The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
WHIRLPOOL SIDE, DEMoCRA-

W WdlhllfOOL SlDE, DEMOSnA- TIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, June 26.- Madison Square Garden to- day became the worlds largest cookoo cage. And ten ot twelve asylums still to be heard from at late hour.
 It is now certain Tex Rickard will not get his well-known Garden back for several days. if ever.
 When your correspondent left the scene of Bedlam at dusk and the democratic convention was staging a demonstration on the question of call ing it a day or not. The delegates couldn't agree on a simple question of whether they ought to hurry business along by holding a night session or adjourning until Friday and let nature take it's course. !: .-+.
 Demonstration had got into their blood. Things had reached a point where a delegate would have held a demonstration for his own wife. If Madison Square Garden today he tried lO otdiI d lOh SVus All hour after sunset several hysterical delegates were down in the basement near the spot where the sacred bull is housed during the circus staging a demonstration for the janitor.
 Demonstrations were cheap. Most anybody could have one.
 Gov. Alfred Smith of New York got his early. It broke all convention re- cords for time consumed and for volume of noise. Little brothers of the Smith movement-Smith Brothers as it were had been crammed into the top gal lery, hitherto quite unoccupied. They carried noise producing instruments that most people didn't even know were on the market. And they were so eager to get going that Chairman Walsh was kept rebuking them.
 If the football rules committee had had anything to say, the Smith fam would have been penalized for un necessary roughness.
 The convention rules committee wal not ready to report and was not ir a position to announce that the flying tackle, offside play hurling a delegate interfering with the runner, using thc elbows and tackling around the neck
 There hasn't been as much noise ir New York since the armistice.
 And it was the kind of noise that couldn't go in one ear and out th' other. Not under present channel con ditions.
 r. laetad on hour oDd q half aa ( recohesive outbreak, but it continued throughout the day from time to tint under nonstop rules. Horns of every type and description were blown every now and then as the Smith demonstra tors broke out anew. This was fal from pleasing to the other delegates anC late in the day there was grave feal that the Smith supporters might have harmed Al right out of the nomination
 At 4 o'clock when another Smith out break began when a McAdoo delegate arose and demanded that somebody elst be given chance. He charged tha the hall was full of Smith ringers who had no business on the floor Chairman Walsh then whipped the con vention into a state approaching ordel by banging the table and making tn, following pointed remark: '"The gen tleman is entirely right. If this conven tion cannot transact it's business il this city the chair will entertain 1 1 motion that it go some place else"
 Everybody began to motion at onc' lat this point.
 While hundreds of delegates indicated by their remarks that they were dis posed to go some place else they showt few moments later that they haC no, such idea, as matter of fact thu danger seemed to be that they would sit there forever.
 They wouldn't even leave the hal and go to their hotels until the mat ter had been submitted to a roll cal vote state by state.
 Near the close of the day Admiral Plunkett invited the delegates to come out to North river and visit the battle ships. There is every indication that by tomorrow noon it may be decided to hold the convention on them. Or with themi or both.
 This was "A Man Who Day" these great old words "A Man Who" were hurled into space by a dozen or more nominators in the radio microphones took a lot of punishment without wilt. ing. This could not be said of the dele. gates.
 After the first ten nominating speeches, a lady in the Kansas section was observed asleep with a flower ir her hand. It was not a lily. But il