Evening star., 1932-07-02
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.


CHICAGO, July 2.-Democracy's
hosts have decided to do battle
with their Republican enemy un-
der the leadership of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Governor of New York,
and Speaker John N. Garner OF
Texas.
Gov. Roosevelt, who stands to-
day the choice Of the Democratic
National Convention for Presi-
dent, is to address the convention
at a session this afternoon, ac-
cepting formally his nomination
made SO dramatically last night.
Speaker Garner, it is predicted,
will be nominated for Vice Presi-
dent at a final session of the con-
vention which was set for pm.
today. Only a declination by Mr.
Garner himself would prevent the
nomination of the Speaker for
second place on the national
ticket, it was said.
Others to Be Offered.
other States than Texas, however,
may place in nomination candidates of
their own for the vice presidential
nomination and it will then be up to
the convention to decide. Roosevelt
leaders were confident, however, that If
the Speaker is willing to run for Vice
President, as they believe him to be,
the convention will nominate him.
In the final showdown at the con-
vention last night the roll call showed
Roosevelt GAS, Smith 1902. Baker 51z,
Ritchie 3D. White 3 and Cox /.
No effort was made 10 make the
election unanimous.
The nomination of Roosevelt, the
Overwhelming choice of the Democrats
from great majority Of the States,
leaves a considerable group in the party
cold and resentful. That is the group
which idolized Alfred E. Smith. who
broke with Gov. Roosevelt this year,
cutting ties that had bound the two
men together politically for many years.
A principal task Of the coming cam
paign will be the removal OF these Seeds
of discord in the Democratic ranks.
Next to Speaker Garner, whose re-
lease of his go instructed delegate votes
from Texas and California made pos
sible the nomination Of Gov. Roosevelt
on the fourth ballot of the convention
and the first ballot of last nights ses-
sion. the man of the hour was william
Gibbs McAdoo. chairman OF the Can-
1ornia delegation.
McAdoo Turns on Smith.
1t was McAdoo who announced to
The great convention the release OF the
Garner delegates and the intention OF
California to cast its vote for Roosevelt.
1t was the same McAdoo who eight
wears ago. leading candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination IN
tumultuous Madison Square Garden,
was turned back by Al Smith, Frank
Hague and a group OF allied faVorlUe
sons. 49,. .o,,,a.
on Smith. He pulled the remaining
nrons out from under the Roosevelt
pnnosition and tumbled the whole crazy
omit structure to the ground. McAdoo
NAV have felt a slight degree OF per-
sonal satisfaction in the doing.
Aside from that, McAdoo and Speaker
Garner did a good job for the democ-
racy by bringing to swift conclusion
a struggle in the national convention
that gave promise Of becoming more
bitter and perhaps as prolonged as the
Madison Square Garden performance
itself.
one by one the candidates for the
presidential nomination against Roose-
Welt came forward to declare their sup
port of the party nominee. All eXeep'
Alfred E. Smith. Smith, a delegate
was not in the convention hall He
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