The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-11
FIRST DEMONSTRATION ENi.
DENCED WHEN WOOD IL.
NAMED S0LDlER-CANDI
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started shaking its way about the con
vention hall just as Senator Lodge
had come 10 the front Of the platform
and raped for order. He went back
and sat down as the parade gathered
momentum.
Skirts MingIe With Trousers
II looked strange y many of the ola
timers to see women for the first
time among the marchers
Changing their slogan, the circulat-
ing Wood people took up We Want
Wood" as their marching cry.
California supplied flags TO various
friendly delegations to be waved in
the interest Of Johnson. The several
delegates from Nebraska, favorable to
Wood, Immediately commandered them
when the procession started. The con-
vention managers saw prospects o.
a very long session when the demon
stration went on an don. They guessed
the supporters Of the other candidates
would try to outdo the Wood people
with the result that balloting might
be long delayed.
In the gallery behind the platform
big group of men and women started
yelling Wood, Wood. Wood" in an
endless rythm while some enthusiastic
unmasked noise-maker that kept
time to the yells and sounded like n
big buck-saw.
Pandemonium Reigns Supreme
When the noise had lasted 10 min.
utes Senator Lodge tried again to get
order but the demonstrators only re-
piled with renewed outburst of
noise. At that time the parading had
died down but the generals faithfuls
We're not willing to keep quiet or sit
down.
At the 20 minute milepost the dele
gates showed signs of quitting, but the
galleries kept up the din, cheer lead
ers standing in many of the sections
and whooping it up every time there
seemed any possibility that the demon
stration would end.
The Wood, Wood. Wood" repetition
made an easily recognized imitation Of
soldiers marching. 1t broke out IN
termittently and combined with the
tom-tom and tie buck saw con.rapt'on
almost drowned the blaring Of tin
horns and the cheering in the other
parts of the hall.
During the demonstration, Frank
II. Hitchcock, supreme chief of the
Wood forces, appeared on the platform
comforting with Frank Knox, his floor
leader.
When the noise makers had been at
it for half an hour they still were
going strong and the chairman was
making no further attempt to put on
the lid.
A few minutes later however, Sem
ator Lodge renewed his pounding with
the gavel, but all the good it did him
was the gymnastic benefit OF the ex-
ercise.
Galleries Hold Sway
Most of the delegates semed 10 be
willing with Senator Lodge that the
convention ought to go on with its
work. For the most part they sat
glum and never emitted a peep, but
the galleries replied to the chairmans
rattat with a renewed burst of noise
At 80 minutes the first hushing was
attempted by the delegates and CALLER
les themselves. The demonstration
quieted down somewhat as the noise
like escaping steam pervaded the hall,
but there were many renewed cheers.
The delegates cheered when Sem
ator Lodge, at tte end of 40 minutes,
said the delegates were all in their
seats and that the galleries would be
cleared unless they We're quieted down.
The announcement got the desired
result and at once Senator Lodge
presented Frank Knox of New Hamp-
shire.
The demonstration which followed
Woods nomination lasted 40 minutes.
When it died down, Frank Knox Of
New Hampshire, the Wood floor
manager, and Mrs. Douglas Robinson
of New York. made speeches secon l.
ing General Woods 2omination
Woman Seconds Wood
While the Wood demonstration was
running, plans for the Lowden coun-
terpart We're in progress. At the heads
Of the aisles were men with flags and
Lowden Autographs ready to be un-
furled as soon as the Illinois gov
ernor's name was offered. Mr.. Knox,
a former private of the Rough Riders,
told the convention that New Hamp-
shire. the generals native state, re-
garded him mot as son of the
state, but as a son Of the whole ma
ton" The speaker got a lot of cheers,
but not so much as did Mrs. Douglas
Robinson Of New York, still in mourn
ing for her brother, Col Roosevelt,
VIII sh took the platform to second
General Woods nomination. The first
woman ever to perform that function
in a national convention. She got a
roLsing ovation when she was intro
duced by Senator Lodge.
To stop the demonstration Mrs. Rob
inson waved her hand
She spoke with clear. carrying
voice with crisp enunciauon. appar
emily heard with ease to the depths
OF the hall.
The crowd cheered when she said
1--WE want not the man who take,
the psychological moment. We wan
the man who makes them
With emphatic gestures, Mrs Rob
inson said:
I'VE must have the kind of mar
for president who will look from
America out and not from Europe in
mo man can tell" said Mrs. Rob
inson, that had Theodore Roosevelt
or Leonard Wood been in the Whit,
House, the Germans would ha7
marched through Belgium to nothin!
more than the ringing words of
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