New Britain herald., 1928-06-27


 Arriving at the hall just before the converting hour. Franklin D. Roosevelt. hoor marshal for tho Smith forces. said he understood definitely that the nominating speeches would be made at tonight 5 session. Roosevelt will nominate Smith. as he did four years ago in Madison Square Garden.
 The second day of the convention found many of the delegates al- ready hoarse from cheering-and with much more cheering to come. Crowding into Sam Houston hall last night in the wake of a down. pour of rain that -pilled water spouts through the roof and drove of real comfort. both delegates and spectators cheered to the echo of a rousing democratic assault of repub- licanism and all it's works. delivered by the temporary chairman and key noter, Claude G. Bowers of New York. Twice he stirred his hearers to crashes of noisy approval that ranked almost as demonstrations once when he praised Woodrow Will son, and again when he demanded that the hand of republican oppres- sion be removed from the throat of the farmer.
 Real Action
 ha fn bed tonight it may have see some real demonstrating, for there is a possibility that nominating speeches for presidential candidates may be made at an evening session.
 Although the battle over first place on the ticket is conceded gen. orally to have about ended in victory for Governor Smith, much interest centered today in caucuses by the delegations from Ohio and Okla homa, the last to decide where they will go on the first roll call. The two state meetings were called for th- same hour. a little in advance of the time set for opening the con- vention itself It was unquestioned that a decision to throw to Smith at once the Ohio and Oklahoma votes his managers expect him to get eventually. would settle the whole question on the first ballot.
 The other headliner among con- vcntion disputes. the disagreement over a prohibition plank. was having its inning meantime before the plat i form committee. with more than a possibility that in the end it would have to be disposed of on the floor ! of the convention itself.
 Dry Organize.
 | Late last night a group of demo- cratic bone dry" organized to war { for party declaration endorsing Already a contingent on the other side had asked the platform commit tee to put in a plank for modified ton. It is expected that the bulk of the Smith strength. constituting an overwhelming majority of the convention. will reject both of these proposals and accept instead a pro- nouncement for enforcement of the constitution and the law.
 Convention officials, while thank full for the decided drop in tempera- ture that followed last nights thun- der shower, hoped today that if any more rain is to fall during the con vention period it will not come down either during or immediately pre- ceding session in newly erected Sam Houston hall.
 Floors soaked.
 Some of the arriving delegations for the evening session found their floor sections soaked, and water still dripping merrily down from the wet rafters after the shower was over. A small torrent had descended on the speakers stand itself. and tele- graph instruments in the nearby press section were flooded out. But the storm had ended in time to per- init the evening session to proceed in comparative comfort. with only a stray drop projecting itself down. ward here and there to surprise an unsuspecting delegate.
 Anyway. the perversity of the ele- ments was quickly forgotten when Chairman Bowers warmed up to his speech. The keynoter, an editorial writer for the New York Evening Word, is small man with a not overly-large voice. But he lasksd out his sentences against the repub- licans like a baseball pitcher throw ing curves. and the delegates liked it. The amplifiers carried so we'll that he kept the attention of the folks in the farthcst bleachers so distant that they must have been unable to distinguish much of the physical lneaments of the man who was addressing them.
 Speech Applauded
 Applause accompanied the speech all the way. as the speaker reviewed the oil scandal, recalled how Daugh- erty was driven from the cabinet. traced out the goings and comings of Will Hays with the celebrated Sinclair bonds, attacked Secretary Mellon as republican dictator without sympathy for democratic government. and fired few shots at the protective tariff.
 The farm relief demonstration in- terrupted the hours speech about midway. It began when one of the official convention bands struck up noisy air as the delegates were on their feet cheering. AS the band joined in, North Dakota delegate took up the standard of his state and carried it backward and forward across the front of the hall. For a M, hiIe ha waa A one lan narade. but