European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Democratic convention site is ringed with Chain link Fence topped with barbed wire. With crossed fingers continued from Page id 14 Republican nominating sessions and10 democratic including the one com ing up. No other City is close. Franklin d. Roosevelt won his first third and fourth nominations Here. Chi Cago started Dwight d. Eisenhower on his Way to the White House. Grover Cleveland had to come to Chicago twice to get on the right track to the presi Dency a St. Louis nomination in be tween failed to do the trick. The fabled smoke filled room Symbol of secret political plotting is still Here and available for Wheeling and  is suite 508-510 in the Sheraton Black Stone hotel where in 1920 Republican Kingmaker broke a convention deadlock by settling on dark horse Warren , a Winner As a candidate but not after he got into the White House. Chicago conventions have fielded not Able losers too. In 1896, hard by the South Side columbian exposition ground which the Blackstone rangers gang now counts As its turf William Jennings Ryan stampeded the democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech and went on to lose his first of three presidential quests. Adlai e. Steven son s two losing campaigns began Here. Herbert Hoover and Thomas e. Dewcy both set out from Chicago to defeat Roosevelt with the usual  Lincoln helped give the first big boost to the Chicago convention Industry it has become one of the City s most Vul table assets. Chicago has evolved into town tailored for monster meetings All the hotels All the floor space All the transportation All the extra trimmings and Little favors civic boosters claim any outfit could want at any time. The National party conventions Are status symbols of the convention Busi Ness. Chicago convention Hunters generally act mildly surprised and a Little Hurt when one of the political super shows goes some place else. Pago 12 yet the democrats have steered Clear of Chicago since 1956 and the republicans have kept their conventions out of the convention capital since 1960. Now that the democrats Are finally doing right by Chicago the Powers in City Hall and along state Street Are sternly pledged and firmly determined to do right by the democrats come what May. The stakes Are too High to lose. It was in this spirit that col. Jack Reilly Daley s special events director and chief emissary to the convention stiffened his upper lip last week an announced we Don t expect any Trou ble. But we will be  by Harry f. Rosenthal a staff writer switch a few Rales bring the Issue sup to Date and the democratic National convention opening in Chicago today shapes up remarkably like Phila Delphia 20 years ago. Hubert ii. Humphrey and Eugene ? they re names from conventions past including the one in 1948. An Issue to crack party Unity the year it s Vietnam. In 1948 it was civil rights. Third party candidate George Wal lace in 1948, there was third party candidate Henry Wallace no relation by blood or philosophy. A Battle ahead with a Republican beaten once before for the presidency this year it s Richard m. Nixon of Newyork. Then it was Thomas e. Dewey of new  giving the Edge to republicans at the democratic convention 20 year Sago the delegates were so dispirited that a not so funny gag was this Isth liveliest Wake i be Ever  Harry s. Truman had been presi Clent by succession for 3 years and 3 months when the 1948 convention open Din Philadelphia. His popularity was so Low that a poll showed 50.5 per cent of voters prepared to pick  Only 28.2 per cent favouring Truman. The democrats had tried hard to Fin someone else. Gen. Dwight a Eisen Hower was approached. He said no. Associate Justice William o. Douglas of the supreme court was sounded  said he d rather stay on the Bench. By convention time the big City Bosses the unions and the party liberals knew they were stuck with Truman a Candi Date they said could not win in novem Ber. I m just mild about Harry said signs around convention Hall. Added to the delegates dismay was the division of the party Over civil  had raised the Issue months before by asking legislation to protect negro rights. The South muttered of re Volt from the democratic party for the first time since 1928 when the democrats nominated Al Smith a Roma Catholic. I did not discount the Handicap which the loss of a solid South presented As far As my chances of winning the elec Tion were concerned Truman said later. I knew too that if i deserted the civil liberties Plank of the demo cratic party platform i could heal the breach but i have never traded principles for votes and i did not intend to Start the practice in 1948, regardless of How it my get affect the  the civil rights Plank was t All that Strong. It virtually reiterated the stand taken four years before endorsing Exten Sion of civil rights and calling upon Congress to assure them within constitutional  the South grumbled but would have accepted it. Enter Hubert Horatio Humphrey 37-year-old mayor of Minneapolis co founder of the new americans for democratic action and the Democrat farm  up strikes or snarling arrangements. The stars and stripes this is the liveliest vake five Ever attended.9 99 Lupi delegates were just mild about but Truman and running mat Alben Berkley went on to a Surprise Victory. Or l a b o r party s candidate in Senate. ,.Humphrey would t accept the and took the Issue to the  moved adoption of a sub that called for i of res signal a outlaw Lynching abolish the a ban segregation of negroes an fair employment practices in tics we Are 172 years late i Humphrey said. The South was  shall not crucify t this Cross of civil rights Charles  of  South countered the Ira motion by proposing a Broadright Plank that would have substitute was opposed by 29 delegations but it carried 651h, to 582v&. When the entire platform was approved by acclamation. Alabama s delegates Rose to walk out but chair Man Sam Ray Burn slammed Down his Gavel and declared a dinner recess. As soon As the convention reconvened the 35 delegates from Mississippi my Alabama stood dramatically an glued out. There were cries from the floor Good  the other Southern delegations stayed to vote  president was nominated by gov. Rim m. Donnelly of Missouri Early Inge evening of july 14. The South offered sen. Richard Russell of Georgia. Three others also were placed in nomination. It was after Midnight when the Callow the states began. Hie South remained irreconcilable. It threw 263 of its 298votes to Russell. Truman needed 618 of the 1,234 votes to win. He got 947. Truman had been trying to interest Justice Douglas in the vice presidential nomination. They talked by Telephone number of times but finally the Justice gave the same answer he had Given to those who had wanted him to run for president he wanted to remain in the supreme court. Alben w. Barkley barrel voiced 70-year-old Senate minority Leader from Kentucky had gotten a tumultuous response with his convention keynote speech in which he defined a Bureau crat As a Democrat who has a Job some Republican  asked about pennsv1vania ,. Som Tond up to � n Nixon nomination and in on state rights ticket. 26, 1968 up Truman s opponent was Thomas e. Dewey who like Nixon had been beaten before. The vice presidential nomination bark Ley told reporters i m not interested in any biscuits that have been passe around to other people and then passed on to me  later said the senator had expressed an interest in it. In any Case Barkley agreed to the nomination and Truman endorsed him As an Ideal part Ner to run with  Barkley won by acclamation. While the convention was battling it out on a floor above Truman occupied a Camp chair on a Balcony overlooking the Pennsylvania Railroad Yards. The wait on that hot Clammy night was fou hours Long. Finally he was ushered into the Hal for his acceptance speech. It was 2 . Fifty doves had been held in readiness for that moment but they too had been caged too Long. Instead of fluttering . One hit chairman Rayburn in the head. Another plummeted lifeless to the floor. A dead Pigeon said a Delegate. Hews looking at Truman. But the feisty missourian was far from dead. He brought the pooped Dele Gates to their feet with his opening words senator Barkley and i will win this election and make these republicans like it Don t you forget that we will do that because they Are wrong and we Are right. The reason is that the people know that the democratic party is the people s party and the re publican party is the party of special interest and it always has been and Al ways will  laced into the Republican controlled Congress the do-nothing80th Congress and electrified the delegates when he said on the 26th Day of july which out in Missouri we Call turnip Day i a going to Call Congress Back and ask them to pass Laws to halt rising prices to meet the housing crisis which they Are saying they Are for in  he ticked off seven other controversial matters All of which he said the republicans say they Are  it was the first special session called during a presidential Campaign year since 1856. Later. Truman said of course knew that the special session would pro Duce no results in the Way of Legisla Tion. But i Felt justified in calling the Congress Back to Washington to pro veto the people whether the Republican platform really meant everything or  was a Republican outcry from coast to coast. This sounds like a last hysterical gasp of an expiring administration said sen. Arthur h. Vandenberg of Michigan a leading spokesman for the gop. N the Alabama Mississippi walkout was t the end of the Southern . Fielding Wright of Mississippi called for All dissidents to attend a rum convention in Birmingham three Days later with the cheers of 6,000 supporters ringing out delegates from 13 states nominated gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president and Wright for vice president on the states right democratic tarty ticket. And Henry Wallace Franklin Delano Roosevelt s third term vice president followed the democrats to Philadelphia and was nominated As the presidential candidate of Ilu progressive . Glen Hearst Taylor of Idaho was nicked As his running mate. The part had a pro soviet peace platform Ami Wallace in his acceptance speech called Republican and democrats graveyard ratios Whoso foreign policies would doom the nation and the world. On 1c  at the 1948 Deino uralic convention attending for the first time was the chairman of the Ramsey county Democrat Farmer labor organization in Minnesota Eugene j. Mccarthy. He was elected that fall to the first of five terms As a  the 1952 convention Mccarthy got onto the platform to nominate Humphrey for president one of 11 men placed in nomination that year. And in 19,56, when Humphrey openly sought the Nomina Tion for vice president he wrote his Oldfriend Mccarthy authorizing his friends to work toward that  appeared again before the 1980 convention in los Angeles this Timeto nominate Adlai Stevenson who had made two unsuccessful campaigns for president. The speech set off an emotional prolonged demonstration by Stev Enson supporters in a futile attempt to Stop John f. Kennedy s  1964, when president Lyndon b. Johnson delayed announcing his Choice of a running mate unti the last minute the two men mentioned most frequently were the two senators from Minnesota Humphrey and Mccarthy. In the end the Choice was Humphrey and it fell once again to Mccarthy to make the nominating speech. Harry s. Truman to the Surprise of just about everyone except Truman went on to win the 1948 election Al though Thurmond and Wallace got a million votes apiece. 1 to decades have passed since that strife riven convention in Phil Adelphia. Truman now 84? has largely retire from Public affairs but he has Given his endorsement to.Humphrey. Mccarthy is battling his former fellow senator from Minnesota for the presi Dency. Thurmond was elected by write in tothe Senate in 1954 and four years ago switched from the democratic to the Republican party. This year he was in Strumental in obtaining the gop presidential nomination for Dixon. Justice Douglas remains on the court. Russell still in the Senate has t Beena convention Delegate since 1952. Barkley and Henry Wallace Are  e. Dewey after two campaigns for the presidency went Back Toprac icing Law but he came Back to address the gop convention this year an was greeted with an ovation. Thus you could almost Call the democratic convention of 1968 a re release of the original production. There maybe some rewrites in the script but the cast is still partly the same. Up the stars and stripes and there was a third party candidate named Wallace Henry a., that is. Page 13