The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-16
REPEAL PLANK
VOTED DOWN.
681 TO 472
Moist Plan of Administra-
ton Adopted After
Stormy Session.
SPEAKERS ARE HECKLED
Boos, Jeers and Cheers
Echo During 4-Hour De-
bate Before Ballot.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 16.-The prohi-
bition repeal advocates were de-
feated early today in Republican
national convention floor fight be-
fore a crowd which changed its
manners constantly from rowdyism
to the calm of boredom.
BY vote of 681 to 472, the con-
vention rejected the minority plat
form report, proposing submission
to the American people of an un-
qualified question of repeal or re-
tention.
For more than four hours the con-
vention listened to platform planks.
oratory and the gay interpretations
of an evidently wet gallery. Long
after midnight the last orator had
his say.
The roll call result never was in
doubt from the moment the dele
gates met at p. m.
Adopt Majority Report
It was inevitable that the dele
gates would be controlled by combi-
nation of administration pressure
and anti-repeal sentiment.
When the Bingham repeal or re-
tention plank of the platform mi
nority finally had been rejected,
there was immediate adoption of
the majority report--providing sub
mission of an amendment, which
would allow wet states to be as wet
as congress may determine, and dry
states to be as dry as congress can
make them by assisting in enforce
ment.
Galleries Boo and Cheer
Boos, jeers and cheers often
echoed in the vast stadium. Cash
customers in the galleries exercised
their privilege of liking the lines
of show, or not liking them.
They did not like the argument
of James R. Garfield, chairman of
the platform committee, that young
people did not today know the hor-
rible saloon conditions of pre-pro-
hibition days.
"Hoot, boot, boot" hooted the gal
lery.
boo, boo, boo," continued the
chorus of dissent.
Garfield tried again.
yah, yah, YAH drowned his
words.
A determined man, Garfield again
returned to the first word of the
offending sentence and the gallery
gods again would have none of it.
There was racket from the dele
gates, too, and for some moments
the disorder and uproarious disre-
gard for the serious business of
making national party platform
seemed to approach in fury some
of the demonstrations of past po-
litical gatherings.
Garfield Is HeckIed
Permanent Chairman Bertrand
H. Smell, appropriately or not,
banged for order during the prohi-
bition dispute, not with the shiny
gavel intended for the purpose, but
with bung starter. The frayed
ends of that homely implement at
tested the starting of many bung
with flow of beverage perhaps
alcoholic. The regular gavel
was lost.
You are guests of this conven-
tion," beloved Smell to the rebel
lious galleryites.
We're the voters and we paid to
get in" was the CHEEKY response.
Garfield finally rather shamed the
hecklers with a brief sarcastic ap-
probation of the galleries courtesy
and fairness.
Except for one or two speakers
evidently considered by delegates
and gallery auditors alike to be be-
low par orators, there we're no
further continued hostile inter-
ruptions.
Speakers came in bewildering
rapidity with Smell apportioning the
limited time finally in parcels as
scant as a minute each.
I come from Nevada where men
are men, and the women are glad
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