The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-27


 dren and Q donkey romped and Uhouted around the hall. There were bands, three of them, and an organ. Countless tin horns blared tunes Of the piayere' own deyiBlng. Ear drums quivered with the rack ct and 1t spread far from this hall by radio across the prniries and mountains to the Pacific Coast. Sweat pouring and clothes eskew, paraders inched around the hall once, twice and countless times un- til galleryiteg stood to look in arlazement. Still the show went on. It was an hour of hot and uncorn- foftable hysteria, the climax to an uncontested race. Every blister and each battered buniCn nursed by foot-weary delegates today is Q sym bol of the physical vote of confi- dence expressed here in Mir. RooSe- welt.
 Steam Not All Gone
 But the demonstrators sought no safety for themselves and when they had completed the of1cial 69 minute Roosevelt demonstration they kept steam up for recurrent outbursts as the speech-making went on.
 Alabama had yielded to New York to permit Judge Mack to place Mir. Roosevelts name before the conven- ton and the nominations were closed. But the speaking had just begun. The reading clerk bawled Alabama" again and up popped a head over the rostrun1. The head was that of Gov. Bibb Graves and he seconded Mir. Roosevelt's noEnin- ation.
 Banked in rows behind the ros- trum were the seconders. Sen. Hat tie Caraway was there to speak for ArlEansas. When California was called, the 1ank form of Sen. Wil- Ham c. McAdoo rose high before the crowd.
 colorado" "Connecticut," "Del- aWare," the call continued and each state was ready with Q hymn of praise.
 20 Minutes. For Each
 A 2O-minute nominating speech and s minutes. for each seconding speaker was the rule pronounced by Convention Chairman Joseph T. Robinson. It was difncult, finally impossible, to enforce. To speakers this hall seemed c vacuum to be filled with words. Two hours after the first uproar Subsided the speak. ing still was going on and the roll cali of states had reached the MS" Massachusetts" was called and Gov. James Curley let one 90 at Alfred D. Smith. "Ill Washing tons Day." he told the delegates, the men who walked out were known as tories and 1t was the pa triotic, intelligent citizen, the or- dinary man, upon whom he relied. Tn the present hour 1t is. the same group in whom reliance is placed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
 Could stand No More
 The convention reached the "N's" and John 0. Quigley of Nebraska. lIs, too, was for Roosevelt but ear ache was overcoming enthusiasIns and the delegates could stand little more. Chairman Robinson intro- duced 6 singer who has mastered the presidents favorite Home on The Range" and with that song and countless words burbling in their ears, the delegates marched ont to eat and drink against the evening. They had heard 26 set speeches and there were 30 to come. Saved for the evening session was the occa- sion reserved for bald, little Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York. L0hman has said he won't run and New Deal chieftains fear his ab- sence from the state ticket next November will weaken the pull of Roosevelt and Garner at the polls.
 Pressure On Lehman
 The pressure on Lehman is ter- rife and last nights demonstration must have hit him hard. Batteries of cameras levelled at him. Sweat trickeled from his pate to form ri- vulets dripping from his chin. Min- utes slipped by and the shouts of the crowd no longer were intellig- ible. The demonstration had be- come roaring source of sound above which not much could be dis- tinguished. Lehman signalled for quiet and the big parade went on. Chairman Robinson leaped into the forefront with Q believing order to desist.
 They Wouldn't Stop
 "Now get quite and remain quiet" he shouted. Nothing happened ex- Cept that each minute was as noisy as the last and the demonstration in behalf of Lehman had become just 6 demonstration. So the gov- ernor of New York began talking and those who saw him talk may read in the papers what he said. He was talking, obviously, because his lips moved and an emphatic finger was forever poking this way and that. There was something about 'the republican political leadership" but whether he was calling 1t good or bad had to be determined in the light of the q sunnstances, than on audible audid s. Something was the "spearhea < something-and HUu1VUuC klHu AlA1Sus 4uC ph~ rade went on, ken now into Q score of countA Rrching Ynaneu- vers and nonS Ading delegates amused themse, as best they could. usually bud and happy talk.
 Talked I'm, h Racket
 At 10:26 p. n the governor smashed through tI racket with a phrase which sounded like "mini- mum wage" He was shouting into Q whirlwind of sound. And then he finished and the demonstration re-, gained its Lehman character. A girl band wound through the center aisle. Up bobbed a sign deprecating the economy record of Gov. Ali M. Landon. It releated that Landon had balanced by budget by collect- ing 7O.20 per cent of Kansaa relief expenditures from the federal