Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-07-04
Hooded Order Left Unnamed
in Platform
BAKER'sAPPEAL FAILS
impassloned Plea For Wilson's Prin.
eIples In valn--Waish Against
klan-Georgia Sits
Tight.

Klan by name. 1t does not con
tain a Wilsonian plank on the
League Of Nations.
These two decisions came early Sun
day morning after 10-hour continu
Gus session in which some Of the most
disorderly scenes in convention his
tory were enacted.
The vote was 542 to SAL 800.
The attempt to substitute a plank
On the League of Nations for that
submitted by the platform committee
was bowled over by heavy vote. But
the vote on the Klan was very close
and its taking was surrounded with
scenes Of acrimony and dispute such
as have not been witnessed in years
on the floor of a national convention
When after repeated challenges of
votes in the various State delegations
the result was announced it was 542
and three twentieths votes in favor
of the plank as the committee recon-
mended It, and 541 and three-twen-
tieths votes in favor Of the minority
plank which would have singled out
the Ku Klux Klan by name
Then a roll call was demanded on
the adoption of the platform as
whole and as submitted by the plat
form committee.
There was more disorder with
hundred delegates calling for recogni-
tion and the chairman shouting at
the top Of his voice and scarcely able
to make himself heard. When a roll
call was demanded on the platform
and the chair announced that the re-
quired number OF seconds were not
presented. Then while all the racket
was at its height Franklin D. Roose-
velt raising himself to his feet on his
erutches made himself heard above
the riot and shouted: 1--WE have now
proceeded to the morning Of the Sab
bath Day / move that the conven-
tion adjourn until $50 o'clock Mon
day morning
There was rolling chorus Of ayes
and rolling chorus of noes, but
Chairman Walsh. evidently exhausted.
brought down the gayel with a wallop
and declared the motion to adjourn
carried.
The convention piled out into the
streets In the same disorder which
had characterized ten hours Of CON
tinuous session.
Tired and keyed to a high nervous
pitch by the string of events which
had led up to the vote, the delegates
and convention officials quarreled re-
peatedly and in one or two cases the
police had to intervene to quiet them
on the convention floor.
The session had begun at 8 o'clock
Saturday afternoon and before reach
ing the Klan Issue had passed through
bitter floor fight on the League of
Nations plank, resulting in adoption of
the plank drawn by the majority of
the platform committee, reafflrming
in general terms the partys faith in
the League and the World Court.
Plunging then into the Klan issue.
the convention heard a two-hour old
time convention debate ending in
speech by William Jennings Bryan,
which was interrupted by "boos" from
the galleries. but applauded by the
delegates in tribute to the fighting
qualities of its threefime candidate
for the Presidency.
The Klan issue came to a vote on
the question of adopting in place of
the religious liberty plank espoused
by Mr.. Bryan, an open condemnation
Of the Klan by name. Much confu
sion accompanied the taking Of the
vote from the start, and when it was
perceived when the end of the roll
was neared that the result might
hinge on few votes, the result from
State after State was challenged
Many delegates. too, attempted to get
recognition to change their votes and
the session proceeded amid growing
noise and disorder.
Because OF the confusion and the
closeness of the result the convention
chairman ordered recapitulation of
the entire vote, with the result that
new sources of trouble were found in
challenges to the results Of half
dozen States.
The platform as a whole was adopt
ed by viva voce vote. in which the
ayes and noes were mixed in a mighty
chorus. But Chairman Walsh, bring
ing down the gayel, declared the mo-
tien to adopt the platform carried.
The vote on the League plank of
the contested planks in the platform
came after most dramatic appeal to
the convention by Mr.. Baker to. CON
slider the memory of Woodrow Wilson
and put in an out-and-eut Wilsonian
plank for the League of Nations. The
vote was 742ls to s5sss.
Other party leaders argued that the
majority plank proposed a more prac-
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