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"Henry Cabot Lodge, who made Coolidge at Chicago, and unmade him at Washington, 'with rolling eyes spews fine speech about duty and like phantasmal attempts of his flighty mind,' attempts to weave new webs of intrigue and to again ensnare and mislead the American people. . . .
"The lamented Harding, in his bighearted, sympathetic way, sounded the tocsin call in his New York speech to enter the World Court. That was only a step, but a step in the right direction. . . .
"Would that we might once more see in that exalted position one with the courage of a Jackson, the militant honesty of a Cleveland, the matchless statesmanship, far-flung vision and the fine fighting qualities of a Woodrow Wilson. . . .
"Oil has become the open sesame of power. It gained admittance to the robbers' cave and participation in the plunder. It has been the inspiration of this Administration's foreign, as well as domestic policy. The magic significance of its flow has awakened the State Department to an interest not only in Mexico and the United States of Colombia, but away off in the Near East. Truly the Administration might have boasted of two 'Secretaries of Oil.' . .
"Show this Administration an oil well and it will show you a foreign policy. . . .
"It would seem now we can hear the soft voice of sweet reasonableness coming to us from Monticello, the voice of 'Old Hickory,' coming across the Blue Ridge from the Hermitage, and from that historic crypt at St. Albans we hear the mighty voice of Woodrow Wilson, wistfully calling to us: 'To you, from failing hands, we throw the torch. Hold it high! Hold it high! Carry on, carry on; keep the faith, keep the faith.'"
As Mr. Harrison finished, Cordell Hull, Chairman of the National Committee, fainted (for the third time in two days) and was carried from the platform. Overwork and too much heat.
A "Great Mayor." After the cheers and applause for the keynoter, Senator Harrison had the pleasure of introducing "a great Mayor of a great City in a great State."
Mayor John F. Hylan of New York City came forward and carefully read a long typewritten address, as the perspiring audience gradually left the hall.
Before adjournment, the usual Committees were named.
Next morning the Convention opened promptly 40 minutes late. Bishop Gailor of Tennessee prayed: "O, most gracious God, who hast shown us wonderful things in Thy righteousness. . . ."
Reports. Mrs. Leroy Springs of South Carolina presented the report of the Committee on Credentials. The Committee had had only one contest to decide, and solved that by unseating an alternate from Oregon.
The Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization then announced Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana as Permanent Chairman of the Convention. As a Committee escorted Senator Walsh to the Chair, Senator Harrison proclaimed "a real Democrat and the greatest investigator in the history of this country."