The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-16
FINAL SESSION IS
NOISY EXPRESSION
OF HOOVER LOYALTY
Galleries Are SparseIy Occupied
as G. O. P. Convention
Draws to Close
ASSOCIATED Press Staff Writer)

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The Republican convention turned its
final session Thursday into a noisy
demonstration of loyalty to President
Hoover.
The galleries were pretty sparsely
occupied again as the session opened.
1t was 11:43 a. m, when the con-
vention was called to order. At the
chairs request everybody stood and
sang a stanza of America"
Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman, of
st. Louis, Mo-, delivered the opening
prayer. He prayed that America,
with faith In humanity and with
idealism in our souls" might carry on
the heritage Of the ages.
Then followed a roll call Of the
states for the official announcement
of the new members Of the Republic
can national committee.
Smell cut corner by not ordering
the call of the roll for nominations
for president. He merely announced
the time for receiving nominations
had arrived, and recognized Joseph L.
Scott, of Los Angeles, picked weeks
ago to make the nominating speech
for President Hoover.
Scott Gets Hand
The convention gave Scott q hand
as he appeared at the platform.
He was applauded time after time
as he proceeded, but the really big
demonstration was reserved for the
end of the speech.
California, with front seat just to
the left of the chairman, set it off.
When Scott concluded with an ora
torical flourish, saving the name of
Hoover, after custom, until the last,
his fellow Californians came to their
feet instantly.
Most of the delegates over the whole
convention floor joined in the parade
which circled the vast enclosure,
shooting while band and the thun-
der-throated pipe organ alternated
with the music, starting with Cali
fornia, Here I Come
Every state standard was in line be-
fore the demonstration had reached
its climax with the release of thou
sands of colored toy balloons. BY that
time the demonstration had been on
for some 20 minutes and still was 60
ing strong.
Lawrence Richey, one of the presi-
dents secretaries, batted bobbing
balloons around on the platform in
an impromptu game of volleybal
with Ogden Mills, the secretary of
the treasury.
Mrs. G. D. Rutledge of Kaysville,
Utah, was lifted to the shoulders of
two other Utahans and carried about
the hall.
Screen Plans Fizzle
In the midst of it all the Hoover
men tried to get the throng inter-
,ested in some talking pictures of the
president, thrown on special white
screens at either end of the hall. But
the lights weren't working properly
and the marchers wouldn't be quiet.
All that appeared on the screen
was pale and hardly recognizable
portrait of a hardly-recognizable gen.
tleman, speaking speech nobody
could hear. Most of the demonstra-
tors and galleryites were not even
aware OF what was being attempted.
At 10 minutes to one, just a half
hour after the demonstration began,
Chairman Smell pounded for order.
Slowly the state standards were re-
turned to their places and the con-
vention got under way with its other
business.
DR.. Joseph I. France of Maryland
was put in nomination by L. B. Sand
blast of Portland, Ore, a state in
which France won the primary cleo
ton.
A big man, dressed in black, Sand
blast read a speech quoting from
some of the speeches of the Mary
lander, and praising them. He did
not, however, attack Hoover.
Before he got very far the crowd
began to call on him to name his
man. He went on amid some dis
order.
France Is Elected
DR.. France has been seated just
back of the speaker. On the conclu-
sion of Sandblast's speech, France
advanced to the front and asked per-
mission to address the convention.
Smell refused to recognize him, as
he was not a delegate. France de-
clared he wanted to make nominat-
ing speech for Calvin Coolidge. II
insist on my rights" he shouted at
Smell, but the chairman and other
convention officials kept him back.
Almost Immediately he was sur
rounded by several policemen. Two
took him by the arms and escorted
him away from the speakers stand
and down the steps out of sight of
the crowd.
The nominations were closed and
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Louisville, KY,
was recognized to second the nomina-
ton Of Hoover.
She declared she spoke "in the
name of the women Of America; that
mighty host that, Without regard to
party overwhelmingly supported him
four years ago and who, with in
creased loyalty, support him today"
Gov. WILDER M. Brucker of Mich
igan, a veteran of the Rainbow Divi-
sion, in another seconding speech,
said that If the president were not a
willing candidate, the Republicans
would draft him.
A woman member Of congress, Ruth
Pratt of New York, told the conven-
ton the party had builded better
than it knew when it named Hoover
four years ago.
Then Judge Frank R. Bentley, Of
Madison, Wis, added his second.
Active and Ardent
Taking up the parade Of Hoover
seconders, Mrs. Frank Mann, of
Huntington, w. Va, said the women
of the nation were "active and ar
dent" In their support Of the presi-
dent.
Roscoe Conkling Simmons, Chi
cago negro, named for a great Re-
publican convention hero. predicted