UPROAR IN CONVENTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16495, 30 July 1924, Page 11

UPROAR IN CONVENTION.

POLICE STOP - BATTLES WHEN KLAN ISSUE GOMES UP.

NEW YOBK, .Tune 25. —The nomination of W. G. McAdoo, of California, was followed' by a demonstration on his behalf lasting just short of an hour this afternoon. A western pageant with a Los Angeles girl, garbed as a goddess of liberty, perched on many shoulders and accompanied by four beautiful trumpeters, led a parade around the garden amid: a bedlam of noise-shouts, cheers and cowbells crashing .in opposition. After the chairman had failed' to get order, the convention adjourned until to-morrow. Other candidates nominated were Senator Oscar Underwood and Governor Broughm. Others will be nominated l to-morrow.

Pandemonium broke out, in .Madison Square Garden this afternoon at the first direct mention of the Ivu Klux'Klan. Fordnev Johnston, of Alabama, placing Senator Oscar Underwood’s name before the convention, denounced ‘‘the hooded and 1 secret organisation known as the Ku Klux Klan.” With a crashing cheer, delegates arose in then; chairs, shouted, threw their hats in tile air, and finally started a parade. Fights broke out in the Missouri and Colorado delegations, requiring policemen to. intervene. The standard-holder in the Missouri delegation started off to follow the parade of delegations, but was hauled back by a fellow-delegate with the aid® of two women. The Colorado fight ended*.in a near fist fight. Bitter feelings developed as several members fought for and 1 against, adding tin l Colorado banner to the parade. The standard was wrecked in the melee. The worst of the outcries ended when the hand struck up “America,” and men and women paraded with American Hags. Sweltering beneath the rays of a. hot June sun, which poured down upon the Garden, delegates to-day li,stoned to the speech of Permanent Chairman Thomas J. Walsh, in which lie attacked the Republican administration, charging wholesale corruption and reciting the story of the oil scandals. Then came nominating speeches for this afternoon, with Alabama first presenting Senator Underwood.

But, at the Waldorf hotel and in Washington, even move important events were breaking.