ROWDY DEMOCRATS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 494, 1 July 1932, Page 1

ROWDY DEMOCRATS.

Noisy Demonstration for Roosevelt. PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT TO-DAY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 1, noon.) CHICAGO, June 30. Cheering and parading for its heroes the Convention heard one after another of its candidates jplaced in nomination as prepared for the supreme test of the roll call. The platform, with its prohibition repeal plank, but with the proposals for the immediate payment of a bonus and a guarantee for bank deposits ousted overwhelmingly, had been adopted, and nothing remained but the nomination and the shouting. . Long and loud was the demonstration for Roosevelt, when his name was put in for nomination, first of all. Round and round the big hall the marchers went, yelling and dancing, and led by the roaring tones of the monster pipe organ. Forty minutes after the demonstration started James Farley, Roosevelt’s manager, began waving the demonstration down. “ Call it oft',” he shouted to his scouts on the floor, but he forgot to telephone to the organist and the music continued, interspersed now with only weak cheers. A few minutes later the chairman, Mr Walsh, rapped for o_rder. The demonstration had lasted forty-three minutes. The Convention leaders decided to go into recess at six o’clock until nine, when the nomination speeches will be finished. The ballot will probably be reached on Friday. Governor Franklin Roosevelt to-day endorsed the Democratic Convention’s wet plank. Speaker John Garner was nominatec second, to an outburst of cheering anc banner-waving. The Texas and Caii fornia delegations, which held 91 I votes, are pledged to him. Alfred Smith was the third nomina Want Liquor Back. When the delegates to the Demo •ratic Convention regathered yesterday ifter dinner, it was monstrously hot Senator Walsh had extreme difficulty ir jetting order so that the platform vhich in the meantime had been com Dieted, could be read. lie leaped int< i deep rage, and shouted for the gentle nen, if they were gentlemen, to si lown. It was the shortest platform, of ap aroximately 1200 words, ever offered t. in American political convention. I narked the return of the Democrati Party to nearly all its traditional po cies, which for 100 years before th ecent industrial and financial growt! )f America made it a party of primar; producers nd rural communities Of Dosed to the so-called big business am ronservatism of industrial and financia :ommunities. No better proof of this fact can b bund than in the tariff ‘ Competitive tariff for revenue <~>rs] ind reciprocal tariff arrangements wit oreign nations.” Of course, when the phrase, “ 'A r e a< rocate the repeal of the Amendment,” was read, it pre/fipitate i wild animal-like demonstration, th ssue somehow dulling all perceptioi ft the remarkable reversion to old-tin Principles in America’s political life. The great electric or^an —which lot a musical device, but a fantast nstrument of human Corture made pc able by the machine age—produce loise seemingly gro'ater than could 1 pome by human ears when the r peal demonstration began. It is dif -ult not to belie* ve that the Americai ire a IrystericaA people. ‘"/ever Again." For three Lours and a half, the co mention surrendered itself to the del »ates for a debate on prohibition wh< the minority plank advocating resu mission rather than direct repeal w; pffered ,’on the floor. It was a questic the cj ,*jwd loved to hear discussed, ar ioze /is of speakers were cheered £d, depending on their sentimenl Af/ything but repeal was anathen K/rth the spectators, and the conve /ion was a continuous uproar. ’ Mr Al. Smith received a tremendoi ovation when he delivered an effectr address favouring repeal. “ The Eigf eenth Amendment must be repealed order that future generations may 1 warned that such prohibitory legisl tion can never again be written in the American Constitution,” he d dared. Shortly before dawn, the conventic tired of debating various minorii planks which were offered on questioi besides prohibition. It was quickly a parent that repeal would be ove whelmingly carried, but the necessil to hear individually many fighting d legations protracted the process inde nitely. Fatigue took its toll. The Stadiu: gradually emptied before the conve tion decided to go into recess urn noon, when it was announced that tl repeal had been carried by 931 vot to 213.