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...Hopkins strategy was simple. Delay seemed to be growing dangerous, so, immediately after Barkley had read the Roosevelt message freeing his delegates, a mammoth demonstration would be staged, an ecstatic delegate primed to seize the microphone and move the nomination by acclamation, and the trick would be turned in the most convincing manner possible...
...something happened: clumsy Alben Barkley dumbed it up by mentioning the magic name of Roosevelt after only the first 14 minutes of the address. With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming. Significantly the galleryites sat in bored silence; some of them even drifted away, knowing they could read about the President's message in the newspapers. When this demonstration gave signs of faltering, the organist whipped the marchers on with Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones...
...last Chairman Barkley restored order by asking for a doctor: "A lady has been seriously injured!" The demonstration stopped immediately and the paunchy Kentuckian bellowed on with his speech...
...Chairman Barkley subsided, turned away, waiting for the applause to stop. There was no applause. The bulbous Senator turned back, carefully read off the President's words. At this point all hell was supposed to break loose. But most of the delegates stood pat in their places, staring anxiously at the panting, roaring marchers. Then Mr. Garry broke loose. As the noise died from time to time, good Mr. Barkley would shout into the microphone: "We want Roosevelt!" Thus encouraged, Mr. Garry redoubled his roars. Mayor Kelly beamed; a man sitting in his box shouted, "Hey, Ed, We Planned...
...Barkley had another idea. As the noise waned, he roared: "Will the galleries remember they are our guests here and conduct themselves accordingly?" Galleryites, still quiet as mice, looked wonderingly at each other and went home en masse...