Evening star., 1924-06-26

| mer Secretary Houston was pree,o1
| with scattered handciapping, but
! there was demonstration ,rb
band blared little to givo ~,
| demonstrator who wanted to g, busy
cepted the invitation.
L. igoe Of 1IIinois sccoRdizss !cc@Rdizs9 M n.
nomination of GOV. Smith.
ArouseS McAdoo Backerx.
There was a shout from the Smuh
lerIes when MIR. Igoe declared thai
No oil has touched his candidate.
The McAdoo delegates Countered b..
yelling TO the chairman that the
OF five minutes, and loudly admonfsh-
ing Mr.. Igoe to stick 10 his own can
didate. When he finished the New
York delegation and some others
fforcrS IN the gallery cut loose in fun
f"rce, and someone started up the
IRE siren that had been used in the
man al smith demonstration.
The noise soon was quicted and
James A Dix of Illinois Was recog-
nIzed- He seconded the nomination
! OF McAdoo. and the McAdoo support
erS contributed another whoop Of ap-
proval
Raiston Nominated
NJ = 'F-iS u wave OF haDGCIdDplnE
! mat seemed to be general through ,
the hall as Indiana was called and
Frederick Van NUNS took the plat
form to place senator Ralston in
nomination in on" of the shortest
nominating speeches ever heard in
any poiItI"al convention. The dele
gates listened very attentivcly. Theg
appeared curious and willing TO learn.
several times The Indiana delegation
interrupted with applause.
Singing Follows speech.
Led by Thomas TaEeart, the Hoo
SER delegates stood cheering and
waving American flags when the
speech was over, and there was gen
eral scattered applause but no at
Tempt to start 4 demonstrate Mme.
case came out to the Spea kcr'S stand
| and led in a couple Of verses Of The
Banks of the Wabash j." and when the
song was finished there was a short
| burst OF cheering, followed by the
a song which ran:
Were the folks from Indiana" rut
to the tune of the Battle Hymn Of
the Republic The hall quick :
quieted down.
NJ F. HeaIy of Fort Dodge. Iowa.
VINO has been power in Iowa De
mocracy for years and is now store
blind, was led to the platform by his
young daughter and delivered d sec
ondlnS speech for Al Smith
Mr. Healy'S vote viii go to Me
Adoo under the unit rule, hut he told
! the convention he'd support the New
York governor if he could.
Dark Horses Wait.
The McAdoo and Smith demonstra
tlons We're the only ones prear-
ranged by the rival managers with
an eye for magnitude. most Of tho
others having adopted the dark
horse" strategy OF waiting for the
leaders to defeat each other and give
their men an advantage in the com
promise they-but not the leaders-l
regard as inevitable.
Among these were supporters or
Senator Underwood of Alabama who
pointed with pride to the vigorous 70
ception given by the convention y hen
Forney Johnston Of Bfr1ninghan.
placing him in nomination. read his
plank denounCing the ku klux Khan
and started d spontaneous dcmonstra-
| tiOn that lasted twenty minutes
Most of the anti-kian demonstrators
appeared 20 he from the Smith strong
| holds, and the most strenuous opro-
sitIon to the display came from deio-
gates favoring NcAdoo with some
fist fights and an unmistakable dis
play of bitter feeling surcharcire he
whole affair. What most plea sd the
Underwood strategists. however.
seemed to be the complimentary Cheo-
given the Alabama candidate after
the row ended and his name was
formally pronounced
Thomas Taggart of Indiana mean
while went calling, and showed no
signs OF diSpleaSUre when his favor
ite dark horse, Senator Samuel NJ
Ralston, was pleasantly spoken Of by
this person or that during the course
of paying respects or discussing this
subject or that. as the case might he
First he paid his respects to NcAdoo
and then TO Smith, and later had a
chat with his erstwhie political
roommate, George +. Brennan of HI
nois- Afterward he did some te1e-
phonins, chiefly to candidates he re
GREETED he had been unable to sec
personally. but no announcement was
made about what was said
About the same time the home
town sponsors of John W Davis we're
actively maintaining their silence
for publication-but it became known
that some of them looked upon the
days developments as confirming pre-
dictions that deadlock would elm
mate both McAdOO and smith and +.
was understood that they might Re
expected, in such an event. to become
more articulate.
Leaders Confidence Grows.
The McAdoo and Smith leaders.
however, did not share these views
greater confidence and Spurr-ng their
workers to greater efforts. David
Ladd Rockwell. the McAdoo manager.
added that he was convinced the con-
vention was in no mood for a pro-.
| tracted deadlock, and. with major
! ity reached in the hallOting. would
give his candidate the nomination
rather than force the convention into
next week.