Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-06-11

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then warming up the Lowden support
ers TO repeated cheering.
Representative Rosenberg got his
| greatest applause when he came to his
eneonium of Governor LOwden as a
business man and an administrator ud
ability in economic and financial lines.
As soon as the speech was over the
Lowden demonstration began. his dele
gates among his supporters carrying
large pictures of the candidate tackled
to wooden standards. A procession
got under way almost Immediately.
headed by Iowa delegates bearing aloft
a six foot lithograph of the governor.
\ long banner urging "a business
man for president" was carried in the
Lowden procession.
Straw Hats Smashed.
The Illinois. Iowa. Oklahoma, Con-
neeticut. Arkansas and Kentucky dele
cations showed up among the Lowden
pictures in the parade. Again the
lights went on for the movie men and
its aroused another wave of noise.
Some of the delegates chairs were
overturned as the parade became more
riotous and there was much smashing
of straw hats as the enthusiasts pusn-
d their way through the crowded con-
ventiOn floor
Fifteen minutes after the demon
stration began it apparently was gain
ing headway. and Senator Lodge was
making no effort to stop it.
In the galleries there was lot of !
noise but at first not the cO-ordinated
cheering which had marked the Wood
demonstration.
Cheer Leaders Busy.
Presently, however, some Lowden
cheer leaders got busy and loosed re-
peated roars from the galleries. Fol-
lowing the example of the women in
the parade, Albert S. Smith, grey
whiskered delegate from Springfield,
Ill.,, mounted to the shoulders of two
delegates and was carried about the
tortuous course of the procession.
Round and round through the dele
gates section went the paraders, walk
ing on each others and everybody
else's corns and keeping up their
cheering without lull. Governor Nor
row of Kentucky climbed on the spea-
ker's platform and motioned to the
Lowden supporters in the galleries to
flutter the big American flags draping!
from the rail.
When it had gone forty minutes
Just as long as the Wood demonstra-
tion the first attempt was made to
stop the noise, Senator Lodge had
given the chair to Former Senator
Beveridge of Indiana and the latter
landed his gavel on the chairmans
table so that it shook the platform.
But the Lowden forces thought they
ought to make the demonstration a
little longer and Senator Beveridge
sent for some of the leaders OF ,he
Lowden delegations and asked them
to use their influence to quiet the
floor so as to speed up.
The noise abated little and most ,
of the delegates took their seats but ,
the galleries kept it up, while Senator
Beveridge industriousy punished he ,
gavel. At forty two minutes the dem ,
onstration finally was stilled and l.,
Charles r.. Pickett of Waterloo, Iowa, ,
seconded Governor Lowden's nomi- ,
nation.
Business Ability Lauded
The Illinois candidate, Mr.. Pickett
said, represented no particular sec .
tion and made his campaign on no
narrow issue, but on a platform as
broad as the nation itself; like Repre-
sentative Rodenberg the speaker had
a full, ringing voice and he kept the Z
crowd well in hand. There was
rousing cheer from the convention Il
floor when Mr.. Pickett said the ma Z;
ton needs practical man, and that
Governor Lowden would fill that bill.
Governor Lowden, Mr.. Pickett de- II
clared was not running on one prin-
cple but on the fundamental founda-
ito of the republican party.
Domestic issues he said, will be
predominant. Governor Lowden also.
he said, represents no particular class
Mr.. Pickett had to be told that his
time was up.
I'm Iowa" he said "wc know Gov
ernor Lowden; we believe in him, .
trust him and we join with Illino,s