The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-27
yELL-FOR-FUN
BOYS PUT pep
IN CONVENTION
Democrats Find GuSto Even
in Dull Business; Not
So G. 0. P.
PARTY FIGURES UNIQUE
Republicans Can Offer No
CoIorfuF Characters
Like Rivals.
PARTY FIGURES UNIQUE
BY CoURTENAY TERRETT

HOUSTON, June 27-Both the
Republicans and the Democrats
take their politics seriously, but the
Republicans take theirs solemnIy
as well as seriously, whereas the
Democrats, even when they're vot-
ing a dry plank or a low tariff in
dorsement, manage to find a vast
gusto in the proceedings.
That is about the only discern
Able difference between the recent
dreary happenings at Kansas City,
and this present perspiration- dewed
AL Smith caucus
1t is, however, difference enough
70 compensate to some degree for
the heat, the congestion and gen.
eral inconvenience of this Houston
gathering.
Yelling Comes Natural
It may be argued that Repubn-
cans, when they are caught in the
throeS of nominating the party'S
candidate, yell and parade and
stamp their feet, but they do it
perfunctorily nevertheless. When
Republicans yell, they are a bit
self-consciouS about it.
With the Democrats yelling comes
naturally. They contrived to get
moderately hoarse Tuesday after
noon cheering the band and a
young lady soprano for rendering
"Dixie" and they worked up a
veritable camp meeting sweat in
applauding Claude Bowers key
note address.
At Kansas City the mellifiuous
nothings of Senator Sim Fess. the
Republican keynoter, were as en-
Enthusiastically received as if they
were platter of cold flapjacks.
Nobody Like Jim Walker
Again, when Herbert Hoover's
name was placed in nomination at
Kansas City, the demonstration"
lasted about forty minutes, and that
was in two installments, at that.
It cannot be conceived that AL
Smiths name will be cheered for
less than an hour and half. If
it we're, the Democrats just wouldn't
want him.
On todays program are such ex-
citing incidents as the report of the
committee on credentials, the re-
port of the convention on perma-
nent organization, the permanent
chairman's address and the report
of the committee on rules and order
of business.
In none of these, the casual
observer would predict, would there
be any excuse for hysteria, and yet
It safely can be promised that be-
fore the day is out several hundred
Democrats will be voiceless and
limp
To cite individual instances of the
variance between the parties where,
1t may be inquired, is Republican
4 prototype of the late William Jen-
Z iings Bryan. or even of the current
j. Thomas Helm and Congressman
Willie Upshaw?
Republicanism has no one like
Che Hon. James j. Walker, COM
anander of the order of st. NORTH
and st. Lazarus of the kingdom of
Italy, and absentee mayor of New
York
Wants a Bit of Life
It has its prototypes of Boss"
Olvany and John w. Davis and
James M. Cox and Tom Taggart.
but where are its Josephus Daniels
and it's Jim Reeds?
These distinctions are attractive,
mot only to the hard working press
men who have to find something to
write about, but to the rugged
citizenry as we'll.
Such a one is Edgar c. Towle,
convention visitor, who is a dry, d
protestant, and a Republican, but
an AL Smith man, none the less.
Towle, an embittered agriculturis+
from southern Ohio, already has
chosen Smith as the man he shall
vote for in November. He mas come
here, therefore, with his wife to
see his candidate nominated. His
life has been one filled with hard
work. life of dull and dreary
e5attern, laid out along the lines
Of Republican Righteousness.
Il want to see some hell poppin', .
Towle explained, before I go back
and harvest the corn. Hoover's a
fire man, I guess, but man cant
read church papers all the time
He's got to bust over and go to a
movie now and then.