The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-01
Wild Scenes Were
 Viewed Last Night
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/, Miss Sara Ann McCabe, a pretty girl if ever there was one, started It all by stepping before the loud speakers at 9 D. m., when the con- vention got set for its all-night party. She sang America. She sang 1t well but she looked better. !. Governor Harry Flood Byrd was about to be nominated. Byrd Scouts looked them over and found Miss Margaret Penfeld, now of Chicago but once of Winchester, Va. They decided she would do. She did. She almost stopped the Byrd parade. Good Virginian gen. tlemen listened eagerly to Senator Carter Glass shout the virtues of their former governor and they re- solved on such a parade as there never was before. They listed only 15 minutes. , Miss Penfield succeeded Senator Glass at the speakers rostrum and substituting beauty for argument she waved a flag and stopped the show.
 Admiral Richard l.. Byrd, ex- plorer brother of the former gov ernor, joined Miss Penfield. More paraders stopped. Before long that demonstration was over. Then Illt- nois offered favorite son, Banker
 Melvin A. Traylor. Michael Igoe, Chicago, offered Traylor to the convention as the understanding
 friend ~of the farmer.
 l Orin Eccles of San Francisco
 intervened as Igoe was saying that I his candidate had not seen a rail- ] &xal alv. .1,ntn 1xyn a ss
 old.
 T move we adjourn" said MT
 Eccles. l He said 1t without benefit of loud speaker but he was heard. Chairman Walsh glared and someone persuaded MT Eccles to sit down but not for long.
 | This is no time for ballyhoo, for Pollyanna," said Igoe." We need business statesmanship of the
 highest order" | T move we adjourn" said Eccles In 8 cold, matter-Of-fact tone calculated to convey to the lconvention that 1t had better ad- journ or it would get along with
 out MT Eccles.
 Igoe went right on. Chairman Walsh was angry. Eccles suddenly decided to let the convention go
 hang. With slow, deliberate mo-
 tions, he put on his hat, he put on his coat, he turned a broad back on Igoe, Chairman Walsh and | the headliners of the democratic party and walked out.
 Igoe won 16 minutes of parad- ing, organ music and shouts for Traylor. Tho banker, sitting in 6
 box with Mrs Traylor seemed to
 enjoy' the show.
 Senator Willard Tydings, . wet,
 Maryland democrat, had been sit-
 ting all these hours waiting to nominate Governor Albert c. Rit- chic. Next to former Governor Alfred E. Smith, Ritchie appears to be the choice of the galleries at this convention. He has 16 pledged
 votes on the convention floor. But i, the Ritchie demonstration surpass-
 ed by two minutes the 43 minutes
 parade recorded Governor Frank | lin D. Roosevelt. | Some of those 45 minutes seem
 ed to be inspired by, Mrs Wallace
 Lanahan, who went the others one
 better in looks and had the fore-
 sight to realize that one Alp on
 the speakers platform remained
 unscaled. That was the reading
 table itself which all afternoon and into the night had supported the
 elbows of governors. senators and
 bigwigs in the throes of oratory. | Mrs Lanahan stepped right up,
 brandished a flag. She stood gently
 swaying to the music of bands and
 organ. Paraders couldn't reach her. They did the next best thing. They surrendered their state standards
 until the beauty from Baltimore
 had a whole bouquet of them.
 The odds were that she would | fall. Some hundreds of paraders paused beneath her perch hoping I that If she had to tumble she might
 tumble on them. But she stuck
 there for 45 minutes. Governor
 Ritchie sitting alone in Q little room off the floor was treated by radio to tumultuously noisy de- tmonstration in his honor.
 I The Roosevelt, Garner and Smith demoi1strations took some of the starch out of delegates in lthe afternoon. Endless oratory and the night parades took more. | When the name of Senator James A. Reed, Missouri, was of Il fered, the weary crowd cheered three minutes but did not parade l Galleries began emptytng after Ritchie's show. Former <. senator Atlee sPomerene nominated Gov I George White of Ohio. There was no demcnstration. The convention lhad discharged its ammunition The fireworks were all exploded I ~ I fHErsa s1N TvRryB