Evening star., 1928-06-14
SPECTATORS ROAR
INDIGNANT NOES"
Chairman Decides There Is
Nothing to Be Gained by
Hanging Around.
BY KIRKE l.. SIMPSON.
Associated Press Sfaa Writer.

KANSAS CITY. June l4,--A double
taste of the qualities OF Mr.. Moses OF
New Hampshire as a convention steam
roller chauffeur left the @. Q. p. CO.
horts Official and unofficial. looking
forward to more Of the same with
pleased anticipation as the third ses-
aion meeting hour rolled around today.
That is. everybody but MIR. and Mrs.
Kansas City was pleased. The pep
perry New Hampshire Senator caught
them of the base last night, just when
they were set to look in for few
hours on national CT lvention all
gummed up with platform troubles and
trying to find an exit. They roared
an indignant and reiterated No"
when Moses put the adjournment mo-
ton that smothered the convention
night session a-borning
Gallery votes don't count, If they
did the convention probably would be
sitting yet, and 1t also might be re-
called that Herbert Hoover got only
enthusiastic uproar at Chicago eight
years ago as a Republican presidential
possibility. but it all came from the
galleries of the dilapidated old Coli
scum where Harding was named.
H0tSe AomfS FROM FtOOE.
How times do change! The Hoover
noise this year is going to come from
the floor.
Certainly gallery votes didn't count
with Moses. Nor did rules and for
nalities weigh heavily on his mind
What would they matter to man
who has been known to try his hand
~ popping up the United States Sem
ate and gnt auov with ito
Having determined that nothing could
be gained BY hanging around waiting
for the platform committee TO digest
the farm plank monkey wrench on
which it had been vainly gulping more
~ than q hours without benefit of sleep,
he put the night session down for
the count with a speed and precision
that promised action when the con-
vention gets to its major floor prob
lens. Moses never batted an eve over
the slight difference OF opinion be-
tween himself and the clocks as TO
what time 1t was
II took by complete surprise the few
folks comfortably settled In spectator
seats and the many pouring down from
dinners eaten with pleased expectation
Of free vaudeville show at Convention
Hall to follow. They didn't know what
egates, convention officials, hangers-on
and even leg-weary reporters had
streamed away to the hotel Hobbies
with their babble Of conflicting reports
On platform and vice presidential
boons. the local sight-seers we're still
trooping into the hall and incoming
around, much disappointed not to find
q nne floor row in progress.
Chairman With Power.
But in convention circles proper
there was no objection voiced to Moses
methods. II seemed generally agreed
that the convention needed-and had
acuufred--a permanent chairman with
Babe Ruth hitting power in the par
liamenkary pinciles. A national polit-
Scai convention is ponderous body,
prone TO move slowly. II needs some
body with the nerve to cut corners
f1ow and then and save 1t from pur-
pcseless and resultless oratory.
That's Moses Job: what he was
picked to do. It's only when the steam
roller gets into action 70 natten out an
cbstreperous minority on a matter Of
real importance that an accounting is
apt TO be demanded Of the man at the
helm. That time Is not yet In Kansas
City.