The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-30
CONDLAVEREADY FOR BALLOTINC
 ON NOMINEE
lContinred from P.ee Onel


 the vote of their states as cast by their delegation chairman. Back and forth swung the advantage as the voting ap- proached its height, and leaders tried desperately to win over the few votes they knew would condemn their yer dict. As the call was called a roll of dispute swept over the hall in rising volume, chairs were overturned, two or three state standards were wrecked, and there were several personal attacks on the floor and the speakers platform.
 The balance turned finally when at the end of the roll call, two delegates from Georgia, the home state of the kian, changed their votes and asked that they be recorded against the plank naming the klan.- They were P. A. Stovall, the Savannah publisher, and Miss Marion Colley of Washingt0n, Georgia. Rising in her place after other members of the delegation had gathered about her in earnest discus sion, Miss Colley tearfully and in a faint and quaking voice, announced her final decision and attempted in vain amid the din of the convention hall to explain why she could not vote to criticize the klan.
 Earlier in the session. the. Georgia group had been the target for long and bitter demonstration against the kian, after one of the dissenters among them, Andrew c. Erwin of Athens had taken the speakefs stand and pleaded with the convention to take an open stand against the invisible empire. A score of anti-klan delegations assembled their standards in a scornful, taunt- ing ring about the Georgians, and Erwin was lifted to the shoulders of the demonstrators and carried twice around the hall at the head of a howl ing procession of delegates. !
 In the final moments before the re- sult<w announced, Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to Woodrow on, while he was in the White House, led a deter, mined campaign on the convention floor to swing over the few votes th..t would write the anti-klan plank into the party platform. The effort introduced several new clements of confusion and led to at least one encounter in which the po- hce interwened.
 Acting with Tumulty, T. T. Ans derry of Washington, D. O., who held credentials as an alternate from the Philippines, and Lawrence F. Quigly, mayor of Chelsa, Mass, twice cilaI. 1 vote and forced poll of the delegation. Later Quigly sought to question the vote of Georgia and then from his place in the Massachusetts delegation demanded poll of the delegation from New Hampshire.
 Shouted Down
 The drive of the anti-klan cohorts did not end even after the vote had been an1opnced, and the adjournment found llulgly on his feet seeking amid the con fusion to change the ballot of the en- tire convention. He was shouted down by those about him, however, and the anti-klan leaders later declared there would be no attempt to set aside the action of the convention as illegal,
 Like those who wanted to name the klan specifically in the platform. the leaders who preferred instead fhe gem eral religious liberty plank that was adopted seemed conipleeely satisfied aft CT Sundays reflection. Both sides declared the sore spots left by the fight soon would disap ppear, q irlsleted that no party split would result from the public acting that had begun the re- Agipus dlsagreements of the delegates. S ., Speaks For Itself T
 Everywhere tonight the outward dis AION9 and to let the close vote by which the party escaped an open condemnation of the klan speak for itself There were many echoes among party leaders of A sFntiment expressed by Tex Rickard, lessee of Madison Square Garden, and famous prize fight promoter, who re- marked as the weary and bedraggled delegates filed out into the night, Of all the fights ever pulled off in the old garden, that was the best draw T. eyer saw"
 It was, bee luse the vote did come. so near to an actual draw that the parti- sans. of candidates who will trail behind the two leaders on the opening ballot prOfessed to see such cncv ur-. ing signs in the outcome. The supporters of Rals- ton, John W. Divis, Underwood; Glass and all the others obviously regarded the vote was in a sense test of strength between McAdoo and Smith, and they insisted tonight that all possibility that could command the words of the con vention had been destroyed. /"
 Deny Instruction
 The McAdooN and Smith managers, nevertheless, insisted that candidates had figured only incidentally in. the vot- ing and that no instructions had gone out that would lead the McAdoo and Smith delegates to vote otherwise than as their personal convictions dictated Both camps sought to minimize the pos abilities of party defeetions over the is- sue, and to emphasize q belief that the fight over the klan had left the situa- tion as to candidates about as it was.
 Party leaders generally also took pains to disseminate word that they did nnt regard the hattie aS having ,rnised any permanent religious issues within the party. They pointed out that both Protestants and Catholics spoke against the klan. They recalled also that some of those of the Catholic faith, high in party councils, had advised against the anti-klan plank, and that Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, voicing the sentiment of oth IS of his church in favor of the plank, incorporated in his plea this as- surance, "We are democrats. What ever the outcome, we will accept it.
 Several other speakers on both sides of the issue declared their inability to see any signs of a party split over the klan issue, regardless of the outcome. These declarations all were applauded, but the solemn faces of the delegates and the demonstrations and dispute that accompanied the. voting showed how strongly and deeply were flowing the currents of disagreement on the con vention floor.
 Garden Crowded
 Sensing the pOtentialities of the sit uation, convention officials at first had planned to take recess after the vote on the league plank. and tken re- assemble later in the evening with the galleries cleared of spectatOrs One of