Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-07-01
McADOO'S NAME
IS BROUGHT OUT
REGARDLESS OF REQUEST THAT
HIS NAME BE NOT USED HE is
PLACED IN NOMINATION

songs that tugged at the heartstrings
and the choking appeal of mighty
pipe organ, the democratic national
convention brought nomination day
to a tremendous emotional crisis that
had nothing to do with candidates or
! platform issues.
/ fractional differences were for
gotten; political jealousies were
| swept aside and from the seething
! tumult on the floor to the singing,
cheering thousands in the packed
| galleries, the vast assembly gave it.
self up at intervals without stint to
| great brotherly reunion as unex-
| pected as it was overwhelming.
The scene was unparalleled in the
memory of the oldest convention OBJ
/ server.
H There was no feature lacking to
| draw the thousands from their Sob
er business into a riot of feeling and
/ the convention surrendered uncondi-
tionally. Flooding silver light from
the electric arcs high in the galleries
bathed floor and platform in a
strange appealing glow; the crash
Il and clamor of the military bands,
/ the great impressive sweep of the
arched roof of the auditorium, and
i always the solemn citation in the
voice of the great organ turned to
the melodies of other days, were not
to be resisted.
Even before the convention was
called to order before noon, the hall
was touched with the hint Of what
was to come. Rooters for Palmer
and for Cox had come, armed for
great demonstrations. There was no
mistaking that. The crowd expect
ed it.
High against the wall Of the west
ern gallery a red coated band from
Ohio was placed, fronted by solid
block of rooters who got into action
before the delegates had filled more
than half their seats. Across in
perch above the organ loft, the
/ convention band was at work with
stirring melodies and the organist
| threw his great instrument into full,
| roaring accompaniment of any air
| the rooters raised.
When the first nominating orators
| had been heard and the names Of Sen
ator Owen, former Ambassador Ger
ard. and Senator Hitchcock had been
placed on the ballot amid liberal ap-
1
vania and the name of A. Mitchell
Palmer was presented to set the con-
vention on its wild ecstacy of singing
and cheering. The Palmer men
| were ready. No noise making de-
vice had been overlooked, no devise
of rooters to stimulate the clamor
left untried
Up in front of the platform, a
long, slim, red headed yell leader
waved frantic arms from rickety
perch on chair while California
woman in white drove the demon
stration forward with almost equal
vigor The shouting of the Palmer
| adherents grew and swelled until
/ Georgia delegate rooted the state
standard from its place and started
march of states to be followed by
Pennsylvania and half dozen other
delegations.
The tumult lasted more than half
an hour Around and around the
aisles the procession went, the stand
ards bobbing awkwardly high over
the heads of the marchers. A lusty
rooter danced along with a slim little
woman perched on his shoulder. On
the platform a score of Palmer wom-
en- crowded to the speakers stand
and with waving flags urged the del
egates in while the bands Joined
heartily in the songs which were
caught up all over the hall and the
galleries
When Governor Cox was named it
was the turn of the Cox supporters
and they came to the task with a
will. Again more than half an hour
was given over to the uproar and
singing, to the parading of state
standards led by Ohio and Kentucky.
Yells given with the barking note of
football rooters came down from the
Ohio section in the gallery. The
Ohio band never paused. Again and
again it drew new cheers from the
southern delegates with the strains
of Dixie" or sought and found men
of Irish descent with the Wearing
of the Green"
While the riot of movement, color
and noise was at its height, rooters
and band trooped down from the gal
lery to the floor. They tramped
around the aisles singing "Ohio,
Ohio" and the convention with i'm
partial good temper joined in.
1t took much effort by Governor
Cox's managers to still the uproar
and let the business of nomination
proceed. Chairman Robinson pound
ed increasingly with his gavel when
more than haitian hour had passed,
| and finally the rooters fought their
way back to the gallery and the dele
gates to their seats to await the next
act of the great show.
Senator Harrison of Mississippi,
among those seconding Governor
Cox's nomination, struck note that
proved the convention had been key
ed up. He hit hard at the newspa-
pers of San Francisco which printed
the story of the governors divorce
ten years ago and burst OF cheers
that rang out answered his thrust.
Then Chairman Robinson, recog-
nized w. Beurke Cochran of New
York to nominate Governor Smith.
AS he came to the platform the dele
gates greeted him as an old friend.
They cheered and called expectantly
to him, knowing of old his power as
an orator.
i Again they were not disappointed.
The New Yorker struck a note from
the first that found a quick answer.
I Cochran lavished unstinted admira-
/ tion on President Wilson, pointing
dramatically to the great illuminated
portrait OF the president overlooking
the convention. Nearly every word
and gesture brought shouts and
cheers from the floor and Cockran's
tribute to Governor Smith set the
New York delegation going with Am
erican flags and much cheering. The
demonstration started slowly. Cock
ran made his way through admirers
on the platform. On the floor, back
with his own delegation. he was &C
corded a reception that threatened
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