Evening star., 1936-06-27

Of people was no idle phrase making.
Their only regret is that the eight
years during which he is to serve as
President must be interrupted by the
formality Of giving him a vote of
ratification and confidence"
Delegates Are Tardy.
An hour and a half after the time
set for the convention meeting TODAY
10 am. few delegates had arrived at
the hall. Chairman Robinson of the
convention and Chairman Farley of
the Democratic National Committee
had scouts out rounding up the sleep
ing men and women, members of the
convention, many of whom had not
heard the announcement made at l
O'Clock this morning that the con-
vention would reconvene at an early
hour.
1t was 1880 o'clock when Chair
man Robinson finally called the con-
vention to order. The convention i'm
mediately began with routine business,
although only few hundred delegates
and visitors were in the hall.
A resolution was adopted authoriz-
ing Robinson to send a telegram to
the President telling him that he had
been renominated and saying that the
convention would await him at Frank
lin Field tonight.
Resolution Praises Farley.
a
Guffey Of Pennsylvania, praising
Chairman Farley of the Democratic
National Committee and pledging the
faith of the convention in his leader
ship, was adopted.
A meeting of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee is set for 2 o'clock
this afternoon.
Big Jim" Farley is expected to
continue chairman of the National
Committee, to run the Presidents
campaign again. No announcement
that he will resign as Postmaster Gen.
eral will come from Farley. It will
come from the President himself when
the time is ripe. The impression here
is that no announcement will be made
in Philadelphia, but after the con-
vention and the notification Of the
President is all over and the President
has returned to Washington.
Officials Are Thanked.
Resolutions thanking the officials
Of the convention were quickly ap-
proved. William Jennings Bryan, jr.,
delegate from California, offered a
resolution thanking Charles A. Michel
son, director of publicity for the
Democratic National Committee, for
brilliant work in combating the at
tacks of the opposition press, during
the last four years, and for setting
forth so correctly the aims and work
Of the Roosevelt administration.
The thanks of the convention to
Col Edwin A. Halsey, sergeant-at-
arms, for his efficient handling of the
convention was adopted.
The names of the members of the
Democratic National Committee Sc
lected by the State delegations to
serve for the next four years, were
formally presented to the National
Committee For the District of Co.
lumbia the national committeeman is
Malcolm S. McConiheS who succeeds
the veteran John F. Costello, and the
national committeewoman is Mrs. J.
Borden Hartman, a reelection.
Roosevelt Renominated.
President Roosevelt was renominated
by acclamation late last night, after a
day of oratory in the convention hall
that broke all precedents Representa-
tives of all 48 States, the District OF
Columbia and the Territories. climbed
upon the platform and made second
ing speeches for the President, whose
name had been placed in nomination
by Judge John E. Mack.
The delegates listened-some of the
time-to more than half a hundred
speeches, all about their standard
bearer. Some of the time they shouted
and paraded. They left no doubt about
one thing. They wish Franklin D.
Roosevelt reelected.
Midnight slipped by, and still the
seconding speeches poured forth.
Chairman Robinson of the convention
urged the speakers to clip their ad-
dresses. Frank Murphy, United States
Commissioner for the Philippines, actu-
ally did so. He used only one sentence,
and that not long one,
Virgin Islands Grateful.
The Virgin Islands was the last to
be heard from. It's representative
praised the Roosevelt administration,
which had obtained repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment and brought
prosperity back to the islands. They
make rum.
When at l2:45 am. seeonding