The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-07-31

away from II all In order 70 reHroup
their forces In an effort to get their
"stop Stevenson drive rolling. In
that sense, the following RON call
was a decisive and accurate test of
strength between the Kefauver and
Stevenson groups.
The motion that finally went to
another bone-wearying roll call vote
was to table Douglas motion to adj
journ. Final vote was 67l to 523 to
table the motion q defeat for
Kefauver.
Then the wrangle over seating the
South Carolina and Louisiana dele
cations began, with Gov. ] m e s
Byrnes of South Carolina butting
heads with Gov. G. Mennen VIII
hams of Michigan, one of the young
liberals who were espousing the
Moody resolution.
Standing Vote
In the end, Chairman Rayburn,
tough and incisive parliamentary
ian, gavelled through motion to
seat the two disputed delegations on
the strength of somewhat indie
cisive standing vote. Rayburn had
had his instructions and obviously
was determined to push through the
seating of the delegations in order
to bring harmony back to the strife
torn party and clear the way for the
presidential balloting Friday.
A field of II nominees entered the
hsts-Stevenson, Kefauver, Russell.
Hartman, Kerr, and Barkley, who
had been nominated Thursday de-
spite his previous withdrawal from
the race, were the major contend
ers. Favorite sons were Gov. Paul
Dever of Massachusetts,, Sen. Hub
ert Humphrey of Minnesota. Sen.
William Fullbright of Arkansas, Os-
car Ewing, and Senator Murray of
Montana.
First Ballot
The seemingly interminable first
ballot, marked by the droning polls
OF IL delegations, concluded with
Kefauver holding $40 votes, Russell
268, Stevenson 273, Hartman 1871,
and Barkley 481s.
BY the end of the second ballot,
Kefauver, with 1921, had gained
221s votes, but Stevenson's total had
jumped to 324h. Hartman retained
12l, including 84h from the New
York delegation which was biding
its time, Barkley went UP to 781a.
and Senator Kerr of Oklahoma was
hopelessly out Of it with 5h votes.
The lightning struck on the third
ballot-time of day: $3.50 pm. I'm
mediate cause of the swing to Ste
venson, which left Kefauver back
ers stunned and helpless, was Har-
riman's announcement that he was
withdrawing and was urging his
supporters in the New York dele
cation to cast their votes for the IL
linois governor.
When the call of the states was
completed, Stevenson had 6l3 of the
required 6l51a votes for a majority.
However, many states began call
ing for recognition to change their
sotes for Stevenson. Utah was-.the
first recognized, and with its IL
votes in the Stevenson column the
deed was done.
Platform Adopted
One of the surprises of the con-
vention was the fact that the partyiS
platform, containing its controver-
sial civil rights clause, was adopted
by the convention without even a
vestige of a floor fight. The party
leaders in Chicago had done their
work well in smoothing over a
threatened factional split before the
platform was presented to the con-
vention.
In general, the Democrats were
pleased with the platform to which
they promised to adhere. The civil
rights plank was surprisingly
strong, calling for Fair Employ
ment Practices Commission, al
though not spelled out by that title.
The pithy portion of the plank
reads: "At the same time, we favor
Federal legislation effectively to Sc
cure these rights to everyone: the
right to equal opportunity for en-
ployment: the right to security of
persons; the right to full and equal |
participation in the Nations politi- |
cal life. We also favor legisla-
ton to perfect existing Federal civil
rights statutes :"
Following the other generally es-
tablished policy lines of the present
Democratic administration, the
platform called for a continuation
of the principle of collective secur-
ity in conjunction with other free
nations of the world, as well as sup
port of the United Nations and a
strong system Of national defense.
The platform also pledges the
Democrats to combat initiation by |
means of the pay-as-you-go income
tax plan and by economic controls
$50 long as the emergency requires |
them"
Barkley's Ovation
AS Is the custom at national polit- |
ical conventions, there were plenty /
of ovations for party leaders who |
found their way to the platform on |
one pretext or another. The biggest |
of these, offered by the Democrats
this year went justifiably enough !
to Vice President Alben Barkley |