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Show DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE Truman, Barldey Head Ticket By WALTER A. SHE AD WNU Washington Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa. In a thrill-packed convention, probably the most dramatic In modern political pol-itical history, President Harry S. Truman was nominated for a full term for the presidency and the veteran Senator, Alben W. Bark-ley, Bark-ley, of Kentucky, was named his running mate to head the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket for the 1948 campaign. And to feed the flames of a bedlam-rocked convention hall, the President broke all precedents and threw down the gauntlet to the Republicans by literally daring them to carry out their platform pledges at a special session of the Congress which he said he would call July 26. While sweltering delegates who had battled each other throughout a day In which Irate southerners had staged an open revolt against the civil rights plank of the platform, plat-form, cheered themselves hoarse, the President openly challenged his Republican opponents In a ringing declaration of war: Let's see if their platform means anything. If it does then we can get some action in 15 days. The President's spirited and bristling speech of acceptance topped and threw into the background back-ground events which at any other convention would have been top news . . the walk-out of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi delegation . . . the threat of a rump southern convention at Birmingham ... the spanking of the southerners who were given a sound drubbing when they sought to challenge the report of the platform plat-form committee and the delegates by overwhelming vote adopted a more drastic civil rights plank . . . Checking off the promises of the GOP platform on domestic issues, the President, In a fighting mood which swept the delegates and galleries gal-leries in rafter-rocking appjause, declared he had time after time asked the Republican-controlled 80th Congress for action on the very pledges made in their platform. plat-form. But they won't get away with promises, he told the packed convention hall. He said that he would demand that the special session of the congress con-gress take action to halt high prices, to aid education, a national health law, civil rights, Increase in wnw Aft) w pr- f iti k : -t il j I' ' . - - ivj""; ,t ...4. i;,- Vd frv ! SEN. ALBEN W. BARKLEY minimum wages, extension of social so-cial security, funds for public power and cheap electricity, an adequate displaced persons' law to substitute for "the antl-semitic and the anti-catholic anti-catholic law they provided" in the 80th Congress. The dramatic climax of the convention con-vention overshadowed the fight for the presidential nomination which became a rout when the southerners south-erners switched from Governor Ben Laney, of Arkansas, their announced an-nounced candidate, to Senator Richard B. Russell, of Georgia. The only ballot vote was 263 for Russell and 947 V2 for Mr. Truman. One highlight of the convention was the platform fight on the floor over the civil rights program. Southern delegates led by Gov. Dan Moody, of Texas, offered a minority report to the platform committee report containing a states rights program to supplement the civil rights plank adopted by the committee. com-mittee. Not only did the convention snow under this southern states offering by a vote of 925 to 309, but the convention then Immediately adopted a minority report offered Convention Briefs j PUMMELING HOME HER charge that Republicans were responsible re-sponsible for high prices, Mrs. India Edwards, director of the . Democrats Women's Division of the ' National committee, waved a Juicy, raw T-bone steak above her head as she addressed the delegates. She said the steak cost her $1.10 a pound at a Philadelphia butcher shop. Other women speakers highlighted high-lighted the high cost of housekeeping housekeep-ing because of inflated prices. |