Arizona republican., 1920-07-01

of 25 years al go. It was too much for the crowd. Throughout the hall gray haired men and women began to sing, lured by the strains that harked them back to days of youth. A Jerseyite seized his state standard and marched across to the New York section. Up came the New York standard and again the march was on.
 Over and over the old tune was played and sung. Standard after standard joined the march. The thing was contagious. Other old favorites sion. Rosie O'Grady." "The Bowery, After the Ball." and a dozen others old timers. The tide of humanity tanning the aisles was swaying and stepping in rythm to the music Everyone was singing. Long forgotten words came back to mind. Palmer banners. Cox hat bands. and tokens of other candidates were mingliug in the throng without regard to the affllla- tion. It seemed as though the whole convention had gone singing mad Men and women, old and young, they surged along laughing and singing the old songs until every state standard had joined in the grotesque line that bobbed and nodded like lot of ma rionettes above the showing, singing | laughing crowd on the floor.
 McAdoo's Name Causes Second
 Outburst
 Sheer exhaustion apparently finally | brought the wholly spontaneous scene to a close. Gradually the cheering sub- sided and the convention went back tc nomination speeches. It did not know itself, however, for the delegates hae hardly settled into their seats when | Dr. Burris Jenkins of Kansas City, in one of the shortest convention speeches on record and with the ringing denun- | T Adoo would not accept a nomination placed the former secretarys name be- fore the convention.
 "I had intended to make an address presenting the name of a candidate to | this convention" said Jenkins, "but or l account of the insistent and persistent | requests from him that his name should not be presented in speech have decided not to do so, but l an sure from the spirit manifested in my | own delegation and in this convention that we shall draft him for the serv- ! ice of the nation.
 "We know that if so drafted he will accept the nomination, and any rumors l of telegrams supposed to have been re ceived by me or anybody else now ol i in the future denying that he would 1 accept the nomination are falsehood: perpetrated by the enemies of oul party I place in nomination William c. McAdoo."
 For a fourth time pandemoniun broke loose. Cheers and shouts swep
 up from the hall and down from th' | galleries Delegates were on their fec
 again, surging out for another parade as though the day had just begun. u
 was the western men and women wh' led The Washington state standard
 came bobbing to the front with Della
 ware in close pursuit Montana, Ore gon, Idaho and Texas joined in. Nortl and South Dakota, Kansas and Cali. fornia and other states kept pace. Her
 and there over the hall other standard rocked and swayed as struggles tool place to get them in motion agains opposition. A raiding party of McAdo' ! adherents charged the speakers stant
 and carried it by storm. The tumul
 grew until the hall fairly bulged witt | the sound. For many minutes there wa. no stopping it. Convention officials le ! the demonstration take it's course.
 Missouri Banner Destroyed
 Tramping along in time to the pound
 ing of the drums of the band, all tha ] could be heard above the general din all that could be heard was "Mac'll do