Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-06-11

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Y"culls."
Delegates and gallery "razzed'
Gross as he started to read, bur
after energetic use Of the gavel BY
Chairman Lodge quiet was restored
On LaFollette Order.
The minority plank had to do
among other things. with the league.
the treaty, resumption of peace and
kindred things. 1t sounded like
fragment from a LaFollette speech.
One idea it advocated was gradual
acquisition and government owner.
ship of the stock yards. Storms oi
noes" followed this. The hall was
i'll an uproar.
Gross asked for a roll call on his
material, but it required the second.
ing of two other states to put this
over. No other states responded and
the minority substitute was wiped
out by viva voce vote that showed
all lungs in excellent working order
Delegate Oscar De Priest, from
the First Illinois district, who as
alderman was one of Mayor Thomp.
sons floor leaders in the city council.
got up with plank in his hands. I,
had to do with rigid enforcement oi
the 18th amendment in southern
states.
Up jumped Senator Sherman, who
an hour before had supplanted
Mayor Thompson as new national
committeeman
Under the rules" he said, "this
should be referred to the resolutions
committee"
Lodge Sustains Point.
"The point is sustained" held
Chairman Lodge, which caused an
other gale of laughter, inasmuch as
the resolutions committee is
through with its duties.
The platform was then adopted
and the convention adjourned until
9:3O tomorrow morning.
AS usual on the third day the
convention woke up. 1t tested out
its lungs, shed its coats and thawed
into noise and joviality.
Great crowds turned out as the
big day approached. The Coli
scum became an oven. When the
afternoon session opened at 4:3O
O'Clock the great hall was almost
a Turkish bathhouse. Deliquescing
delegates proceeded to make them
selves comfortable. So did the spec
tators. Westward the tides of
democracy fow-the shedding of
coats demonstrated the action.
NJ Metropolitan New York, near the
front, kept on its jackets and vests
and mopped its foreheads, martyr
to convention. Across the aisle
Kansas chucked its coats. In front
Colorado was 50 per cent coatless:
to the rear, Illinois was the same,
New York was an island of perfect
form in a sea of shirt-sleeve COM
fort.
Senator Lodge cracked down the
gave. and ordered the roll of states
tor the names of the next national
committee. Many an old-timer fell
out by the way as the call pro-
gressed.,
King Drops Out.
John T. King dropped out as COM
nltteeman from Connecticut
The delegates and the galleries
made the walking ring when Senator
Sherman was announced as commit
,eeman from Illinois, supplanting
Mayor Thompson.
Murray Crane. colonel of the Old
Guard who tied up the platform
after it thought its orig
nal compromise on the LEAGUE Of
lations was ready for the O. k. of
'reservationists" and "irreconcil-
lbles" of all shades, walked the
blank as committeeman from Mas
'achusetts. John w. Weeks takes
MS place. He is listed as nearly as
Did Guardy as Crane himself. r
Charles D. Hilles, who was secre-
ary to President Taft, and national
hartman, succeeds Herbert Parsons
s committeeman from New York.
lilies. perfect glass of fashion and
model of form. sits at the head Of
he New York crowd. Despite the
'reat heat he looks as cool as a
efrigerator pipe in its swaddlings.
When Senator Penrose's name was
cached on the roll, there was much
heering.
The noise breaks out again when
Jtah announced Ernest Bamberger
S the new committeeman.
Senator Smoot is out. 1t is an
,ther effect of the uprising" against
he Smoot machine. which enabled