Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-06-30
ANGRY DELEGATES
bERATE NEW YORK
Will Propose Moving Conven-
ton, Says Middle Western
er, if Given Chance.
PARTY SPLIT IS SEEN
Nomination Not Worth 30 cents,
Leader of Party From Middle
West Declares.
By G.. GOULD LINCOLN.
staff Correspondent of The Star.

NEW YORK. June 30.-New York
ard Nav York convention crowds are
abC1a as popular as a crutch with
the delegations from the west and
middle west, from the south and even
from some of the eastern states.
These delegates resent bitterly the
Interruptions to the proceedings of
the Democratic national convention
which occurred Saturday. They re-
sent efforts of the galleries and the
visitors seats or the floor to dictate
what the convention shall do
AS the delegates filed into their
seats today a delegate from Nebraska,
who has taken a prominent part in
delegations of his state to Democratic
conventions since 1896, voiced this
feeling of resentment He said:
Il am going to make a motion to
have the galleries cleared the min
ute outsiders begin interfering again.
But | haven't any confidence that
the Tammany cops would even try
to do tor could do it, if they wanted
to.
IF that doesn't succeed 1 am going
to move that the convention adjourn
to Chicago or some other city, and
think we could get the votes to do it,
Hits Expense to Delegates
New York is giving us the most ex-
pensive entertainment ever offered dele
gates in history-and the most inhospita-
BILE treatment / can't understand why
the national committee was ever foolish
enough to come here. Everybody knew
what would happen-and it did.
Il am scared to death every minute
we are in this hall 1t is fire trap, and
If any thing like a stampede or scare
gets going in the hall there will be
thousand people trampled to death. 1
was looking for whisky bottle to be
SHE'D at Bryans head from the galleries
all the time he was speaking.
THE police let people come right
down into the delegates aisles and
stand there all through the session Sat
urday night. The sergeants-a at arms
were powerless because the police would
not give them any sort of real help.
Some big bruiSer came in and sat right
down in a seat in our delegation, and
we had to throw him out ourselves.
Sees Roosevelt Disgusted.
"It isn't the fault of the New York
delegates. Mr.. Roosevelt, Smiths man.
ager, is a fine man and has a great per-
sonalty, and know he was as disgust
ed as any one else, but an element gets
going over which he can have no con-
troll
This middle-westerner said they
had learned their lesson about con-
Mentioning in New York, but he
feared it was too late. The party
had been given bad wallop below
the belt.
But we must remember" he add
led, that the only time the Demo-
cratic party seems to come out with
winning, crusading leader is after
it has been dragged through the
mire of a bitter, dirty fight.
1--WE got hauled off on to side
road in this Khan fight If it had
been over political party issue it
ligious bigotry isn't going to be set
tied by any party platform and
they've gone and diverted US from
Z the main issue, which is to get a
fighting. progressive candidate for
President.
Voted to Save Party.
personally I would have been
willing enough to have the Khan
naming plank adopted. We voted
our state delegation for the majority
plank because the committee had de-
cided that was the best tactics for
the party and the committee should
be supported. But the Khan might
as we'll have been named as handled
as it was
He blamed Mayor Quigley of Massa-
chuSettS, as do many of the Southe rn-
ers and westerners, for messing up
the last hour of the Sunday morning
session. But It is easy enough to