Evening star., 1924-07-03
VISIT T0NEW YORK
GR|EVES DELEGATES
Accommodations and Enter
tainment Fine, But Some
how Whole Thing Is Flat.
TICKET HOLDERS LOSE
Friends of City Officials Take Seats
Paid for by Party's
Backers.
TICKET HOLDERS LOSE
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

NEW YORK. July 3.-More and
more 1t has been borne in upon the
Democrats that New York City is not
an ideal place for n national conven-
tion. The accommodations have been
wonderful. the official entertainment
has been lavish, but the crowds at
the convention have been anything
but fair. New York always has prid-
ed itself before on it's fairness. it's
tolerance, its hospitality. New York
ers contributed large sums of money
To bring the Democratic convention
to this city to show the people of the
country what a fine big town" this
was and to allay the prejudices of
the "outlanders'' against the metropolis.
Many things have happened at the
convention which the visitors will not
soon forget. Perhaps it would have
been different if New York City had
not had real native son of the side
Perhaps then the gallery crowds
would have been fair; perhaps they
would not have Kissed and booed the
demonstrations of the McAdoo fol-
lowers on the floor; perhaps the band
would not have "insulted" the Geor-
Atlanta to the sea; perhaps there
would not have been such unauthor-
lied running in of spectators without
tickets.
1t was thought this latter evil
would be stopped after the gate
crashing which marked the first
Smith demonstration, but it has con-
tinued and many legitimate ticket
holders, including those VINO had Of
fetal business at the convention,
haN h,r
lice at the outer portals to make
room for some friends of some city
official
BY Wednesday night of this week
the invaders" had become SO bold
that they usurped seats belonging to
delegates, and many of the latter had
TO stand up during the greater part
of the proceedings. This state of af-
fairs finally brought protest from
the suffering permanent chair
man, Senator Walsh.
Perhaps also if the Klan and anti
klan fight had not been carried to
the floor by the radicals, who SWore
to high heaven that nothing short of
specific denunciation of the hooded
order by name in the platform would
satisfy them, the disturbances in the
galleries would not have been so
great. New York City is a notbed of
anti-kanism. Tho oratory on this
subject aroused the passions and
prejudices of the local people, and
they expressed their desires in the
matter in no uncertain terms.
The legitimate business of the con-
vention has been seriously retarded
by the noisiness and unruly conduct
of the galleries and by the crowding
and commotion on the floor The
composing their own differences of
opinion. When the galleries begin to
take hand in the proceedings the
situation is wellnigh hopeless.
In this convention, as in many an
other, Alabama has dimmed the
freshening hopes of other candidates
by persisting in casting her vote for
Oscar w. Underwood. Some one ask
ed Victor Hanson of the Alabama
TO stick to the senator this time.
Until October. if necessary" re-
piled the Birmingham editor with a
determined look in his eye.
The Alabamans have insisted from
the first that Senator Underwood was
the logical choice" of the democracy.
The idea that Gov. Smith has re-
ceived his entire support from the
so-called wet states that are neigh
bors of New York is not entirely cor
rect. 1t is true he has received many
votes in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
Connecticut and Rhode Is>Nnd, but
he has also found support in some
of the dry and radical states of the
great northwest. Also he has had
some support in the south.
Colorado has given the New York
governor a block of votes from the
very beginning. In the Michigan
delegation IL Of the delegates have
voted consistently for Smith From
Minnesota he has received no less
than Is votes. Montana has given
him one, Nebraska, 3: North Dakota
New England also has had a lean
ing toward the chief executive of the
Empire State. Mr.. Coolidge's old home
state of Vermont has consistently
cast seven of her eight votes for
Smith. New Hampshire has given
him four and Maine four and one-half
The official food of the convention is
the succulent "hot dog" New "ken-