DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1928, Page 2

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

PLATFORM DELIBERATIONS.. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, June 26. When the Democratic Convention was resumed in the evening, it was strongly rumoured that the Prohibition Law Enforcement Plank of the Party will not mention the Eighteenth Amendment. The Convention selected various Committees, and adjourned until 11 o’clock to-morrow morning. Tlie Platform Committee now starts its final work towards putting the platform in shape for presentation to the Convention. NEW YORK, June 27. News Horn Convention Hall, Houston, staes Democrats began their deliberations to-day with three solid hours of music,' and toward the end everybody seemed a little tired of it. The beat was too intensely hot for words. An attempt to seat a number of Louisiana delegates known to be opposed to Smith, was overwhelmingly defeated by the Convention, indicating too clearly Smith’s ascendancy. . Senator Robinson iyas chosen permanent chairman of the Convention. The conviction is growing hourly that he will he the Vice-Presidential nominee. He made a short address, beginning with a slurring reference to .Mr Hoover’s long residence in Britain, intimating this disqualified him for tie presidency. He caused astonishment by demanding that no wet plank 1)© adopted in the Democratic platform. This is neither a prohibition nor antiprohibition party. The crowd was so surprised that it remained silent. He concluded with a plea for unity saying: “Let not Democrats suffer from selfinflicted wounds,” but the crowd went\ mad when be said religion is not a disqualification for public office. Considerable scuffling occurred and some really well-aimed blows to the jaw were given and received, when Georgia and Tennessee delegations quarrelled among themselves, whether they should join the Smith demonstration . A fight in the Alabama delega'-ou caused the summoning of eight polieement- to protect the standard. There iv.o r fearful tumult, but it was ail good-natured horse-play in comparison with what has happened at previous Democratic conventions. The picturesque New York Mayor, Jimmy Walker, who began his career as a song writer, rose to offer a resolution for a recess until seven in the evening, but the band interrupted with selections front his songs.