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NING STAR, WASHINGTON, NAMES OF NINE DI WILD OUTBURSTS | FOLLOW ORATORY Each Candidate Extolled as| One Man to Lead the Party to Victory. By the Associated P CHICAGO., July 1 guished Democrats the party's national conventlor long nominating sess into this morning, and e: a5 the one man to le November's preside: Gov. Roosevelt, “Cactus . ner, Speaker of the House former Gov. Byrd Vi Ritchie, former Senator Reed of M souri, Melvin Traylor of I White of Ohio and Alfslfa Bil Oklahoma—all these were off Nine were preser in of individual cand Poughkeepsie, N. Y of his old friend, Gov “‘He comes to this greatest number of The New Yorker, he said, erying need for a practical 2 ¢ with 8 clear perspective and 8 knowl- edge of the entir on as our Chief Executive.” Nominating Smith, Gov. Ely of Massa- chusetts praised him as “a modern An- drew Jackson, a positive, virile, straigh speaking, plain-thinking statesman Alone of all the candidates, Ely cor tinued, Smith has been *‘so utterly bold 85 to disregard his political future in proposing & ‘“clean-cut definite pro- gram for the Government to follow in attaining the country’s economic re- covery." Referring to Smith's defeat four years 8go, the Bay State executive said “In 1928, riding the crest of the wave, the Republican party was unbeatable With the tide of prosperity against him, 200,000 voices properly placed would have changed the election. What would happen today in the tide of depression? Sure victory!" Speaker Garner was placed in nom- ination with an assertion by Senator Connally of Texas that with him there would go to the White House courage- ous, experienced, capable leadership. “This supreme hour calls for a man,” Connally said. “Weak and wavering vacillation must give way to a leader with & sense of direction and determ- ination to reach his destination. We want neither a superman nor a miracle man. Charms and incantations have lost their force. Glass Presents Byrd. “In answer to that call, Texas pre- sents to this convention a superb Demo- crat, a militant leader, a man of the - Glass of Virginia, dis- tinguished Democrat who was Secretary of the Treasury under Wilson, presented his State’s former Governor, Harry Flood Byrd, as a Governor of Virginia “who made a record never surpassed in the entire history of the State.” ““What Byrd did for Virginia he would do for the country if nominated by the convention and elected by the people,” Glass continued. "A confirmed expert in business methods, tested in the problems of public taxation, he would inaugurate at Washington & wise and provident and honest. pay-as-you-go administrationy of which the Demo- cratic party would be proud and from which the entfre Nation would derive the blessings of a better hope and the contentment of permanent recovery.” Michael L, Igoe of Chicago proposed Melvin Trayldr, Illinofs banker, as a new type of candidate. “We must nime a new type of man,” Igoe said. “Ome who will change the nation: this Nation once more toward assured Pprosperity. "“We accordingly propose to you as our nominee for President one to whom the American people would turn with infinite relief as against the weakness, the indecision, the lack of vision, the ineptitude and the incompetence of Herbert Hoover.” Ritchie, “Man of Destiny.” Maryland's Governor, Albert C Ritchie, was placed in nomination by Senator Tydings, who termed him “the man of destiny.” “This man embodies as does no other the qualities for whi the Nation yearns,” Tydings said. “He is now 55 vears of age, in the rich prime of his life, in the full vigor of his manhood, rich in executive experience, with a record of demonstrated accomplish- the repetition of which in the sphere is the demand of the dev Nominating former Reed of Missouri, Semu Louis said The only way i message can be ¢ suffering people is whose record sho ndamentas ¢ nator James A Forydee of St. which Democracy's carried to our ing a man cere be our Co the rank and for him." White Offered. was ight ov. Ohio div is that and qua POLICE HEAD.S OPPOSE GLORIFYING GANGSTERS Ohio Chiefs Hear Rutledge Deplore Bentimental Ideas of “Hoodlums” as Aid to Crime. By the Assoc! d Press. LONDON, Ontario. July 1.—Glorifi- cation of gangsters instend of treat! them as the “hoodlums they really were” was deplored in an address here last night by Willlam P. Rutledge, for- mer police commissioner of Detroft. Rutledge, speaking at the final ses- | sion of the Ohlo State Chiefs' Associa- tion, defended departmental efficiency by poin! to the scienfific methods that have been devel Judge J, Smith of d, another called of the Je psychology—one who will point | Delegates cheering wildly peal of the eighteenth amendment. ELYGALLSSMITH ANODERN JAGKSON |“Give Us a Man Who Dares,” | | Governor Shouts in Nomi- i nation Speech. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO. July 1.—Shouting “Give |us a man who dares” Gov. Joseph | B. Ely of Massachusetts placed in | nomination for President, at the Demo- cratic National Convention, Alfred E. Smith, the “Happy Warrior” candidate of 1928 “A modern Andrew Jackson, & posi- tive, virile, straight-speaking, plain- thinking statesman,” Smith was called by his nominator. “Even his enemies recognize the comparison. Every edi- | torial writer in the United States ac: claims the sterling quality of his per- | sonality, The great constitutional law- yers of his day acknowledge his divine gift of government.” Smith alone, of all the candidates offered to the party, Ely maintained, has been “so utterly bold” as to disre- gard his political future in proposing a cleancui, definite program for the Government to follow in attaining the country's economic recovery. Reviews Smith’s Record. He reviewed the distinguished record of Smith in_public office, four times Governor of New York. recalled how in 1828 as Democratic choice for President | he polled 15,000,000 votes, a total un-| surpassed by any candidate but Herbert Hoover. “Critical conditions face us—so criti- cal that the Democratic party must make no mistake in framing a platf or choosing a candidate,” Gov. Ely “The people of the United States look to us for a leadership that leads, and a program that extricates from our | present difficulties. This is more than | a political convention seeking to estab- |lish the supremacy of a political party. | We are not here to please ourselves alone, but to satisfy a Nation. “I yield to no man in devotion to Democracy and the ideals of our party. Always, and to the end, the great men of the past are the idols of my political faith. We cannot rely upon our glori- ous past to lift the Democratic party into power. That course has been tried too often without success, but in this | crisis from them may come our in- spiration. It might be well to pause for 2 moment and consider those lead- | ers of earlier times, If we could recall | from the shades of a retreating past | one of them to lead us now; if it re mained only to lift our volces and nom- |inate him by acciamation to show the | | way, would it be Jefferson, the political philosopher, or the dogged and deter- | mined Cleveland? Would our ees rurn | to the scholarly and idealistic Wilson, | or do times demand the rough yet tender, rude yet appealing, fiery yet sensible and potent decision of Andrew Jackson, ‘the Federal Union— it must and shall be preserved'? That is the s such a man must offer in contrast to the wavering. doubtful, dis- | heartening conduct of the Republican administration Give us & man who dares. Give Us a general who, gs in the old days. takes his place at the head of the line with sword aloft and voints the way. When such a man gives the command. will we follow? The world should know that we will? “A Modern Andrew Jackson. “You will ask me, but where is this modern ‘Old Hickory'? * * * There is a man who sits amongst us who is 8 modern idrew Jackson. You know who he is Even his enemies recognize the com- ison. Every editorial writer in the ted Sfates acclaims the sterling ities of his personality.” hort time ago. speaking to the y Washington, he laid am to be followed by the A Boldly and without equivocat- he declared for a protracted mora- im { to the foreign debts reduction a of our goods. the criti- spoke for c_works Federal ave emphatic ap- 1 the eigh- and to establish United States what to a new industry by law. A few he radio from re-emphasized these the pay- ne. Where before this 50 utterly bold public questions Iy his po- thought t he future into the poliical and he found 1t again in arts and minds of his country- t that wastebasicet Fifteen million people were drawn to him in 1928, unswerving in their devo- tion in spite of all the political propa- | ganda nal attack directed | against him. That storm has spent its He has come through it still the ppy warrior” From humble origin, Lincoln and Jackson, his whole public career attests his concept as ex- pressed by him—that the state is the men and women and the children who up, There is no reason for him to speak of the forgotten man be- cause with him no class of men or women or children is forgotten | “The platform which we adopt is a | useless docum-nt in the hands of one | who has neither the power nor the in- clination to carry out its promises, ‘First of all leadership, articulate, virile, willing_ to bear responsibility, needing no official spokesman to inter. pret the oragle’ So spoke the present v State of New York chen Alfred E. | principles? | by | public | and hones ! entire Natic Smith took the platform, late last when he nominated Alfred E. Smith for the presidency of the United States. It will not be a useless document if Alfred | E. Smith is our standard bearer. | “In 1928, riding the crest of the wave, | the Republican party was unbeatable. | Yet our candidate polled 15,000,000 votes—more than any other Democrat | ever recelved or any other candidate | except Mr. Hoover. With the tide of prosperity against him, 200,000 votes properly placed would have changed | the election. What would happen_to- | day in the tide of depression? Sure victory. Jefferson Race Recalled. “I speak for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts In no uncertain terms | she has expressed her preference to | this convention. I believe that I voice the sentiments of the industrial east. The prejudices of our Protestant an-| cestors against entrusting government to those of a different religious faith | have long since been wiped away by many a successful experience, through which we have found that a man imbued with faith in God, whatever | the creed, may be entrusted safely with the reins of government. We speak from experience “Timothy Dwight, president of Yale University, looked upon the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency of the United States as impossible because of his alleged religious beliefs—the rthodoxy of which has never been | established. He sald, ‘We may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution; soberly dishonored; spe- ciously polluted; the outcasts of delicacy and virtue, the loathing of God and man’' Jefferson also ran once and lost. | Has any man ever questiored the de- | votion of Thomas Jefferson to American Did any man ever do more | for the upbuilding of the great re-| public? Is the loyalty of a Catholic | American to the United States and her | principles t6 be challenged? “I summarize my creed as an Ameri- | can_Catholic. “I believe in the worvhip of God ac- | cording to the faith and practice of; the Reman Catholic Church. “I recognize no power in the institu- | tions of my church to interfere with the operations of the Ccnstitution of the United States or the enforcement of the law of the land 2 “That is the creed of Alfred E. Smith.” NOMINATOR LAUDS BYRD LEADERSHP Glass Says Former Governor Made Record Unsurpasesd in Virginia. the Associated Pres CHICAGO. July 1—Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia was offered to the Democratic party as & cancidate for the presidency, who as Governor of Virginia made a record “never passed in tire history of ta= “What Byrd would do fo; nated by ti the people,” Glass In pla sur- the the did the for Virginia he country if nomi- s convention znd eclected said ator Carter Byrd in nomination before the convention. He reminded that Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were once Virginia Senators. “A" confirmed expert in Dbusiness methods, tested in the problems of taxation, he would inaugurate at Washington a wise and provident pa -you-go administra- tion. of which the Democratic party would be proud, and from which the would deri hope ax nt rec Se ings of & be ment of perm asscrted Assalling the Republ tion and declaring the Nation is cor fronted with economic problem de- manding & sane solution to e choice between insolvency and durable taxation of the people praised Byrd as possessing the thought, purpose and courage necessary to lead. He sald’ Byrd was a farmer with an acute appreciation of the needs of ag- riculture; & business man who in- creased his State highway system by 3,000 miles at a cost of $75,000.000 without lssuing & bond; a Governor who consolidated a hundred agencies into 12 compact departments at a sav- ing of $800,000 a year who survived 193 lowed the follow ductions in ex~ “Even n administra- unen- g vear by land tax re- s of $4,000,000 in this despe depression ends this fiscal year with a nce of $6.000,000 and with t a premium in the markets the world,” the Virginia Senator “Like Thomas Jefferson, this young Virginian for whom we ask your favor | was born an aristocrat, but from choice | became a great Democrat. With the | gracious manners of a gentleman he | unites the fine virtues of the yeoman. | With the intellectual graces of a su-| perior mind he unites the warmth and the kindly emotions of & tender heart. He is honest, he is courageous, he is fit. “Nominate Harry Byrd as your can- didate and the Democratic party ot the Nation will preserve the unbroken record of always achieving victory at a presidential election when its ban- ners was placed in the hands of a son | of Virginia.” Valuable Ruby Found. Weighing 17 carats, and valued at nearly $25,000, a ruby of unusual bril- | giant been found llance has e ——— . a speech in favor of re- —A. P. Telephoto. CARNER OFFERED AS CREAT LEADER Texan Nominated by Senator Connally—McAdoo Adds Praise of Character. night, to give By the Associated Press CHICAGO, July 1.—John N. Garner of Uvalde, Tex, was nominated for the presidency with the assertion that he would take courageous, experi- enced and capuble leadership to the White House. There was & prolonged shout from the Texas and California delegations and applause elsewhere r the wide floor as Senator Tom Connally, Garner's home State, presented the name of the Speaker of the House to the Democratic convention. “This supreme hour calls for a man,” Senator Connally told the delegates “Weak and wevering vacillation must give way lo a leader with a sense of direction and d ination to his destinaticn. onnally said want neither a superman nor a miracle man. Cherms and incantations have lost their force. “Man of the People.” “In answer to that call sents to this convention a superb Democrat, a militant leader, a man of the people " Connally blamed the present admin- istration for “the wreckage of business and industry and agriculture wrought by blundering policics and groping and befuddled Republican leadership.” In such a desperate hour, America | turns to Democracy, he said, attributing to Speaker Garner a monumental grasp of national affairs and necessities evolved from his 30 years in the House. “He did not acquire his mastery of American traditions and government from a blue print.” said Connally. “For almost a generation they have been his | life—he knows every stone in the foundatlon, every beam and girder and the vast complex and intricate struc- ture of American government.” Garner stood as the most aggressive opponent of the policles of Andrew Mellon in three administrations, the Texan sald. “When Mr. Mellon, with the whole power of the administration behind | him. sought to exempt rich and power- ful groups from their just share of taxatfen and thersby to {nerease unduly the burdens of small and average in- | come; when he sought to shift from the stalwart shoulders of the strong that which they easily bore and to saddle it upon the bowed backs of the weak and staggering he met an an- | tagonist who stood like granite for the | people’s cause,” Connally said “He set an example of leadership for which the American people have been pleading and looking in vain towards the White House." Tribute by McAdoo. Joining in the nomination of Jobn N Garner, William Gibbs McAdco told the Democratic convention it had to nomi- nate one whose life was a guarantee that as Presid he would bring courage, honesty ty bear upon the press! unhappy day And, he added, the nomination must be made in true Democratic fashion. Garrer, he said. lacked no single ele- ment of appeal either to the inteilect to the imagination McAdoo recalled his candidate’s frontier forbears and 30 years of public service. He maintained the fact that Garner has not been an outstanding figure in the business world should be hailed, not as a weakness but as one of his chief recommendations. h, ne said, has been developed ty to make money carries city and ever n of ma y today tread & land e clay feet of blasted ce of a disaster largely own selfishness and one of these ace leaders has shown a trace of the power to lead the Nation out of the wilderness, “It is 'despised politicians' that they turn to for extrication from the pit.” “Miracle Man in Ruins.” “The ‘miracle man’ of 1928, that great executive genius who, with one tap of a Moses' wand, was to lift the country to new and undreamed heights of pros- perity. now sits among the ruins of his and the par proud but shattered pretensions like a Lazarus in his ashes. The mightiest financial mind of Repub- lican savor since A der Hamilton, hastily exiled from scene of his blunders, now licks his wounds in the quiet of the Court of St. James “Not only inefficiency, but down-right dereliction has been disclosed. The various Senate investigations have made a nudist colony out of Wall Street. They have stripped the mask from great financial houses and have exposed in- ternational banking practices shocking in their bold disregard of the law and common honesty. Greedy peddlers, for profit, of billions of dollars of tinsel securities, have brought want and woe to millions of American homes. “And the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall street beacon—Ilure for the inuocents who vainly try to buck the speculative game—has been exposed as er you with In the produced by incapacity red the | the breeding place for gigantic_ stock pools, whose hard-boiled manipulations and organized publicity are as cruel and rapacious as the cruder activities of the underworld. “Because of these, and a multitude of other abuses which cry aloud for cor- rection, I thank God that John N. Gar: ner is not a captain of industry or a of finance, but a statesman with grasp and grain to deal with this great Texas pre- | D. C, FRIDAY, ROOSEVELT SURE Governor Confident as He Follows All Night Session by Radio. | By the Associated Press EXECUTIVE MANSION, ALBANY, N. Y, July 1.—Gov. Pranklin D. Roose- | velt, after gaining slightly more than | 16 votes in three ballots, was confident | he would win the presidential nomina- tion as the Democratic National Con- vention adjourned its all-night session today. Asked If he was still confident that he would win the nomination, the Gov- ernor replied emphatically: He added: “The boys in Chicago are pleased and confident.” Appears Fresh. After his all-night vigil by the radio, Gov. Roosevelt appeared fresh and in | high spirits. He looked less fatigued than his sons, Elliott and John. His linen suit was hardly wrinkled. all be pretty telephone.” He indicated he would be hard at work with James A. Farley and his other lleutenants in Chicago, trying to break down the opposition In which he made slight but constantly Increasing inroads as the ballots proceeded today. Gov. Roosevelt was highly pleased ;’h:; his lines had held as well as they ad. Smith Photo on Mantel. The third ballot found Gov. Roose- velt still close by a radio loud speaker in the rambling old executive mansion, where on a mantel still stand large | framed photographs of former Gov. | and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, The Governor was seated in his |study in a big armchair, where he | spent the night listening to the pro- ceedings in Chicago. A table. strewn | with bits of paper. was drawn up be- [ fore him and at the table sat his sons, | Elliott and John, busily fizuring away While the second ballot was being taken, Gov. Roosevelt's breakfast was sent in to him on a tray. When the Governor spoke his volce still sounded fresh and confident. He and his sons had greeted the begin- ning of the second ballot with cheers. “Hooray!" the Governor's son Elliott shouted as Chairman Thomas J. Walsh in the Chicsgo Stadium ruld that Connecticut’s motion to adjourn was out of order, since the second ballot had already started. Aitaboy!” young John chimed in, while the Governor's lauzh rang cut. Check Results. With penci's and paper, the Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt, the Governor's mother. and Elliott end John sat near the loud speaker, add'ng up the totals. The 11 from Missouri that switched over brought ckeers from Elliott and John, and when one more Missouri vote was added their father joined in the gleeful laughter, “Come on, boys” Gov. Roosevelt called out once, when there was a delay. “Wasn't that more votes than Smith expected?” some one asked, as the radic announcer read off 2013, for the former Governor. “More, I think,” Gov. Roosevelt re- plied, “on account of those New York votes Four newspaper correspondents waited in a reception room across the hall from the Governor's study. Mrs. Roose- velt. in & green evening gown, came to the door on “I'm sorry he said, “but he’ll have to keep you waiting. It's too bad that you had to be up all night.” Mrs. Roosevelt Smiles. | When the total reached 666%;. one of the correspondents in the room across the hall remarked: | “Just a little over a hundred more [ to go.” | Mrs. Roosevelt glanced around, smiled | and whispered: | “Shht” Although Gov. Roosevelt could not be seen, his voice sounded as though he were not at all fatigued after a night of suspense. He laughed frequently and joked with the members of his family. Several times during the night mem- bers of the housebold visited the garage where the newspaper men kept vigil Miss Margaret Le Hand, the governor's personal secretary, came out about 5 o'clock and found them eating hot dogs. “We had hot dogs, t00,” she said, “at midnight.” ENTHUSIASM SHOWN IN PARADE FOR BYRD Demonstration for Virginian Hail- ed in Chicago Headlines as Best in Convention. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, July' 1.—Virginla's 24 votes in the Democratic Nationsl Con- vention were cast for Harry Flood Byrd for the presidential nomination toda> by a weary and sleepy delegation. After an enthusiastic demonstration for the former Virginia Governor when he was offered to the party by Senator Carter Glass as “the greatest Governor in three-quarters of a century.” the legation sat through a long night of sratory with scarcely & desertion On the first ballot Byrd picked up a vote from Indiana, but lost it on the next ballot. Word reached the dele- gaticn there was Byrd sentiment in the Philippine delegation, and that votes from that sector might be expected on future ballots. Mrs. Richard Crane and Mrs. Emma Lee White stayed with the delegation throughout the night. Senator Fergu- son sald it was the first full night he had remained awake for years. Despite the crowded condition in the hall and the monotonoy of speeches, the delegation preserved much of the ‘en- thusiasm exhibited when Senator Glass placed the name of Byrd before the convention. Some Chicago newspapers hafled in headlines the demonstration for Byrd as the best in the convention. It lacked nothing in enthusiasm. The enthusissm of Virginians was contagious, for the entire Maryland delegaticn, a score or | more Texans, “Alfalfa Bill" Murray’s | Oklahomans and standards of dozens of other States, especially from the South, leaped into the parade. WARRENTON MAN TAKEN AS ESCAPED PRISONER Alleged U il Is Turned Over to Fauguier Sheriff by Marlboro Constable. Breaker By a Staff Correspondent of The Star MARLBORO, Md., July 1.—Said to | have broken jail at Warrenton, Va. | yesterday, Ellis Dulaney of Warrenton was captured in a house near T B, Md., early today by Constable Harry Sweeney_and turned over to Sheriff Stanley Wolfe of Pauquier County. w‘wnfl on & house- sald, JULY ~ OF NOMINATION busy on the| 1, 1932. [HAWES SAYS MISSOURI | WILL BACK ROOSEVELT Senator Predicts Swing From Reed, With New York Governor Winning. By the Associated Press | A prediction that Pranklin D. Roose- | velt will be the Democratic nominee for President and will recelve Missouri’s en- tire 36 votes, came today from Senator Hawes, Democrat, of M L Missouri gave iis 36 on the first baliot to James A. Reed, a favorite son. The second showed 18 for Roosevelt and 18 for Reed. while on the third Roosevelt received 20'; and Reed 15%3. | In predicting the State would go wholly for Roosevelt, Hawes said he | could mot say how soon the change | would come he is “not om the ground.” He adi “you can quote me | as saying Roosevelt will be nominated and will be the best man for Missouri and the Central West e TAMMANY TURNS RODSEVELT DOWN Two Ballots, With Oniy Five Votes Lost. | BY WALTER T. BROWN, | Associated Press Staff Writer. | CHICAGO STADIUM, July 1.—Tam- many Hall turned thumbs down on Gov. Roosevelt on the first two ballots for the presidential nomination in the | Democratic convention today |~ Mayor James J. Walker, whose future | ms chief executive of the country's | largest city rests with Roosevelt, arrived late, but in time to cast & vote for for- mer Gov. Smith on the first roll call Pending before Roosevel. now charges based on the Legislative Inves- tigating Committee findings that Walker should be ousted. Not_a vote in four of the boroughs of | New York City. Kings, Quecns, Rich- mond and Manhattan, went into the Governor's column on the first two roll calls. | Five Votes Captured. | One Nassau delegates, Charles Heling | of Lindenhurst, voted for Roosevelt | and four votes from the Branx were his. The others all were for Smith. Up-State the Tammany lines held as they had through the credentials and permanent chalrmanship fights Willlam H. Kelley, the Syracuse leader, who was considered in the Rooscvelt camp, voted for Smith, as did Finla G | Crawford and John J. Ryan of Syra- | cuse. | Chairman John F. Curry's surprise move, in calling for a poll of the dele- gation, created surprise and specula- | | tion. It was generally believed he took | that avenue of approach to be free of | the accusation that he “delivered” any votes to a candidate. On the first roll call Thomas F. Con- way. former leutenant governor of | Plattsburg. was absent, and his alter- | nate, Thomas P. Ward of Saranac Lake. | voted for Smith. Conway, aroused from sleep, arrived in time to vote for Roose- velt on the second ballot. Voted by Alternate. | When the name of “Alfred E. Smith"” was called all eyes turned on the New | York group, but the candidate was out- side in a radio broadcasting booth and his alternate, John J. O'Rourke of Dcn- gan Hllls, voted. Henry W. Beer in voting for Smith said, “I wish I had 100,000 votes to give him.” | Of the 16 delegates at large, 5 went | with the Governor. They were Lieut. | Gov. Lehman, Harlan Rippey of Roches- | ter, Oliver Cabana, jr. of Buffalo and Mrs. Danlel O'Day of Rye. Miss Eliza- | beth Marbury, naticnal committee- woman and delegate large, was absent. James J. Hoey of New York City became impatient when the announce- ment of the first roll call was delayed anu in a loud voice demanded that | Chairman Walsh give it. WHITE HERALDED " AS UNSURPASSED Nominates Pomerene Ohioan, | Stressing Stand on Prohibition. | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, July 1.— Heralded as a man unsurpassed in merit, Gov. Geoige White of Ohio was nominated for the | presidency by former Senator Atlee Pomerene. Pomerene stressed to the assembied | delegates at the Demccratic National | Convention Gov. White's stand on pro- | hibition, advocacy of submission of a repeal amendment and immediate modification of the Volstead law. Pomerene said “No American will ever have occasion to say to Gov. White “Be even and direct with me.’ He recounted the State executive's dry stand in the Ohio Legislature and in Congress, always taking the position that “the people decide for themselves." “Name him as our candidate for the presidency and Democracy will not be on the defensive,” Pomerene said, “He will make an aggressive fight from the day the campaign opens until its cloge.” Gov. te's record as Governor was outlined by the speaker, emphasis b ing laid on his economy program, in which & saving of more than $9,000,000 was claimed for his first year, and par- ticuiarly his relief program, which was enactea by two special legisiative ses- sions. On national questions, White was de- scribed as opposing high domestic tariffs which bring retaliation from for- elgn countries and cancellation of war debts untll we can “be assured by deed and not by word that thereby interna- | tional peace will be preserved.” GARNER UNRUFFLED BY CHICAGO DOINGS By the Associated Press. The stormy politics of a Democratic National Convention found Speaker Garner pursuing an unruffied work- day routine, | Mrs. Garner, wife and secretary of the presidential candidate, who gained 11 votes on the third ballot, today gave this account of how the Speaker spent | the hours of the night that were oc- cupled with speeches and voting at Chicago: |~ “Mr. Garner left his office last night half-past 6. He dined at the hotel | “After reading the evening papers, Mr Garner retired at half-past 9. us_after 6 o'clock. “Mr. Garner got up this morning at 6 o'clock, as usual; ate breakfast and reached the Capitol just after 7. Then :‘f m%hm papers and start- s 5 Mrs. Garner said the Speaker complete kg after working | ad not Srosdcasis to radio #ie convention proceedings, [ Smith Given Support in First are | phone calls are not allowed to disturb | STINGUISHED DEMOCRATS ARE GIVEN CONVENTION | RITCHIES RECORD - NOMINATION PLEA Tydings Tells Convention of | Balanced Budget and Long Governorship. \ Special Dispatch to The Star CHICAGO, Iil, July 1.—Gov. Albert C. Ritchi*'s record in keeping Mary- land's budget balanced with a surplus in the treasury. his ccnsistent stand for State’s rights on the prohibition question and his opposition to central ization of paticnal power wrre cited by Senator Millard E. Tydings of Mary- (land, in presenting the popular Gov- | ernor of that State to the convention | as a presidential nominee. After stressing the fact that, as Mary- |land's fourth-term Governor, Ritchie already has served longer in consecutive ilmm than any other Governor in the United States, Senator Tydings said. “What caused the unusual bestowals of confidence in a commonweslth 300 | years old? 1t is no mystery. The rec- ord gives the answer. “First, he completely reorganized the State government, rebuflding it finally and soundly on a business basis, elem- ‘mlnng waste end duplication, He fused it into a compact, workable instru- | mentality to serve the public good. The State tax rate on homes and farms has been, not increased, but cut 30 per cent since he took office. The State budget, | which he developed. has never been out of balance. Even at this hour there Is & 10 per cent cash surpius in the treas- ury. Bonds at High Mark. “Now mark you well this almost un- believal assertion, which testifies as nothing else can to his business ability. This very month the bonds of the State of Maryland have sold higher than the | bonds of the United States Government itself. | “Contrast this record with the record of the present national Government under Herbert Hoover. Here is our country crying for reduction in taxes, | crving” for reorganization of its Gov- ernment with its muddled finances, un- balanced budget, $3,000,000 deficit all under Hoover. And here is a man with a record of governmental reor- ganization, a cash surplus in his State's treasury, a reduced tax rate to his credit, with the bonds of his State oc- cupying, alone and unrivaled, the very pinnacle of financial integrity in the | whole world. | |~ “Search the Natiop over for a record | of achlevement to which we can attract the voters to the Democratic standard, and I say to you that no man can | furnish it as this man does. On these facts alone, millions of oppressed tax- pavers of all parties would flock to him, to cbtain for the Nation the relief he has already so bountifully given his | State.” | Senator Tydings recalled that in 1922 | a Republican President asked the Gov- enors of coal mining States to call out the National Guerd to police mines. | “Gov. Ritchie," sald Tydings, “was the only Governor to refuse the request. | He told the President that the presence | of armed troops would mean bloodshed, |.and he did not believe it necessary then, | [or any other time to settle labor dis- | putes by bullets and bayonets.” | | Centralizing of Government. Senator Tydings told the convention that time after time Gov. Ritchie has pointed out that centralization of Naticnal power, coupled with the granting of subsidies by the Federal | Government, and its incursion upon | fields not properly belonging to it, “was creating a huge Frankenstein, which | would not be responsive to the will of | the people, that it would demand such nourishment in the form of taxation, that the day would come when the | people would stagger beneath the load | and cry aloud in pain and ask for | deliverance.” No man in the country, Tvdings as- serted, has fought harder than Gov. Ritchie “to preserve this republic as| it was originally conceived, a republic in which the States would remain States and in which the Federal Gov- ernment would confine itself to naticnal questions only, and not be a_huge octo- pus reaching its myriad and expansive tentacles into every phase of our State, business and personal activities, “A decade ago” Senator Tydings continued, “when other men's tongues | were silenced by fear or held in resig- | mation of the forces, which had violated these great principles and changed our | | fundamental philosophy by inserting | the eighteenth amendment in the Con- | stitution of the United States, the fight- ing blood of his Scotch ancestry surg- ed up in one great flood and undis- mayed by criticism or exc-diencv. he dered o cry out against this ruinous experiment.” Question of State's Rights. Sen r Tydings said that with Gov. Ritchie the cuestion was not one of liguor or no liquor, but & question of whether the Feceral cr the State gov- ernments are best equipped to deal with this problem In the interest of true tem- perance and good government. Tydings declared the Maryland Governor pre- dicted the abuses, “which would fol- low this experiment, that lack of law vance, crime, graft and hypoc- The speaker reminded the delegates that. while Ritchie is a son of the South. born in Virginia, the North knows him, too, “and loves him deeply. for he has been in it and worked in it” The Senator edded that the man he is placing before the convention likewise symbolizes the “whole-souled which the West demands he submerges all sectional lines, he towers above all groups and dis- tinctions.” While the convention was considering | the presidency as Democracy's REED NOMINATED BY . W. FORDYCE Long Record in Public Office and Direct Action Cited as Valuable Qualities. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 1.—The name of James A. Reed, the silver-haired former Senator from Missouri, was placed in nomination for the presidency by Sam- uel W. Pardyce, St. Louis attorney. “If you wish vaguepess or vacilla- tion,” Fordyce told the Democratic con- vention, “do not chocse Senator Reed.” Fordyce said the party must conyince the American people that the possessor of property would be protected in his honest rights; he warned against Com- munism and Socialism and said the times demanded a man who would do these things. “Endeared to Masses.” “I present to you such a mar said. “Throughout his long and useful life he has endeared himself to the great masses of the people. This man's unceasing battle for humanity has brought to him the admiration, the devotion, the love of every class.™ Fordyce said one great battle alone in Reed's career “ertitles him to an everlasting place in the hall of fame, his relentless, his successful fight to keep this country from ignoring Wash- ington's warning to avoid all foreign entanglements “Let us analyze.” Pordyce said. “what you delegates and the people who sent you_here desire. in a candidate.” “Do you wish demonstrated experi- ence in the art and science of Federal Government? Long Record Cited. “Some have theories. Senator Reed has actual knowledge. Some tell us what they would do if elected. “Senator Reed's record shows you what he actually has done. “Do you want devotion to personal liberty as well as property rights? “Search his record as prosecuting at- torney, as mayor of Kansas City—as Senator of the United States “You will find not one act of his— not one vote of his, to mar that record. “They say Reed hes made enemiecs. What strong man has not made them? Reed has been criticized: villified; but time has proved him right “Do you want courage? “In Reed you have courage to a superative degree Do not nominate James A. Reed” Fordyce sald, “if you wish the Demx cratic party to be suspected of Radical ism, Communism or Soclalism. “If you want a campaigner who wins his battles, take our can te.” MURRAY PROPOSED AS “MAN OF HOUR” Ex-Gov. Johnson of Oklahoma Nominates State's Choice for President. A" he By the Associated Press. CHICAGQ. July i.— The delegates in Chicago Stadium heard Gov. William H. Murray of Oklahoma nominatad for ‘man of the hour." In placing his name befcre the con- vention, former Govq Hanry 8. Jobn- ston of Perry, Okle., saild Oklahoma's chief executive “knows enough to real- ize that the remedy for an empty stomach is a square meal, and the way to a square meal is a square deal.” Johmston said the main issues in the coming campaign were finance and economics. “Gov. Murray knows enough to real- ize that voluntary and involuntary idleness are equally destructive; he | knows that the former is self-imposed and the fault of the idler, and that the latter is thrust upon an individual and lsk(’he fault of the system,” Johnston sa “Murray is the man of the hour,” John-ton said; “he is that as measured both by his position and qualifications; he is that by experience and in- herent character qualifications—by virtue of being a great constitutional lawyer, a Democrat in the majestic sense, a true tribune of the people.” The former Governor outlined Mur- ray's accomplichments from the time he headed Oklahoma's constitutional convention to his work as Governor. He said Gov. Murray was the only candidate who had the courage to volce his convictions “so that people could understand,” thet the Governor brickbats or mud, for for personalities.” s DROPS DEAD ON TRIP DETROIT, July 1 (P —Willlam W Ayres, national advertising manager of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, dropped dead yesterday while making a business call in the General Motors Building. Death was caused by a heart attack. The body will be taken to Knoxville today. the prohibition plank in the platform last night, Gov. Ritchie explained in detail his well known position on that issue. In concluding the nominating speech, Senator Tydings pointed out that Gov. Ritchie is 55 years of age. “in the prime of his life, in the full vigor of his manhood, rich in executive experi- ence, with a record of demonstrated accomplishment, the repetition of which in the national sphere is the demand of the day.” The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank to borrow. For each $120 bor- rowed you agree to deposit $10 a month in an account, the pro- ceeds of which may be used to cancel the note when due. 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