Evening star., 1932-07-01

SENA1Oa FA1 nhhhL6ONs
clared that it was easier to accept the
vote. and so 1t was allowed to stand.
After the result of this ballot was
announced, william Gibbs McAdoo of
California, leader Of the Garner fight
for the nomination, moved an adjourn
ment until $50 pm. 1t was seconded
by Arthur Mullen, and with a hugh
sigh Of relief the weary delegates
shouted aye"
Smith Gets Palm.
These Democrats are gluttons for
punishment For hours upon hours,
in sweltering convention hall, the
delegates listened TO nominating
speeches and seeonding speeches. There
was limitation upon the length OF
the speeches, 20 minutes to place
candidate in nomination and minutes
for each seconding speech. No hmita-
ton was fixed for demonstrations. That
is where the Rules Committee OF the
convention fell down. In consequence
the friends of each candidate sought
to give him longer and louder demon
stration than all the rest received.
The palm went to Al Smith. For an
hour the proceedings Of the convention
were held up. while delegations from
half a dozen States and territory or
two cavorted around the hall and the
Galleries waved and shouted themselves
hoarse, all in honor of a man who had
no chance whatever to be nominated
and whose supporters knew he mad
none in this convention. But they were
loval to AL and determined to give hlm
the outstanding demonstration OF the
day. They did. But it was the galleries
and the hundreds Of Tammany WORK
ers who journeyed TO TINS city IN spe-
cial trains that made the demonstra-
tion possible, aided by band or Two
and the huge organ which pealed forth
again and again, giving the lungs OF
the weary cheering brigade an oppor-
tunity to rest. 1t was not a demonstra-
tion in which the great matorty OF tne
deleaates had any part at all. Ana the
delegates, not the galleries, nominate, as
candidates have found to their sorrow
in the past.
Roosevelt Demonstration.
AL Smith received the same kind of
demonstration he found in Chicago IN
1924 when he visited this city as a
presidential candidate. He will always
receive a demonstration here and IN
other cities, the kind Of demonstra-
ton which goes to men OF Outstanding
leadership. -
The contrast between the demonstra-
tion for Gov. Roosevelt and that Tor
his former pal, Smith. was marked.
Not so loud, not so hearty, but never
theless enthusiastic and joined IN oy
all the States except those naYine
favorite son candidates and thoSesgIeW
States instructed for Smith. II ran
for tnree-quarters OF an hour. II was
ooo.I ehouy if mt the longest
Speaker Garner, placed in nomina-
tion by Senator Tom Connally OF the
Lone Star State, had he been mere
would have been proud Of the loyalty
and the efforts Of his friends from
Texas and California. With the dele
gates of only two States, Texas and
California, in line, the Garnerites Kept
the ball rolling for Al minutes, or just
a shade under the time limit set by
Roosevelt's supporters.
The nominating and seconding
speeches stretched on interminably 1t
seemed to weary delegates. An ad-
journment of the convention was taken
at 5:25 pm. after more than five hours
Of this kind of goings on, until pm.
Then it began all over again, While
the leaders in the convention were de-
termined to keep the delegates in ses-
sion all night il necessary to get TO
balloting on the presidential canoi-
dates. Short Of an all-night fllibuster
in the Senate. nothing more inhuman
has been attempted in political gath
ering than those long-winded speeches
and demonstrations-more particularly
the demonstrations.
Start All Over Again.
Having caught their second wind,
the demonstrators soon after the con-
vention assembled at 9 pm. went to
it again. The Illinois delegation, hav-
ing been denied the privilege Of pre-
senting the name OF Senator James
Hamilton Lewis as favorite-son cam
didate through the Senator's with
drawal from the race offered Melvin
A. Traylor, Chicago banker.
Then followed the placing in nomi-
nation of former Gov. Harry Flood
Byrd Of Virginia, whose nominating
speech was made by Senator Carter
Glass. The band of the Richmond
Blues, clad in its gayest raiment, led
the Byrd procession, which was con-
fined to an enthusiastic Virginia dele
/ cation and its followers.
] Another Senator stepped to the ros-
trum, Senator Tydings Of Maryland.
1t was Gov, Ritchies turn at last.
4 Probably no candidate of the lot has
more friends and admirers among the
delegates and in Chicago than has Gov.
Ritchle, and the welcome accorded his
name was warm, even for so warm a
night Bands blared, the organ pealed
/ and the cheers were loud. but the dele
! sation procession itself was scanty, with
| sIaryland,s own group providing the
/ great majority Of the marching throng.
On and on went the speeches and
he demonstrations, until Jim" Reed,
| Missourfs Andrew Jackson; Gov. AL
| falfa Bill" Murray Of Oklahoma and
Gov. George White Of Ohio had all been
/ safely placed in nomination. The OK
| lahoma demonstration was featured 6y
| the Kiltie Band, in Scotch plaids,
which has followed the rambling gaunt
| figure of the Oklahoma Governor about
| Chicago for the better part Of week,
/ a band made up of girls and men, the
! Oklahoma Scotch.
It was a great show Even the Re
I publicans in the audience admitted 1t.
/ There were. indeed. plenty of the Re
publicans who watched the Democratic
| demonstration. Frank Hitchcock, the
Republican national committeeman
from Arizona, former Postmaster Gen
eral and one-time chairman OF the Re
publican National Committee, sat in the
press stand for his own Arizona news
paper. and former Senator Henry Allen
Of Kansas was not far away. Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms was another
Of the O. o. P. leaders in the press
gallery, a newspaper owner in her own
right. 1t was great show, all agreed.
Boo SecOnding Speeches.
Feeling ran high at times. The Smith
and anti-Roosevelt folk in the galleries
took to booing the Roosevelt seconding
speakers. Homer Cummings of Con-
necti"ut, one OF the Roosevelt high COM
mand. a delegate from the Nutmeg
State. instructed to vote for Al Smith,
made a seconding speech for Roosevelt
amid jeers. A Smith man from the
Iowa delegation, instructed for Roose-
welt, took the stand for Al, and he had
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