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ROUTINE OCCUPIES HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY J UNE 27, .1932. KEYNOTE SPEECH | would go down the line for the defeat | of the two-thirds rule. He said they would have a larger vote for the elec- | tion of Walsh as chairman than they | would have for the adoption of a ma- jority rule. He insisted, however, that they could adopt majority rule. support the repeal amendment. But it is believed the Roosevelt plan. very similar to the minority plank defeated in the Republican National Convention, ANY CONSIDERED 8. A3 (PRUG STORES WERE cLoseDp) THAT WAS A CLOSEC ALL! THANK HEA WE HAD BELL of all ACUTE INDIGESTION strikes late 2t NIGHT & Be ell-ans, Hot water, Gov. Roosevelt, over the telephone has besn in constant touch with the situa- tion here and has made personal pleas to delegates and their leaders to sup- STRESSES SLUNP not in the same virutent form as it| Ranks Rumble With Whisper-| ing of Trickery on Admit- tance to Convention. B the Associated Press Republicans Largely to Blame Barkley States as Sessions Begin. (Continued From First Page.) port him in the fight against the two- | thirds rule Claims of victory are made today by both factions. Senator Dill of Wash- | | ington, after a conference with other Roocevelt leaders, insisted that Senator | Walsh would be elected permanent | chairman by a vote of 700 and that the | majority rule would be waived by a | vote of 650 when these matters come |to the convention floor tomorrow as was before the convention of the G. O. P. indeed, in the turmoil over the presidential candidates and the two-thirds rule, little has been said of the prohibition issue. Smith has de- clared he will fight for the extreme wet plank and so has Ritchie. Senator Barkley issued a terrific blast at the Republican Smoot-Hawley tariff law, declaring it had been un- wanted by the American people, had | |Vice Presidency Depends Largely on Winner of Pres- idential Nomination. By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO, June 27.—Discussion of 75¢ at all drug stores. ~% RUSH PRINTING EXPERT SERVICE HIGH GRADE —NOT HIGH PRICE — | they are expected to do. AGO, June 27.—To the rank 1 Violent and bitter language is used vice presidential possibilities was heard and file of the Democratic faithful reacy for the curtain-raiser session of the party convention the most important question today was tickets Tickets and more tickets show was what they wanted. Platform niceties, organization battle develop- ments were in the hands of leaders in | stuffy hotel rooms or the palatial private headquarters of the rival candidates. But the precious pasteboards that meant sdmission to the galleries for their friends were personal matters for Mr. and Mrs. Delegate. ~The ranks rumbled with gossip and scandalous whisperings of trickery over just who was getting in as they waited for open- ing ceremonies to stert The delegates flocked over the two- mile route from the Michigan Boule- vard hotrl front to the convention um quite as t today's S"5<Er\n‘ not the cut-and-dried, firework: Jess affair it was bound to be for the Real Business Up Tomorrow. | Opening sessions of national conven- | tions are alw: alike. They are given over to a strictly limited agenda of key- noting and organization routine. Not until tomorrow will the real busi- ness of the convention be reached. | Then the upward of 2,000 delegatés, alternates and officials, who are the authoritative voice of the millions of Democratic voters at home, will say their say Yet there was no lack of the spec- tacular as the convention and its paying | or invited guests—there were seats for | more than 20,000 of them in the huge gathered for the show. Echoes the recent Republican convention mieht lurk under that high roof, but the coloring of flags and bunting was bright s ever, the big-voiced organ as potent to set toes tapping as it vied with the band in whiling away the time until| Naticnal Chairman Raskob called the convention to order. | Rain Mars Decorations. A deluge of rain, poured down from lightning-split clouds with rumbling thunder salutes, swept the Lake City late yesterday to ease a close, sweltering Sunday. It played havoc with the dec- orations along the wide boulevard and | elsewhere, most of which have stood,| bright and attractive in the rainless days since before the Republican meet- | ing opened, two weeks ago. But even the rain could not dampen | the grin of delight on the features of | the donkey head that had replaced a | cavorting elephant in deference to party | mascot preferences. That lop-eared ENATOR WILLIAM ALBEN BARKLEY, who delivered the keynote address of the Democratic convention, as he spoke from tne platform in the Chicago Stadium to acquaint loud speakers. Text of Keynote Speech Senator Barkley, in Bitter Attack on Present Admin- istration, Declares Democrats Only Party That Can Lead Country Out of “Wilderness.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 27.—In a k:yno!e] speech bristling with denunciation of | the Hoover administration, Senator | Alben W. Burkley today urged the Dem- ocratic National Convention to favor a vote by the people on repealing the | himself with the sound effects of the —Wide World Photo. retaining the eighteenth amendment in | the Constitution, let every true citizen of the nation accept the decision and | abide by it in letter and in spirit. “If the verdict shall be for the repeal | of the amendment, then let every| ercise all the powers they possess to pro- | tect the States in the observance and secured we shall all be subjects of char- ty. “But I urge each and every one cf you delegates to demand a platform that will breathe a courageous determi- nation to stamp out rackets and all forms of license that today are undei- mining the morals and exhausting the financial strength of the Nation. Many of our citizens attribute these conditions to the eighteenth amendment. After 12| years of practical éxperience living un- der conditions imposed by this amend- ment, all honest Democrats must con- cede that the people themselves should | have opportunity to vote directly on this | important social question, which is of greater economic importance than any | other questicn before the country today. “The Republican party should hang its head in shame for the deceit it at- tempts to perpetrate on the citizens of the United States in presenting the pro- hibition plank contained in its plat- form.” Temporary officers of the convention were elected. They will continue, it is expected, as permanent officers, ex- cept the temporary chairman. The list | follows: | Chairman, Alben W. Barkley, Ken-| tucky; secretary, Robert Jackson, New Hampshire; executive secretary, Ewing Laporte, Pennsylvania; parliamenta- | rian, Clarence Cannon, Missouri; chief tally clerk, Kenneth Romney, Mon- | tana; assistant tally clerk, S. l.amnr‘ Gill, Texas; assistant tally clerk, E. G.| Sherrill, North Carolina; assistant tally | clerk, Maurice J. Freeman, New York; | assistant tally clerk, Arthur J. O'Kee er, Massachusetts; chief reading cler] P. F. Haltigan, Washington, D. C. | reading clerk, Emory L. Frazier, Ken- tucky. Sergeant at arms, Edwin A. Halsey, Virginia; chief doorkeeper, Joseph J. Sinnott, Washington, D. C. Chairmanship First Test. Gov. Roosevelt of New York, with his | great mass of pledged and promised | delegates, stood today far in the lead of his competitors. But the latter have chosen to make the first battle with Roosevelt on the permanent chairman- ship of the national convention and their second on the proposal to abandon | the old two-thirds rule and adopt a ma- | branch of the National Government ex- | jority rule for making nominations. They believe Roosevelt is vulnerable on these issues. The danger to Roosevelt eighteenth amendment and called upon | enforcement of the laws which they|lies in the possibility his forces may the Nation to turn the Republicans out | of office. Describing the Republican plank on | prohibition as “a promiscuous aggiom- | >ration of scrap lumber,” the Kentuckian said the Democrats should recommend | shall enact to control, regulate or pro: hibit the traffic in intoxicating liquors. Reviews G. O. P. Administration. ‘ The temporary chairman went back to 1920 and reviewed the intervening not hold together in sufficient strength | to put across Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana for permanent chairman in place of Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Demo- cratic National Committee, and that in addition a defeat on the majority rule |the exceptio= of one delegate, to sup- by the anti-Roosevelt leaders, who have | charged that Farley is a “prevaricator,” | to use a milder term. They have | charged Gov. Roosevelt with floubl:} dealing and with not keeping his word about an agreement entered into with Mr. Shouse aglmr!gnrds to the conven- | tion chairmi ip. Favorite son candidates, wobbling a bit, have continued to stand up so far, though there have been many reports some of them would go the way pointed by Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Iilinois when he withdrew Saturday from the race for the presidential nomi- nation and released his delegates. The Missouri delegation, at an in- formal caucus last night, voted, with port former Senator “Jim” Reed for the presidential nomination. Where- uron Senator Reed announced he would hold the delegation to the end and would not release them. Ritchie leaders insisted the Governor of Maryland was in the race to stay. | Further, the flat statement he would | not accept a vice presidential nomina- | tion on a ticket with Roosevelt w:sl made for Gov. Ritchie by some of his closest friegds. Virginia Still for Byrd. The Roosevelt headquarters, however, put_out for publication a telegram sent by W. W. Durbin, delegate at large from Ohio, to Gov. George White, u?\n( that the Governor of Ohio withdraw his candidacy for the presidential nomi- nation. Durbin begged White “not to join the stop Roosevelt movement, which is made up of Frank Hague, Tammany and the big public ulllflvy: interests who seek to defeat Roosevelt. There is much talk of Roosevelt strength in the Ohio delegation, and Durbin is expected to go down the line for the New York Governor in the com- ing fights. S e Virginia_ delegation on the sur- face, at least is still for former Gov. By hen a new break in the favorite son ranks will come is not clear. It may come at any time and the Roose- velt leaders say they expect such a break. Vice presidential rumors have brought in the name of Col. Bennet Clark of Missouri, son of the Ilate Speaker Clark. Col. Clark will have, it is said, support of World War vet- erans in the convention for his nomi- ation. nWhlle Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt forces were straining every nerve to win these contests, Senator Barkley, | himself a Roosevelt supporter, raised the battle cry fi‘alml the common | nemy, the Republicans. 2 "wi meet today in the midst of & | been designed to aid special interests| had and responsible for a tre- mendous drop in America's trade, a drop of 54 per cent. “We propose to reduce the ex- orbitant and indefensible rates of the Smoot-Hawley bill,” he continued. export | “The Democrftic party does not ad- | vocate and never has advocated the policy of free trade. But we do object to the use of the power of taxation by small groups to stimulate their par- ticular interests.” The Farm Board failure and the Democratic proposals to aid agriculture were discussed by Barkley, but without specific plans for dealing with the sur- plus crops. He attacked the Hoover administration on the ground that it had opfiud Federal relief for the des- titute this country and criticized the “enormous increase in the cost of government,” making necessary greatly increased taxes. The Democratic House, he said, had during the present session | reduced appropriations below the Hoo- ver budget by more than $100,000,000. He said the Democrats would “strengthen the banking system” of the country, and he declared the Democrats in Con- gress had given the Republican Presi- dent co-operation “to a degree never before known in times of peace” in put- ting through relief measures since the panic. Describes Probable Nominee. “There is nothing wrong,” Senator Barkley concluded, “with our people ex- cept that they have followed prophets who were false, blind and insensible to their own limitations.” He predicted the Democratic nominee for President would be the choice of farm as well as city dwellers and that “he will be experienced and tested no | less in National than in State affairs.” Barkley’s characterization of the probable nominee was believed to refer to_Roosevelt. Literally a raft of statements pro and con on the two-thirds rule and for and against the election of Mr Shouse as chairman of the convention were is- sued by the rival headquarters here last ni ht and today. Mayor Hague, Smith floor leader and chief of the anti- Roosevelt movement, put out a state- | ment declaring delegates and the pub- lic were being misled by the Roosevelt leaders through statements that the majority of the delegates favored Walsh for chairman and the abandonment of the two-thirds rule. Regarding the two-thirds rule fight, Hague said: “The delegates to this convention do not intend to stand idly by and see the arty destroyed by the candidate who, Py opinion, fs the weakest the Democrats can nominate.” in hotel corridors today, but it was very faint. From 9 out of every 10 delegates are cecntering attention on first place on the Democratic ticket. presidential nomination depended largely upon who is named for the presidency and that the question will be settled by a conference of leaders after the major issue is settled If the presidential nomination goes to Gov. Roosevelt of New York, many expect his running mate to be either Senator Walsh of Montana, Roosevelt choice for convention chairman; Sena- tor Bulkley of Ohio or Senator Wheeler, | also of Montana. However, James A. Farley, leader of the Roosevelt campaign, said the New York Governor had not given him the slightest intimation as to whom he preferred for a running mate. Several State delegations are boom- ing favorite sons for the vice presi- dential nomination. The names in- cluded: | Matthew A. Tinley of Council Bluffs, Jowa; Gov. George Dern of Utah,| Gov. George White of Ohio, Newton D. Baker of Ohio, former Secretary of ‘War; James M. Cox, presidential nomi- nee in 1920; Senator Walsh, Roose- velt's selection for permanent chair- man; former Gov. Harry P. Byrd of Virginia, Melvin C. Traylor, Chicago banker; Gov. Harry H. Wo of Kansas, Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, Speaker Garner, Gov. Al- bert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Senator J. | Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Senator | Cordell Hull of Tennessee. Most of these are candidates for the presidential nomination itself. 2SAREERES WHITE WILL REMAIN IN RACE, HE STATES Has No Intention of Acceding to Request to Release Ohio Delegates. By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 27.—Gov. George White, Ohio's “favorite son” candidate for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination, said today that he did not intend to release the Buckeye dele- BYRON S. ADAMS I Never Disgnooint The general feeling was that the vice Vacation hand. with f is at Optometrists 1217 G St. N BEAUTIFUL FLORAL TRIBUTES $3.50 INC. 1407 H St. N.W. Nat'l 4905 PANAMAS Cleaned, Blocked, Bleached BACHRACH 733 Eleventh St. N.W. 3530 Connecticut Ave. N.W. | wit thrusting skyward and | Passage of a congressional resolution | E;dd;]\\"; ‘L?:k as lhe\Egh ‘)to emit a | repealing the eighteenth amendment, to | ritcous and triumphant hee-haw, was | be voted on by State conventions chosea sure sign that Miss Democracy was Solely for that purpose. own to award her highest party Barkley denounced the Republicans Farley Answers Hague. No oil on troubled waters here, and| the Roosevelt followers are more in- censed than ever. Hague charged Roose- | years of Republican leaderchip. gate to the Democratic National Con- vention from voting for him, as sug- feued by W. W. Durbin ot Kenton, a ollower of Gov. Franklin D. Roose- \gerch) roposal would so impair the Roosevelt | solemn _responsibility. We meet to The Harding Administration he d";:um:e that his supporters will not be | chart through seas that are turbulent scribed as “the darkest chapter of pub- | gpe to nominate him in the end. This | a safe and steady course for the people 1.10 betrayal in the history of this of | 4he hope and strategy of the Roose- | of a harassed Nation. favers. JANE ADDAMS LEADS | PARADE FOR PEACE Tamous Woman Leader to Present Plea for Plank in Demo- cratic Platform. ‘ Ry the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, June 27—Undismayed by | a setback traffic police gave her “peace | parade” during the Republican Na- tional Convention, Jane Addams of the famous Hull House, tried today to reach | €Very assurance made by them to obtain | would the Democrats with her plea for an in- ternational peace plank. Her car was the first of the proces- | sion which formed in Lakeside Grant | Park, and those that followed bore the | representatives of at least 25 States, among them a number of delegates and | their wives. Immediately behind Miss Addams’ suto came one bearing Mrs. Clarence C. Dill, wife of the Senator from Wash- ington. Next in line were students from Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan University, Con- necticut, *Swarthmore, Cornell, George Washington, University of Iowa and Denver University. | Twenty years ago Mrs. Dl then known tc the world of politics as Gen. Rosalia Jones, led the first suffrage march from New York to Albany Miss Addams, recipient of the Nobel peace prize, headed a parade cf women and children in the interests of inter- national peace toward the stadium dur- ing the Republican convention, but traffic officers routed it away, due to the Jam before the convention hall. Long Welded Bridge Ready. What is considered welded bridge in the world has just been completed in Pilsen, Czecho- Slovakia. It crosses two railroad tracks, has a span of 1614 feet and a width of 274 feet. 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TUNE_30 | Ly 1| | alone, &5 the | tivational Capitel Press; | and President Hoover for the bitant and irdefensible rates” of the | Smoot-Hawley tariff act and promised | to “lift tariff-making above the sordid processes of log-rollers and back- scratchers.” | Farm Policy Denounced. | He excoriated the administration’s | farm policy and said the Democrats | would undertake “to remove from the | shoulders of agriculture a portion of the | unnatural burden which it bears be- cause others have been able to shift it there through special legislation in | their own behalf.” [ Paying his respects to the Hoover ad- ministration, the keynoter recalled that | the President “and his Republican Con- | gress took charge of the Government” | on March 4, 1929, and added: “But every prediction, every promise, | votes has turned to ashes in their| hands, and every pretense has been ex- | posed in =il its naked affectation. | “Agriculture has continued its col- | lapse any previous record. Credit has been | restricted until finance and productive | enterprise are frightened and stagnant | and there is constantly marching a | greater army of unemployed men and | Wwomen in search of honest toil than Nation.” | “eXor- | " On President Coolidge and Secretary | Melon he heaped the blame for “an | orgy of speculation and infiition that | {his danger. | gates, had no foundation in real values.” “Stocks were manipulated, prices pyramided, then split up, then | uted among inocent people under ti opiate of the fabulous financlal hores; built up by the most gigantic campaign | of official ballyhooing ever witnessed in | the annals of American history,” he| exclaimed. | Under President Coolidge, Barkley said, expenses of the Natinal Govern- ment increased “more than 650,000~ 000.” He gave credit to the present Democratic House for reducing Presi- dent Hoover’s request for appropria- tions “by more than $100,000,000.” Promises End of Waste. { promised that the Democrats “abolish every useless office, every unnecessary bureau and commis- sion” which has grown by what it fed | on_until the totel has become an in«\ sufferable weight upon all the lctlvi-‘ He people.” “They will never be abolished by | those who now operate them,” he said. | “A new Hercules must clean out these Augean stables.” | In dealing with the tariff, Barkley| velt oppositioh. | Roosevelt leaders are urging their delegates to stand firm, pointing out| They are telling the dele- | “You cannot be against Roose- velt tomorrow and expect to win with | him on Wednesday and Thursday. | ‘The most intensive drive has been made by the Roosevelt opposition to nick off Roosevelt delegates, as they have arrived in Chicago, on the chair- manship and rules fight. On the other hand, the Roosevelt forces under James M. Farley have labored to hold the ranks intact for the Governor. The canvassing of the delegates goes on to- day. Rumors are flying about that both camps have sought to use “patron- age” the distribution of the much- sought-for tickets to the conventions, to influence the delegates one way or the | other in these preliminary contests. Predicts Dropping of Fight. | Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, one | of the Smith delegates, predicted that the Roosevelt faction would drop the | fight to abandon the two-thirds rule, | Industry has languished beyond | ties and resources of the American | and that the fight would be made under | the usual rules of Democratic conven- | tions. | If the two-thirds’ rule is adopted by the convention, Maryland delegates be- lieve their candidate, Gov. Ritchie, will have a real chance. “Stop Roosevelt has ever been experienced by this or} proposed that the Democrats inaugu-|for five ballots and we will win with any other nation.” Mismanagement Charged. | “There is nothing wrong with this | republic,” he added, “except that it has been mismanaged, exploited and de- moralized for more than a decade by a | leadership incomparably short-sighted and bereft of true statesmanship, in- capable of understanding and dealing with fundamental causes, and incapable even now in the midst of its fearful | havoc of understanding the extent of | its own mischief.” | Declaring that “we must by a major operation remove from the body of our | Nation and the world, both of which are | sick and dejected, the dead flesh and | decayed bones resulting from 12 years | of Republican quackery,” Barkley con tinued “We must apply to the hopeful but misused patient the recuperative processes of a democracy which for a century and a half has responded to the emergencies which have always beset us at the end of every period of Republican control which lasted long enough for its virus to take effect.” Should Uphold Dry Law. Concerning the eighteenth amend- ment. Barkley said: “So long as it is & part” of the Constitution “no citizen of | the republic has a legal or moral right to violate it,"” and added: “Whatever may be the divergent views | of men and women on the merits or demerits of the eighteenth amendment as a national policy, it is inconceivable that this or any other part of the Con- stitution of the United States should apply to only a part and not the whole of the American Nation. That great instrument declares that ‘this Constitu- thereof shall be the supreme law of the land’ But it cannot be the supreme law of the land if il can be abrogated | by the people of a part of the land while remaining in force over the rest of | them. Such a conception destroys the | very nature and structure of the Con- stitution, for if it can be made thus to qualify one of its provisions it may be made to qualify all of them. This would | be the end of the Constitution itself. “Under these circumstances this con- vention owes it to the people of the Nation to make its declaration upon this subject clear, understandable and | unequivocal. There is no reason why | the people should be deceived or de- Expression for the People. “In order, therefore, to obtain the present will of the American people on this subject of universal controversy, this convention should in the platform here to be adopted recommend the pas- sage by Congress of a resolution re- pealing the eighteenth amendment and its submission to the people of the | States through conventions whose dele- gates shall be chosen upon this issue “If the people are to pass again upon this question, let them pass upon it in such bald, naked and unequivocal terms as to make their decision intei- ligent and certain. ¥ “If their verdict shall be in favor of | only the glimmer of a new hope, the ferences with a view to reopening nor- make the Tariff Commission a fact-| finding body for Congress. For agriculture’s relief, he advocated enactment of laws setting up co-opera- tive agencies through which farm- | er may work out his own problems over a period of years, taking the Govern- ment out of the “dubious adventure of speculation” in farm products, and in- stallation at the head of the Depart- me of Agriculture a secretary who has “some knowledge of the subject and some sympathy for those who struggle with it.” For strengthening the banking struc- ture he proposed giving consideration to revision of the Federal Reserve act to insure more direct contact with com- mercial banks and borrowers. Speaking of unemployment, he ridi- culed "fine spun” distinctions between local and natlonal responsibility and deplored “sophomoric dispute over the identity of first aid” while the Nation's “defenders or their dependents suffer from want or neglect.” Society, he said, must find a way by which members displaced by invention and advances may sustain themselves and their families in comfort and self Tespect. He advocated the consideration of the five-day week or the six-hour day as a possible solution of employment prob- lems growing out of the country’s in- dustrial advances. Democrats Declared Savior. Concluding, Barkley said: “In all the generations of American history the people in every great crisis have turned to the Democratic party to lead them | from the wilderness of disappointment and disaster.” “It will be so in 1932 he shouted, “when the principles here announced and the leaders here chosen will n the name of a people betrayed, be-| wildered and misled redeem for them a | land despoiled and made barren by those who know not the ways of wis-| dom or of Providence. | “Such a Nation, such a people need | inspiration of a new goal, the stimulus | of a new battle cry, and the marching | orders of a new commander. “That hope, that goal, that battle cry, that commander we shall present to them ere we shall adjourn this con- vention. He will be the choice no less of farm than of city dwellers. He will National than in State affairs. chosen to the high station whereunto we shall nominate him, we pledge his dedication to the service of the whole Nation without regard to class or creed or section.” 100 Hurt in Riot. ANTWERP, Belgium, June 27 (#).— More than 100 persons were injured yesterday in rioting here, involving Communists, Frontists (Flemish ex- tremists) and former service men. The fighting broke out whern the - munists and Frontists clashed with & tion of the veterans. The rioting lasted for several hours, Many persons were arrested. | rate friendly international trade Con—" Ritchie,” said “Cy” Cummings. “Gov. Ritchie has a huge following | mal trade channels in the world and| among delegates now instructed for other candidates.” Talk of Compromise Heard. The Roosevelt forces are in a posi- | tion where they do not have to force | the fight on the two-thirds rule or on the permanent chairmanship, if their | check-up of the delegates should indi- | cate they might be defeated on these questions. There were clear indications today | that if the Roosevelt leaders become | convinced they cannot win on the ma- jority rule proposal they may have the Rules Committee bring in the old two- thirds rule and report it to the conven- | tion. Failing this, there is talk of a | compromise proposal, saying that if no | decision can be reactied under the two- | thirds rule by the close of five ballots the convention will then go to the ma. jority rule. This is a modification of | the compromise plan suggested by Sena- | tor Pat Harrison of Mississippl. The Rules Committee, it was reported, would not meet until 8:40 o'clock tonight, giv- | ing the Roosevelt leaders more time to determine their course of action | The vote on the two-thirds rule, so far as the checking goes, may be ex tremely close. Estimates give the Roose- velt people an advantage of 15 votes in the convention, too close for comfort Still other estimates give a victory to the opponents of the majority rule. | As the delegates assembled in conven- tion, the eyes of the Roosevelt faction | turned hopefully toward three great| State delegations now favoring other | candidates, Illinois, Ohio and Texas. There has been strong Roosevelt senti- | ment manifested by members of these delegations. Decision Must Be Made Soon. | But within the next 24 hours the Roosevelt command must decide what its course on the two-thirds rule will be and on the permanent chairmanship. | Already there is talk in some quarters here that the Roosevelt people made a mistake when they proposed to side- track Shouse as permanent chairman and on top of that brought up the ques- tion of abandoning the two-thirds rule. If Roosevelt should lose, which is not likely, the critics of 'the Roosevelt strategy say, the defeat must be at- tributed to Roosevelt and his leaders themselves. Farley relterated his declaration they SURE FLIT DEATH TO FLIES | the scandals of that administration. | Barkley said, “this convention owes it | declaration upon this subject clear, | through conventions whose delegations “We must not only diagnose, we must | prescribe.” Praises Woodrow Wilson. The Kentuckian painted a gloomy picture of the depressed conditions in the country, contrasting them with the conditions which existed under the Wilson administration, the last Demo- cratic President, whom he pictured as a “leader of liberalism,” a great leader | in war and in peace. He turned for| a moment to the “era of normaley” ! under the late President Harding and| reviewed for the assembled Democrats | The Coolidge administration he char- acterized as an “era of economy and inflation,” when “stocks were manipu- lated, prices pyramided, then split up, then distributed among innocent peo- ple under the influence of the opiate of fabulous financial hopes built up by the most gigantic campaign of official ballyhooing ever witnessed in the an- nals of American history.” Coming down to_the Hoover admin- istration, Senator Barkley read to the Democrats “boasts” and “promises of prosperity made to the American peo- ple by the Republican leaders and by Hoover during the 1928 campaign and thereafter. “Under this new worker of miracles,” Senator Barkley said, “poverty was to be abolished and ignorance was to van- ish.” He added: “That the Hoover ad- ministration and the policies it has pursued have largely contributed to the disaster which has overtaken ours and the world affairs no intelligent observer can dispute.” What the keynoter had to say about rohibition was heard with the greatest nterest and was greeted with loud cheers. Senator Barkley has been an ardent dry in the past. He called for the submission of an amendment to the Constitution repealing the; eighteenth amendment. He did not seek to have the Democratic party pledged to favor this repeal, but merely to go on record as favoring the submission of a repealer amendment on which the people could | vote in constitutional conventions elected in each State. Attacks G. O. P. Liquor Plank. Senator Barkley ridiculed the Repub- | lican prohibition plank, which he dubbed “a promiscuous agglomeration of scrap lumber. At one point it pro- claims its opposition to repeal of the eighteenth amendment and at another it announces its support of its repeal in the States where people want it re- pealed or made inapplicable.” He said the Republican proposal was virtually nullification if adopted. “Under these circumstances,” Senator to the people of the Nation to make its understandable and unequivocal. There is no reason why the people should be deceived or deluded. ere is no reason why a political declaration should look in every direction and see nothing. “In order, therefore, to obtain the present will of the American people on this subject of universal controversy, this convention should in the platform here to be adopted recommend the pas- sage by Congress of a resolution repeal- ing the eighteenth amendment and its submission to the people of the States shall be chosen upon this issue alone.” It was generally believed that the platform, sponsored by a Resolutions Committee dominated by Roosevelt fol- lowers, would follow in the main this proposal of the keynote speaker. Ardent wets, led by Al Smith, Ritchie and others, will try to have incorporated in the plank a declaration the Demo- cratic_party pledges its members to Real Estate Service Since 1906 RENTAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Personal Attention in 1435 K St N.W. velt had given his personal A through his representatives, “that he would n\;;pon Mr. Shouse for the chairmanship of the convention.” To this statement Farley replied: “I have communicated with the Governor and he has authorized me to say that neither he nor any authorized repre- sentative of his at any time or in any way bound him or his friends morally or otherwise to vote for Mr. Shouse as permanent chairman in the conven- tion.” . Mr. Shouse added another chapter to the dispute, saying he had entered into an agreement at the time of the meet- ing of the Committee on Arrangements for the convention last April with the understanding that he was to have the post of permanent chairman with Roosevelt support. Quoting from the minutes of the meeting, Mr. Shouse said Robert Jackson of New Hampshire, sec- retary of the committee, had an- nounced: “When I sit down Gov. Byrd of Vir- ginia will move that Mr. Barkley be recommended for temporary chairman of the convention by acclamation, and when that resolution is adopted I shall offer the following resolution, which has been rec@ to Gov. Roosevelt over the ule?honl and which meets with his approval: “This committee commends as per- manent chairman national convention the name of Hon. Jouett Shouse of Kansas.” A bitter attack on Roosevelt and his You ca velt of New York. The Governor said thet never for a minute had he considered assenting to Durbin’s suggestion made in a “tele- eram from uicagy 8s ..., wiat he re- | lease the Ohio delegation. He added he would not reply. To release the Buckeye delegates, Gov. White con- tinued, would be in violation of an un- derstanding he had with Newton D. | Baker, Cleveland, and former Gov. James M. 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