Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-11
.LOWDEN MEN
OUTD0 WOOD
FOLLOWERS
Demonstration in Behalf
of Illinois Candidate
Lasts Long.
CONTINUES AZ MIN
!. UTES UNABATED
Efforts Of Presiding Officers to Stop
Parade and Cheers and Noise I'm
availins-Conventio Cheers Low.
don as Business Man and Candidate
of All interests-Pickett, Of Iowa,
Seconds illinois Candidate.

Seconds illinois Candidate.
BY Associated Press.
Coliseum, Chicago, June 1.-THE
demonstration following Wood s
nopination lasted forty minutes. The
seconding speeches then were made.
Senator Lodge soon got the hear
ing again and the roll of the states
was continued. Arkansas yielded to
Illinois for the nomination of Cover
nor Lowden.
Representative Rodenburg. Of Hill
nois, took the platform to deliver the
address.
Demonstration Begins.
Representative Rodenburg receiv-
ed his greatest applause when he
came to-his enconium of Governor
LoWden as a business man and an
administrator OF ability in economic
and financial Hines. !, $40
8 Az soon as the speech was over
the Lowden demonstration began,
his delegates among his supporters.
carrying large pictures OF the candi-
date. tackled to wooden standards. A
procession got under way almost inn
mediately, headed by Iowa delegates
bearing aloft six foot Autograph OF
the governor.
A long banner urging "a business
f0, n
the LOwden procession.
Some OF the delegates chairs were
overturned as the parade became
more riotous. and there was much
smashing Of straw hats as the en-
thusiastists pushed their way thru
the crowded convention floor.
Demonstration Gains Headway. )
Fifteen minstes after the demon
stration began 1t apparently was
gaining headway and Senator Lodge
was making no effort to stop it. In
the galleries there was lot of noise,
but at first not the CO. ordinated
cheering which had marked the
Lowden cheer leaders got busy and
let loose repeated roars from the
gallery. Following the example Of
the women In the parade, Alfred 8.
Smith, grey whiskered delegate
from Springfield, ILL.,, mounted to the
shoulders Of two delegates and was
carried about the tortuaus course OF
the procession. Round and round
thru the delegate section went the
paraders, walking on each \ Others
and every body else's corns, ana
keeping up their cheering without
q 1ull.
Governor Morrow, of Kentucky,
climbed on the speakers platform
and motioned to the Lowden sup
poTters in the gallaries to hutter the
American flags draping from the rail.
Apparently there were upwards Of
200 delegates and may be more TAX
ing part in the rumpus, which went
past the twenty-five minute mark
without sign of abatement.
At half hour the parading had
about broken up, but the noise was
still vosiferous. The Lowden deley
gates declined to resume their seats
even tho they were not moving about
the hall, and they whistled thru their
fingers after they had worn out their
vocal cords with yelling.
Parade Resumed.
Some one turned on the lights once
more and presently the procession
began to reorganize, this time
getting together on its shouting and
falling into a singsong eve Want
Lowden!"
ut was taken, up by the galleries,
were<many were standing. A group
Of Oklahoma delegates varied the
harmony by introducing the refrain.
''Lowden, Lowden, Frank O. Low
den!"
When it had gone forty minutes,
just as long as the Wood demon
stration, the first attempt was made
to stop the noise. Senator Lodge had
given the chair to former Senator
Beveridge, of Indiana, and the latter
land his gavel on the chairman's
table so that 1t shook the platform.
But the Lowden! forces thought they
ought to make the demonstration a
little longer, and Senator Beveridge
sent for the leaders Of the Lowden
delegation and asked them to use
their influence to quiet the conven-
ton floor so as to speed up.
Iowa Seconds Nomination.
The noise abated a little. and most
OF the delegates took their seats, but