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ing down the aisle with 1t. In a
moment a fight started There were
others In the New York delegation
who didn't want the New York ban
ner put into the Wilson demon
stration. They seized Lunn and
the delegation standard, and wres-
tied him for control OF II. Lunn
received reenforcements from Will
son delegates from other States,
with the result that the New York
banner was carried of In triumph,
with Lunn and several others grasp
ing II firmly against the efforts of
New Workers to preserve neutrality
while the Wilson demonstration
was on.
Franklin d. Roosevelt, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, helped Lunn.
He lost his coat in the scuffle. Chas.
F. Murphy, boss of the delegation,
issued orders to allow the New York
banner to go in the procession
Five Other States sulIen.
New York was not the only State
which declined to give enthusiastic
support to the Wilson demonstra-
tion. The Connecticut. Delaware,
Rhode Island and Minnesota dele
cations were similarly silent.
After a fervent prayer by Mon
signor Ryan, of the San Francisco
archdiocese. Chairman Kremer call
ed the convention formally to order
with a brief speech. in which he
extolied the record of the Democratic
party and criticised the Republican
ticket chosen at Chicago. The only
cheer he got was when he said that
the world Is waiting to hear the
decision of the American electro
ate on the covenant of the league
of nations.
Women delegates caught up the
mention of the league and started
demonstration which lasted a few
seconds.
Then came the keynote" speech
of Chairman Cummings, which was
frequently interrupted with ap-
plause. especially when the name of
Wilson was mentioned.
Chairman Cummings speech was
we'll done and he got a big hand
every time he mentioned the Presi-
dents name or called attention to
the way in which the Senate Re-
publicans had defeated his league
of nations scheme. He was cheered
"Hen ne spOhc VI lhc
question, only to be interrupted a
few moments later by a woman
who arose in the audience and de-
manded to know what is the
league doing for Ireland?" There
were cries of Put her out" from
many of the delegates, but the dis
turbance was stopped by several
sergeants-at-arms.
Appointment of the committees to
go over the credentials, the rules,
and order of business and the plat
form ended the work of the first
day. Adjournment until tomorrow
was taken out of respect to Ollie
James, late Senator from Kentucky,
who presided over the Baltimore
convention which gave Wilson his
first nomination.
BugIers Give Thrill.
A patriotic thrill was furnished
the delegates when five United
States Marines mounted the ros-
trum, the central man carrying a
standard bearing a silken flag.
They raised bugles and blared
forth the call to the colors.
IL there was a man or woman In
the vast throng who did not re-
noticed. AS one the audience, dele
gates. alternates and spectators
sprang to their feet cheering wildly
and then, as they caught the strains
of the national anthem pealing
forth from the great organ, Joined
in singing.
The hall rocked with the rhyth-
mic sound.
One hundred girls from the Uni
versity of California and Leland
Stanford University, acting as
ushers. an innovation at national
conventions, lent an attractive
touch to the political gathering, as
did the many women seated among
the alternates and spectators. A
large corps of young men students
from the same universities also
acted as ushers.
But for the perfect acoustics of
the convention auditorium. which
permitted a speakers voice to pene-
trate to the farthest reaches of the
building, there surely would have
gone up a long, loud wall from the
delegations from Arizona, New
Mexico, Georgia, Washington, Mary
land. Idaho, New Hampshire, North
Dakota, South Dakota and Della
ware, for their assigned places along