Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-11
DEMONSTRATION
PROVES USELESS
Continued From Page one.)

Delegates in various parts Of the hall
read newspapers, famed themselves or
| visited among themselves, taking little
or no part in any Of the proceedings.
| LODGE HOLDS
! GAVEL IN CHECK.
! Senator Lodge who had resumed charge
| of the gavel made no attempt to head
off the demonstration or to bring the
| convention to order during any Of the
| lulls until / Al, when, remarking to the
| press box that the delegates needed q
| little recess, he stepped forward and
| banged half heartedly with his gavel, re-
storing quiet.
The demonstration lasted twenty
eight minutes.
AS quiet was resumed, Representative
Thomas w. Schall Of Minnesota, a blind
congressman, was led forward by his
eight year-old con, and started the first
secondIng speech for Johnson's nomina-
ton.
/ Representative Schall described how
his little son when years old crept to
his knee and asked II he could see him.
Cant you see me, daddy 2" the boy
asked, and his father replied.
Not with my eyes, but with my
heart"
1t 10 the heart of the people that is
demanding Johnson schall declared, and
u Smut went up from tue BAlleT1eb.
SehaH referred to Senator Penrose's
sending from Philadelphia a message
that the convention should nominate the
man who could win.
THAT can mean no other man than
/ Hiram Johnson" cried Scball, and there
was a real cheer.
SchaH had little trouble from the min
ute he started speaking.
He had Il penetrating voice and an en-
ergetie personality not unlike the can
didate he was there to second.
His success in putting a bit of jazz
into the proceedings stirred the galleries
and caused frequent murmurs Of approval
and rounds Of applause.
SAYS HIRAM
/ FITS PLATFORM.
johnson" he said, SIS the only can
| didate who fits the republican platform"
/ SchIll, his sightless eyes open, ratified
/ his knuckles on the table as he spoke and
/ his enthusiasm seemed contagious.
! He reached his time limit and was re-
minded Of IT,
Cant l have moment1" pleaded
! Schall, turning toward Lodge.
1 Go on, go on!" yelled the galleries.
Lodge explained that II was necessary
enforce the hve-mlnute rule.
As the crowd started to hiss his ap
parent intention to adhere to the letter
OF the rule, Lodge gracefully asked I'M
anim0us consent TO the granting OF an
additional two minutes 10 the speaker.
chorus OF ayes" swept the hall.
And SchaI went on with bis speech.
As Schall spoke, an attendant stood be-
hind him. ready TO clutch his arm when
ever he stepped too near the edge OF the
narrow platform.
A he concluded Judge Richard Dough
erty Of Jersey City stepped forward TO
make the last seconding speech for john
son.
Dougherty made an elaborate apology
FOR coming from the state Of New Jer-
sey. which had also sent Wilson TO the
whitehouse.
There was a silence.
Dougherty declared the confidence Of
/ the republicans in the force and integrity
( Of Hiram johnson was not confined TO
that party, but declared that the same
confidence In his ability exists TO very
marked degree within the ranks Of the
democratic party.
Lodge dropped the gavel on the speaker
before he had concluded but relented and
gave him an extra moment to conclude
his sentence
GETS HIS HOME
STATE TANGLED.
d
turning to Lodge AMI saying; And so
| sir, second the nomination OF the Hon.
Hiram johnson Of New Jersey"
! The crowd got a real laugh from the
/ speakers twisted geography.
Philip O'Nein OF Michigan was then
1 allowed three minutes to make the third
/ Johnson nominating speech.
/ He was a clean-cut looking youngster
/ with a penetrating voice and a rapid hre
] 4 III "a - a
I brought forth lusty cheers
+ WOMAN ADDS
/ PRAISE TO JOHNSON.
/ Mrs. Katherine =. Edison OF California.
/ on behalf OF Johnson's own state, sec
I onded the senator's nomination.
! Glad In white, Mrs. Edison, in a voice
/ that shook a little with nervousness at
/ first, told how California had adopted
woman suffrage and passed progressive
/ Industrial legislation while johnson was
governor.
/ She asked that johnson be nominated
as man who understands the great hui
manitarIan problems and give the women
voters candidate they can enthusias-
! tically support.
Speaker Giuet then came to the plat
form to place In nomination the name OF
Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts,.
Gillet was well received by tht dele
! gates and they were ready to help him
along at every opportunity with police
/ applause.
He gave the convention "a straight
| talking TO" about Coolidge, explaining
why he should get he nomination en-
/ phaslzing the fact that he came suddenly
to the fore in one year through his ad-
ministration as governor Of Mnssachu-
/ sets.
/ .Wouldn't It be a restful change to
see such ma mas Coolidge In the white
house?" Gillet wanted to know.
The applause, however, became in
creaslngly polite, and finally barely
audible.
The nomination Of a candidate for presi-
dent on the republican ticket was dis
tinctly the problem Of approximately 800
uninstructed delegates who gathered
/ slowly in the heat of the convention hall
/ today.
With the platform out of the way and
| the most of the prelimnaries things of
the past, the outstanding feature Of the
| situation was the fact that no one had
| been able to gather to the support Of any
one candidate sufficient of the unin-
structed delegates to make the candidacy
likely of success.
In other words, the plans of the old
guard of the republican party to create
| In Chicago a situation where the senti-
ment for the candidate would have to be
crystallized after the convention opened
was still unshattered.
When the republican convention session
began the race was still open, not only
to those candidates who entered long ago,
but also to any who cared to back into
1t now and had any chance of corraling
! fba RI Of n n Of taA