Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-28

! gallery watchers spotted these prep
arations, and let out another cheer.
! Trumpets and cowbells chimed in
with a raucous accompaniment to
! the band as it attempted to play
grand opera selection, and the dele
gates greeting each other on the
floor had to shout to make them
selves heard.
The preliminary stages of tribute
to Smith were riding a rising wave
of noise and disorder. From it's first
feeble squeals and scattered yells,
echoing across the vast amphlthea-
ter, it had mounted to a continuing
growl that kept the long steel grid
ers of the garden reverberating and
took complete possession of the pro-
ceedings.
Walsh Pounds for Order
At II o'clock Senator Walsh be-
gan pounding for order. But the
aisles still were crowded with dele
gates who wanted to talk over this
Or that overnight development, and
with workers for the candidates.
An army of seargeants-a t-arms
used their best persuasive powers 10
induce the grinding mass of human
itv to dispense and leave the alsles
free. and Mr.. Walsh hammered
awav with a will. There was some
small show of success after the ell
fort to bring the convention to ORDER
had been in progress for five MIN
utes. but Just then a glee club sta
toned in a high gallery oVerhanglnS
the stage began to sing East Size
West Side" through megaphones
and confusion reigned again.
1t was the first time the unotIi-
cial campaign song of the smlth
hackers had been heard in the con-
vention, and the galleries echoed IL
and applauded the singers.
A. moment later a shrelk-lke cdI|
of a shrill factory whistle came from
a half hundred threats in anothet
gallery, followed by cheers Tor Al
Smith. Senator Walsh, banging
awav in the midst of the bedlan'
stopped a minute to carefully tlghteh
I'D the head of the gaVel, eVldently
fearing he had loosened 1t from lIs
shaft by his vigorous pounding. Inc
onlv answer to the chairman's rat
tat-tat was another SUCCESSION OIL
shouts. songs and clangs from the
galleries. On the floor, too, confus-
:on persisted, but it apparently grew
chiefly from the efforts of late ar
rivals among the delegates to
squeeze their way through to their
seats.
The paraphernalia that had been
planted in the delegates enclosure
Yesterday for the McAdoo demonstra-
ton had no parallel today.
Nearly all of the Smith demonstrat'
ing machine seemed to be in the gal
leries, at least for the time being.
Another GaveI Beheaded
Long go the band had become dis
couraged and cut off its concert. The
competition from the Smith rooters
was too much for it. From one song
to another the glee club went
through the Smith campaign songs,
and when they swung into Hail,
Hail, the Gangs All Here" Senator
Walsh retired temporarily from the
speakers stand to wait for a more
favorable opportunity to continue his
appeals for order.
A moment later the senator return
ed to the attack, however, pounding
so hard that the head flew off the
gavel and landed in the crowded aisle
ten feet below him. Almost by
miracle nobody was hurt. Senator
Walsh slammed the headless handle
Of the gavel down on a chair beside
him, seized another and went to
work again.
East Sides West Side, all around
the town" answered the glee club
to the chairmans best efforts and
then they wound up with three
cheers for Smith and took their seats.
A moment later the hall was quiet
and William w. Porter, G. S. B., of
the board Of lectureship, mother
church. First Church Of Christ,
Scientist, Boston, was presented to
pronounce the invocation. He asked
the delegates and spectators to stand
in silent prayer for a moment, and
then join with him in repeating the
Lord s Prayer.
Resumption of the calling of the
roll for nomination for president
then was in order but there was
short delay while the convention
secretary read some announcements,
including an invitation to delegates
to attend reception this afternoon
at Tammany hall.
Miss May Kennedy, of the Bronx,
named vice chairman of the con-
Vention yesterday, was introduced
by Senator Walsh and made q short
speech thanking the delegates for
the honor and predicting that the
women of the nation would help to
swell the tide of Democratic victory
in November. She was dressed in
a pleated white gown, trimmed In
red and carried a large cluster Of
pink roses. The convention gave
hat- oh OBJ l.
and repeatedly interrupted her with
applause. Then Senator Walsh
turned over the gavel to Miss Ken
entlv had been abandoned.
tory a national convention was in
the guiding hand of a woman. She
directed the secretary to continue
the roll call.
Stage Plans Upset
Colorado, the first on the list, did
not respond at first, but n moment
later Governor W. +. Sweet APP
peared On the platform. Himself,
urged by his friends to accept the
support of Colorado, Governor
Sweet seconded the nomination of
William G.. McAdoo on behalf of his
state. A previous plan to place Mr..
Sweets name formally before the
convention and give him the states
vote for the first Two or three bal
lots before going to McAdoo, appar-
! eLtly "a dbeen abandoned.
/ There were several minutes of
cheering when the name of McAdoo
was pronounced by Governor Sweet
md several delegations undertook
to organize a demonstration. In,
dividual delegates took up the state
standards of Georgia, California and
! Texas and started a parade around
/ the hall but the aisles were so badly
crowded with Smith demonstrators
that they had difficulty in march
/ ing. The McAdoo people manifestly
1 had stolen a march on the partisans
! OF Smith by injecting the name Of