Show Demos Select Stevenson Si And Abd P j nd Sparkman as 1952 Te Team m pr pressing his opinions had subscribed sub scribed to the sense and spirit of the loyalty pledge Virginia be Allowed to take Its Hs seat Scat of totally The roll roU call vote on that motion molion mo mo- lion tion was a studY stud in confusion with the balance shifting back and forth Many states stares char changed chang ed their votes as the roll call went on altering from a stand seating the delegation to a n position In Jn favor of tt ft t Fin nl count was CIS In favor of of seating Virginia to a against trains t. t Interjected at t this point was I another savage struggle that arose over a motion to adjourn by Senator Paul aul Douglas of II IN Douglas and Senator Ke Kc- fauver wanted to get away from It H all In order to regroup their forces in an effort to get I their stop Stevenson drive rolling In that sense the following fol lowing roll call was a decisive and accurate test of strength between the Kefauver and Stevenson Ste Stet venS venson ln groups I The motion that finally went to another bone bone- weary wearying Ing roll call vote was to t table Douglas Douglas' motion to adjourn Final vote was to to table the mo motion a tion tion a defeat for Kefauver Then the wrangle over seatIng seat ing the South Carolina and delegations began with Gov Coy James Byrnes of South Carolina butting heads with Gov Coy G C G. G Mennen Williams of Michigan one of the young liberals who were espousing the Moody reS resolution Rayburn Sores Saves the Day Dar In the end Chairman Rayburn Ray Ray- burn a tough and Incisive par parliamentarian gavelled gavel led through a motion to seat the H. H two eu vu lOns on me of a somewhat Indecisive standing vote Rayburn had had his instructions and obviously was determined to push through the seating of the delegations del In order to bring harmony har bar mony back to the strite torn strife torn party and clear the way for the presidential balloting Friday 1 Fridays Friday's balloting went according ac 1 cording to form Stevenson's nomination on the third had been entirely predictable although It U was a gruelling show with the Kefauver group backs to the wall fighting every ev cry ery minute The seemingly Interminable first ballot marked by Iy the droning polls of 11 delegations concluded with Kefauver holdIng hold hold- Ing votes Russell Stevenson Ste Ste. venson Harriman and Barkley 48 Dy By the end of the second ballot bal lot Kefauver with j had gained 22 2214 votes but Stevenson's Steven sons son's total had jumped to 6 Harriman retained Including include In ing from the New York delegation which was biding Its time Barkley y went up to 78 4 and Senator Kerr of Okla Oklahoma Oklahoma homa was hopelessly out of It with 52 votes The lightning struck on the third ballot time ballot time of day pm p.m. Immediate cause of ot the lt left swing to Stevenson which left Kefauver backers stunned and helpless was vu Harriman's an that he was Wa withdrawing with withdrawing drawing and was urging his supporters in the New York del to cast their votes for forthe forthe forthe the Illinois governor Go Gov Cov Dever shortly followed suit and Massachusetts climbed aboard the bandwagon B By the time Michigan cast Its entire 40 votes for total total desertion de section of the Kefauver r cause- cause It was obvious th the story had only one ending I When the roll of the states was wu completed Stevenson had of the required d votes for a majority However many states began calling for recognition to change their votes for Stevenson Utah was the first recognized and with Its 12 votes In the Stevenson column the de deed d was done One of the surprises of the convention was the fact that the party's platform containing contain ing the controversial civil rights clause was adopted without even a vestige of a floor fight The party leaders In Chicago had done their work well In smoothing over a threatened factional split before the platform plat form was presented to t the e con con- No Battle on Civil Rights HIghts I 1 In general the Democrats were pleased with the platform to which they promised to ad I here The civil rights plank was surprisingly strong calling for fora a Fair Employment Practices Commission although n not o t spelled out by that title The pithy portion of the plank reads At the same saine time we favor federal- federal legislation Ively to secure these rights to everyone the right to equal opportunity the right to security ity tty of persons the right to fulland fulland full fulland and equal participation In the to nations nation's political life lite We also favor legislation to perfect existing federal civil rights statutes As is the custom at national poll political conventions there vere plenty of ovations for pary pary pary par par- y leaders leader who found their way to the platform on one pretext jr ar another The biggest of these offered by the Democrats this year rear went Justifiably enough to Vice President Alben Barkley when he strode to the front of the platform for or his Wednesday night fighting speech Convention delegates had seen Berkley's Berkleys status change on Monday from froma a presidential stalking horse back to a party wheel horse following his rejection rejection re reo on the grounds of his age 74 by a group of labor leaders most of whom are older old er than he But by Wednesday night when the convention hall roof started jumping from the volume vol ume and sincere fervor of the overwhelming ovation he lie reIn re reo In the beginning It was the fighting five plus the the- reluctant one but as the Democratic national na c c- wheezed and roared 10 to its climax Gov AdlaI Stevenson of Illinois gradually sloughed off his reluctance and accented the nom In motion wh when It Ii t was w s-iia- s handed d io d-io to him Friday night on a silvera silver silver- a albeit l I b bel e i t somewhat battered- battered platter The fI fighting five Kefauver Russell HarrIman Barkley and Kerr had singly and In bunches tripped and fallen tr trying to hurdle the obstacles that they met during the rugged course of this six day convention stee Although they had fought and quarreled lustily all week and had become enmeshed In some of the weirdest parliamentary parliamentary parlia tangles ever seen the 1230 Democratic delegates went away from Chicago satisfied for forthe forthe the the most part that they had battled their way through to a good ticket As Gov Stevenson's vice presidential pres running running mate mate the convention con named Senator John Sparkman of Alabama nominating him by bv acclamation In the final final- session on Saturday The choice of Sparkman as Stevenson's candidate co-candidate was anticipated and logical In view of the ithe running fight that had gone on all week between the northern and nd southern elements of the p party Sparkman was the doctor who was expected to 10 treat the almost critical almost political wound that resulted from the Moody loyalty pledge resolution In Inan Inan inan an extremely bitter fight Wednesday Wed to get the non signing non delegations from South Caroll Caroll- na Louisiana and Virginia The most remarkable single facet lacet of the Democratic convention conven conven- Ion tion was the angry manner in which the warring factions struggled with each other and yet managed to come away leaving the Impression that a facade of unity had been erected erect ed that somehow would hang han together I Stevenson Accepts Draft 1 I In his address of welcome to the delegates on Monday and again In his speech of acceptance I tance lance In the early and clamor 1 I ous hours of Saturday morning Adlai Stevenson Ste revealed him i I self as a sincerely humble spir erect man Intelligently aware of his limitations as a human being confronted with the awesome responsibilities of i the presidency j I I Yet an objective analysis analysts of of the conventions convention's proceedings could not In all alt truth say that Stevenson's nomination was a genuine draft There was too much work vork put In on It by practical politicians behind the scenes There were too many pressures exerted on the opposition mainly mainly consisting of Senator Estes Kefauver to Kefauver-to to let Jet the Stevenson draft be a athIng athing athing thing of complete purity It was known to the men working on the Inside for Stevenson Ste Ste. venson that President Truman had tabbed him as the man he wanted the nomination to go to And Frank Il Dem Dem- national chairman was wasa a tireless an detractive behind behind- the the scenes scenes operator on Stevenson's Steven sons son's behalf Jacob acob Arvey Democratic na us committeeman of Chicago Chica go had the bulk of the large Illinois delegation in line and handed 53 out of the 60 votes to Stevenson on the first bal lot James Farley of New liew York threw his shrewd support to Stevenson after Vice President Alben Barkley withdrew from I the running In its opening stages the I I Democratic convention was relatively rel listless and subdued in comparison with the slam bang bang goings on perpetrated by the I Republicans two weeks be before tore I but it soon rose to shrieking heights on the strength of the near revolt by the southern states over the loyalty resol ution The first two sessions Monday ambled along to the accompaniment accompaniment of thousands of words of mediocre oratory including an entirely uninspiring keynote address by G Gov v. v Paul Dever Oever of Massachusetts who succeeded mainly In shouting himself hoarse But it was Monday night or night or early Tuesday morning that mornIng that the northern liberal wing lighted light ed the torch that threatened to drive the south from the floor of the International theatre This was the resolution offered offer ed by Senator Blair Moody of Michigan requiring that no delegation be seated unless It first had given assurance to the credentials committee that It Jt would exert every honorable means to provide that the names of the conventions convention's nominees nom appear on the state ballot under the name or designation of the Democratic party North South North South Fight The battle broke into the open Thursday afternoon in the middle of the nomination pro When Louisiana was reached in the roll call of states the Minnesota 1 delegation leaped howling to Its feet and challenged the right of the thel state to participate In the con I. I Chairman Sam Ray Rayburn bur n however gave the floor to Virginia Virginia Vir ginia which wanted to know whether the Virginia delegation tion had the right to pate After considerable and oratorical con confusion u. u sion slon Gov John Battle of Vir pinta made a short sensible address in which he explained why Virginia would not sign the loyalty pledge It was a matter of he said and added that Virginia ia st state te laws require that the party nominees be placed on the ballot bal lot In Jn the state The motion that followed asked ask ed that since Gov Battle in ex ex- Vice President Barkley had been reconverted again again- this time to a war horse In a magnificent example ol or extemporaneous oratory he didn't use a note Barkley spoke brilliantly for almost an hour defining th the spiritual values val ues and attributes I of his party as he has seen and felt them during 40 years of service He lie pulled a sagging convention back together and gave every person In the hall haJJ some sense of the true If underlying mean ing of American politics It was entirely to his credit that he let absolutely no note of vIndIctiveness against the themen themen Imen men who had forced him out of the race creep into his voice |