Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-28
OUTSIDERS FORCE
| DELEGATES OUT As
IDOL IS CHEERED
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sion tried to balance some of them
on the high rail about the speakers
stand fifteen feet above the floor
with the result that the youngsters
were scared to death and beloved
Justify. After some experiments the
children were removed.
Although state standards were car
ried into the procession the delegate
spaces remained we'll filled while it
was going on. The galleries, the
professional demonstrators and the
rooters who had been packed into
the galleries up under the rafters,
- and into every nook and Granny on
the floor. made the bulk of the noise
.pand at times actually drowned out
the band.
1si. McAdoo Acclaimed
All set for a demonstration for
Smith, the convention today opened
up with a new demonstration for
McAdoo.
Smith rooters and boosters had
been packed. into the hall by the
hundreds and the plan as arranged
was for Connecticut to yield to New
York for the nomination of Gov
e ernor Smith.
- But when the convention got un'
q der way, Governor Sweet, of Colo
RADIO, was recognized and delivered
a. seconding speech for McAdoo.
Immediately the smouldering en-
II bers of yesterdays demonstration
for McAdoo sprang to life, and the
McAdoo demonstration was on anew
with fresh vigor and force after an
overnight rest.
State standards were rushed into
The aisles at the head of a pushing
milling column of McAdoo boosters
who pushed and wormed their way
through the hundreds packed there
for Smith with some difficulty, but
NO disorder. TIE Smith rooters,
0acked up against the rafters in the
upper galleries like sardlnes IN
oox. let out a few bowls, of on,
Cil.o From the floor the New York
delegation signalled to the galleries
IN be quiet. but the Smith rootefs
there were champing on the bit and
..rearin'" to go.
Chairman Walsh rebuked the
noisemakers, and got a round OF APP
plause. The New York delegatloh'
as if to disclaim responsibility Ior
the rumpus in the galleries, stooo
In a, Testimonial VI oPpAONo 49,
Chairman Walsh.
After Governor Sweet had finish
ed speaking Franklin Roosevelt pre-
sented the name of Governor Smith
for the nomination.
Smith Rooters Warm Up
Long before the session opened,
preparations for the demonstration
for Governor Smith were gong loI
ward Systematically. Several nun
dred men and women, wearing Smith
for.president ribbons and equipped
with cowbells and many other de-
vices for raising a racket, filed into
s4he unassigned upper sections OF the
galleries, and got all set to give
the convention a lively hour to rival
Ithat taken up yesterday by the NC
tAdoo demonstration.
Some Of the rooters could not sup
press their enthusiasm and aIter
much scattered shouting for their
sfayorite. group after group bursl
into Smith campaign songs, answer
ing each other along the long stretcn
Of gallery under the caves OF the
I old garden. Bundles of small Amer
lean flags were passed around, ana
The gallery was aflutter with color
as the demonstrators warmed up. IL
twas to be AL Smiths inning IN the
big game. and his New York frlenos
were determined to make the most
Of it,
The early hour OF assembling ana
The cooler weather helped to pep up
the Smith men, both in the galleries
and on the floor. Yesterday the NC
Adoo demonstration was staged IN
sweltering afternoon blaze of sun
light. flooding in through the glass
roof of the hall. But a thunder
storm after last nights Adjournment
mad cleared the air perceptlbly ana
although it began to warm up as
the delegates were coming to the
hall the heat had not yet become
oppressive.
AS the hour set for opening the
convention passed, some indications
of the coming demonstration began
to appear also on the convention
floor. At all the entrances to the
arena where delegates are seated
special sergeants. alarms hung out
The, delegates only" sign, but some
how many Of the men and women
Who had gone to the garden to Whoop
It UP for Smith, the idol OF New
York democracy, got past the croWa-
ed aisles just as the McAdoo root
80 Walsh Looks Cooler
Shortly after 1890, Permanent
Chairman Walsh appeared on the
Blatform, took look over the floor
and galleries, and then went back
stage again until more OF the crowd
ga,Yiyed. He had shed the long-tailed
suit of black, in which he took com
smand yesterday, and was attlred in
white flannel trousers and blue
serge coat, his usual senate cham
Der rig.
At that hour, not a third of the
delegates were in their places, and
the galleries were filling up but
slowly. The unwritten law that pre-
scribes that nothing about a, ma
tional convention shall come of on
stime was working, and those on the
platform seemed to be making no
preparations to call for order.
Again today a wide eXpanse of the
glass roof of the garden had been
hauled back, so that the delegates
could look directly on the blue sky.
And the sun, too, could look directly
in. Today, however, the roof open
ing had been made in a different
place and the hot rays which yes
teeday wilted the bright sunflowers
Won by the Kansas delegation were
shifted across the middle aisles to
light up New Jersey.
The band went through its usual
preliminary concert and in the
midst of it Franklin ID. Roosevelt
who was to make the speech nomi
mating Smith. was helped up the
steps to the platform and was given
a cheer from the floor and gal
leries. There was a touch of pathos
reflected in the faces of many dele
gates who had not seen him since
the San Francisco convention of four
yeats ago when he was nominated