Evening star., 1924-06-11
Recess Forced
After Short
Session.
ORGANIZATION
is PERFECTED
Finishing Touches
Given Planks i'm
Heated Meeting.
BY tho Associa ted Prrss.

BY tho Associated Prrss
CONVENTION HALL, Cleveland
June 1.-THE Republican convention
at another brief session today per.
fected its permanent organization
Cheercd President Coolidge and party
regularity, and then recessed unit
S o'clock tonight, when it will re.
ccivc and adopt its platform.
While the session was in progress
the platform committee was holding
d heated meeting in a council room
nearby, but when the time for re.
cciring its report arrived Charles d
llillcS OF New York announced that
i was not ready and moved for d
recess until 8 pm.
y large proportion OF the delegate:
dld not want to recess, and there
MCrc loud cries OF no when the
question was put. Chairman Mon
dell, however, declared with a loud
bang OF the gavel that the ayes
have it" and the band took the pro-
oredings i'll hand at that point and
the delegates filed out.
Women Win Fight.
Among other things in its short
session the convention in adopting its
rules approved a new arrangement
By which women will have equal rep
resentation with men on the national
committee.
Again as iat yesterdays session
there was a long and loud demon
strdtion when the rallying cry of
PARTY regularity and loyalty to Cool
idge was sounded by Permanent
Chairman Mondell in short address.
lie got the delegates to their feet
all but the La Toilette men from
WiSconsin-by asking for a Repub-
lican Congress that would remain
Republican after the election.
Secretary Hoover's statement in
Washington saying he was not a can
didate for the vice presidency put
still another element of uncertainty
into the contest for second place on
the ticket and as the convention
broke up and the delegates went back
TO their hotels no ore was prepared
TO say just what the final effect would
be.
Five minutes before the time set
for the opening of the session the
vast galleries encircling the con-
Ntntion arena were almost empty and
IN the space on the floor set aside for
delegates and alternates there also
wire many empty seats. A few of
the convention officials were moving
about on the platform in front of the
great American flag, which formed the
background for the portraits of Lin
colin. Roosevelt and Harding. The
great organ was pealing out soft
and quiet melody. but the resounding
notes were sufficient to drown out
what little noise there was among
the early arrivals.
Overcoats in Evidence.
Many of the men came in wearing
overcoats, for a damp and gripping
breeze was blowing fitfully in from
where Lake Erie, short block away,
lay under dark skies.
some of the old wheel horses with
whom time had not dealt kindly in
the matter of hirsute adornment were
looking as though they would like
the extent at least which would give
them the privilege of keeping on
their hats. exercised freely by the
woman members of the convention.
While the crowd was filing in
gaps in the gallery were filling up
band stationed in a gallery over
the stage played "Linger while
Lowden Again Declines.
Meanwhile a fresh telegram of
declination from former Gov. Lowden
ar n he dali
cation, which has been active in pro-
noting the Lowden vice presidential
boom. and requested that the delega-
tion should not vote for him on any
roll call.
But neither this nor any other of
the preliminaries aroused much of
the buzz of comment that usually
drifts up to the rafters when a ma
tional convention is assembling. The
delegates were taking it all very
calmly. Not only in a weather sense,
hut so far as the outward manifesto
tions of the moment were concerned
they were following the advice of the
hotel lobby posters to Keep Cool
and Keep Coolidge"
Ten-thirty and 10:40 passed, and
Still the galleries were far from full.
and only scattered sections of the
convention officials kept conferring
over final details, but they showed
no indication of calling for order.
May Name Coolidge Tonight.
There was a plan afoot to hold a
night session to nominate Coolidge,
leaving tomorrow free for balloting
on Vice President. The leaders had
not agreed upon it. but it was said
that the failure to get an agreement
on the vice presidential candidate
had aroused considerable sentiment
for getting all other convention busi-
ness out of the way tonight.
A contributing factor was the un-
certainty over how much time might
he taken up today by a floor fight
over the platform.
The La Toilette delegates from Wis
consin were cooked and primed to
make as much of a demonstration as
they are permitted under the conven-
tion rules, although they had no hope
Of forcing adoption of any part of
their subplatform
Out of the Indiana delegation there
also came hint that Albert J. Beve-
ridge, rated as one of the most dra
matte public speakers in the country.
was preparing to take the floor to
voice his opposition to some of the
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