Evening star., 1928-06-15
CONVENTION OBSERVATIONS
ny FREDERIC WILLIAM FILE.

CONVENTION HALL, KANSAS
CITY. Mo-. June l5.--If din. racket
and tumult mean anything, Herbert
Hoover's presidential bark has been
launched upon q sea OF wild enthusiasm.
The 24-minute demonstration provoked
by California's presentation OF his
name shortly after O'Clock last eve
ming was not a convention record
breaker, but 1t was an unmistakably
feryid affair. 1t can hardly be de-
scribed as a spontaneous riot OF Joy.
Hoover's victory by wide margin was
too long a foregone conclusion to pro-
duce one of those explosive and in
imitabIe outbursts Of exuberance which
follow a triumph wrung from events
In doubt up TO the last minute. The
thing that gratified the Hooyerites the
most was the geographical makeup Of
the delegations that iollified In hts
honor California naturally was in the
van Then Louisiana and Texas joined
In. The New England States were next
10 throw themselves into the happy
fray Presently State standards from
East, West, North and South were wav-
ing aloft indiscriminately. The ensuing
scene seemed 10 justify the Hoover
slogan at Kansas City, THE Nations
fayorite SON."
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Friends Of the nominee are tickled
that Senator Moses drove proceedings
10 finish before the dawn of another
day. They didn't want Hoover NOM
mated on Friday. As 1t was they got
him on Flag day. The Californian
sailed into majority harbor long before
the first ballot was completed and be-
fore the convention as a whole realized
II. On the stroke OF IL o'clock, central
standard time, the deed was done. The
roll call had gone only as far as North
Carolina~-thirty-f on the list of
States and Territories. New YoFk's great
block OF 90 votes had just been cast for
the fayorite, sky-rocketing his fast
mounting total TO S37. Hoover was now
only eight from the magic number nec~
essary 10 nominate. Then the Tar Heel
State was called n gave the Caiifof-
nian II out Of It's 20. That did the trick.
Hoover thus counted 554 nine more
than a majority The rest Is history.
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Hoover's closets friends In the Cool
idge cabinet. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secre-
lary Of the Navy. and william M Jar
| dine, Secretary Of Agriculture, were
overtoycd eye-Witnesses OF their COM
| rade's ascent TO the pinnacle Of his
| fame. Fhey have been constant attend
| ants at every session Of the convention,
| occupying adjoining boxes 10 the right
rear OF the speakers platform. Both
Kept the score Of the roll call that
| brought Hoover the nomination 80 cas-
ily and 80 decisiyely. Neither Wilbur
| nor Jardine II dem0nstratiye man, but
each of them registered the nth degree
OF delight when Hooyer'g victory be-
| shA
iofnian has always received credit for
puttiHg Wilbur and Jardine In The Cool
| idge administration. There can be lit
| ~ doubt that they can remain In a
| Hooysr cabinet. II such there Ia 10 bc.
| ~
Georgia produced the big laugh of
| tie night session. The Cracker STATE 3
| delegation has had 10 be individually
poiled on every roll cali, evidently being
| house congenitally divided against
Itself. While The delegation was being
counted from the rostrum, name by
name. member Of It, dusky-hued, arose
40 IL about 10 address the chair. Does
The delegate desire 10 speak," asked Gem
at0r Moses. lie indicated that he did
For what purpose2" the chairman in
| glllfed Hoover" was the reply The
ffst name on the Georgia roster Is the
noble one OF Benjamin Jefferson Davis.
y n
| u Was A case of Hoover versus The
United states Senate as far as formal
candidates for the nomination were
| concerned. All four men presented 10
| the convention are members nf the
upper house, Curtis, Watson, Con and
Norris, The Senate dominated the
convention roEtrnni, too Fesg OF Ohio
was temporary chairman and keynoter
and Moses ~ New Hampshire was Der :
msnent chairman, The senatorial note
vas overwhelmingly conspicuous In lhs
0fAtorieAi hoTl0fs Of TIE convention. ny
common consent, the only real speeches
kansas CITY has heard this week came