The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-16
KANSAS CITY
WHITE WINGS
SWEEPING UP
Delegates Turn HOmeward
Curtis Vote on First Bal
lot 1862 to 81
(BY BRIAN BELL)

Kansas City, June 16.-The Re-
publican convention is over for
everybody but the street sweepers.
The delegates, who for four days
tried with varying success to find
their seats in Convention Hall, are
on their way home ater nominating
Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis
for president and vice president.
The Kansas senator was nomi-
mated on the first ballot at the brief
final session yesterday afternoon.
The vote was 1852 to "a. This was
later made unanimous as a roaring
welcome went up for the majority
senator floor leader.
Kansas City to which conventions
are no novelty is returning rapidly
to its usual everyday tasks and
watching the street cleaners sweep
up the few evidences left of the
great political gathering. The
shouting is ended, but the arul
bands, hat bands, and brass bands
candidates photographs and recon-
nendations linger until the white
wings can do something about it.
Sweeps Busy
Plain and fancy sweeping Is
going on apace and nightfall will
find the convention city quite itself
again.
Before the first home-going dele
gates were on their way the huge
convention hall changed its dress.
Out came the G.. o. P. emblems, the
elaborate decorations and the stands
in which the 81 standards of the
states. territories and District o1
Columbia rested when they were
not being lugged about the track by
frenzied delegates cheering candi-
date.
When the Baptist convention
meets next month in convention
hall there will be nothing to indi.
cate that candidates for president
and vice president were named on
two ballots in this spacious meet.
ing place.
AS the Republican host wended
its way homeward, the bottom
dropped out Of the market for plas.
ter elephants, G. o. P. monograms
combination rattles and bells ant
balloons. The noise-making devices
and balloons and canes, knowing ne
political allegiance, were packed fol
shipment to Houston to be coupled
in the betting on the stands Of th<
street fakirs with the Democratic
donkey replacing the Republican
pachyderm.
Wild Rush for Trains
Before tie echo Of the final. "the
ayes have it," from the lips o1
Chairman George H. Moses dice
away there was q wild scurrying o,
men and women for trains. Many
OF the uninitiated were thrown fol
q loss by the dial system in vogue
in the Kansas City telephone sys.
tenn. One agitated young woman
complained, II have put your nickel.
in this thing trying to get Harrison
5000 (union station) and I have got
nothing yet" One trouble seemet
to be that she put her nickels in tn,
slot before she lifted the receiver.
Hotel lobbies which have had one
way traffic signs for = week a,
crowds moved constantly about, wer,
filled last night and this morning
with visitors on their way out.
Bellboy1 who have had nothins
to exercise but their voices and fee
as they PACED hundreds Of person.
nightly, found use for their hand.
- they carried bulging bags tx
taxicabs. Judging by the looted ap
pearance Of Hoover and Lowder
headquarters many Of the bags con.
tanned pictures Of the candidates fol
president and vice president.