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...Hull speech was too tame, too polite a protest for Arkansas' barrel-chested, full-blooded Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson. His face as red as his necktie, he leaped to the platform, began an address of his own. He waved his arms, shook his fists at Chairman Raskob. He thundered and bellowed. He worked himself up into a passion of dissent. Cried...
North Carolina's Dry Senator Cameron Morrison threw the meeting into wild confusion with another loud speech along the same line. His attacks on Chairman Raskob for injecting Prohibition into the meeting brought boos and hisses from the audience. Angrily he exclaimed: "Oh, your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
...What have you got in your locker?" cried a heckler. The audience guffawed. The Senator asked the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. Chairman Raskob pleaded with the crowd to behave...
Economic issues got only minor attention at the meeting. Chairman Raskob proposed liberalization of the anti-trust laws, new Federal facilities to promote mergers, an end to Democratic attacks upon Big Business. For these suggestions he was also abused by Southerners...
...Democratic National Convention to deal with; 2) the Wets, confident of a party majority, are good-natured, patient, conciliatory; 3) the Drys, fearful of being a minority, are noisy and truculent; 4) the South as in 1928 is confronted with the question of being Dry or Democratic; 5) Chairman Raskob holds his job more firmly than ever; 6) no presidential candidate profited from the meeting; 7) another convention of the Madison Square Garden 1924 kidney is in prospect for the party...