The Washington herald., 1920-07-01
Great Ouations Captured by McAdoo,
Palmer, Cox, Cummings and Smith
AsIONames Are Put Before Session
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Of geld" things that would give the
nomination to Crosby rather than
to Cummings.
Band Stnrts Ovation.
A thoroughly mean trick was
played on the delegates and the
audience when Crosby finished. At
first only a few persons in the
audience rose. but the band started
to play The Star ar-Spangled Ban
ner" and. of course. this brought
the whole audience to its feet II
gave the appearance of everyb body
in the hall cheering for Cummings.
Mrs. Force Parker. of California.
seconded the nomination OF Cum
nings in a speech which was the
best of the day. because it was the
briefest. Ira c. Rothberger. of
Denver. also seconded it,
Delaware when called. yielded to
Nebraska. which permitted ~ G.
Shallenberger to nominate SSantor
Gilbert NJ Hitchcock. He spoke of
Hitchcock as the man who stood
stoadfast like stone wall behind
the President in the long fight for
ratification Of the treaty of peace"
Florida yielded to the imperial
commonwealth of Pennsylvania
which meant that Palmer, boss OF
the Pennsylvania delegation, was
about to be named.
John II. Bigelow. of Hazleton
made the speech and It was a good
one. The demonstration that fol-
lowed the speech was the first real
demonstration of the session. The
Pennsylvania delegation seized the
banner and started with it around
the hall, cheering. and bowling
Justify while the band played the
tune to which Palmer's supporters
shouted: Palmer, Palmer. Penn
sylvania, the good old Keystone
State"
District I'm Line.
The Pennsylvanians were follow
ed by Georgia. Illinois, Florida,
Hawaii. Porto Rico. District of Co.
lumbia. Rhode Island. Maine and
Michigan. H-this represented all of
Palmer's strength in the conven-
ton. his vote will not amount to
much as all the States in line to-
sether made only 242 votes. The
demonstration for Palmer lasted 36
minutes. 1t was helped along by a
University of California and a fair
young woman from Pennsylvania,
who permitted herself to be carried
around and around the hall on the
shoulders of sturdy Palmer
booster.
Henry T. Rainey, Representative
in Congress from Illinois, and Mrs.
Florence c. Putnam, OF Arkansas
and Mrs. Georgia Ormsby, of Cali
fornia, seconded Palmer's nominal
tion.
Edwin T. Meredith, Secretary of
Agriculture. was placed in nomina =
tion by Albert Porter. OF Iowa.
Then came Kentucky, which yielded
to Ohio for the nomination of Gov.
James NJ. Cox.
The speech was made by Simon
W. johnson, of Cincinnati. 1t was
not great oratorical effort but 1t
got over" and when the name of
Cox was mentioned a wild demon
stration was started which equalled
in enthusiasm and volume that
which was given for Palmer. The
Cox people had their demonstration
better staged. They had their own
band and large body OF boosters
seated in a section of the gallery
and when the noise started they
were able to lead the demonstra-
ton quite effectively.
Parade for Cox Lively.
Ohio led the procession around
sippi, Kentucky, Arizona. Maryland,
Alaska, Arkansas and Florida.
Songs for Cox were sung loudly
1.
Drought into use to help the two
bands in carrying the airs.
The Cox demonstration lasted
nearly as long as the Palmer out
break. lacking only a few seconds
of being as prolonged.
! After secondtng speeches for Cox
had been made by Cora Wilson Stu
art, Of Kentucky. and Senator Pat
Harrison, of Mississippi, / with
Bourke Cochran, of New York, one
of the grand old oratorical war
horses of the party. took the plat
form to nominate Alfred E. Smith.
! Cochran was given a great ova-
tion when. he was recognized by
the audience. He said Smith rep
resented in his own life "the most
perfect platform that could be
adopted by any political party In
existence" He declared that the
New York governor embodied the
highest democracy the party has
! ever known.
A practical demonstration Of the
strength OF the anti-McAdoo align
ment Of States came with the NOM
ination OF Gov. Smith, OF New York.
Starting with New Jersey, the
standards Of New York. Iowa. uii-
nois, Ohio, Colorado, Missouri Della
ware. Maryland and dvermont swung
into line. Most of kthe States are
counted in the al tMcAdeo coll
! umn. Others are y In part or In
whole. and were to play the