Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1928, Page 7

T Hospitality House Justifies Its Name for Thousands Outside Convention Hall A Republican would never have uld‘ - BETTERTHANSEAT | INHALL MANY SAY Clearest Way—Barroom Fans Cool Crowd. BY D. HAROLD OLIVER, Associated Press Special Writer. HOUSTON. June 27 pitality House. the specially built pa- villan rendezvous for visitors and home folk denied the privilege of sceing the Democrats do their stuff, lived up to fis name vesterday and gave hundreds of coatless and hatless conventionists 2 vivid picture of just what was going on_scross the street in Sam Houston Hall Equipped with all the comforts of ome, this $25.000 harborer of what might have been hundreds of hangers- on at the convention doors, waiting for just a peek at the proceedings inside. proudiy and in wholesale fashion dis- the widely advertised “true spitality” during the brief opening session. Heard Program Clearly. It reproduced for its guests every word from the platform through three huge amplifiers hooked up to the pub- lic address system of the convention broadcasters, and so satisfied did the customers appear that many decided to forego the opportunity afforded non- ticket holders to see the goings on from the rear of the convention hall itself and to rewmrn where one can stretch his legs, roll up his sleeves and smoke the old corn cob pipe. “T'd rather be here than inside the hall itself,” was heard on every hand Although they could not see, guests in Hospitality House heard the platform remarks even more plainly than spectators in the hall, for all the floor confusion was eliminated in the amplification. Occupying a city block and equipped with 180 old-time overhead barroom fans. the huge shelter provided a sem- blance of the convention itself. Sections Houston's Hos- Judge Olvany, Tammany Hall leader; F. Eagan, secretary of Tammany Hall, in front of the Smith headquarters. which the Republicans would never have permited to occur, the Democrats set out by the thousands last night to reach Sam Houston Hall, with the rain still coming down. enough taxicabs. The Republicans would have had plenty of around one-way streets that the Repub- |licans would have made open to any the | and all convention-bound traffic, stalled because of a slipping clutch. publican bus driver would never have held up his bus because of a slipping clutch. He might have held it up, but it wouldn't have been with a slipping clutch. And after lots of good-natured advice from the Democrats in the bus, the driver finally got the vehicle under | way again. There were not taxicabs. One after wending of the special busses, A Re- If Republicans had been | were set aside for each State, but sec- | in that bus they would not have given | tionalism disappeared in the fraterniz- ing and agreeable throng, and Rhode | good-patured advice. either have told the driver what a ‘They would Isianders sat with Nebraskans and Mon- | rascal he was to_have & slipping clutch, tanans mingled with Mississippians. Coolest Place in Town. “Coolest place in town,” said many. | Even a big ebony paper picker went | sbout his job of spearing waste tidbits without a sign of perspiration on his “I'm coming back tonight; sounds good to me.” one man said. One woman who joined the throng had a ticket to the convention, but she was itious. | “Now isn’t that funny; they put me 1o listen instead of look. | Another woman guest was giving an ‘excuse for an excess of rouge. | “I've had the blues this morning; { that's why you see so much red.” Oscan F. Holcombe, mayor of Hous- | ton, brought the crowd to its feet when, in his address of welcome to the dele- gates, he explained the Texas form of welcome as analagous to that of one | meighbor to another. Make Yourself at Home. o ¢ E belles had on their best to parade before those ho affected a “show me” attitude. official registers for visitors had Ef | when Cem Shaver hammering with his gavel, no one pay- ing the least bit of attention. had that convention IR ) time to the minute and if the delegates in 13." she told a friend, and sat down | didn't keep still he would have the | sergeant-at-arms | with machine guns. or they would have charged him for telling him how to fix it. And after fighting the battle of Sam Houston Hall the delegates and their guests were in their seats, or near them | talking and having a good time when | the session was supposed 10 begin. But it was 17 minutes after opening time began aimlessly A Republican chairman would have under way on policing the phoe% But Clem Shaver simply hammered: | & picture of futility. He hammered for | house came down. No better time than NOW | pected. | nator Williami H. King of Utah, Senator Robinson of Arkamss and James 6 minutes by the clock, and then a clergyman, with a prayer, quieted things. It takes a gavel to quiet Re- publicans; it takes a prayer to quiet Democrats. It was 8 o'clock, half an hour late, before the business got under Way. Then Claude Bowers began his speech. | In the first place, who is this Claude | Bowers? He is no friend of Presidents, spokesman for administrations, enunei- ator of policies. He is an editorial writer on the New York Evening World, who happened to make a hit with a Jackson day address; who, it had been discovered, has spent much of his life with his nose in_history books and who knows what the Democratic party is all about. The Republicans would not have picked him for the keynoter. But the Democrats did. The Demo- crats knew that Mr. Bowers, in the first place, can turn a pretty sentence and knows the meaning of words, and who, despite his unprepossessing #p- pearance, would make Democrats. vell and shout and turn ecstatic somersaults The Republicans wouldn't care for that sort of thing, | he yelled, So what followed when Mr. Bowers | began to speak was only to be ex- ‘When he lambasted the Re- publican party, the Democrats howled in devilish glee. It was what they wanted. When he drew the philosoph- ical boundary line between Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian principles they nodded their heads in agreement. And when he said that the Democrats were going 10 see that the hands of special privi- lege were taken out of the farmer's pocket and from around his throat the The Republicans ; | PROMINENT SMITH BOOSTERS AT HOUSTON | | that. The parade over, the perspiring dele- gates, already worn out from s hard | day.. took their seats, smiling happily. ‘They had had & good time. A Repub- | lican would not have considered that parading was so exceptionally remuner- ative in the form of emotional stimu- iant. A Republican would have pre- ferred to sit still. So it goes. When & band played at Kansas City the Republicans gathered around wnd regarded it with interest, ome of them becoming excited o the xtent of wildly walking about. But lLiere when & band enters & stiflingly not hotel lobby—where those crealing any excitement should be fined and put i juil-—the Democrats break loose and | yell lustily. The Houston Ladies' Band always manages to strike a painfully flat_note on varts of “The Sidewalks of New York,” but the flatter the note the heavier the cheering from the Democrats. Visitors Join in Song. Here in Houston six fat men with- | out coats and with handkerchiefs tied around their necks enter the parlors temporarily occupled by the Smith neadquarters. One of them goes all the way across the room and shouts at the top ot his voice, “Where you fel- iows from?” “We're irom Ioway,” shout the me; Then they put their heads togeth and sing in nerve-racking discordance, | “Ioway, Ioway, etc,” while the crowd cheers them on. | “Who you fellows going to vote for yells the man on the other side of the DRY FIGHT JOINED BY MARYLANDERS Back Gov. Ritchie in Stand for States’ Rights on Prohibition. | By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., June 27.—Confident that the nomination of Gov. Al Smith | of New York would come on an early ballot, Maryland delegates to the Democratic national convention have settled down to actively support their chairman and leader, Gov. Albert C. | Ritchie, in his fight for States' rights on_prohibition. “We are all for Gov. Smith for nomi- nation and for Gov. Ritchie in almost anything he undertakes,” said Mrs. Elizabeth Menefee of Cumberland, new national committeewoman. “Despite | our belief that Gov. Smith is the logicil choice for President we yield to no one as regards to the ability of our gov- ernor.” Occupy Front Seats. , | The delegation last night attended the | second session of the convention to Convention § HOUSTON, June 27.—Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, national committeewoman from the District of Columbia, and Mrs. Mary T. Norton, first and only Demo- cratic woman in Congress, who is & member of the House District com- milttee, sat side by side throughout the wee small hours of the morning in a sweaty room while the credentials com- mittee heard Lhe various contests. At 3 a.m. Mrs. Norton was eating a sandwich and drinking & bottle of coffee which James Willlam Bryan, district delegate, brought her from a uelghboring lunchroom. Mrs, Harriman and Mrs. Marie D. Marye, delegate from the District, are to be guests of honor tomorrow at a breakfast on the roof of the Rice Hotel, | given by the women of the Texas dele- | gation. | sk | Within & square of the Convention | Hall is the birthplace of Col. E. M. House, which has been marked with a | bronze tablet by the Daughters of the | Republic of Texas. Col. House was born | there July 26, 1858. The number of those who are stand- | ing around hoping for the vice presi- | dential sun to shine upon them is in- creasing daily. There are 57 whose | names have been advanced for this | office. Last night large placards ap- | peared in ull the hotel lobbies offering | Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky for the honor, with the slogan “embark with Barkley and carry the border room. “Al Smith,” boom the barber shop boys from “loway” and the crowd gets a tremendous kick out of that. In Kansas City the boys from “Towa; were terribly depressed and went about sighing over the difficulty of trying to make the corn grow tall without a 'm relief bill. Here in Houston a door along & hotel corridor will fly open and the passerby. total stranger that he is, is boisterously —P. & A. Photo. would have applauded with a flutter of handclapping and a cheer or two from Republicans with Democratic com- plexes. But the Democrats stagéd a riot. They velled and they stood up on their chairs and they waved their hats and they began to parade. total stranger X nvites 0 Join a graj uice rty, pro- Rhetoric Starts Parade. vided the passerby is Woe. e, chsedbaete In a Republican convention the pa- | favored by the grape juice drinkers. In vade is the maximum of emotionalism, | Kansas City the Republicans conserved reserved exclusively for the nominations | their grape juice by not inviting the of presidential candidates. But the passerby Lo join them, 1o matter whom Democrats started a parade u\'erll the passerby favored with his patronage. nice plece of rhetoric and a catchy . mu(np‘l’wr. Everybody joined the pa Split by Dry- Debate. rade, including the District of Co- sn't the liquor issue before the another sign of their emo- lumbia, whose vast agricultural regions are so well known and whose interest tionalism? What, after all, has a party in the economic difficulties of the farm- | platform to do with prohibition in the is so Intense. And when a Georgian, | United States? Yet, because the argu- at, perspiring Georgian, passed the | ment is mentally stimulating and ex- press box waving the Georgia standard | pressive, some good Democrats are per- fectly willing to split their party by and shou at the top of his voice, | I'm a farmer’s boy. I want aimless debate. The Republicans, as ‘em to take that hand of privilege outta | nessed at Kansas City, avolded such my pocket and from around my neck.” | debate. AMERICA'S GREAT FURNITURE STOR KAUFMANNS Daily Special | her the keynote address delivered by | | Claude G. Bowers of New York, but | | anxfous for the opportunity to come to | |'cast a solid vote for Gov. Smith. The | delegates were certain not to receive | committeeman, found time to discuss any dust that might be created by the | horses and fox hunts with friends. Smith bandwagon, as they were holding | A wandering group of minstrels seats right on the front. | parked under the Maryland headquar- States.” Gen. Henry T. Allen is still another candidate. The delegates cheered wildly when | ters yesterday, and in the shadow of | th, patriotic anthems were sung by the the State's flags blared away Wwith convention the opening session. | “Maryland, My Maryland.” Every one was glad that it was short, | Mrs. Menefee and Mrs. B. Ashby |as the Texas sun bearing down un-|Leavell were guests at the Country Club [ mercifully from a clear sky ran the yesterday in a party arranged by Mr. | temperature considerably higher than | and Mrs. Elmer Hines, formerly of that tempered by breezes from the Maryland, but now residents of the | Chesapeake Bay and the Allegheny Lone Star State | Mountains. | Frank Kent, political writer for the | Budges with the Maryland State flag | Baltimore Sun, was author of the poli- appeared today, and every one entered | tical articles in the program that drew }into & carnival spirit at the convention. | praise of the delegates from all the | Howard Bruce of Baltimore, national States. |4-H CLUB PARLEY BROUGHT TO CLOSE Large Number of Delegates Re- main in the City for Period of Pleasure Seeking. ‘The Second National 4-H Club En- | campment ended last night and, while some of the farm girl end boy experts |left for home on iate trains, some 10 or 12 State delegaticns remained over in the city to pursuc sightseeing in | lefsurely fashion. ‘The camp started | Thursday, dune 21, with a program replete with sightseeing, addresses, conferences and campfires, and the | young people were quartered in tents on the Department of Agriculture's | grounds near Fourteenth street. ] rapidly as State delegations vacated their tents they were being taken down | today. | At ‘the final campfire meeting last night there were visitors from other | lands, an agricultural experr from Den- | mark, a woman from the Philippine |Islands and a man from the Virgin Islands. 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