Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-26
DEMONSTRATION
/. I OR Al SMITH.
LASTS AN HOUR
Hundreds March Into Hall in
Greatest Exhibit Shown
Yet at the Convention
PRAISED BY ROOSEVELT
Demonstration Given This
Morning When McAdoo
Nomination Is Seconded

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York, June 26:--Having given
renewed but brief demonstration
for William G.. McAdoo, the Demo-
cratic national convention today
plunged into q rip-roaring demon
stration for Alfred E. Smith. Like
the principal McAdoo demonstration
of yesterday, the Smith demonstra-
ton was aided and pushed along by
a complete organization of Demon
strators, hundreds of whom marched
into the hall from the outside bear
ing banners and noise making de-
vices.
Galleries and guests sections OBJ
viously filled with friends of the New
* ork governor for today's event sent
UP 4 CONTINUOUS series of yeils, howls
and Whistles. No sooner had Frank
lin ID. Roosevelt finished his speech
placing the New York governor in
nomination than the racket broke
loose. Bands, rooters armed with
megaphones, cheer leaders, singers
and others with all the equipment of
professional demonstrators burst out
into the jammed aisles and began a
procession about the hall.
From points of observation on tho
speakers stand. it appeared that
probably half the delegate space was
taking part in the demonstration
either by contributing to the march
ing parties which bore Various state
standards. or by standing on chairs
and waving flags and joining in the
cheering.
The other section of the delegate
space. apparently interested in look
ing over the show, stood up, too, but
gave no evidence of joining the
Smith movement. In the machinery
of the demonstration .abtft every de-
vice seen heretofore and many new
ones appeared. Children as young as
three and four years were used.
Some of them were dressed as rag-a-
mullins, others as newsies, all OF.
them had automobile license plates
hung around their necks bearing the
words "Al Smith,"
Although states standards were
carried into the procession, the del
egate spaces remained we'll filed
while 1t was going on. The galleries.
the professional demonstrators and
the rooters who had been packed in
to every nook and Granny on ther
floor, made the bulk of the noise and
at times actually drowned out the
band.
Following the close of the demon
stration for Smith, the regular order
of business was resumed shortly
after o'clock. The roll call of
states was continued. Delaware be-
Ing next given the privilege to nom-
mate candidate. The name of ex-
Senator Willard Saulsburg was
placed in nomination by Senator
Thomas F. Bayard, speaking for the
Delaware delegates.
The name of David F. Houston,
former secretary of agriculture and
the treasury, and friend of Woodrow
Wilson, was next placed in nomin-
alton by Lewis G.. Stevenson, of Ill
inois.
Long before the convention con-
vened. preparations for the demon
stration for Governor Smith were
going forward Systematically. Sew
eral hundred men and women. wear
Ing Smith for president ribbons and
equipped with cowbells and many
other devices for raising a racket,
nled into the unassigned upper Sec
tions OF the galleries and got all set
20 give the convention a lively hour
to rival that taken up yesterday by
the McAdoo demonstration,
Some of the rooters could not sup
press their enthusiasm and after
much scattered shouting for their
favorite bundles of small American
flags were passed around. and the
gallery was af1utter with color as
the demonstrators warmed up. 1t
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