Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1924, Page 5

ONLY BIGOTRY HITS CONVENTION'S SouL Real Public Problems Have Cold, Academic Interest for Hate-Stirred Delegates. STAGE OTHER OUTBURSTS Little Reality in McAdoo Acclaim. Walsh Speech Leaves Hearers Faintly Enthused. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, NEW YORK, June 26.—Pumping, Pumping, pumping. all the midhours ©of a long summer day, the Democratic orators groaned and puffed and Sswedated. Nothing came out of the Spout. No emotions arose, A few maudlin kioodles were lifted and gave the band the cue to man the pumps 8gain; 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock Passed and the pumps still creaked. enator Walsh, the permanent chairman of the convention, sounded his tocsin; it was not a clarion note, A well-written speech it was, logical, eloguent, convincing to every one out- side of Madison Square Garden, He jirumpeted the wickedn and cor- ruption of the Republicans; told of the malfaisance of Fall, the graft of Forbes, the chicanery of Daugh- orty and the derelictions of the other Republicans in high estate. Now and then a feeble whoop of approval arose and the band blew itself red in the face, but failed to fan the passions ©of unterrified Democracy. They were cold and chaste and beautiful—those Democratic brows shining below Sen- ator Walsh, calm as marble, cool as a Bea of potato salad. Roosevelt's name was mentioned and got a lan- Suld hand-clap, and when Scnat Walsh in an oriflame of enthus . defled the world to Democrat who was tuined with cor- Tuption or had betrayed the American Deople, th Smith delegates began to snicker, when Walsh added 2 saving clause, “while he w lic office,” an audible gi over the great bowl of potato salad ike a blue bottle fly. When Walsh uit speaking the mechanical claque of the demonstration wheezed and “moaned for ten minutes, while the band manned the pumps and every one was thinking of something else. Sing Al Songw, A good lo of the Caro b committee el = » band played cat Big Beautiful Doll," :’xrlnvd T little. Some of the old sen- (tmental songs of the south wers hPrhIQ(d by the band. Then a hurlhf ern Union” Army song, “The Battle Cry of Freed ollowed by another dele- the It was conven- dullness did ny lack of proceedings. are rarely was free, until nearly while tion unutterably dul tion of the Democra mot come because spontaneity in the Democratic conventions bossed. This convention untrammeled and deadly, 10 o'clock. It was obvious that the convention had not heard its claric 1400 delegates and 14,0 all were thinking earn v of some- i thing else. young ticing attorney in Washi son of the late senator from Alabama, and accredited to that stute as a delegate, appeared in the speaker's stand upon the beginning of the roll call asking mominations for Pr dent. rather a didactic ay, p 'hhoul Underwood, but did ot name his man. The delegates visited, fumed & bit, walked + suddenly out the rather dull ess: appeared a clear-cut, left-hand jal the Ku Klux Kk but not naming the Klan With a swish and a roar come the emotions of that convention out of the pump. As the waters come down from Lodore, so did the whoops of joy and vells of approval tise from Great Hour for Irixh. It was a great hour for the Irish, They grabbed banners and marched. 1 tooic ten mminutes for the clamer so cubside. The yomne orator spene for four or five minuies and again landed upon the plexus of the Kian mighty. He named the Klan outright. Again the roof lifted, but this time the Klan forces, which were strong in the convention, possibly constituting a majority, made their angry dis- approval obvious. Kansas, for in. stance, sat sullenly, holding her ban- ner tight. — So did Oklahoma and Georgla. Texas wabbled only & little There was dissension in Indiana, but Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Mary- land made a joyful noise before the Lord. At last a subject was injected nto the proceedings of the convention about which the delegates had opin- ions deep enough to reach their emo. tions. ~ The twenty-five minutes de- voted to cheering the man who brave. ly and publicly branded the Klan af- forded the first genuinely dramatic moment in the two-day session of the convention. Beside that demonstra. jtion the farewell to Wilson was (a Hit was obvious then that the conve tion had been dull, because the del gates had only a_remote and ac demic interest in Republican corry tion, in the league of nations, in the challenge of plutocracy at the Cleve- land convention, and in all the con- tentions which ' politicians supposed ‘were the great issues of the coming campaign. When the issue that touched the deeper convictions of the convention was broached, the delegates responded. Then the pumps brought forth the waters from the vastly deeps, and the politicians who had hoped to stage this campaign upon one set of obvious issues found themselves abandoned and aghast. Senator Robinson Named. After Alabama’s orator sat down Arkansas presented Senator Robin- son. His name brought forth hardly the perfunctory applause that should have been accorded to a senatorial leader of his party. The roll of the states droned on until California was reached, when ex-Senator Phelan, who was to present the name of Mr. Mc Adoo, appeared in a genuine demo: stration. He talked all of the inter- est out of his candidate. His long speech would have stopped the nom- ination in a Democratic convention .of Thomas Jefferson running_on_a ticket with Andrew Jackson. Doubt- less the speech was one of those in- spired orations which candidates force upon nominating orators. The discourse was fllled with disserta- tions about McAdoo's record—a good record and valuable in the campaign, ut of no particular interest in a con- entlon speech. The senator did his best with the package that was hand- ed to him, but his effort was lost and the effect he might have had with a short, passionate Celtlc outburst of eloquence, letting the dates and the record go hang, was entirely lost. In the last, climactic moment of the ora- tion Phelan raised his arms and his voice in & burst of fervor and named his man. 1§ wes & signal so plain and the response was a demonstra- tion so evidently prearranged that the effect of what followed was badly hampered by its conspicuous mechan- fcal contrivance. Too Obviously Staged, The McAdoo demonstration burst upon the conventivn not like a con- flagration, but like a set piece of ficeworks in w park, its realism de- ' feating the spirit of its reality. The parade of the states started and for five minutes surged around the floor of the convention, but only the little | States were surging—the ,mountain states and the south. The great dele- gations remained unmoved. A lovely girl on the shoulders of bandannaed cowboys was followed by a trumpet quartet, white-clad women from Cali- fornia very beautifully leading the parade of the states; but, alas! most unconvincing in its prearrangement. The gallerles cheered and from ali tie delegations there was bandanna waving, hand-clapping and the clat- | Ten minut, fitteen . twenty minuj passed, while this din continued. fieht arose in the Colorado delega- tion, which was divided, and the state banner fell in the melee. As the bandanna and cowboy hats appeared THE EVENING waving above the heads of the dele- gates some cynical satirist in the press gallery was handing around an impromptu which read: Around her neck she wore a silk bandanna, She wore it in a manner that was wild and gay and free. And_when they asked her why she thought she wore it. “'Tis for my movie cowboy and his million-dollar fee.” Clubs Try to Sing. McAdoo singing clubs tried to lift their voice in noble song. In the end of the oval, just above the press gallery, a group of white-clad sophisticated city Irish lads, perhaps twenty in number, were yelling, “0il, Oil, Oil.” but much good their yelling did. They might as well have been playing a Jew's harp to Niagara. Twenty min- utes, twenty-five minutes, half an hour passed, and still the din kept on. It was apparent that the Klan, which had been taking its medicine from the Underwood orator, was having its sweet revenge in boosting McAdoo. Finally, the chairman's gavel stopped the McAdoo show, and the convention closed. But the dax brourht forth its fruit. Unless some miracie of lea STAR, WASHINGTON, ship appears in the convention during the next twenty-four hours to divert & ETowing Spirit of bIEOtry and race hatred, all the fine, high patriotic plans of those who hoped to fight the issues of this campaign along lines of economic moral, social and political progress will fail. Against this line of staple and fancy devils of hatred and prejudice men like La Follette | and Coolidge and C: and Dawes, “who have s about ‘American politic mg, will charge in v and and fury of the campa an idiot’s tule ending in nothing. (Copyright, 1924, by the Bell Syudieate, Inc.) — Rabbi Wise Gets Murphy’s Post. NEW YORK, June 26.—Rabbi Ste- phen S. Wise has been appointed to membership in the New York State Democratic delegation, filling the v cancy created by the death of Charles F. Murphy, celebrated Tammany | chieftan. The announcement was made t night from the residence of | Franklin D. Roosevelt, floor leader of the dele Though she is only seventeen years | onvention | fon | jof age, Helen Hamburgh of Ditroit | is sceking he: nd divores ! D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1924 ASKS AID FOR FARMERS. Gov. Davis of Kansas Talks to Business Men. NEW YORK, June 26.— Business men of New York were asked by Gov. Jonathan W. Davis of Kansas, a can- ' didate for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination, In an address yes- terday before the Kiwanis Club, mnot |to furget the farmers of the west. “You of the east must not forget that the farmers of the west need your help and co-operation to bring back their purchasing power so that they can continue to uphold the great development which is the country's right,” the governor said. “They need your ‘help so that they can continue to pour their products into the chan- nels of trade.” . 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