The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-25
WILSON TRIBUTE ENDS STRIFE
 OF FACTIONS
Convention Brought To Its Feet By Harri-
 sons Appeal
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(Continued From Page 0ne.) welcomed Pat Harrison to his job of dealings with the republicans and all their works and ways.
 You tell 'em, Pat came a cry from the floor as the big, young, eager looking N1ississippian took his place for .-the keynote speech with the blazing white lights for the camera men pour ing down upon him and the cameras clicking away from their hanging bas- kets against the gallery rails.
 X Pat Tells 'Em
 And Pat told 'em. He delighted in aelling 'em all about what the republl- &Ans had done or failed to do and his Rdience delighted in listening. Some
 aes he belabored the political adver- ts1kes with blunt, bludgeon-like blows. or Again he sent darting thrusts of raasfr-like irony and satire against the part Noes. Always the great crowd on the fl Sr chuckled and cheered and urged hirn cr to fresh effort.
 s~ IL vas thus that he came to plead for rhs day when there would be again in tte White House such a man as Woodrow Wilson. Tumult broke loose. Delegates and alternates leaped from their seats, yelling. The sound had the trsttouch in it of the steely tang born of U le emotion. They came to their feet ike one man, those delegates and alter lates. It was no affair of the gal leries, but of the convention itself and the shout swept up to the high roof like one great voice.
 They kept it up for man. minutes. Somebody down in front got the idea that a regular demonstration was in order He heaved up the Missouri state standard and started to wave it. Others followed suit one by one and in a moment they were all parading around the hall while the band blared away and everybody did his bit at noise making.
 Grins Happily
 They came hurtling blythe speaker s stand where the N1issfssippi senator had taken his seat tS await chance to proceed. He was mopping a per spring brow, and his face and hair were fairly drenched, but he grinned happily down at the tumult he had let loose and waved greetings to those below who cried up to him to drive ahead.
 That was the big moment of the day. It brought reporters and platform oftl- cials fback to the stand from the worK- rooms below and it was many minutes before the Mississippian could get back On his job of tongue-lashing the party foes.
 At the close, Senator Harrison turned his speech to an eloquent plea TOT party harmoy that it might close US nahus on the victory he said was Tn US grasp He besought his fellow democrats to submerge differences and glrd them selver for battle who ever the party standard-bearer might be; to marx lo the call from beyond the graves "here great democratic leaders lie that they "carry on and keep the faith.
 Quickly to an End
 Then. swiftly and surely, the chalr- man took the reins and drove the rou' fine business of the first day through with q speed and smiling vigor that won shouts of approval from the floor. Al most before the delegates knew IT, tne formal resolution expressing the pr0uu sorrow of his fellow democrats that Woodrow Wilson had passed on lnto history had been adopted and the con vention was at an end TOT the udy Ill respect to his memory.
 In the opening the visitors got a touch of New York hospitality. strung between the vast flags that form a can, opy beneath the glass roof of the olo building, softening the sun blaze TOT the thousands clustered below, ran fold ed white bunting that seemed merely part of the decoration. After Gar dinal Hayes had pronounced the lnvoca' fion. the band struck into the "Star and singing to the leadership of Madame Snansled Banner" with the convention Anna Case, Metropolitan opera prima donna. She spread her arms wide tc the great gatherings, calling them into the stately hymn of freedom and hel clear voice swept up like a bugle cal on the high note.
 Then there came down from the rooi a shower of small, silken flags that hat lain concealed in the folded bunting They sifted down all over the hall like autumn leaves, national flags and th' emblem of New York city which gave it's greeting to guests of national democ racy, come again to the metropolis after more than fifty years.
 Hylan Bespeaks Welcome
 Mayer Hylan gave the spoken wei come of the city. He told the delegates of the plans made for their entertain ment and comfort and talked to them of the high duties before them. As ar after thought, he told them that the police were under orders to see that the visitors passed unmolested on their various ways.
 The convention chuckled a little probably with memory in mind of tho huge army of stalwart and husky lads in the police blue who flooded Fiftf Avenue in seemingly endless lines 1T yesterdays civic parade.
 And with it's routine business ar ranged. it's committees in session struggling with it's coming problems the words of it's fighting keynote ad dress ringing in its ears, the Demo cratic convention of 1924 poured out into the streets of New York again tc resume it's main business of wonder ing who it will select as presidential nominee.
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