The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-01
Demonstrations as Unexpected
A. Overwhelming Unparalleled
In Memory Old Observers
MANY PARADES STARTED
Mc Adoo, Cox and Palmer Prov
'e cd to Be Big Three Before
Observation-Disclosures Silent

-.n r-ancisco, June 30-After near
.-,. ,.'''' -, randidates placed in nomination
ln5 ~. presidency, the Democratic
| llo.',.,roI convention after an elght
,'o,,,. session today recessed until II
4 ,'og, ,,,,rro,v John w. Davis. AmbaSsa-
Ar m Great Britain was the only man
~ he list whose name was not
jreacied today.
'.scf scenes as unexpected as they We're
,,,o1,, helming were unparalleled In the
como, of the oldest convention oD-
0,r,.,rs ,l,C, There was no feature lack
,nr in draw thousands from their
I .aI,, business into thear OF feel
linz and the convention surrendered
,uronditionally. -
( !a,oting for candidates will not start
31ntil after the platform is adopted;
! BEGINNING with the presentation oil
h Senator owens of oklahoma, the con-
\ Coniion Dassed through seas of oratofy
4 with thunderols demonstrators Tor
4 ,nypn. first nominated.
rho next nominated in their order
r,ore former ambassador Gerard, Sena-
Tor Hitchcock, Secretary Meredith,
! qororr Cummings, Attorney General
paine. Governor Cox, Governor smith
4 ~ New York, The Palmer and Cox
demonstrations exceeded the others III
roise fervor duration and expenditure
Of physical energy.
Rig demonstrations came for Palmer
Cox ard McAdoo Though it was a
.,ncnti1eous outburst for Smith. Ihe
NrAdoo demonstration lasted the bet
ter pagt. of an hour.
ch that
nothing to d. with candidates or poll
ricol issues as facticnll differences
an1 nLlitical jealousies We're forgotten
as The vast assembly gave way at IN
tervals to brotherly reunion.
The crowd liked the speech BY ":
Bourke Cochran, nominating Smith and
q demonstration followed that Old
timers s1id that never saw equalled
Every state STANDARD or the floor
4 ine1 N the parade which seemed a
personal tribute to Smith and Cochran
rather than a stampede for Smith also
A delA onstration Tor harmony and good
feeling.
Then DR.. Burris Jenkins OF. Miss ouri
took the platform and said he had in
tended to make a speech nominating
McAdoo but since McAdoo requested
his name not to be presen ted in q
sDeech he would not do so. He de-
clared McAdoo would be drafted and
he felt sure he would accept. RUmors
that he would not accept are false :
hoods perpetrated by enemies, Our
party therefore place in nomination
William G. McAdoo." he concluded in
the shortest speech on record. A dem
Onstration was started
The Georgia standard was the FIRST
up when the Palmer demonstration
started and was joined by Pennsyl-
vania, Florida, Rhode Island, Hawaii,
Maine Porto Rico, and finally by
Michigan. The band played Glory, Glory
Hallelujah while demonstrators sang
parade glory, glory Pennsylvania. 1t
lasted thirty seven minutes.
During the speech for Cox, Mrs.
George Bass took the chair, the first
woman ever to weld the gavel over
a national convention of big party.
Dixie" and Maryland. My Mary
iland" predominated during the Cox
1 demonstration, but finally supporters
sang song they called Ohio, Ohio TO
the tune Of the Bonnie Blue Flag.
Florida, Mississippi, Maryland, Arizona,
and kentucky joined Ohio in the Cox
parade. II was forty minutes before
quiet was restored.
Nobody Knows How Dry l AM was
sthe tune some delegation seemed TO
Ike particu arly during the Smith dem.
onstration
There was a good deal of scrimmag-
ing and fighting for possession of state
standards during the McAdoo demon
stration as supporters tried to get them
m line, others tried to keep them out.
Follce lnterfered when Bennett Clark,
son OF Champ Clark tried to keep the
missouri standard out of the parade.
IL was torn apart and McAdoo sup
9porters triumphantly bore of that part
WIN letters "ouri" on it.
New York, Georgia, Indiana, Connec-
, llcutt Pennsylvania, Colorado Ohio,
iowa Virginia and Maryland were a
nohg the standards which kept their
llaces despite the yells of McAdoo
hter demonstration for the bet
~, part of an hour for McAdoo the
T"lne I" OF Governor Edwards of New
%|'JhlSeF was placed in nomination by
,T,atl3S ,i"lil3 F. y. O'Brien. while the band
ub,aE jbE [a ga how Dry l AM, He renounced
me Nolstead Act
,, We" York, June 30-Efforts to in
h." William G. McAdoo tonight that
VS.. ,'o name was placed in nomination
his "' met with the announcement from
81 hS5 hSg5"rearY that McAdoo had gone