The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-26

perity and security" he said. "Our faces are towards progress. We shall not turn back in this conflict be- tween greed and humanity"
 Early Proceedings
 Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 26.-(Up)-The democratic national convention renominates President Roosevelt today as can- date-commander of a political or- ganization created by Q merger of the democratic party and the New Deal. Judge John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., river town near the Roosevelt ancestral estate, will toss to the 1,600 delegates the name for which they have been waiting three weary days. Judge Mack is Q boyhood friend of the president. He put him in nomina- tion in 1892. The name Roosevelt" exploded in Chicago like an artil- lery park all off at once. But the men and women delegates at this convention will raise the roof if they can reach 1t. The parades, counter marches and whoopla so far have been practice maneuvers merely. Today's will be the main top show and concert all in one for this con- vention, which ends with a single session tomorrow at which Vice. President Garner will be re-non- mated to run with Mir. Roosevelt.
 President Accepts Saturday
 The president will accept re-norn- nation tomorrow night. Within 8 week he will open @ campaign pointed toward the farm belt, where a radical third party movement browses in New Deal pastures. His midsummer invasion of the prairieS may carry him close to the front porch in Topeka, where Governor Ali M. Landon bases his republi- can presidential campaign. There is a feeling around New Deal head quarters that return engagements are lucky and 1t is recalled that Mir. Roosevelt in 1882 delivered a vital campaign address on agricul- ture from the steps of the Kansas capitol in Landontown.
 Party Lines Stretched
 Party lines stretched and snapped and traditional policies went over- board during the events pointing to tonight's big moment when MT. Roosevelt will be named to succeed himself. The New Deal and the dem- ocracy were merged by adoption of a campaign platform which grafted the administration sprout on the party tree. The merger was unani- mous-not one of the HOO delegate votes was cast against approving. A statement of party principles which was New Deal from its first word to its last. Neither was there more than perfunctory protest when the 104-year- -old two-thirds nominating rule was steam m-rollered Into the past by convention vote. This rule, boot ed out of the book by the politically sharp toe of National Committee Chairman James A. Farley, hay pre- vailed in the party since It's incep- ton. It gave to any minority, and especially to the usually cohesive and clannish south, @ veto power over majority favorites.
 Son of Champ Clark
 Clark's son, Sen. Bennett c. Clark of Missouri, proposed abrogation to the convention and stood beaming on the platform as the rule fell. An impartial listener might have con- cluded that the "noes" almost equalled the "ayes" in volume, if not in number, when the proposition was put to the floor. But Chairman Robinson hammered the report through without accepting the hint that some delegates would have well comed Q roll cali and more exact determination of the collectice will The contest had been billed as a dispute between the solid south as opposed to the rest of the party. But some party men in the north looked with some apprehension on the abe rogation.
 President May Choose
 Four years hence MT. Roosevelt, If he is reelected probably will attempt to exercise the quasi-prerogative Of undefeated champions. He will want to pick his successor. And as corl1- nander of the patronage army which accumulates during an eight year administration of federal pow CT, MT. Roosevelt will be in a po- sition to muster many votes, per- haps a simple majority. It would be far more difficult for MT. Roosevelt to do that if his man needed a ma jority of two-thirds to win. There were democrats today who pondered those ideas and wondered whether the party had not been marked with the New Deal more closely than many a weary delegate realized last night.
 Challenge Accepted
 Equally vital and significant, was the platform declaration of the party of & great states right cham pion, Thomas Jefferson, for an ex- tension of federal power, by amend ment of the constitution if neces- sary. The platform recited the in- terstate blights of drought, dust storms and floods and the problems revolving around working conditions in industry, child labor, minimum wages and maximum hours. It as- serted that these matters could not be dealt with severally by the states, as proposed by the republican can- didate and platform. Before that platform was adopted five national democratic figures announced they would bolt the democratic party If 1t swallowed the New Deal. Ditch MT. Roosevelt and nominate Q genuine democrat" they demanded. Their leader was Alfred E. Smith.
 HOOdIunns Start Fight
 Smith, the glamor man of 1924 and idol of a great political follow. ing in 1928, was heard from no more in this convention until high under the caves last night a crowd of young hecklers unfurled banners bearing his name. we want Smith, :" they chorused, but they got socks on the jaw, and a hustled parade down and out of the convention hall to