The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-30

scarcely able to make himself
heard. When roll call was de-
manded on the platform, the chair
announced that the required num-
Der of seconds were not presented.
Then while all the racket was at
it's height, Franklin ID. Roosevelt,
raising himself to his feet on his
crutches, made himself heard above
the riot and shouted: eve have
now proceeded to the morning of
the Sabbath day. l move that the
convention adjourn until $3.50
o'clock Monday morning"
Adjournment Disordered
There was a rolling chorus of
ayes and a rolling chorus of noes
but Chairman Walsh, evidently ex-
hausted, brought down the gravel
with a wallop and declared the mo-
ton to adjourn carried.
The convention piled out into
the streets in the same disorder
which had characterized 10 hours
Of continuous session.
The substitute plank on. the Ku
Klux Khan, submitted by the minor
ity headed by William p. Pattern
gall of Maine, would have added to
the language Ct the majority plank
the following:
eve condemn secret political So
cieties of all kinds, as opposed to
the exercise of free government;
contrary to the spirit of the
declaration of independence and
the constitution Of the United
States. We pledge the Democratic
party to oppose any effort on the
part of the Ku klux Khan or any
organization to interfere with the
religious liberty or political free
dom Of any citizen or to limit the
civil rights of any citizen or body
of citizens because Of religion,
birthplace or racial origin"
The minority report on the anti
Khan plank which was presented
by Pattengall, was signed by him,
and the following IL other commit
tee members: friedrich X. Thomp-
sen, Alabama; Senator David l..
Walsh, Massachusetts; p. Fl. Quinn,
Rhode Island; c. c. Carlin, Dis
tjct of Columbia; John H. Nc
Cam, Pennsylvania; Francis X.
Busch, Illinois; Joseph A. Kellogg,
New York; Barry Heller, New
Jersey; James A. NOVEL;, MINES
sofa; James p. Leamy, Vermont;
E. Brooke Lee. Maryland, and
John w. Troy, Alaska.
Appeal Is Dramatic
The vote On the first of the con-
tested planks in the platform came
after a most dramatic appeal to
the convention by Mr.. Baker to
consider the memory Of Woodrow
Wilson and put in an out and out
Wilscnian plank for the League of
Nations.
Other party leaders argued that
the majority plank proposed a
more practical way to accomplish
the object of getting the United
States into the League and the con-
ventiOn sustained them.
The vote was 1853 1-2 for adopt
ing the Baker plank and overturn-
ing the resolutions committee and
and TAI l-2 votes for adopting the
majority of the resolutions COM
mittee and adopting the plank it
presented. There were 2 votes
absent.
"You will repudiate Woodrow
Wilson if you do this" Mr.. Baker
had told the convention before it
voted.
Mr.. Bakers plank was sponsored
also by John G. Cornwell, former
governor Of West Virginia; G. P.
Fishburne of Washington; J. P.
Pope of Idaho; Henry w. Dooley
of Porto Rice; r. b. Stevens of
New Hampshire; Thomas r. Bay
ard of Delaware, and Edgar A.
Brown of South Carolina.
Defeated in the platform commit
tee where he asked for the adop-
ton Of Wilsonian plank on the
League, Mr.. Baker made. one of
the most emotional appeals ever
heard in national convention.
Next to my duty to my God
and my responsibility to my
family" he said, there is moth
ing in my life that compares with
the League of Nations.
"The man who ought to be plead
ing his cause here is dead, calling
from consecrated ground"