Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-29
GREAT OVATION
FOR PRESIDENT Is
LED By VIRGINIA


their nose glasses. No one Was hurt.
the protesting delegates changed
their minds and Roosevelt triumphant
Is marched or with the New York
standard TO Join the Wilson demon
stration. and the New York standard
was held aloft alongside that OF Vir-
ginia in the inspiring parade.
At 1855 o'clock the demonstration
began dying away and tha Vice.
chairman gave orders to the ser
Seants-at-arrn TO clear the a!slcs.
Quic, was finally achieved FOR the
reading o! the convention call. and
for the opening prayer by Monsisnor
+. l.. Lynn. vicargcneral OF the
Diocese of California
The delegates appeared to get n
good deal OF fun out OF the taking
of the official convention photograph.
The ilashlight accompanying the
snap OF the camera. was probably
one OF the largest ever used. tower
Of flame shooting high up toward
the roof decoration and lighting the
vast sea OF faces as the sun Nigh:
have done
a patriotic thrill was furnished
the delegates when five United States
central man carrying standard
bearing siikcn flag. The men i'm
mediately next him presented arms
and those at the outside raised
buglcs and blarcd forth the call TO
tho colors.
Audience Responds ms One.
If there was Il man or woman In
tho vast throng who did not respond
to that call, II was not noticed AS
one. the audience, delegates. alter
mates and spectators alike. sprang
to their feet cheering wildly. and
then. as they caught the strains of
the national anthem pcaling forth
from the great organ. joining in
singing. the hall rocked with the
rhythmic sound.
One hundred girls from the Cniver-
sity OF California and Leland Stan
ford University. acting as ushers, the
innovation at national conventions,
lent an attractive touch of color TO
the political gathering. as did the
many women seated among the al
tcrnates and spectators. y large
corps OF young men students from
the same universities also acted as
ushers.
But for the perfect acoustics of IN,
convention auditorium, which per-
United speakers voice to pcnc-
trate TO the farthest reaches of the
buildings there surely would have
gone up a Ions. loud wall from the
delegates from Arizona. now Mexico.
Georgia. Washington, Maryland. Ida
no, New Hampshire, North Dakota.
South Dakota and Delaware, for their
assigned places along the convention
halls rear rows seemed to place
them about as far from the speakers
platform as If they were In another
State. However, when Homer &
Cummings, chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, started
dcliverinGfthe keynote speech of tho
convention his voice carried TO every
part of tho building.
Cheer wdnen's Appointments.
Women throughout the building
erected with cheers the announce.
,ment that California and Illinois
tant secretaries. and the appointment
OF woman rs one of the escort COM !
mlttee Of three to conduct Homer |
cummings to the chair after the tenn ]
permanent o''"
II was a full hour later when tho |
ugIesHtes nnally settled down to hca- |
plce-ChairmHn Kremcr's opening |
speech, presenting National Chairman |
aihot ir .. cummings as temporary |
tt irnam or the convention.
=, vi sesa Kremcr then began
MS ADDRESS; Cheers and yells broke |
H. N frequently as the speaker praised
Deihhocratlc performances for the last /
eight years and belabored The Repub- |
Iican party as party of destruction |
ana reaction The names OF jefferson !
and jackson also stirred uD demon
STATIONS and when the league of ma
lions covenant was mentioned n dem |
onstration broke which was second
the President. et'eh u
When Mr.. Kremer declared the
.o oria was waiting to hear the de-
cision OF the American electorate nm
the league issue, the convention rosn
ana INDUCED mnni In prolonged cheering.
20 escort the chairman to the char:
senator James D.{Phelan, OF Call [