The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-14
Conn. Standard Men

Standards were set up for Penn. sylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin Iowa, Maryland, Maine, Delaware Massachusetts, Indiana, California Rhode Island, Kentucky, West Vir- ginia, Kansas, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Missouri Connecticut, New Jersey, South Da- kota, Ohio, Michigan, New York and Illinois.
 Led by the N. U. 8. J. quartet from Royal Oak, Mich, the dele- gates sang the Star Spangled Ban- ner. They started weakly but gained an intensity that almost drowned out the auditorium organ.
 Then with raised right hands, the delegates thundered the N. U. s. J. pledge.
 There appeared to be more wo- men than men in tho crowd. They remained standing while Msgr. John R. Kenny, of Cleveland, delivered the invocation.
 Call To Convention
 The coll to tho convention, de- fining It's purpose as adoption of c N. U. S. J. constitution and the election of officers, was read by Sweeney. It was signed by Father Coughlin.
 The bushy and dark-haired Sen. ator Rush Holt, D., W. Va, keynote speaker, thumbed through his ma nuscript, checking here and there with Q pencil. William danson rose, welcoming the delegates on be- half of the Great Lakes exposition, reused cheers with Q reference to enthusiasm aS the keynote of the convention"
 Delegates loosed on earsplitting demonstration in behalf of Father Coughlin. They charged the press box area to welcome the young priest.
 Wild Demonstration
 Women pushed and showed with men in the wild demonstration.
 Visitors and delegates who could not jam their way to the front stood on chairs and added their shouts to Q demonstration equalled in this hall during the republican national convention or the Townsend meet. ing.
 "Hurray for Father Coughlin, the United States greatest American" was q constant chant.
 State banners swept into the par. ade. Coughlin rapped for order. The organist tried to calm tho crowd but the swelling human voices drowned the blare of mechanical pipes.
 Temporary Chairman Sweeney had introduced Father Coughlin as the leader of the National Union for Social Justice and "the outstanding American of all time." Delegates jumped to their feet. A parade be- gan around the hall, with each marcher waving a personal greeting to the Detroit priest.
 Lasted IA Minutes
 Father Coughlin rapped repeated ly for order, but the din increased. He began to speak after the demon- stration had lasted l4 minutes and the crowd was silenced.
 The priest attacked those who change the constitution in this, the greatest nation of civilization"
 Waving a gavel carved from the hull of the historic American F'ri- gate Constitution, Father Cough- lin recalled the history of the Amer lean revolution, drawing an analogy between the present situation in the United States and the rebellion against "the absentee Cwner-lordS in England"
 He pledged his organization "to stand on the whole constitution"
 America has not failed" he shouted, nor has its constitution, but some times those have failed whose duties 1t was to uphold the constitution.
 We dedicate these days to the city of Cleveland and hope to leave this city and the nation a better place than we found it." Great Cross Section Father Coughlin described his National Union as a great cross section of the United States-Cath- olic, Protestant and Jew"
 We are citizens who have not been accustomed to tin cup our way through life or participate in any social revolution which would make tin cuppers or panhandlers of de- cent Americans" he said. In Political Game
 Public Hall, Cleveland, Aug. IA (UP)-Rev. Charles E. Coughlin lifted from parish obscurity to leac an incalculable force in American politics. assembled the first conven. ton of his National Union for socia Justice today and moved boldly ints the 1886 presidential campaign.
 He expects at least 185-more thar one-third-members of the nex House of Representatives to b, pledged to his N. U. s. J. program The priest believes it possible, ever probable. that the next occupant O tIna HfThita TTn,taa mill 1a t.ts =. .sl