ton to begin.
Senator Glass moved that the plat
form be adopted as read and w. ].
Bryan bounced out of his chair on the
ority planks. He was greeted with a
minute of cheering. in which very few
delegates took prominent part. Open
ing his speech automatically with praise
for the platform. he declared it one of
the strongest ever adopted by a political
ence of opinion there had been in the
platform committee had been over the
means and not the end to be accom-
plished but it was one of the preroga-
tives of democrat to speak his own
views.
81 am glad to come to you and say
that l am ready to indorse almost all
that is written there" he continued, and
an uproar of approval and disapproval
interrupted him.
MAKE IL all, make IL dill yeueO sew
eral of the delegates.
Required to Read All Planks.
Under the rules Mr.. Bryan was
required to read all of his proposed
| planks before the discussion of any
| of them could begin. The bone-dry
| proposition he presented first and
! then followed the declarations he had
draft ed for publication of a govern