Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-26
Smith RALLY
BY CALIFORNIA
ONLY THRILL
Convention Adjourns
Until 1880 Without
Official Action on
Committee Groups

SAM HOUSTON HALL. Houston,
June 26.-CPl-A democratic national
convention whose major decisions
were all but made before IL ever con-
vened began here today IN arr open
ing session 80 brief that il was over
before the delegates got settled in
their seats.
Leaving the keynote speech. the US
ual magnet Of opening day interest.
for an evening session, the eonven-
tion merely went through the mo-
tions of getting itself legally afoot,
and then after a session of one min
ute less than a half hour, recessed
until 1880 p. m.
The only convention hall thrill was
not a part Of the session itself. IL
was "a short demonstration for AL
Smith, put on impromptu by demo-
Gratis from Herbert Hoover's home
state of California. The solid Smith
California delegation raised IN big
picture of their man high above their
place in the convention floor and a
cheer went up To the rafters from the
legion Of linen-suited Smith men on
the sweltering convention floor and
their summery clad women compan-
ions Of the Smith delegation.
Shouts or ''Non came from aII over
the great hall as the chairman an
nounced with the parliamentary
rapidity Of machine gun that the
organization-sponsored motion for m
recess had carried. Now that they
we're at it after many days of travel
southwark and hotel-room waiting,
the delegates seemed to like il and
want 70 30 on with IL, heat or no
heat.
A newly appointed platform COM
mittee will wrestle forward during
the next twenty-four hours I'm the
hope of getting a finished product,
including a prohibition plank that
may avoid floor fight, ready by to-
morrow or tomorrow night. Although
the convention officials forgot to ~
through the motions OF formally Civ
ing convention approval 10 the new
committee, its members already have
been designated by the various state
delegations and they are ready W ro
to work informally.
The keynote will be virtually the
only business az the evening session.
Voting for a presidential candidate
probably will not begin before Thurs.
day or Friday.
Hall N Hot
As the convention came together,
Sam Houston hall lay sirnmerfuR
under a merciless South Texas sun,
like great square platter of hu-
manity. A low-arched roof lidded
II, but there was some consolation
and comfort in the fact that the Iid
did not fit down tightly. Between
the upper edges of the scooped up
sides Of the platter and the roof
edge a fifteen foot open space ran
all around the hall. permitting a
circulation Of mir that was AZ least
fresh and unconfined. even IL IL
could not by any stretch of the
imagination be said 10 be- cooling.
The scooped UP sides which
sloped from the convention hall nr
east and north and south were lined
with spectators seats. like the
bleachers of "A baseball park. But
most Of the $4,000 seats were on
dead ground level in "A vast square
IN the center or the platter. The
alternates. and many hundreds az
spectators likewise were on this
lower level There were no gal
leries. -N. IA
Use Crows Nests
The west side OF the square was
the convention platform. arranged in
the now familiar style. with long
rows or seats for important person
ages and small speakers stand
projecting like a tinv pier in IA sea
OF humanity. exactly from the cen
ter of the platform proper. I'm place
(Contiaued on page ten.)