Evening star., 1928-06-14

aloft by Hoover delegates In those
delegations and rocked backward and
forward above the heads OF the cheer.
ing crowd. The ovation had been or
for three minutes when the chairman
finally raped the demonstrators back
into their seats.
BY this time the galleries all were
full, and some one had stepped up the
voice simplifying apparatus so that Sem
ator Shoots words apparently could be
heard to the outer edges OF the circular
galleries. The crowd was quiet. but
there was much moving about and a
great deal of brow-wiDing and tanning
with palm leaves. hats and newspapers
as the delegates and spectators tried to
keep comfortable in the mounting heat
of the convention hall. 1t had been
cool at the beginning of the session. but
by now the temperature had climbed to
around the mid-June average.
La Toilette Takes Platform.
Just a flutter of handclapping greet
ed the prohibition plank, In which the
party is pledged to the enforcement OF
the eighteenth amendment. This plank
was something new, for four years ago
the Cleveland convention contented It
self with a blanket declaration for the
enforcement of all laws.
Smoot finished the reading in / hour
and Is minutes. and then moved the
adoption of the report, but Chairman
Moses recognized Senator Robert NJ.
La Toilette, jr.. who presented a mi
nority plank. The Wisconsin delega-
ton stood up and cheered, and the
youthful Senator was given applause
by the other delegates and galleries.
Four years ago at the Cleveland con-
ventton the minority report on the plat
form was presented by Representative
Cooper OF Wisconsin. one of the oldest
members of the Congress-
La Toilette in a brief Introductory
speech said Wisconsin always had sent
a Progressive delegation to the national
conventions and always presented a
minority platform. La Toilette declared
that while the first of the platforms
Wisconsin offered had been missed and
jeered" in the convention 80 OF the IS
proposals which had been made have
been written into law.
This brought whooping cheer from
some sections of the convention with a
yell from the south gallery, Alta boy,
BobP The young Senator read his mi
nority platform with vigorous gestures
and In clear. strong voice.
La Toilette Gets Cheer.
La Toilette got real cheer from the
galleries and some of the delegates
when he read his proposed farm relief
plank, which declared for the equaliza-
ton fee. When the Senator declared
that the President had prevented the
Haugen bill from becoming a
law by veto many Of the delegates
cheered. the Massachusetts, delegation.
in the front row right opposite the
platform, leading in the cheering
La Toilette bowed and smiled at the
cheering delegates and then took a
drink OF water. When the applause
ceased. he said:
Ladies and gentlemen: 1t is so un-
usual for a delegate from Wisconsin
TO be eheered in Republican national
convention that thank you
You're all right, Bob" Chairman
Moses said TO his Senate colleague.
The La Toilette proposal for modi-
cation OF the Volstead act got only a
OF applause from delegates
and spectators
The Senator finished reading at one
minute past IL o'clock after holding
the convention only 26 minutes. He
announced that the member on the res
olutions committee from North Dakota
approved the platform except for its
prohibition declaration.
Substitute Rejected.
Ladies and gentlemen Of the con-
yention, ! thank you for your kind and
courteous attention" La Toilette said.
and he was applauded and cheered
for nearly minute.
The La Toilette substitute then was
promptly rejected by the convention
with q roaring volume OF noes after
there had been scattering Of "ayes. a.