The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06
TAMMANY LADS OVERDD SELVES, PEGLER THINKS March Of Hoodlums Left Thuggery Impression On Delegates
 - BRYAN ADDS OIL
 TO SMITH FLAME Amity And Tolerance Are Gone; Everybody's Mad
 At Everyone
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER,


 (By Leased Wire to Age-Herald.)
 NEW YORK, July 5.-The bright idea that prompted the New York democracy to bring the democratic convention here was to show the people of the west and middle west, and especially the people of the south:
 l. That New Workers are cut from the cloth of humanity.
 2. That one needn't speak Yid- dish, Chinese or Italian to ask the way to great Jones street. 8. That New York babies aren't fed from cocktail shakers.
 4. That the majority of people here work like slaves for living and barely gt it.
 5. That the praline, as Broad way now calls the sweet pappa of the cabarets, meaning a nut en- tirely surrounded by heavy sugar, is only an occasional phenomenon of the town and not the true type of metropolitan manhood.
 It was further believed that if dele gates from all the otker sections of the country could be placed in daily cir culation hese for about week they might dispel the old impressions that i: 1. All farmers wear billy-goat whis- kers and ppnctuate their conversation with .'by heck'' and ''hy craeky.s
 ?. All southernsra carry lynching 4he xesiaents Of soma sections only wear shoes On Sunday and the Fourth Of July.
 It was to be an occasion of sweet ness and accord. Enmities would be softered into friendships and suspicious into tolerance and trust.
 Something Goes Wrong
 Something seems to have gone wrong with the plan. In fact, one might designate a few specific errors in the execution. A
 For one thing, the lads at Tammany hall did not measure the impression they would make on the rest of the country by throwing the doors open to the lower East Side. They let the hoodlums go crowding, scrambling, struggling down the aisles and into the
 
 Smiths nomination. Al comes from rough-handed neighborhood. It is the old neikhbrohood of Kid Dropper and other accomplished murderers. It's streets have resounded with pistol fire for decades. It is the best-protected bootlegging territory in New York today. So the delegates from the rest of the country may have received the impression that vote for Al Smith must be vote for thuggery and the rule of .hoodlums. ..
 And of course, Bryan dipped in his oar. The nomination speeches had all been concluded it was understood that thenceforth there would be a reason ably fair fight on the floor with no as- sistance to either side from the speak er's platform. When Bryan took sly advantage of the permission to pub licly explain his vote, and turned the explanation into a campaign speech against Smith, the Smith delegates frothed.
 Something Appropriate
 Finally, an occasion arose in which the band-leader wanted to play an air suggestive of GeoSgia. He intended to pay a compliment, he afterwards explained. He had been paying such compliments for days and days. If the Canal Zone kicked up a ruckus he played, "Yes, We Have No Bananas" If Maine had the floor he played, Reuben, Reuben, I've Been Thinking" If it was Alaska he played, 'Kingle Bells," or something equally sugges- tive of snOwdrifts and sleigh-riding.
 For Georgia he played Marching Through Georgia" It almost caused new war.
 Now comes Congressman Upshaw of Georgia to contribute any little bit that he can to the cordiality of the hatred. Congressman Upshaw hardly sug- gests the kindly, broad-minded tolerant ideal. He is the living symbol of what New York would call a blue .nosed reformer. He looks as though he never had a good time in his life.
 Name Your own
 When Bryan opened his mouth and put his foot in it in his speech about McAdoo and oil, Congressman Upshaw shouted that he would rather have ''Oil than booze" which was a figure of
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