Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-07-03

of the galleries and there were !
Delegates and galleries listened ats
tentive1y and interrupted the opening
references to President Wilson with
handclapping. At the point where the
platform declares for the League Of
Nations Senator Glass put the empha-
sis on the word "the" and the conven-
ton stood up and cheered for minute.
When the direct declaration for rat
ification Of the peace treaty was opened
in the reading there was another dem
onstration about half the delegates
again getting to their eet and cheer
ing the words of the platform.
When he finished the league plank
Senator Glass departed from his man.
uscript to say:
$50 much for the league of nations,
and my voice, | regret to say, is i'm
paired from fighting for that declara-
ton"
The remark was answered by ap-
plause from some of the delegates and
spectators.
Nearly every plank got a little
round of applause when it was read, but
the declarations in the platform were
not news to many of the delegates and
for the most part they became restless
before the reading was half completed.
The mouotony of the waiting apparently
was too tame for them and they show
ed it in many ways that they were anx-
ious for the floor fight to begin.
Senator Glass worked hard at the
reading and paused many times to wipe
the persRiration from his face;
Its q hot job" he remarked just
after he had read the first plank.
"It's hot platform shouted dele
gate and there was a ripple Of laughter
and cheering. So far the convention was
going smoothly enough
SUFFRAGE PLANK.
One of the biggest demonstrations was
given the suffrage plank, calling on the
| legislatures of three southern Demo-
cratic states to ratify the suffrage am
| endment. Led by the women delegates,
virtually every one on the convention
! floor got to their fed and cheered while
| the standards of Tennessee. Florida and
| North Carolina, the three states specific
ally named in the appeal for ratification,
were carried to the speakers stand and
held high up before the delegates.
| Soon nearly every other standard was
brought up and put into the cluster while
| the band played ::Oh, You Beautiful
| Dolr'.
There was a. disagreement over both
| the New Jersey and the louisiana stan,
| dards. but after a little showing and
| tussling both of them were carried out
Of place and put with the 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 after she
had carried it a little way man took it
and put it into place with the big as
semblage around the platform.
PARADE STARTS.
A parade in which practically all Of
the standards joined was organized when
the demonstration had been going or
for five minutes. The marchers trampeed
around the hall to the tune Of There i
Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To
night" and then the-organ dropped into
Smiles" and most of those on the floor
took up the words Of the song.
1t was a 13-minute demonstration
when it had concluded. but the suffrage
leaders declined to regard that as bad
omen.
When order had been restored Senator
Glass again took up the reading.
There was some more hurrahing a few
minutes later when Senator Glass al
the end of the long list of things the
party proposed to do for women, sale
in another aside to those near the plat
form:
"If we have omitted anything, we
mean that, too"
Mexican-irish Panks.
Chairman Glass read the Mexican
plank to some applause and when he
came to the Irish plank there was g
preliminary demonstration by the Irish
sympathizers among the delegates and
in the galleries.
brogue," said Chairman Glass to the ac-
compartment of roar of applause and
cheers. When the applause subsided
down he added:
That's the American brogue."
There was another wave of applause
to that
The plank merely expressing sympa-
thy for the aspirations of Ireland for
self government made no mention of
recognition of the Irish republic, and
was read and passed without any great
demonstration of approval or disap-
proval.
Shouts of "Okeh' and Good an
swered the reading of the plank oi
Armenia.
Then the chairman struck some OF
the routine planks and hurried over
them like a congressional reading clerk
Platform Concluded.
The reading Of the platform was
concluded at 12:47, two hours and seven
minutes after it began. At the conclud-