Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-06-27
DEMONSTRATION
GIVEN To COX At
THE CONVENTION
Candidate of 1920 Honored
by Delegates Assembled
at This Years ConcIave
CANDIDATES NOMINATED
Slate of Candidates Will Be
Completed Today and Then
BaIIoting Will Come
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York, June 27.-Pausing in the
midst of the bitter contentious of
,its favorites of the hour. the Demo-
cratic national convention united to-
day in colorful tribute its fighting
leadership of the past.
While a band in far gallery
SHOULD Auld Acquaintance Be For
got delegates from every state stood
on their chairs and cheered the name
of James NJ. Cox, of Ohio. the party's
standard bearer in the desperate and
disastrous battle of four yearF ago.
Il vas personal tributc, unor-
ganized and unguided. conveying the
gratitude of the democracy for the
aggressive .fight-of the former Ohio
| governor to stem the mighty Re-
publican tide of.I92o.
Ohio led In the demonstration.
which lasted for a quarter of an
hour after Mr.. Cox's name had been
placed in nomination for the presi-
dency by Newton D. Baker. Presi-
dent Wilson's wartime secretary of
war who himself received warm
hearted welcome and aroused re-
peated applause by his praise for
the Wilson policies and the league
of nations.
| A moment later the delegates re-
turned to their rlvAlries over Nc
Adoo and Smith. with more demon
strations and counter-demonstra
tions as speakers from a dozen
states proceeded with long string
of seconding speeches. Nominating
speeches also were delivered for the
candidates not reached on yester-
days roll call and the way cleared
to begin balloting tonight or to-
| morrow.
Madison Square Garden roof.
which is somewhat like the historic
roof on the Arkansas travellers
house, soon let those in the hall
, know that it was raining. Pretty
soon the ra.ndrops were trickling
down through the decorations hung
among the girders overhead and
spraying the audience on the floor.
The folks in the galleries were lucky
| because all the lower galleries had
the protection of the upper ones.
Chairman Walsh evidently expect
ed something formal today. for ne
reappeared in the formal morning
dress he wore when he first took the
! gavel, discarding natty white flannel
trousers and blue coat in which he
appeared Yesterday. The chairman
was annoyed yesterday at the noisy
| behavior of the convention and look
| ed as If he intended to lie very seri-
Gus with 1t today.
Meantime Senator Pat Harrison,
temporary chairman, and several
McAdoo men including Bruce kre-
| mer of Montana had their heads to-
gether in conference on the plat
| form. Chairman Walsh chatted with
| the Clergyman who had been invited
| to deliver the opening prayer.
| The admission to the floor yester-
| day of hundreds of persons having
no delegate badges and no other
business in the convention except to
make noise for Smith, had caused a
great deal of protest to the conven-
| ton managers. Today somebody
made a gesture at least, of tighten
/ ing up on admissions to the floor. IL
| had the effect as usual of making 1t
difficult for everybody who had
business there and easy for every
| body who didn't. A hard boiler
bouncer stationed at the entrance TO
| the platform chased out several ma
/ tional committeeman and other dig
nitaries before he acquired some
sense of discrimination.
| Five minutes after the hour set
| for starting business there were still
many rows of empty seats in the
galleries and probably not one fifth
OF the delegates were in their places
on the floor. The band leader ap-
parently had found new repertoire
over night and went in for the classi-
cal. His band moaned and groaned
its way through some heavy stuff.
Half an hour after the convention
was supposed to be in order dele
gate spaces still had many empty
seats but the aisles were jammed
with crowds of people talking and
Ioafing there. In the crowded con-
versations going on in the aisles and
on the platform, the McAdoo lead
ers were seeking to drive the business
ahead at full speed and force the
convention to start balloting. There
were flying reports that this dele
cation or that delegation was going
to vote for Smith on the first ballot.
Such reports always are common in
every convention and never are safe
until the ballots actually are cast.
While the convention was waiting,
Chairman Hull's friends launched q
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