there will be a smaller steering committee
of your President, your Vice Presidents,
and your committee chairmen. It will be
their duty, obnoxious though it may be at
times, to keep prodding each and every
delegate to greater and renewed effort even
when you may feel you are exerting every
effort humanly possible.
I ask only that you cooperate with them
fully and be prepared on September 12
when the Convention reassembles to move
briskly so that we can complete by De-
cember 12.
Just one other word on a purely personal
note. I felt not only humble, as I ascended
this rostrum, but very, very proud, proud
not for myself, but proud for this Conven-
tion, which in one afternoon has organized,
has debated rules to govern and guide the
destiny of this Convention, has done it well
and expeditiously, and moved forward to
the election of the President, all within the
space of a few hours. This augurs well for
the success of our entire effort and I think
it indicates more than anything else can
the willingness, the desire of the delegates
to this Convention to cooperate fully with
one another and to move forward and get
the business done.
One other thing. My very heartfelt and
sincere thanks to Billy James and Jim
Clark. I deeply appreciate what was much
more than a gesture. Thank you.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Next on the pro-
gram is a recess of 30 minutes. The Con-
vention now stands in recess.
(Recess.)
THE PRESIDENT: The Convention will
please come to order. The Secretary will
call the roll.
(At this point a roll call was made.)
THE PRESIDENT: Quorum being pres-
ent, the Convention is in session.
Next order of business is nomination and
election of Vice Presidents. The procedure
to be followed in connection with the elec-
tion of these two officers is as follows:
First the election will take place separately
for the First Vice President and Second
Vice President. The same procedure for
nomination and election will be used as we
used in the election of the Honorary Presi-
dent and President.
I will ask those who desire to make
nominations for the office of Vice President |
to please stand. The nominators as the
Chair noticed them are Delegates Bard,
Hardwicke, O'Conor, Malkus, and Scanlan.
You will be called in alphabetical order.
DELEGATE HARDWICKE: Did you
say Hardwicke?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I am sorry. Yes,
I did.
DELEGATE HARDWICKE: I did not
stand.
THE PRESIDENT: Did somebody near
you stand? I got Delegate Malkus. All
right, Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Mr. President,
I am in the same boat as John Hardwicke.
I did not stand.
THE PRESIDENT: I am sorry. Then
the nominators are Delegates Bard, O'Con-
or, and Scanlan. Are there any others The
Chair recognizes Delegate Bard and asks
him to approach the rostrum.
DELEGATE BARD: Mr. Chairman, I
rise to nominate Mr. William James for the
First Vice Presidency. The Chairman of
the Convention stressed the importance of
time, effort, and the significance of all
those who are on the team, particularly
those on the steering committee. I believe
the Chairman needs to have by his side
those who complement his assets and indeed
who multiply these strengths in terms of
the leadership that is required of this Con-
vention. To my way of thinking, it is im-
portant that Delegate William S. James
be by Mr. Eney's side.
Whatever requirements of the vice presi-
dency, they are as follows: That he be
knowledgeable. Mr. James is knowledgeable
in the area of the Constitution. Those of
us who have had the privilege of observing
him on numerous occasions know how
knowledgeable he is with respect to the
Maryland State Convention, how knowl-
edgeable he is with respect to parliamen-
tary procedure. We had the advantage of
observing this the past two hours and
know how knowledgeable he is in terms of
members of the Convention, he knows us
intimately, it is important that the re-
sources that are here be used to the
optimum.
A Vice President needs to have a good
sense of timing. Mr. James knows when to
continue discussion, when to encourage it,
when to slow it up, when to cut it off. He
gets things done on schedule and this is
important if we are to move ahead. The |
