The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
GOVERNOR SMITH
 TO KEEP IN RACE
Others Trim Sails So As Not To Eliminate
 Themselves
BOOM ROW CEASES
 ACTIVITY FOR DAY
Effort Made To Fasten Klan Label On Sen
 atOr Ralston
0Rv Assncintsd Prsas. l

NEW YORK, June 28.-The klan issue overshadowed all else today at the democratic national conven- tion and "boom row-the candi- dates headquarters-was almost deserted, and the campaign mana gers virtually ceased to campaign.
 Disposition of the klan question in the platform fight waged in the platform committee and in the full convention touched 70 directly on the eandidacies of several aspirants for the rarty'a highest honor, that thesfs fsxeeg hehin tlladaS sei1 pa k8d i,p and vent @ Madison square Garden. s z X \ Besides, slI of their working inaa- tefials the delegates were down there. Y
 Most of the .enlanations from the headquarters, as 1t was, resolved about the klAn question.
 Says Smith To Stick
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaign manager for Gov. Alfred P. Smith, de- nied that his candidate would withdraw if the convntion voted down the smith supported plank for specific condemna- tion of the klan.
 David L. Rockwell, leader of the forces, behind McAdoo, also touched on the klan question in public state ment, declaring that should an anti klan plank be voted into the platforp, MT, McAdoo would in no way consider himself eliminated or his chances ad- versely affected.
 kn V1Itauo laadar like Brer' Rabbit, The lay low" while the klan battle was the hottest but even should be forced out early in the day when an attempt was made in some quarters to fasten the klan label on his candidate, Senator Samuel M. Ralston. Taggart denied it vigorously, meeting the stories with a, smile, but declaring Ralston would welcome anti klau, klan and any other kind of sup port he could get as he was ''the candi- date of all factions and peoples" even though he was not a klansman.
 These declarations by three of the leading campaign managers were inter preted as a move to set the sails of their candidates so that regardless of the shift of the wind over the klan question in the convntion, their crafts would not be blown out of the water.
 UnderwOOd's Position
 The Underwood packers, however, seemed to take particular delight in the eonvantion's klan fight. and con- tinually pointed to declarations by the Alabama senator months before the convention which asserted had been largely instrumental in bringing the klan issue today before the convention. The minority plank on the klan which was placed before the convention by William R. Pattangall of Maine, who seconded the nomination of Senator Underwood, and supporters of the Ala bama man said that option If nothing else was sufficient to tell where their candidates stood.
 The klan controversy was declared by the proponents of the movement behind John W. Davis, to have unaffected their campaign except as it brought a day of inactivity because the mind ofr,the convention and its component parts was centered not 50 much as to whom the nomine should be, as to what the platform should contain.
 Suspension of activity also was mo- ticeable about all the other headquar- ters, including those opened for Sena- tor Glass of Virginia, former Governor Cox of Ohio, former Secretary Houston and Governor Ritchie of Maryland.