Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
HOUSTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC BILLIAM VILE.

him. Reed Jared no better Davis
praised Smith and pleaded for unity.
Reed struck the keynote Of the Demo-
cratic attack on Hoover The Mis-
sourian aroused the dropping emotions
Of his sleepy and perSpiring hearers by
pledging his personal support in the
Smith campaign If Jim" does take
the stump. it's evident he's going to
hammer Hoover hard on the English
man" business. Scowling his most
menaeing mien--and Reed as a scowler
knows no peef--he warned the conven-
ton (accent on the convention) that
America faces, in the Hoover candi-
dacy 1.-THE gravest crisis 1t has ever con-
fronted"
A Hoover presidency, he Numbered
amid violent pounding of tbs speakers
table. would threaten international
complication OF the gravest caliber.
even another terrible war" 1t was
now the supreme duty of the Demo-
cratic party. Reed proclaimed, To ward
off that peril by RELOCATING Herbert
Hoover To private life. Cheated of the
chance to combat the Californian as
his 1928 foe. Jim" gave notice that he
would enter the lists against him rs a
valiant and violent campaigner on be-
half OF AL Smith.
$3.50
The blind Senator. Thomas p. Gore,
who formerly sat in the upper house for
Oklahoma, provided the convention with
the only entertaining talk delivered
from its loquacious platform. Cores
seconding speech for Reed was a gem
of wit and humor delivered in an in
spring voice and without the stimulus
OF a visible audience. viii Hays mn
proved ON Patrick Henry" ran one OF
Cores lronical shafts. He told Sinclair,
Give me liberty, give me bonds, or
give me cash
A moment later Gore said. Herbert
Hoover enters this campaign with a
teapot on bis dome: on that dome are
inscribed these tender and touching
words. Among my souvenirs,
Another wise crack that immensely
amused the convention was this. THE
Republican party at Kansas City put
itself on record In favor OF honesty in
government. Why bring that up9'
Hats are off to Glenn l., Shaver Of
West Virginia who soon will lay down
the burdens Of the Democratic national
committee craftsmanship II Houston
turned out to be lovefeast, in contrast
with the national diSsenSion OF 1924,
Shaver Is entitled to the lions share OF
credit Ever since that ruction split
the party up the back he has worked
day In and day out to bind up the
wounds IL left Shaver's tactics were OF
! the unobtrusive kind. but their cumu-
lative effect was the team work which
eVentuated in the nominating Of Smith
and Robinson by united Democratic
party.
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The Jackson day harmony dinner IN
Washington was the curtain raiser FOR
Houston, Shaver was its organizer, The
entire official machinery of this week
convention was of his design He
chose the keynoter and the permanent
| chairman
1t was his handicraft that brought
about the clearing of the party deficit.
| Shaver would not accept another chair
| manship, he declares, even In the re-
| mote event that II should be offered 10
| him But he deserves we'll Of the party,
which commissioned him To lead a for
| lorn hope In 1924. and which he served
| till II became again band OF militant
brothers,
y
BY common consent there was an
! amazing and amusing exhibition OF bad
! taste when score Of myaterious-l look =
| ing sacks suspended from the rafters
of convention hall suddenly opened up
and released hundreds OF toy balloons
marked Jesse II. Jones for President,
| They fioated over the heads OF dele
gates Thursday afternoon Just after
| Texas placed the Ieuston multi-mIl-
llonaire in nomInatlB As jones' hossed