The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-30
SESSION OF
DEMONSTRATIONS
Today's Democratic Conven-
tion Promises to be Noisy
One With Lots Of
Pep.
ROoTERs FOR FAvoRITEs
Rur,ors BUZZ Around Floor as Thick
as Bumbe Bees Around
Sweet Clover
Patch.
HOOTERS FOR FAVORITEs
(By Hugh Baillie, United Press Staff
CORRESPONDENT

correspondent
AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO,
June 30.-It looks like session OF
demonstrations, counter demonstra-
tions and super demonstrations.
| Delegates entering the Auditorium
today to hear the candidates placed
| in nomination before the democratic
national convention were greeted with
tyells for Governor Cox from an Ohio
roofing section established in one of
the side galleries. It was the first
time the Ohioans had cut loose under
the Auditorium roof.
The Cox aggregation had it's own
band with it, two banners, plenty of
small American flags and was all
primed to stampede the convention
for the Ohio governor if possible
when his name is placed in nomina-
ton.
The Palmer forces had slirmishers
on the ground, planting Palmer PEN
Inants in strategic positions.
At IL :05 M, five minutes after the
hour set for the opening Of the ses-
sion there we're 40 indications tsist
the convention would get away to a
quick start. Probably half of the
delegates were in their places and
the galleries were comfortably filled.
While the visitors were preparing
ito enjoy the spectacle of the demon
istrations, more serious work was
going on behind closed doors, down
town at the Palace hotel The reso-
ilutions committee which met briefly
at the Auditorium this morning had
iadjourned, but the sub committee OF
nine which has been entrusted with
ithe actual drafting Of the platform
had retired to the seclusion of its
quarters in the hotel to resume its
IlaborS. \-
Rumors buzzed around the floor
thick as humble bees around a clover
patch. The name of VIM. G. McAdoo
figured in most of them. One was
that combination had been effected
against McAdop which would elimi-
mate him and that there was pro-
ject afoot to bring forward the name
of Woodrow Wilson after this had
been accomplished. ........
There was still some doubt as to
whether McAdoo would be formally
placed in nomination. Although DR..
Burris Jenkins at last accounts was
determined to go ahead and make
the speech, Mrs. Antoinette Funk Of
be no nominating address.
There was an atmosphere of ex-
pectancy as the hour for starting
passed and as usual became history
without any sign of the session get
ting under way. Delegates clustered
in groups, comforting. The gallery
spectators peered down, in silence
for the most part, like sight seers
+1,o ar
pit observing the wild beasts. Ser
seants-at-arms were making strenu-
GUS efforts to clear the aisles.
Chairman Joseph T. Robinson ap-
peared on the platform at 11:14
o'clock. There was a scattering OF
hand clapping as he was recognized.
Robinson seized his gavel and
pounded the table shouting to the
delegates to take their seats.
The delegates paid little attention
to Robinson when he usurped the
privileges of the sergeant-at-arms and
tried to clear the floor.
Robinson delayed calling the ses-
sion to order while officials ran about
the aisles trying to silence the dele
gates. They had little success, how
ever. as the band and the mammoth
There" and the crowd came along
with cheers and shouts, cane waving
and hat throwing.
While the band and the organ
blared away, the Cox band in bal
cony started rival musical demon
stration The thunder of the tubas,
piccolo shrieks and trombone Jazz
filed the air with bedlam of sound.
When the official band gave up in
favor of the Coxites, the Ohio band
swung into my Old Kentucky
Home" the other band and the organ
joined in the refrain while delegates
and visitors sang the words. the music
rolling and reverberating through the
hall in a manner that shook the
decorations.
To Order at 11:2e
AUDITORIUM SAN FRANCISCO,
June 30.-A determined effort to STAN
pede the democratic convention for
Governor Cox for Ohio was in full