Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-11

later the convention was called to
order.
Lodge Raps for Order.
| Senator Lodge raped for order on
! a newly made gavel plank. Yester-
day he had nearly smashed the thin
table top. Rev. John Meyer of Chi
cago offered prayer.
| A new pounding board for Senator
Lodges gavel was an innovation. II
was composed of several planks as a
shock absorber for table, but il
lacked the tables punch.
! The delegates kept impatiently
swinging their fans and shutting theil
feet during the prayer and sfterward
Senator Lodge raped hard many
times before he got the convention
quieted down.
BY a rising vote and in a roar OF
applause the convention then adopted
! a resolution offered by Alexander P
Moore of Pittsburgh. expressing "in-
expressible loss" over the death OF
| bly, now and to be loved as long as
our nation cherishes it's noble pa
| triots."
! Senator Lodge announced amid
more cheers that the time had come
for the convention to hear nomina-
lions LOT the pTeSluency ALABAMA
| passed when the roll call of states
began. Arizona yielded to Kansas. In
| a noisy demonstration Gov. Allen was
escorted to the platform and began
his speech nominating Gen. Wood.
Woods Name Presented.
Senator Lodge shook hands with
Gov. Allen and the crowd cheered
waving Wood pennants, hats and
handkerchiefs.
During Gov. Aliens recital of Gen
Woods record of public service the
Wood supporters interjected frequent
cheers.
When the governor made a crack al
William j. Bryan's celebrated dictum
about million men springing to arms
overnight, he looked down at where
Mr.. Bryan was sitting in the press
box But the Nebraskan had his nose
| to his manuscript, trying to write on
| industriously, while a plump woman
writer was showing through the mar
| row aisle behind his chair. If he heard
the reference he did not let on.
There was much moving AROUND
among the delegates. however, and q
mild rumble of conversation kept up
There were many Wood boosters In
the gallery. and they kept breaking
in with applause, as Gov. Allen re-
counted the achievements of his can
didate.
Gov. Allen worked hard at his speech
and the perspiration rolled down in
cataracts over his quickly wilted
laundry While the speech was going
on arrangements Were made for Gov
Iowden's nominating speech to fol-
low Gen. Woods. Arkansas delegates.
next on the roll. said the state would
Weld to Illinois. California. next in
line. was to name Senator Johnson
disposing of the "big three.
AS the Embossed convention rolled
on. everything according to schedule
Senators Lodge and Smoot of the old
republican school sat inscrutable side
| by side behind the chairman's table.
wood Demonstration Begins.
At the concluding word of the NOM
, mating speech thousands of many
coIoreE turkey feathers. which have
been the convention badge OF the
Wood people, were loosed from the
ceiling of the Coliseum and f1oated
down over the cheering delegates
The lights were turned on TO give the
photographers a chance. while many
Of those on the floor mounted chairs
and waved Wood banners.
Approximately 200 delegates. per-
hans more or less, were taking part
in the cheering and flag waving.
MANY of those on the floor yelled like
real Indians, and they looked like
Indians, with the hair of the women
and the collars of the men decorated
by the falling feathers.
ITS Wood; let's go" seemed to be