Evening star., 1924-06-26
Real Public Problems Have
Cold, Academic Interest for
Hate-Stirred Delegates.
STAGE OTHER OUTBURSTS
Little Reality in McAdoo Acclaim
Walsh Speech Leaves Hearers
Family Enthused.
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

orators groaned and puffed and
-s"eated. Nothing came out of the
spout. No emotions arose, A few
maudlin kioodles were lifted and gave
me pand the cue to man the purnns
eoii' IL O'CLOCK, IL o'clock, / o'clock
passeo and the pumps still creaked.
senator Walsh, the permanent
CHAIRMAN of the convention. sounded
HIS tocSln; it was not a clarion note
= "eil-written speech it was, logical
eioqueht, convincing to every one out-
siue or Madison Square Garden Ha
trunpeted the wick kedness and cor
iuption of the Republicans: told Of
Ihe malfaiSance of Fall the er,f,
OF Forbes, the chicanery of Daur,
erty and the derelictions of the other
eahs In nigh estate. Now and
'nen feeble whoop of approval arose
ana the band blew itself red in the
4ace' out failed to fan the passions
Oh unterffied Democracy. Thew wers
coio and chaste and beautiful-those
Democratic brows shining below Sem
olor "aish, calm as marble, cool as q
sea OF potato salad RooseveIt,s
"Alne was mentioned and got a lam
suio hand-clap. and when Senator
walsh in an orifiame of enthusi.sm
defed the world to nan,a a Si,.,o
democrat who was taiued with oo-
rupt1on or had betrayed the American
people, the Smith delegates began TO
sflcker' and when Walsh added a face
saving clause, while he was in pub-
TIC ONCE, an audible giggle buzzed
over the great bowl of potato salad
flke blue bottle fly When Walsh
quit speaking the mechanical claoue
VI the demonstration wheezed and
hoahed for ten minutes, while the
oand manned the pumps and every one
was thinking of something else.
Sing All Songs.
"A good looking woman from one
OF the Carolinas wearing a nice bie
a. mouel blue garden hat, appeared
as chairman of the committee on
CREDENTIALS and the band played "Oh.
You Great Big Beautiful Doll" which
heiped little. Some of the old sem
; tlmenta! songs of the south were
ern Union Army song, The Battia
cry OF Freedom, followed by another
renting Tonight" engaged the dele
gates while the mechanics OF the
NSA 'ShtLOi were speeding II
unutterably dull-this great conyen-
ton of the Democracy. It's dullness did
not come because of any lack of
Spontaneity in the proceedings,
Democratic conven tions are rarely
bossed. This convention was free
untrammeled and deadly, until nearly
10 o'clock
1t was obvious that the convention
mad not heard its clarion note. The
L4oo delegates and 1900 spectators
in L. inc
thlnS else. A good-looking young
southerner, Fordney johnson. a prac-
ticing attorney in Washington, son of
the late senator from Alabama. and
accredlteo 10 that state as d delegate. !
appeared in the speakers stand upon
the beginning of the roll call asking |
nominations for President He read |
rather a dldactic essay. presumably |
| about Underwood. but did not name |
his man. The delegates visited, fumed |
a bit, walked around the lobby. when |
suddenly out of the rather dull ESSAY
appeared d clear-cut, left-hand lab at |
the ku klux klan, but not naming |
the Klan. With a swish and a roar
come the emotions of that convention |
out of the pump. AS the waters come |
down from Lodore, SO did the whoops |
OF Joy and yells of approval rise from |
that convention
Great Hour for Irish.
1t was great hour for the Irish.
They grabbed banners and marched.
1t took ten minutes for the cIarnor to
sues1de The young orator spoke for
Tour or nve minutes and again landed
upon the plexus of the klan mighty.
He named the klan outright. Again
the roof lifted, but this time the
Khan forces, which were strong in
the convention, possibly constituting
a majority, made their angry dis
approval obvious. Kansas. for in
stance. sat sullenly, holding her han
ner tlght. So did Oklahoma and
Georgia Texas wabbled only a little
Ihere was dissension in Indiana. hut
LIMOS, New York, Pennsylvania,
land made joyful noise before the
lord. At last subject was Injected
into the proceedings of the convention
about which the delegates had onin-
IONS deep enough to reach their emo
t1onS. The twenty-five minutes do
voted to cheering the man who brave
ly and publicly branded the Klan af- |
forded the first genuinely dramatic |
moment in the two-day session of the /
ition the farewell to Wilson was tame |
vt was obvious then that the conven-
tion had been dull, because the dele
gates had only remote and aca-
demic interest in Republican corrup-
tion. in the league of nations, in the |
challenge of plutocracy at the Cleve- |
land convention, and in all the con-
tent1ons which politicians supposed |
were the great issues of the coming
campaign; When the issue that |
touched the deeper convictions of |
the convention was broached, the |
delegates responded. Then the pumps |
brought forth the waters from the |
vastly deeps, and the politicians who !
had hoped to stage this campaign /
upon one set of obvious issues found /
themselves abandoned and aghast
Senator Robinson Named.
After Alabama's orator sat down
Arkansas presented Senator Robin
son. His name brought forth hardly |
the perfunctory applause that should |
have been accorded to a senatorial |
leader of his party. The roll of the |
states droned on until California was
reached, when ex-senator Phelan, who !
was to present the name Of Mr. Nc
Adoo, appeared in genuine demon
stration. He talked all of the inter-
est out of his candidate. His long
speech would have stopped the nom
ination in q Democratic convention |
of Thomas Jefferson running on a |
less the speech was one of those in
spired orations which candidates
force upon nominating orators. The
discourse was filled with disserta-
tions about McAdoo's record-a good
record and valuable in the campaign,
put Of no particular interest in a con-
'Rention speech. The senator did his
best with the package that was hand
ed to him, but his effort was lost and
the effect he might have had with