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FEMININE CORPS BIRGEST ON RECORD Delegates, Alternates and| Committee Members in Party Councils. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, June 27.—The biggest and busiest corps of women even assem- bled in a pelitical camp meeting claimed official place today in the Democratic convention More than 500—women who are talk- | ing right out on every issue from candi- | dates to rules—held tickets to the floor and platform in Chicago Stadium. They were delegates, alternates. National | Committee members | Outside their number, one outspoken woman, believes the vice presi- dency “would never suit Bill Murray of Oklahoma because he's got to have met. g to do,” typified spectator- articulateness. Visits Murray Headquarters. It was the Oklahoma Governor's wife into the spotlight shared Woodrow Wilson and a half-dozen t in by giving her ideas ight-spoX “Alfalfa Bill ust of an auto trip t, she went to the Gov- ernor’s_he s “just to let him know I'm here,” then motored about 40 miles to a big and happy—and po- | litically permeated — reception at the | Clarence N. Goodwin estate in one of Chicago’s swankiest suburbs. There, tall | and friendly, peering over the terraces through silver-rimmed glasses, she chat- tered absorbingly on all sorts of topics. Shaking the from her black su Around the straightforward Western | frey G. Gloom, the unterrified but fre- | woman the garden party flowed mervily. | Franklin Roosevelt’s daughter, Anna | Roosevelt Dall, and young Mrs. James Roosevelt were there beside Mrs. Go Win, handsome and vivacious. Corne- lius Vanderbilt—young Thomas Leiter— | youthful Mrs. Frank Compton, President | ‘Wilson's niece. | Women Back Ritchie. i The War President’s widow at the same time was being entertained by the Edward N. Hurleys. Maryland women_are entering their candidate, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie. But these social affairs were no more the be-all of the delegates’ conscious- ness than was the sight-seeing of their/ masculine colleagues. They came back | to their hotels and went to State cau-| cuses. And then it was the two-thirds Tule and the Roosevelt band wagon rum- ble that claimed their conversation. Before midnight the Roosevelt women's headquarters, a seething spot for many days, was announcing three favorite- son_delegations were ‘“ready to crum- ble.” At Al Smith's stand Mrs. Henry | Moscowitz was still on the job. It's this sort of activity that is being | remarked by cbservers, and the women were ready to continue their perform- | ance today. They had a woman's break- fast scheduled before the formalities, but they were taking straight politics. ROOSEVELT DEFEAT ON RULES IS SEEN Many Delegations Favoring New Yorker Also Favor Two- thirds Control. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 27.—The extraordi- nary step of calling an entire State | delegation by long-distance telephone, pleading with them to be “good Demo- crats” and rally strongly to his sup- port, was taken late last night by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was an aggressive gesture, indicat- | ing the extent to which the New York | Governor is pushing his personal lead- | ership in the fight for the presidential | nomination, but it failed to swing his | listeners to support the simple majority | rule with which Roosevelt is determined | to supplant the time-honored require- ment of a two-thirds vote to nominate. He spoke to North Carolina’s delega. tion, with a few men from New Mexico | and other States present. Newspaper | men were barred from the room before | the loud speaker attachment brought in Roosevelt’s voice. He did not, it was learned, mention the rule directly. But_afterward Tarheel State delegates predicted the group would go two to one for retention of the two-thirds Their formal action on the ques- in_caucus, was due today e Roosevelt forces met a deep dis- appointment on the rule question in the New York delegation’s caucus vote, | 65 t0 27, to keep the two-thirds rule. The | vote is not binding, however. There was an cation of Roosevelt support n this point from more than half of Pennsylvania delegation of 76. Virginia, Oklahoma, and Alaska stuck to the ange to a simple major- by Arizo Idaho, Kansas, Oregon and Georgla Montana, Min- South ta expected, anti-Roosevelt delega- were going solidly against the hange, but an alarming rumber of 10se pledged to him. especially from the South, gave indications of running out on this big is EXCITED SCOTS PULL BRITISH EMBLEM DOWN ionlists, Led by Girl, Invade Sterling Castle While Troops Attend Meeting. ® BANNOCKBURN, Scotland June 27 —Scotland was set agog yesterday by a of excited Scottish Nationalists 3 Wendy Wood, who ng Castle Saturdey night the Union Jack, sub- andard and Sutherland aving A sports meet- and most of the popu- ring at the incident e soldiers soon replaced Union e Scottish Nationalist party itself i gram to King ge expressing loyal greetings to as the “honored sovereign of the British Commonwealth of Nations.” An incident similar to Saturday night's occurred_at Carnavon Castle in Wales on St. David's day (March 1), when the Welsh dragon flag was temporarily substituted for the Union Jack. FOSTER TALK PREVENTED Police Prevent Radical Meet in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, June 27 (#).—Nearly three-score police last night prevented what they said was a meeting to be addressed by Willlam Z. Foster, an- nounced Communist candidate for Pres- ident. After two skirmishes in the street ‘with ns who tried to enter the ‘hall the ‘was to be held, police arrested Meyer Boylsn and Harry Siegel on charges of “suspicion of crim- dnal syndicallsm.” | changed all that. Left to right: Mrs. Henry Moscowitz, one of Al Smith's chief advisers; Mrs. Stella Hamlin, national committee- woman from Louisiana and chief foe of Huey P. Long, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the war-time President. —A. P. Photos, Tumult Died When Lewis Withdrew and Everybody , Says Col. Godfrey G. Gloom, Jeffersonian Democrat. Rushed to Roosevelt BY ELMER DAVIS. CHICAGO, June 27 (N.AN.A) —God- quently disgusted Democrat from Amity. Ind., was encountered by a reporter on his way to the planetarium “No, I am not a sightseer,” said Mr. Gloom, emphatically, “but at my time of life I got a kind of itch for fixity and stability. The stars in their courses proceed in regular order. and I thought it would be g, gglief to look at 'em after watching the Thealculable behavior of the Democrats. “We were told we were comin’ here to watch a free, unbossed convention, fighting out every issue. It was to be a pleasant contrast, everybody said, to the meek subservience of the Repub- cans “Well, it looked that way for a day or so,” went on Mr. Gloom. *Yester- day it seemed from what you heard that the dominant issue was secession The drys were goin' to secede if there was a wet plank, and a lot of fellows were goin’ to secede if the two-thirds rule was abrogated, and so on. I spent a large part of yesterday lookin' for delegates who would admit that they would still vote the Democratic ticket | éven if they didn't get just what they wanted, and they were as hard to find as optimists in Wall Street. Hurries to Get Aboard. “But Jim Ham Lewis' withdrawal A fellow shoves up against me in the corridor of that candidate's floor in the Congress Hotel, and I asked him why he was in such a hurry. ‘To get sboard,’ he says. ‘I hear the Paris embassy is gone, but maybe I gan still climb on in time to qualify for the post office back in Bing- ville." “They tell me the only question still undecided is whether the Roosevelt people will it the supporters of the other candidates to make nominating speeches, or whether theyll just shut them off and instruct the secretary to cast a ballot for Roosevelt. “Appeals to their sense of humanity were made by some, who argued that these fellows that had come here with nominating speeches all bottled up in- side 'em would have a stroke, all of them, if they had to go back home with all that pressure ngo eloquence unre- | lieved. But this argument was of small avail, “Then people say, ‘How about the | Here they've | Chicago hotélkeepers? opened up dining rooms that lald idle with the blinds drawn while the Re- publicans was in town, just because they thought the Democrats would stay around for a while, and do you want to make Chicago too sore to contribute to that victory fund that still needs money?" “8o the latest information is that the Roosevelt people are goin' to permit other candidates to be placed in nomi- nation, provided the nominators behave apologetically and acknowledge that | they're only takin' up the time of the | convention.” “But don’t you think" the reporter ventured, “that it would be better for the party to have a candidate nomi- | nated by an overwhelming vote on the first ballot instead of after a long fight?>" “Well, I don't know,” said Mr. Gloom. “Depends how it's done. It didn't help us much to have a first ballot nomina- tion in 1828. If these Roosevelt people were satisfied to win, maybe the rest of the convention would go home and try to win, too. But they won't be happy till they rub it in. The Bishop Insisis, “A lot of Democrats professed to be shocked when Mr., France was pitched off the platform at the Republican | convention, but looks to me as if the |only difference is that the Republicans | p, |don't throw out their minority till the | convention is under way, while we save time by throwin’ 'em out before it starts. | | “But, turning to happier topics,” Mr. | Gloom continued, “I had a good time | listening to the wet and dry arguments | before the Resolutions Committee. I} tell you, it brought back the good old | times to hear Bishop Cannon saying, | |'T insist’ and Mrs. Nicholson telling | | them that she would not stand for this | {and that. Almost you could think you | was back in the palmy days when we | all had so much money that we could | afford to let bishops insist. “And then there was that very pre-| | sentable lady who referred to Nero and | the burning of Rome. No convention would be complete without a reference to Nero, but I'd begun to be afraid that in the pressure of more recent matters | they were goin' to overlook him this | time. But this lady—Mrs. Patterson, I| think her name is—gave Nero his due, | 80 the convention can go on. “Still,” said Mr, Gloom, pensively, “I miss what used to be the best act at the session of the Resolutions Com- mittee the old days—the Associa- tion for the Recognition of the Irish Re- public. Trouble with those poor fel- lows was they got what they wanted, or | about as close to it as people generally | get, and now the Irish Republic has _got its face scratched up till it can ardly recognize itself.” “But I presume,” said the reporter, “that I may quote you as saying that you hope the convention will adopt a | platform and nominate a candidate on | whom. and which, all Democrats will unite?” ! “You may quote me as saying that I | hope it,” responded Mr. Gloom, “but don't you say I expect it. A lot of Democrats erupted in indignation about the Republican steam roller week be- fore last, but if we got to have a steam roller, I'd rather have Herbert Hoover in the driver's seat than Huev Long.” (Copyrighl, 1833, by the North American ne.) | | jewspaper Alliance, UNDERNOURISHED GIRLS GET COUNTY VACATION Roanoke, Va., Chil:lnm Three-Week Outing at Farm Home Near Winchester. Enjoy Special Dispatch to The Star WINCHESTER, Va. June 27.—From school room in the city to play in the country, with plenty of good and whole- some food and water and large, airy sleeping rooms, is the experience of & large group of little girls from Roanoke, Va. now at Princess Lodge, country farm home of Dr. P. W. Boyd, dean of the surgrical staff of Winchester Memorial Hospital. Undernourished of girls primary | and elementary grades of Roanoke were chosen for the outing by the District Nurse Association of that city. The children pay nothing for the outing, >ven transportation and clothing, if need | be. being furnished by their host. Those | now here will stay three weeks, then | another group will come for three weeks, and o on until schools reopen in September. Transferred to Richmond. LYNCHBURG, Va., June 27 (Spe- cial) —J. A. Bingham, lieutenant of the- State highway police, attached to the Lynchburg district several years, was transferred today to Richmond to be in charge of examination of app! cants for State permits for driving av tomobiles. He will have 61 counties under his jurisdiction. | which will | school and St. NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS PICKED Personnel of Permanent Dem- ocratic Body Is Not Yet Completed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 27.— Members of the Democratic National Committee, so far as they have yet been selected by State delegations, are ‘Alabama — Leon = McCord, Malone wirt G, Arizona Arkansas—Vincent Miles, ei Greenway dell California — William G. McAdoo, Kather- arles L. Donohoe. Colorado —Raymond Miller, ine_Hilliar " Georgin-—John 8. Cohen, Mrs. Edgar Alex- ander Indiana— Thomas D. Tagsart, Mrs. Bam- uel Ralston Towa—R. F. Mitchell. Mrs. Flora C. Etter. Dudley olittle, Florence G. arley. Kenfucky—A. W. Youns, Mrs. S8am Con- " ouisiana—*Huey P. Long °Mrs. Stells Hamiin, Maryiand—Howard Bruce, Mrs. Elizabeth R._ Menefee Minnesots—*Joseph Woll, *Mrs. Btanley V._Ho Mon! J. Bruce Kremer. Mrs. Edith Batt Nebraska—Arthur F. Mullen, Mrs. Charles ¥ Tsabella Mrs. A Bowman, Mrs. Miss Alice Cor- Mrs. Mrs . Ryan. New HampshireRobert L. Jackson, Mrs. Robert L. Jackson New Mexico—Arihur Seligman, Mrs. Coe Howerd, New York—John H. McCooey. Miss Eliza- 0. Max Gardner. Mrs. n, A. Julian. Mrs. Bernice 8. Pyke. Qregon—Walter H. Plerce, Miss Manche a — Sedgwick Kistler, a G, Miller Rhode Tsland—Peter @. Gerry, Mrs. Isa- belle O'Neal South Carolina—Tbra C. Blackwood, Mrs. L._H. Jernings Bouth Dakota. W. Howes. Mrs. Anna C._8truble. gelgxht—Jed C. Adams, Mrs. Clars Driscoll evier Utah—O. W. Ewing. Mrs. B. W. Musser. Vermont—Prank H. Duffy, Mrs. Mary P. Mzhoney. Virginia—H. P Byrd, Mrs. R. C. Watts. to be selected). Mrs. Mrs. Ger- Washington—(Yet Herbert inal Wisconsin —Charles Brouhton. Mrs trnde Bowler. *Tentatively seated. to Creden- tials’ Committee appro CHURCHES PLAN OUTING Annual Event at Glen Echo Park Arranged for Tomorrow. Pitzpatrick, sect Fifteen hundred members of eight Washington churches and Sunday schools will hold their annual outing at Glen Echo Park tomorrow. Churches Cgarfiripa" are Park View urch, St. Paul's Sunday Paul's Sunday school, Rock Creek: Petworth Baptist Sunday school. Fountain Memorial Baptist Sundav school, Pinkney Memorial Sun- Christian school, Hyattsville: Kendall Baptist di | Bunday school and United Baptist Sun- | day school On Wednesday the orphans of the city_will hold their outing, with John D. Fitzgerald in charge. ANNULME;JT DENIED Mrs. Margaret K. D. Frey Loses in Court of Appeals. Mrs. Margaret K. D. Frey today lost her appeal from a decision of the Dis- trict Supreme Court annuling her mar- riage to Ethelbert B. Frey, a lawyer. The opinion, written by Justice D Lawrence Groner of the Court of Ap- peals, affirmed the decision of Justice Jesse' C. Adkins, who found that Mrs. Frey and her husband conspired to | impose on the Virginia court which had granted the woman a divorce from her former husband. “Alfalfa Bill’s” Aids Say It With Music | the demonstrations of the day. This girls' band from Oklahoma let loose Gov. Willlam OWLA HOMA R e GOVERNOR wM. H MURRAY o FAHA UL FOR PRESIDENT p THE GOVERNMENT BIVEACK 10 THE PEOPLE with a round dmfimmumm-wmum M. Mwray (Alfalfs is in the Mrs. | DELEGATONS RUSH | 70 “BAND WAGON" Democrats Also in One-Man Convention, Like G. 0. P., Says Analyst. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. CHICAGO, June 27 (N.AN.A).—The | Democratic convention seems to be as much a one-man convention as the | Republican convention was 10 days ago Roosevelt, judging by all the rules of | prophecy, has got it and gone. If he has it, he will dictate the permanent Jchnkrman. He will write the rules of {the game. He will visa the platform and nominate himself early in the pro- | | ceedings. not later than the third ballot. ! | _ Mr. Hoover's hold upon the Repub- | lican convention the Sunday before it | convened did not seem stronger than | does Gov. Roosevelt’s hold upon the | | Democratic convention a few hours be- | fore the gavel falls. | One hears of delegations, presumably | controlled by favorite sons, cracking all | over the place. It sounds like a Spring | | thaw. At the headquarters of the Illi- 1 Missouri, Texas delegations— here, in fact—one hears rumors, authentic, of the break-up of the anti-Roosevelt favorite son combina- | tion. | Tammany Silent, ‘The curious phase of this situation is that Tammany has made no announce- ment. Every one feels, and all the evi- dence confirms the feeling, that Tam- | many has no other interest than to trade for Walker’s advantage, and it is evident, at least a few hours before the convention meets, that Roosevelt won't | trade. He has not offended Tammany, | but he is not putting the Walker case | into the jackpot, and every hour that he refuses to trade the trade becomexi more and more unnecessary. | Unless all signs fail, or unless his vic- tory is so well assured that he can afford to harmonize and will not need the abrogation of the two-thirds rule |and the defeat of Shouse, Roosevelt's friends will win both of these fights But enough favorite son delegations may break open and stampede to Roosevelt before the convention meets, so that | | he may have a unanimous nomination, |in which case he could well afford to }\t‘hll\'e the abrogation of the two-thirds | e He will have more trouble writing the ! platform than he will breaking the two- | | thirds rule. A distinct element in the | convention fears Roosevelt because of | his alleged liberalism. His enemies call | it “socialistic tendencies.” The lib- erals desire a liberal platform with rather definite promises for unemploy- ment insurance, o'd-age pensions and & lot of measures which 20 years ago in the Bull Moose platform were called "‘mznsuxas for social and industrial jus- | tice.” Tweedledum and Tweedledee. | 1t is that sort of thing that gives the conservative faction of the party an uneasy pain. Roosevelt controls the platform committee, but it was named | largely to see his plank on prohibition | | written. The prohibition plank ‘3“ differ from the Republican plank in tWo things: PFirst. It will | “yes” or “no” vote then, Second. ‘The Democratic platform | will reply for control of the interstate | liquor traffic not upon & substitute | amendment in the Constitution as the | Republican plank relies, but upon the | old Webb-Kenyon act—upon law rather, |than the Constitution. Let us put it in another way for the sake of clarity. | The Democratic plank promises the | abolition of the saloon just as the Re- | publican plank does. It promises Fed- | eral protection for dry States through Federal control of the interstate liquor traffic just as the Republican plank | does. But instead of promising to put a substitute amendment in the Consti- | tution covering this promise, the Demo- | crats promise to see that congressional legislation effects the Federal control of the interstate traffic in liquor enter- | ing dry States. | The two planks are near enough to- | gether to permit any wet or dry, in either party, to stay with his party and stand on the party platform. The dif- ference between the two planks is be- tween tweedlsdee and tweedledum. The Democratic plank uses plainer lan- guage. The Republican plank is more | | definite in its promises of a Federal constitutional amendment to establish | Federal control of the interstate com- merce in liquor, But, like most liberals, the real Roose- | velt leaders seem but list'essly interested in the prohibition plank. It was thus in the Republican convention. The Democratic liberals in charge of the Roosevelt band wagon are interested In the economic measures. They are try- | ing to get some sort of platform prom- | |ise to wipe out the depression in the | Jeffersonian manner by beginning at the bottom rather than by beginning at the top as the Republicans have begun. | Probably Gov. Roosevelt's followers | will have more trouble with the eco- innmlc plank than they will with the prohibition plank. If the convention | balks the New York Governor anywhere before his nomination it will be in the platform. Bouts Full of Color. ‘The preliminary bouts of this conven- tion have been full of color. Candidates’ | pictures in headquarters along the hall | on the second floor of the Congress Hotel ara like banners before a side- show. White and brown tropical clothes, straw hats and gay ties on the men. Noise and clamor in the lobbles of the big hotels—all these make a strange contrast with the respectable | formality which preceded the Repub- ovide for a direct upon repeal, and ‘}irnn gathering here earlier. in one of right foreground. P. Photo. In the milling crowds on Michigan avenue, in the sweaty, heated throngs that crowd in the hotel lobbies, one hears talk—Iots of talk, excited talk, and it seems to have no relation to reality. Yet out of this interminable gabble unquestionably there is already a no- ticeable drift to a liberal position—a | | position contrasting that of the crowd | | here two weeks ago. Gossips are naming | | running mates for Roosevelt. The vice | | presidential speculation picks upon a Iman who would fit the Roosevelt pie- ture and no other. Senator Wheeler of Montana is se- riously considered. His nomination with the Roosevelt platform would give the Democratic party a distinetly lib- eral cast which it has not held since Wilson died and Bryan passed from the Democratic scene. Give this crowd another week and it will be ready for a Bryan. The most significant rumor that has thrilled through the upper and wiser circles among the hotel statesmen is that if the two-thirds rule is abandoned and the liberal platform written, Gov. Roose- velt himself will come to the convention | and electrify it by announcing a dis- tinctly liberal attack for the coming campaign. | Probably this gossip is begotten of a liberal wish that he would come; but one hears jt. Roosevelt's presence in the convention, giving a definitely lib- eral turn, might make one of the dra- matic moments in modern history. It rertainly would set the campalign issues fairly well in order. Stranger things than this have happened in Democratic conventions which have convened in the | memory of living men, | (Copy 1982. by the | T ewpuper Allaon, The.) AR in 1931 was ,000, or three- than siightly more than 82, ¥ n 103, quarters of a million more | that ENATOR THOMAS WALSH of Montana (right), veteran Democratic cam- i f rather inclinations, photographed as he arrived at the | e = Waish was the chairman of the convention Congress Hotel, in Chicago. in New York in 1924 and the Roosevelt forces ere trying to force him into the job again to replace Jouett Shouse, as they claim Shouse is too closely allled with the Smith-Raskob forces. —Wide World Photo. RODSEVELT ERROR SEEN HOPE OF FOES Governor’s Opponents Must Wait for Chance if They Would Defeat Him. BY MARK SULLIVAN. CHICAGO, Ill, June 27.—The only chance—and it is a slim one—of Roosevelt being defeated lies in Smith and the allied opponents taking dra- matic advantage of some opportunity arising in the convention. That is the only plan, if it can be called a | plan, that the opposition has. ‘The opposition has no candidate and no real organization. They thind that at some point in the convention the Roosevelt forces will make & mistake and that Smith will program, no RITCHIE DELEGATES REMAIN CONFIDENT |Believe Maryland Governor Has Excellent Chance in Case of Deadlock. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, June 27.—Although the hour of convening of the Democratic | National Convention found the Roose- | velt forces confident of ultimate suc- | C. Ritchie of Maryland were standing | by ready to do battle for their favorite if the present trend should change. ‘The enthusiasm which has prevailed at Ritchie headquarters since the Gov- ernor arrived Friday has not waned, de- | spite the fact that there has been no |sign of & break in the Roosevelt camp. | Priends of the Maryland Governor be- | lieve he would be a strong contender | for the prize if a deadlock should oc- |eur. The prospect of such a develop- cess, the loyal followers of Gov. Albert | - COMMITTEE TODAY Long and Sanders Groups Will Argue Right to Louisi- ana Seats. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 27.—Contesting dele- gates from Louisiana, Minnesota, Puerto Rico and one Pennsylvania district will | plead their cases late today before the | Credentials Committee, empowered to recommend to the convention the seat- ing of delegates. As before the Democratic National Committee when the temporary conven- tion roll call was compiled, the Louisi- ana and Minnesota contests will be the main attractions, the others mere side shows. The outspoken pro-Roosevelt delegates won before the National Committee at a stormy session in which the words “lie” and “crook” were bandid about | and physical clash was averted nar- | row The same issues and the same per- formers will appear in the Credentlals Committee heering with the Louisi- if anvthing, more in fighting han before. Both the Hu-y Long State Central Committee” delegates and the J. Y. Sanders “State Conven= tion” delegates declare most emphatical- ly that they will carry their case to the convention floor if they lose before the committee. All Over, Says Long. The Sanders delegation has gone so far as to work among the delegates of other Stetes and to consider sending either John W. Davis, former Demo- | ::rll;ic p(r)tls!dentrla‘l”clnd!da!!. or Senator arter Glass of Virginia to the lead their attack 5 bty | But Huey Long refuses even to com- | sider the possibility of the case rnfi- | ing _the floor and says | It is all over but the shouting.” The Minnesota contest, between & | Roosevelt faction led by Einar Hoidale |and a Smith faction headed by Neil M. | Cronin. also represents strong feelin on each side but they had not decid: whether the loser hefore the Creden- | tials Committee would appeal to -the convention proper. The Hoidale faction won before the National Committee by a decisive vote. Delegate’s Election Attacked. In the Pennsylvania case brought from Wilkes-Barre, Peter J. McCormick attacks the election of Dr. Leo C. Mun- dy as a district delegate on the grounds that he is a Republican. The National Committee recognized Dr. Mundy. The Puerto Rican contest is between the delegation of W. R. Bennet and an- other led by Benjamin J. Horton, na- tional committeeman. The National | Committee recognized the Horton dele- | gates over protestations from Bennet | that the Horton faction was making & ;‘j‘oke; of the Democratic party in tae slan | |Convention Notes By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Ill, June 27.—A thorough | drenching was the lot of many delegates | who deserted the gossip of lakefront | hotel lobbies to do some sight-seein; take swift advantage of it to over-|ment is remote, however, as the day of their first day in town. Almost without whelm Roosevelt. That the Roosevelt forces may make a mistake is not an unreasonable probability. They have a proneness to hasty judgment and ex- cited action such as disturbs some of the moderate Roosevelt followers. Smith Handicapped. Smith, however, is under fatal handi- caps for taking advantage of Roose- velt'’s mistakes. Under the conditions other men might be able to do it, but not Smith. Tne fact that Smith is the spearpoint and symbol of oppesition to Roosevelt is a help to the latter. If Smith should aitempt to exercise her the undoubtable talent he has for emo- tion—rousing speech—he would find a full third of the delegates actively hostile and a full half cold to him. Some other leader, such as Newton D. Baker, might convince the convention it is undesirable to nominate Roosevelt. If Smith, however, should attempt a | recital of imperfections in Roosevelt's equipment, an instant answer in the minds of most of the delegates would be, “He was good enough when you drafted him to run for Governor of | balloting draws near. | Regardess of the outcome of the con | test for the nomination, the Maryland | Governor has proven one of the most popular of the favorite sons of Democ- | racy who have been put forward during the pre-convention days. He spent an- other busy day yesterday, greeting ers, and his headquarters was crowded as on previous days. A large contingent | of Marylanders came to the convention in addition to the delegates, and they | have taken every opportunity to make known to the visitors from other States the record he has built up through 12 years in the Governor's chair. |~ Gov. Ritchie was the guest of honor © | yesterday afternoon at a tea given by the woman members of the Maryland delegation at the Illinols Women's Ath- | letic Club. | PLANS TOMATO CONTEST | | g Maryland U. and Tri-State Pack- ers Sponsor Competition. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 27.—An- | notice the rain came down in bucket- | fuls, catching many of the badged and | beribboned crew blocks from the near- est_helter. | But, in holiday mood, they took it as a lark. Mrs. W. Scott Durand of Chicago, is a Republican by label, But four years after working actively for the late Pres- |ident William Howard Taft, she went | campaigning in 1916 for Woodrow Wilson. Yesterday she was in evidence at another Democratic rty-—social this time—at the home of her friend, | Mrs, Clarence N. Goodwin. Grover Whalen, New York's ex- official greeter and master of sartorial | elegance, is equally effulgent on Chi- cago's Michigan Boulevard. Wearing | broad-brimmed panama and, symphon- | ically blended costume of gray and | blues, heavy malacea stick swin, A | he could be spotted today half a blocl | off as he greeted, right and left— | unoMcially. } Genevieve Clark Thomson, who saw | her father, the late Champ. Clark, | attain a majority and then go down to def2at under the two-thirds rule back New York in order to help you in your |other Ten Tan Tomato Club contest [in 1912, is rather yes-and-noish about campaign for the presidency.” A score of such arguments and emotions in the | under the auspices of the University of | minds of the delegates operate to neu- tralize SMith's opposition to Roosevelt. Many of the delegates assume that Smith's motive is jealously or a wish Lo”have had the nomination for him- self. Also, to most of the delegates, Smith | is the symbol of Tammany, and they | hate Tammany. This is unfair to Smith, for the fact is Tammany is more hostile to Smith than to Rooseveit Smith when he was Governor had a firmer rein over Tammany than Roose- velt has. Tammany Disliked. \ | Few of the delegates know this, how- | ever. They think of Smith as the sym- bol of Tammany and of New York City, | and the mass of delegetes dislike both They think of Roosevelt as the anti- | | thesis of Tammany ana New York City. | | They think of him as representing the ideas and traditions of the part of | | America lying west of the Hudson River | A major reason for unresponsiveness lon the part of the convention to any | appeal from Smith is their feeling that | Smith and his present_attitude mean | strife and cleavage. They assoclate | | him with the grief they had in 1928 | | and in 1924 when Smith had his long | | deadlock with McAdoo. They think, further, that Smith was given his| chance in 1928 and that now he should be willing to “play the game." They think of Smith as the symbol of trou- | ble, and_the delegates want avoidance of trouble even more than they want Roosevelt. They think the best way to avoid trouble is to agree upon Roosevelt and do it quickly. That outcome is decidedly the pres- ent probability. If Smith were now and had been out of the picture the conven- tion might more readily be held to de- liberation about the comparative quali- ties of candidates. It should be added that nearly half the delegates are for Roosevelt for Rocsevelt's sake. They | reflect discontent and distrees through- | out the country, and they think of Roosevelt as the symbol of a new de (Copyright, 1982.) CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Lawn p.rt; benefit Mount Vernon , No. 292, Twelfth street and| Maryland avenue northeast, 8 p.m. Bingo party, benefit Wuhlnfion Council, Sons and Daughters of Lib- erty, No. 3, Woodmen of the World Hall, Grant place, 8:30 p.m. Dinner, University of Michigan Alumni, University Club, 7 p.m. Card party, Masonic Hall, Eighth and P streets northeast, 8:30 p.m. FUTURE. Luncheon, “Y” Men's Club, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, 1. pm. Association of Luncheon, Credit Men, Hotel, temorrow, 13:30 pm. {will be held in Maryland this year | Maryland Extension Service and the Tri-State Packers' Association, it was announced today. Gold watches are given as prizes. Entries close August 1. abolishing it now. “As a general propesition, I'd be glad to see the rule abolished.” she observed, “but about the wisdom of shelving it now, I don't know.” Her husband, James M. 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