El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-11
.BEDLAN REIGNS
IN CONVENTION


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cause he was my brothers friend.
but because he IS. his type OF man
The crowd cheered when she said;
I'VE want not the man who takes
the psychological moment We want
the man who makes them
With emphatic gestures, Mrs Rob
I'VE must have the kind Of a man
for president who Will look from
America out and not from Europe in"
Takes Fling ut Wilson.
mo man can tell she said. that
had Theodore Roosevelt or Leonard
wood been in the white house. the
Germans would have marched
through Belgium 10 nothing more
than the ringing words OF protest
We never want again a man who
waits between right and neutrality
She was loudly cheered at the end
Of her speech
Senator Lodge soon got a hearing.
however, and the roll OF states was
continued. Arkansas yielded TO Hi
nOis and representative William A
ROdenberg, Of that state, was pre-
scented to nominate governor Low
den
A big man with a big voice. repre-
sentative Rodenberg spoke without
manuscript, beginning deliberately
and then warning up the LoWoen
supporters TO repeated cheering.
LOwden Noise BeEinH-
Representative Rodenberg got his
greatest applause when he came 10
his encomium OF governor LoWden
as a business man and an admins
traitor Of ability in economic and
financial lines.
As soon as the speech was over the
Lowden demonstrators began, MS
delegates among his supporters
carrying large pictures Of the candi-
date tackled TO wooden standards. A
procession got under way almost I'M
mediately, headed by Iowa delegates
bearing aloft six-foot Autograph
Of the governor
A large banner urging a business
man for president" was carried in the
Lowden procession
Six States Join LOwden Parade
The Illinois, Iowa. Oklahoma, Con-
necticut, Arkansas and Kentucky
delegations showed up among the
LoWden pictures in the parade. Again
the lights went on for the movie
men and it aroused another wave Of
noise
Some Of the chairs were overturned
as the parade became more riOtOus
and there was much smashing Of
straw hats as the enthusiasts pushed
their way through the crowded con-
vention floor.
Fifteen minutes after the demon
stration began. 1t apparently was
gaining Roadway and senator Lodge
was making no effort TO stop it
TSs Lowden supporters apparently
were as well organized for demon
stration as the Wood forces and they
carried on an uproar on the floor
and in the galleries
Miss Dorothy Disney, a daughter Of
a Muskogee, okla. delegate was car
ried about the hall on the shoulders
Of two OF the Oklahoma delegates
ROars From Galleries.
Ia I'D
peated roars from the galleries Fol-
lowing the example OF the women
in the parade, Albert s Smith, a gray
whiskered delegate from Springfield.
Illinois, mounted to the shoulders OF
two delegates and was carried about
the t0rtuous course Of the procession
Round and round through the dele
gates section went the paraders,
walking on each others and every
body else's corns and keeping up
their cheering without a luIL
Governor Morrow. Of Kentucky.
climbed on the speakers platform
and motioned TO the Lowden sup
porters in the galleries to nutter the
big American flags draping from the
Apparently there were 200 dele
gates and maybe more taking part
in the rumpus, which went on past
25 minutes without sign Of abate-
menL
At a half hour, the parading had
about broken up, but the noise was
still vociferous- The LowdCl dele
gates declined TO resume their seats
even though they were not moving
about the hall. and they whistled
through their fingers after they had
worn out their vocal chords with
yelling
someone turned on the lights once
more and presently the procession
70 snnH
together on its shouting and falling
den"
1t was taken up By the galleries,
where many were standing.
80 Minutesi Trying TO stop II.
a group Of Oklahoma delegates
varied the harmony by Introducing
a refrain, Lowden, Lowdens Frank
o. LoWden."
When it had gone 40 minutes. just
as long as the Wood demonstration.
tns urst attempt was made 70 stop
the noise.
Senator Lodge had given the chair
to former senator Beveridge, Of In
diana and the latter landed his gavel
on the chdlrmans table 50 that II
shook the platform But the LoWden
forces thought they ought TO make
the demonstration a little longer and
senator Beveridge sent for some OF
the leaders OF the LOWden delega-
tons and asked them 10 use their
influence TO quiet the Convention
floor, SO as TO speed up
Lasts A. Minutes.
The noise abated q little, and most
o. the delegates took their seats, but
the galleries kept il up, while senator
BeYeridge industriOusly punished the
gaveL At ~ minutes the demonstra-
Jion fully was stilled, and Charles Z.
Pickett, Of Waterloo, Iowa. seconded
governor LoWden's nomination
The Illinois candidate. Mr.. Pickett
said, represented no particular sec
ton and made his campaign on no
narrow issue, but on a platform as
broad as the nation itself. There was
a cheer when Mr.. Pickett said the
nation needed a practical man, and
that Gov Lowden would i'll that bill
Gov. Lowden, Mr.. Pickett declared,
was not running on one principle but
on the fundamental foundation OF the
Republican party. Domestic issues, he
said, will be predominant Gov Low
den also. he said represented no par
ticular class.
Mr.. Pickett had to be told that his
time was up.
Another woman was called TO the
rostrum to second a candidate. Mrs
Fletcher Dobbins. Of Chicago, made