I guess you were born with your head up your ass. Roll tape.
Wonder why?
-Geaux
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The picture was taken during the 1924 Democratic Convention.
It was also known as “Klanbake.”
In Madison Square Garden, New York City, from June 24 to July 9, a dispute during came up revolving around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform.
Liberals Aren’t Liking This Newly-Discovered Photo Of The 1924 Democratic Convention…
That's uh ..... not a convention, Gummo. Your first clue should be the trolley tracks.
The "Klanbake" refers not to the convention but to the gathering of Klanners across the river from the convention in New Jersey (the convention being in NYC). They demonstrated and made a lot of noise. In the convention itself they were opposing the candidacies of Sen. Oscar Underwood (AL) and Al Smith, Governor of New York. Specifically Underwood and Smith were calling for a plank in the platform denouncing the Klan. Underwood was the most vocal voice opposing the Klan at the time, declaring the KKK and the US could not coexist and "between the two I choose my country". And Smith of course was a Catholic, one of the Klan's targets.
The Klan's Southern sympathizers were pushing for the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo of California, who had been getting Klan support. McAdoo didn't acknowledge it but didn't denounce it either. By stalemating the ballots, the McAdoo faction got the voting extended, over and over beyond a hundred ballots, still the longest political convention in history. As the dates in your own OP illustrate ---- fifteen days.
The convention finally settled on an innocuous, unknown candidate, Governor John Davis of West Virginia, who accepted the nomination ----- and promply denounced the Klan.
Four years later Al Smith was running again and the Klan again opposed him for being Catholic. By then the KKK had been weakened especially by the D.C Stephenson scandal, and they failed to prevent Smith's nomination. He was the first Catholic nominated for the office by a major political party.
Eight years after that, when FDR was at the height of his popularity and running for re-election, Roosevelt got the party nomination rules changed to a simple majority, so that the South contingent could never again hold up a convention like that. Next time the Democratic convention ran a candidate not named Roosevelt, much of the Southern contingent walked out, unhappy with all the rhetoric about "civil rights", and ran on their own ticket with Strom Thurmond at the top. That was 1948, which was what Trent Lott was referring to when he boasted "we (Mississippi) voted for him" and opined that if the rest of America "had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years", referring again presumably to those same "civil rights".
All you have to do is ask if you want these details. Nobody holds a convention on trolley tracks.
That's post 229 when I first got here. THREE WEEKS AGO. Dumb shit.
Go back to that point and catch the fuck up before you embarrass yourself even further, if that's even possible.
