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Show LAUGHS WIN OUT IN CHICAGO CONVENTION CHICAGO, III . July 1 The long hours of oratory- that mark every national na-tional political convention may bore the tired delegates and spectators nearly to the point of exhaustion, but never kill their sense of humor. Occasionally Oc-casionally a witty sentence or a quick tejolnder has been credited with having hav-ing hid a greater effect on Ihe final n suit than all the oratory of the picked pick-ed spell-blndc-rs At the recent Republican Catherine at Chicago. Frank B. Willis former governor of Ohio, was nominating Senator Warren G. Harding for the presidency . ' ihio wai f'tr down In the list. The 13.0U0 sweltering persons., who crowded the bitr t'ollscum had listened with only half-interest to more than five hours of fervid oratory, ora-tory, when Willis, closing his speech, said: ' Well, hoys and girls, lot's nominate Harding." The frlendh humor brought a ready response. The next day. when the landslide toward Harding began, an hl d-mirer d-mirer of the senator who had Inscrlb- I ed the sentence on a huge sheet of cardboard dropped It from the gallery. gal-lery. It made an Instantaneous hit Earlier In tbe contest, a nct;ro delegate dele-gate from Oklahomai appearing before be-fore the credential commute at 3 o'clock In the morning to' press his claim for a seat, put new life into 1 that body and won his point by u rc-I rc-I murk. Having told how the "Illy i white" side had held Its convention In I a hotel from which negroes were bar-i j red by the proprietor, he tfald-I tfald-I "Why. gentlemen. In Oklahomai (there's Jim Crowlsm' from the hen-' I house to the hotel." In the laugh that followed a mo-1' Hon to seut the contestant was cnr- rlcd unanimously. |