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rblltdelphU, VtiitT, June 11. K0
A FOUR-YEaR program for
PHILADELPHIA
Things on which the people expect
the. new administration to toncen-
trute Ita nttrnllun:
Tha Delaioare river bridge.
A drydock bin enough tu acconiino
dalc the Utrgrsl ships
Development o the rapid transit sys
tem, A convention hall
A buildtnu for the rree Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement o (lie u-olrr supply.
Homes to accommodate the papula-Hon.
WIRES
AX ENLIUUTKNINO thesis might
Jt be written about the part that
Wires play iu American polities. Ouce
they were merely pulled when n given
job was to be done. They are beiug
pulled now iu a hundred directions nt
Chicngo. Put n wire, in the right hands,
. cau be used in other ways. The radius
OI Its potency nns ueen wun-ij wi""".
It can do political miracles, as the
country was permitted to know j ester -day
when one wire, running to Kllhu
Itoot in London, and another -tretdied
W, h rnlisenm at ChiiORf. to thl-
Spruce street residence of Senator Pen-
SK"uffl"d to bring the Uepnb.ican
conteution to order at a moment when
U'threutencd to whirl itself to biu.
In many ways the old master, in
politic? are not inspiring. Hut they
J " ".i..A i. ' ..,ii.. it
Know WIH.L WIC.. .win. u.... ..v... ... ,. ,
For that reasou they are
nlil.i t. rim
conventions that ordinarily are bejnud
the control of less resourceful men. The
average citizen doesn't uhvnjs know
what he wants or how to get it. That
is -why wires hold all political organiza
tions together. Houses persist because
the average man seems to know little
about public uffuirs and cares less.
SUGAR RATIONING AGAIN
WHBN s"Kar r"ti"uin: so,"'s '"'" ,,f" world ' Fine. tiood words, well
Tf'fect in hotels nnd restaurnnts on i ,0nlfL Kvervbody will say ne to
June 21. the next thing to be expected , thut Iroperl' one would expect the
will be the rationing of private con- i mlti,'or, to proceed to explain wherein
sumcrs. ' tl0 asreement among the nations nl-
The muddled sugar situation seems to ready signed by every power, lurge and
leave no other course open if the avail- smnii, except the I'liifil States of
nble supply is to go around. Hut the i America, fails to do that xery tiling.
necessity for It has been forced upon , Hut do they'.' They do not.
the country by the failure of the ml- ' Instead thej indulge in palpable
ministration to act while there was time platitudes that might have been written
'to secure nn adequate supply of sugar by a callow commencement orator in
for this country. stead of full-grown men. Hut it is
This neglect is one of the things meant to be admit. The insinuation is
,r" against which the administration will!
havc to defend itself during the presi
dential campaign. With the household
ers unable to get sugar enough for their
needs, it will find the tak both difficult
and unpleasant.
WHAT IS UNREASONABLE?
TUDGK THOMPSON, of the federal
O court, differs with other federal i proposed 10 prewm.
judges in deciding the unenforceability
of the Lever net. which forbids "un- Hut ihc pi ie hull of nil is the pa
reasonnble" profits. He says that there tronulng ce hiration that "the seria
ls no fixed standard in the low by which i tor performed their duty fnithfully
the rcasounblcnesi of the profits can be . without spmfying which Republican
measured. I senators are meant.
rtn.- ..., , ....i.. !,.. n,i Does this praise refer to Johnson nnd
Vlliri liiliiui JUUn' in.,.- iiiii.,....
rases to conn, to trial before them in
which merchants were accused of mak -lng
a profit of 100 per cent, and in
two cases in New York the juries hove
found verdicts of guilty.
In no case, however, so far n it is
known, hus it bien held that Congics.
save under its war power, could put anv
restriction upon the profits of n busi
ness, man. The powers of Congress are
arly defined in the constitution ami
fhere is no provision iu that document
dealing with piofits. Attempts under
the interstate commerce clause h.iw
-been made to put nil soils of restnc
tions on business, hut the Supreme
Court has decide,) thut most of them
were invalid. The latest instnrue was
when it upset the child -labor aci, which
forbade shipment in interstate commerce
of goods iu the manufacture of which
children had been employed
The Supreme Court will lime to pass
on tne l.eier ad netore n becomes ,im f0r it will help the piuty none.
wholly ellicacious in punishing prof- I
itccrs, I The question now comes of what the
L - I nominee of the party will do about it.
TRYING TO GET FROM IIMnFD The answer depends upon the choice of
IKTIPJU IUVJCI rHUW UIMUtK,.. .,. AVitli such n crosseyed
fj "POLITICAL expediency is doubtless
JL back of Attorney Gencuil Palmer's
Tilling that the adjournment of Congress
does not automatically kill every bill in
the hands of the President that he had
not signed before adjournment
Senator Lodge uccused the President
In his speech before the Chicago con-
yention with killing the water-power sni- and these he has nlrendy outlined
bill and the bills repealing most nf the rliiirly to piotect the interest, of the
tpeclal wartime legislation. Hut thu Foiled States. If he should prove to
President has explnined that lie did not ' be a .lohnson, he could interpret it as
tdgn tho bills because he hail not had Mr. Hearst wants him into a denuiu in -sufficient
time to examine them before . tion of all things Kuropcan, Asiatic
the session of t ongress came to un end.
Now it lias been the custom for years
for the President nt the close of a ses
flon of Congress to go to the Capitol
nnd sign bills as fast as they were sub
mitted to him, for the reason that it
lias been the understanding tiiat under
the constitution the- ten-dny period
which bo has for the consideration of
legislation did not extend beyond the
period In which Congress was iu ses
fdon. Mr. Wisou himself, in his nd
wirablq textbook on "The State,"
' vrotf , "If Congress adjourns before the
.A u ttMdSJ? 'olftwcd the President to 'ton-
sldcr bills (sent htm, such bills lapse
unless lm Iihh sIriiciI them before ad
journiiient." Thin, however, is n stntc
m'ent of fact nntl not n constitutional
nrRumcnt.
The constitutional provision touching
this matter rends: "If nny bill shall
not be returned by the 1'rerldent within
ten days (Sundnys excepted) nfter it
shall have been presented to him, the
same shall be n law in like manner ns
If he had sighed it, unless the Congress
by their adjournment prevent Its return,
In which rase It shall not be a law."
It Is possible to arstie both ways on
this provision. The nttoruey general
evidently holds thnt ItH restrictions
apply only to bills which the President
allows to beccmo effective without his
signature nnd dors not automatically
kill a measure which the President limy
not been approved before the gavel fell
in the Senate nnd tho lloue.
It is inconceivable that Mr. I'tdmcr
lias volunteered his opinion on this
nmMitiitional iroint. It must hnve been
nked bv the President, who wished to
find n ay to approve of the repenl of
Hiieli of the wartime laws as seemed to
FAfillF PI AMk! RTRAnni P?.
NOMINEE MUST DECIDE
Compromise to Suit Johnson Outfit
Places Burden of Choice Upon
the Republican Candidate
POLITICAL pettifogging is not a lost
art. The extraordinary foreign re-
lntions plank In the Hepublican plat
form prove it.
I As it job of word -building to conceal
meaning it may win admiration, but not
I otherwise. It i a humiliating confes
! idoti of cowardice in the face of a vo
ciferous and demagogic minority.
No wonder ,lnhnon. Pioroh Se Co.
greet it with smile". It wan made to
order for them. It N their sop for
going nlong. It ncs their faces. It
keeps them in the party.
Put it does more than that. It hands
ns pretty an ii-ue to the DrinocratH n
they could wish to find. There will be
exultation loilaj in cmm Wil-on organ
in the countrj. It plnjs blunderingly
into the hands of the enemy, whose
leaders will show at Snti I'raneNeo that
they are not slow to take advnutagc
of it.
There is no use pretending about this
pusillanimous piece of rhetoric. It is
an error of the tir-t magnitude. For
the sake of placating a ikmpii sen; ...
'of the Johnson -Borah tjpo tne p nnu
repudiates the act on o hree imes
that number who voted co i.ite ntl to
n.-ropt the league covenant itli pro-
i tective reservations. There is o doubt
about it. Mr 'lft pom ed out the
' situation in ndvnnce. . His logic is
...... ., ,,,w !,.
irrClUlilUIC. 1 III- full, vunu.i ""- .-..".. .1
the white feather under threat ot n
split, just as some of these same irrecon
cilable senators did so long n they
dared when the nation was getting ready
to enter the war.
Analyze tins precious bit nf indirec-
i mm. Head it over sentence ny sentence
and ee.
It begin with n declaration th.it the
party stands for "agreement among the
............ ,.. iinkei.vi the ni'fli'P of the
thnt the covenant has none ot tne vir-
tues which are giandiloueutly outlined
as desirable.
The one real concrete statement of
challenge is a mere generalization which
the Democrat fcrtuinh will call upon
the Republicans (o prove, and thnt is
where it :n the ioenant is "ecrtnin
to produie the injustice, hostility nnd
controversy among nations which it
i ... ...
his group of bitter-enders, or to the
three tune- larger group of reserva
nouists'.' It cannot mean both, because
thu stood for diametrieully opposite
positions on the covenant. Yet thnt is
the i ffort
If it means Johnson cc Co. it is o
. midemnntirm of the great majority of
the Republican sennlors. including the
permanent chairman of the convention
himself, Mr. Lodge.
If it refers to the reservntionists. it
is n condemnation of the irreconcilable?,
and we have the jubilant words of these
'tiitesmen thcmscUcs that it does not
offend them.
Probably the best that can be s.aid nf
' tll3 pntent hjpocriw is thnt it is pii
for gulls nnd infants, ami Hint those
who like it may swallow ns much as
they will.
Well, then Hellroaring Hi has had
his vindication. Much good may it do
,i,M.nrnton upon the most important
issue before the country, lie can do
pretty much as he pleases If he
should chnme to be n Hoover, he could
do the sensible thing, ignoir the bom
bust unci fustian nf the words and nc
orpl the present League of Nations with
whatever reservations he deemed ncrc.
I and Latin American.
Thnt is all there will be to it The
nominee for President must decide the
League of Nations issue.
As for the rest of the platform, it is
generally s good as could be expected.
H raises several interesting points that
will have to be debated on the hustings.
It justifiably, from the party viewpoint,
exposes many of the weaknesses of the
Wilson administrations and tho Wilson
Democracy.
Hut. eince, like thr chain, It can be.
uo. Stronger Uhan its veaW link. It
EVENING EOTLX0 tLEDGEEr- BHHJADp6lAV 1TRIDsa,
will need a first-class statesman to
cover up Its deficiency on that most
vital point, nnd there's the pity. In
stead of placing the burden of defense
wholly upon his Democratic opponent,
It opens the Hepublican standard bearer
to nttack hard to resist since there Is no
specific promise In detnll of the kind of
International league the party fnvors.
He will have to explain from the start
of the campaign, and that Is never good
strategy. And since the plnnk Is only
vaguely critical without being con
structive, it is not good trndltlonnl lie
pubilcnnlsm either.
CHICAGO AND GENEVA
AN AMHITlOt'S purpose animated
the organizers of tho International
conference of women at (lenevn. They
sought to express unmistakably, in
plain terms and for the ears of states
men nnd politicians especially, the aims
which are supposed to be common to nil
women in this period of their new re
sponsibilities nnd to tell the world of
hopes for world peace which they hold
as their one prize of war. Tho Gcncvn
conference was to have been the voice
of that half of civilization which has
remained Innrticulate, though In no wny
immune, while humanity drifted to suc
cessive disasters.
It cannot be said that the women's
conference, representative as it Is ot
newly enfranchised women In mnny of
the older countries, has done anything
to thrill the world Hut the debntc and
discussion is of peculiar Interest now
since it runs parallel In the news with
the turgid Hood of oratory nt Chicago,
where there Is one of those assemblages
in which the lords of creation meet at
intervals to direct the affairs of tills
their earth. If nt Geneva there have
been no great revelations, no memor
able statements of new and inspiring
principles, there has been, nt least,
sincerity in an extraordinary degree.
It is the habit of women to think iu
fundamental terms, to be impatient of
the detnll which obsi tires the essential
fact, nnd the Geneva conference has
been notable, therefore, for direct, sim
ple nnd moving utterance.
Willie Hiram .lohnsoti wns shaking
his fist nt Kurope, the women's confer
ence wns expressing a determination to
bring the peoples of all countries so
close together in their sjmpathies that
they could never again be led to slaugh
ter. While the Chicago convention wns
straining over methods of procedure,
the delegates at Geneva were consider
ing wajs to save the helpless children
of one countrj from being flung into
destructive industrial competition with
the helpless children of another.
Many nf the Kurnprnn governments
courteously sent representatives to the
women's conference. The representa
tive of France was the man who kept
count of tlie dead nnd wounded in the
French nrmy from the moment of the
invasion through Hclgium to the day
when the armistice was signed. lie
spoke simply upon the assumption that
women have n larger stake in war nnd
in prnce than men hne, and that what
they learned in the last the years will
unify them against militarism for nil
time. At about the same time influen
tial gentlemen in Chicago were urging
General Wood upon the country with
the announcement that we need a
"strong" President.
Lady Astor. who was hum in Vir
ginia, lins been one of the most inter
esting delegates at the I encva lonfcr
ence. While she was speaking Senator
lohnson. Senator Lodge, Murray Crane,
Mr. Lnwden nnd iunuineinble others
were doing their best to louvince the
crowd in the Coliseum thnt they and
their polh ies represented complete per
fection in one form or another.- "War
ought to he abolished foreer," said
Lady Astor. "and governments need a
lot of reforming. Hut we as people
ought to remember one thing. We
cannot reform governments until we
first reform ourselves."
There is something compelling in thnt
simple admission of the ultimate power
of the individual conscience. And there
is something of solid truth in the theory
that reforms must begin i i the minds of
people berore the can be made perma
nent in any state of society. Fxperts
in politics nrc n,er ready to urge so
simile a do triii.. Women are not ex
perts iu politi. . That, perhaps, is
why we nm expe. i n great deal from
them at some time or other in the future.
A CURE FOR PRIDE
rpHK discipline which first -j cur stu-
-L dents in Ameiimn colleges acquire
at the hands of upper-class men is not
to be regaided lightly. The green dub
of a uiuvcrsitj campus is usually the
bear of a high m prep school. Often
enough he is a snob in ctubro. The
higher institutions of learning give him
nme nun i- nerter man the cumpus
training in win. h he begins to learn
that i onipla. ni" is loathed in an active
world and that nnlj the strong may
risk being proud The lion 'of a small
school rcdincil to humility and restored
to his piopcr place m the liuinnn pro
cession i a reassuring spectacle. The
experience i good for his soul.
Hii.ing of .1 ort is educational.
When it i brutal or iclous it series
no purpose unci defeats its own ends
As it has been print iced nt some col
leges it is uglj and unsportsmanlike
buine-s The students nt Haverford
College siem to have hit upon un ad
mirable middle course. They have
agreed formnl'y to do away with vio
lence. Inn to maintain the rigorous
campus discipline established to let all
fieshinen know that they must work
their way up out of the dust. Students
in the college will continue, therefore,
l to profit bv Knowledge that is nut easily
mailable m books.
We don't like Hiram
The New Way Johnson. Nor do
we like the wny in
whnh Senator Harding would deal with
him mid his friends. Hnrding culinly
proposes to "bar from the convention
any one who threutens to bolt." That
method is too disagreeably reminiscent
of the one adopted by hard-boiled gen
tlemen in the New ork Assembly when
the right of Socialists to seats for which
thev were elected was under discussion.
Democracy iu government is not a iiroc
rsi of throwing nut nnd trampling down
all those who icfiise to agree with jou.
A great deal of
Progress paper and ink lias
been used up during
n elaborate criticism
the lnt ten yenrs I
of the codes and standards that ruled
the feminine world in ictorin's day.
Hut women who plaed croquet were a
good ileal happier thuu the loily in New
York who has just been ordered to trial
because she wus forced to steal mouey
and jewels to liiuke up her losses at
fashiouabln games of stud poker.
Blucfish nnd cronk-
fiet the, Hook!
crs are biting at
t npo .May, says a
dispatch Croakers in Chicago say a
lot of poor fish nt the convention are
going to be blue before the balloting
Is over.
CONVENTION BOLTS
Relatively Few of Them In tli
History of American Politics.
Some Exciting Ones Tho
First One Came Early
WHKN tho Intensity of feeling, not
only between the two great parties
which have always been doininnnt In
Anietican politics, but also In most
presidential nomination cnmpnlgns be
tween factions of the Fame party, Is
consideted, there hnvc been surprisingly
few bolts from the convention halls.
What bolts there have been have usually
been for principles rather than for can
didates. Nevertheless,' popular sympa
thy l rarely with the bolters; they nre
too much in the position of tho little boy
who wouldn't piny when he couldn't
boss.
The first caucus to nomlnnte n can
didate for President wns composed of
members of Congress nnd wns held in
18ns. when the Itepublicnns (afterward
changed to Democrats by Jackson) met
and nominated Madison. This was
harmonious, but the first signs of dls
satisfaction came four years inter,
when nt the caucus which renominated
Mndir-on the New York delegation re
fused to nttend the conference, nnd nt
n later one of their own named Dcwltt
Clinton ns their enndidatc. Although
n Ucpub.jiiii, lit wns Indorsed by the
Federalists, but as the Issue was war
or peace (the war of 1812) Madison
wni easily elected. Thus the first bolt
passed into history ns a defeat.
TI1H next bolt was against the sys
tem of congressional caucuses In
1810, and again it failed. Neverthe
less, the caucus as a means of nomi
nating a presidential candidate was
doomed and In 1S2-I none worth the
nnine v. as held, with the result of n
four-cornered free-for-all race, when
John (Juincv Adams defeated .laeitson,
Crawford and Clay. National conven
tions were still unknown, nnd it was not
until is:) that the first oue wns held
in Philm'rlplihi.
Iu 1!-!S .lockson wns elected over
Adonis and Clay, the candidates being
named by legislative meetings and local
conventions. This year is memorable
for the slogan "To the victors belong
the spoils," enunciated by Jackson nnd
destined to play a prominent but sin
ister part in American politics.
Till: first national convention met in
Philadelphia, the Inaugural city of
so liianv national events, and was called
by thennti-Mason party, the outlet of
the old Federalists, but it tool; no action
and adjourned for a year. Its exnmplo
wns followed by nil parties and slnco
then the nntinnal convention lins be
come an institution. For the election
of 1S.'(2 the National Republicans met
and named Henry Cln and the Demo
crats named .iacksou, who was vie
toilous. The fight of 1S.10 saw the birth of the
Whigs. There were no bolts from the
conventions, but Vlrgiuia refused to
accept Van Huron ns the presidential
candidate and carried his name on the
ballot for Vice President. Hoth con
ventions were harmonious in 1810, nud
in thnt vear the Democrats presented u
national' platform for the first time.
At the convention of the same party
four j ears later the first "dark horse"
developed iu the persou of James K.
Polk. The name was coined at tho
time and has stuck ever since. The
first "dark horse" wou the election.
THL first real bolt resulting in the
defeat of the convention's candidate
at the polls came in 184S, again iu tho
Democrats. New York, which began
the trouble iu the old caucus, did the
same in th? convention, and nfter two
delegations from the state had been
scnted after angry discussion, one with
drew nnd the other refused to partici
pate. The disgruntled faction later
called a convention of its own nnd
named Van Huren. which resulted in the
election of the Whig oundldate, General
nchnry Taylor. Pennsylvania first
broke from her Democratic moorings in
this election.
In spite of the fact thnt the slnvc
question was now drawing to n head,
the conventions were peaceful until that
of 1MI0. when the Democrats staged
one of the most spectacular of fights.
Nine of the states bolted, and both
regulars and bolters held several meet
ings before two tickets were put into the
field against Lincoln
The next conventions were peaceful,
although the Itcpuhlh tin meeting of
1SII8 which named Giant nominated a
candidate who had never been a Re
publican nnd who never cast n Repub
lican ballot until he hud been a Hepub
lican President for eight years. In
lcS"'-' there was u split iu the Republican
party, but it was from slowly develop
ing differences and was not a bolt from
a convention. Horace Greeley was
named by the Liberal Republicans and
indorsed b.v the Democrats, but Grant,
the regular Republican nominee, wus
triumphant.
w,
ITH most of the great issues nf
the Civil War settled politically.
national conventions took the paths of
pence from this time until the Demo
cratic one of lSpn, vvlien William J.
Hr.vnu made the iliumutic address on
the free-silver question which carried
him into the Demncrnlic nnmiuntinii on
a tidal wave. The sound-money Dem
ocrats were in a hopeless minority nnd
a bolt was serioiish threatened, but it
was pievcntecl. although 178 delcgntes
refused to vole on the first ballot for
Piesidenl
Thirtv tour fiee-silver delegates
bolted from the Republican convention
in I Mil! The v wen- led b.v Senator
llcnrv 'leller, of Colorado, nod in-
i duded three other I'nited States scnu-
lois and two representatives.
The following conventions, those of
IflOO. were entirely harmonious, und
MoKuiloy and Bryan were the respec
tive candidates Kach party hod suf
fered losses and there wus n Sound
Money Democratic party and n Free
Silver Republican parly, nhout equal
in strength These held sepurntc con
ventions, as they were organized be
tween the campaigns nnd were the re
sult of defection and not bolters from
Uie conventions of the regular parties.
The last big row in a convention und
one which resulted in the formation of
the Hull Moose (Progressive Republi
can) purt.v was iu the Republican con
vention of 15)12. President Taft wns
lenominntecl in the regular convention,
but "H delegates announced themselves
as "present but not voting." Most of
these afterward held a separate conven
tion, with a number of "cast out" del
egates fiom the regular meeting, und
nominated founer President Roosevelt.
"his was followed lutcr by u convention
i or mo rrogressive uepiiuiicnns, at
I which Roosevelt and "HI" Johnson
were the nominees, llie result wns to
elect Woodrow Wilson President. The
Democratic convention of the same year
was almost equally turbulent und lasted
a full week before Mr. Wilson was
nominated, hut there was no bolt.
rpHK lost conventions, those of 1010,
jl wpr) rl,0(jvpy peaceful, Presl-
i dent Wilson wns the logical candidate
, of his party and Chnrlcs K, Hughes wns
named by the regiilarKepuhllcnns, The
Progressives Held a convention und
nominated Mr. Roosevelt, who refused
,to run, thus again practically unltlui
Hhc Republican party-
SHORT CVTS
In tho matter of n convention song,
"Forever Rlowlng Hubbies" lias lis
claims.
Perhaps Penrose rcnllzcs thnt only
n strong bluff cuu make a pnlr in
vincible. Johnson nnd Borah are as deter
mined ns ever thnt the tail shall wag
tho dog.
When considering n convention,
old-timers Invariably stress the first
syllabic. .
It must be admitted thnt the Sick
Man of Spruce Street knows how to
take his medicine.
What will you be willing to bet
flint Bergdoll isn't attending the Rc
publlcnn convention?
It Is well to remember thnt the
Anvil Chorus seldom gets u chance to
sing a song of victory.
Competent authority has if thnt the
delegates iu Chicago who nre not gum
shoeing lire pussyfooting.
TIk wise man Is forever calling in
the wilderness where none heeds. Mr.
Tnft will get his thanks from posterity.
The Caruso home has been robbed
of ?.r)00,000 in jewels. That is going
to put the singer back n bunch of high
notes.
No bomb will be exploded in Chi
cngo when the six votes of Dclnwarc arc
cast for T. Coleman du Pout for the
president y.
The one thing definitely settled Is
that If Hoover gets the nomination he
won't get the support of flic Hearst
newspapers.
A leather man in Oklnhomn predicts
J52.50 shoes for autumn, and Attorney
Jjenernl Palmer has not jet ordered his
arrest for treason.
The makers of a platform ordi
narily worry less about what to put
into it than over what can safely bo
left out.
Jdlchgun reports the biggest cherry
nnd3ipple crop iu its history. Thank
heaven, the earth will still work, even
if a goodly proportion of the inhabitants
thereof will not.
News that the wheat crop may be
short reminds us of the reusons for
high-priced bread. We enst ours upon
the waters and it isn't returniug to us,
even nfter mnny days !
June marriage licenses more nu
merous than ever. Does this menn
thnt courage is still a native character
istic of ours or is it the profiteers who
nre preparing to wcdV
Millions of gallons of gasoline sent
from Ainericn to the Kolchnk govern
ment in Russin are to be redistributed.
Nrlvv we know vuhy gas is high. It bus
been following the sugar.
Ilenry Cabot Lodge is referred to
by the New York Tribune as the Babo
Ruth of the convention. To this the
objection may be raised that Ruth only
once won the brown derby.
And ever the thought persists flint
if Senntor Lodge hud shown courage
during certain troublous times in the
I'nited States there would today lie less
troublous times in the Chicago con
vention. The United Slates wheat crop is
short nhout 1(10.000.000 bushels.
Which of the candidates is able to cope
with n situation of that kind? The
estimnte of the Department of Agricul
ture may serve as a hint to the dele
gates. One important and significant fen
ture of the present convention is thnt
the result will he a fair reflection of
the intellectuality and temperament of
the delegates rather than the cut -and -dried
phins of the leaders. And that
holds good even though the lenders cap
ture them iu the end,
Courage Needed
NOW flamboyant Iv before a
World thai wishes them away
Stand forth William Fdgnr Borah
And his buddj. Hiram J.
Why should men fear Hill and Ilirnm?
Why should wisdom fear Hie dolt?
But the leaders feared to fire 'em
Thought they'd boll!
It must still remain a riddle
Why II. Cabot fears the pair.
While "robuster prrsons twiddle"
Scornful thumbs and do not enrc.
JusL a bit of courage would have
Curbed the kick of groqeliv colt
Loug ago the party should have
Let 'em bolt !
Too much Rorah. stubborn, mulish'
Too much Johnson, wimlv. wild'
Compromise with vvioug Is 'foolish'
(.lust to make ihc statement ,i,) !
ll 1.1, rt. Itl f... I n. ....... J, ... . '
.,.,,......., .... ...nf;,,,. , .Mirionx;
I'rnm wars horrors we revolt.
Those who seoi n nl) reservations'
Let 'em bolt ! (;'
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
Who was 111"
was llu. HrHl secretary or tho
IHiiry of the Cnltec States'
treiiH
3' W0,rMexico'?r,M heKl" ,he C0'"iucst
. Whales the population of Norfolk,
D. What Is- Ihc aira of all Iho water nn
the face of the earth? on
r, How Is "suniar'' pronounced?
7. Where did California get Its namo?
8. What Is cochineal?
9. What was the Cock J.ane Ghost?
10. Whatsis tho Cockney School of
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Minnesota got Us namo fiom the
Sioux word for cloudy or smoky.
2. The first secretary of state of'ilie
Cnlted SiateH was John Ja
a. Joan of Aic was burned May 10,
4. The census or 1020 gives llurlinc
ton. Iowa, n population of 1M.057.
5 The l.tnd iireu of tho eurili la Gil .
r.5.000 Miu.no miles.
C. KuHtlo Ih n numnc. yielding a yellow
dye. It is also tho name of tha
dye.
7. The golden plover In tho fall or csch
ear flics 1M00 miles without n
atop, f'um Labrador to the coast
of South Amerlcn.
8. The. tlrat of tho ten original amend
ments to the (Constitution r i.
United States nrovldea for free-
nom or religion, ireeaom of
speech, freedom of tho press and
tho right to petition.
9. Lincoln's Gettysburg soeecli wan ri.
llvered at the dedication of the
Nntional I emetcry, November 19,
ISUil
10. The thirteenth President of the
United States was JJIIUrd Kill-
more js
TOtfJS 11 1020
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NO FIRES OF ARMAGEDDON
WARM 1920 CONVENTION
Genius of Roosevelt and Illusions of Youth Are Painfully
Laching in Ultra-Conservative Gathering at Chicago
By CLINTON V. GILRKHT
Cowrls'if. 1010, by Public l.etlotr Co.
Chicago, .Tunc 11. A delegate who
sat in the committee on resolutions of
the Republican Nntional Convention, n
former follower of Roosevelt, who re
mains mildly progressive, said nfter n
couple of dujs' struggle:
j'Thut bunch is not conservative. It
is to the Inst degree reactionary."
Allow n little for the natural heated
language of n progressive, withal a "une
progressive, who lias been tightinR
long fight in n hot nnd stuffy room. But
there is no question about the delegates.
They lire intensely conservative.
,, ...
There is none of the Avmagciuiou
spirit in the party. Take the most u
scrvativc members of the United States
Senate. Lodge. Rruudrg.c .mil Sinoil.
for example. They are shining euiniplcs
of liberalism computed tollic delegates
who come to national conventions.
The lenders, such ns they aic, me
more advanced iii their views or see
better the reasons for compromise than
their followers. They have had bigger
experiences. They know moie of life.
They realize that concessions have to
be made.
In the days of inugwuniperr, old
Senator Piatt of New York used to speak
of "pandering to the belter element.
The element thnt has to lie pandered to
now Is different. It is the liberal ele
ment Lenders see the need of pandei-iii-
lo the libernl element. Delegates
don't, unless their eves aic opened by
their lenders.
The delegates come largely from small
towns. They hnve the small-town view
of party regularity. The delegates arc
nrncrieniiv uu "' "" " '" "
stance, uii'j '- un-,.".-
n,L-.. l.n,'., I.HLIIinL. '
Thev have
.....nv In ih'e bank. And Ibey aie not
big business men with the breadth of
outlook of big business men. They nre
smiill business men with nnnow caution
of small business men. The employers
whose relations wilh labor aie Hie
hardest and most unenlightened mo the
small business men.
All this is by the waj of explaining
vvltv Senator .lohnson, who was such a
fimiro in Washington, is so small n
tiguro here in Chicago.
The uverage delegate enme here with
two fixed ideas about .lohnson- ill
Thnt Johnson h'lped bent die paitv in
I'M'' and did heal it in P.Hli. and CJ
Mint" to elect .lohnson would be to en
lari-er the money in their m, Kcis , , .
laps the latter idea should hnve been
numbered one insteud of two. And men
entertained this idea.
The leaders, such lis they are, weie
more tolerant of .lohnson Ihnn the (WW
Jutes They were against him Hit not
so determinedly us uie ueiegnies. The
EITH'S
A"'sUdRAtpH HERZ MACV
CHARLEY GRAPEWIN
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DORIS KEANE
IN
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TilB mo riioropi av or Tin: HUho.s
SwrVeiton Doufilas Fairbanks
in "TUB MOI I.YCOllDl.iT'
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Tliurnday Nieht June t7ih
THIS HAVOY ro.MlANV
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Kor th lwn.nt nf
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Scata nn al at the riix Offir. nn .,
lian'ei hotel. Prleca M nn i "Jj ,",
Broad "Nothing But the Truth"
Kamoua Comecly. 2Rth fiurcfU Rcmnn -.
J'HHJOPATRIAN PLAYERS. pJnSn?" SJ
flitter of Good Shepherd. P.recnil man...
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STRONG IS A CHAIN?
leaders might have accepted him iu cer
tnin circumstntiees. mil not the dele
gates. It was ns with Roosevelt in 1010.
The lenders then, many of them, in
ciidmg Penroscr, were fiiendly to
Roosevelt. But the delegates would
not Iuv him. If half the pettv lenders
here this time lind combined to name
.loliiiMiii the delcgntes would not have
lOIIOWCd tllCMM. .Inlltiinn t nu wt !..,..
by the bosses or by the monev power,
except ti. power which monev exer
cises over the ,., n w,,p p0,.lct it is.
He was beaten by the delegates.
While the t(,.i,, ,1,11 .. !..
u-linr i, 1 """I" I'cen.v ICIIIIII11S
What it is and men remain what thev
me tlicie is i I,,, ,.,!,. j,, convention
for a candidacy like .Johnson's. It
iglit win hi a popular primary, but
IV " '." " 'onveniion. T he i eiiioiistrnt ot,
nns ncen ihc n,st coinnlete nossihl...
uudon,',,,u's1:DPm0ernt 8l""s l,p thc sit-
one.1,' ".". ,1)l ''onvention of a dull
Party, led by dull leaders. The logic of
the. situation points to the nomination
or a dull (inidldate. 1 I)UV(. looked them
all over and I find that Cenenil Wood
ijualifies by ,i ,.R(. majority as tho
dullest candidate of them all. I think
he will be named."
Ij.v the time this is written it will,
perhaps, be shown whether this cvnieul
Democrat is a prophet or the soli of n
prophet.
The only speakers, nslde from a spe
cial address, were Chaunt-ey M. Depevv
nnd ex-Jspcnkcr Cannon. Some one ob
served :
The convention is Inking no chances.
It does not mean to let itself be stain
peded. It won't let nuy one talk
to it who is less than sevenlv veins
old. Insteud of being the (iltAND
Old Purt.v it's the grand OLD Party."
After this convention no convention
will ever sing again. The "Long. Long
Trail." sung yesterday, wns n dis
inaler failure than the "Battle Ilvmn
of the Itepubllc." sung the day before.
I'Vw knew the words. Few snug : many
yelled. Kverybody thought tho singing
wns nuisance.
Men moved by deep feeling may sing
"Onward. Christian .Soldiers," as the
Roosevelt followers did in 1D1L', but
men moved b.v no feeling at nil will not
sing merely to puss the time while be
hind the scenes artists in word-splitting
me working out the platform,
Some said, looking at pretty girls
dancing on n loof gulden, that you need
the illusions of youth really io enjov
if. You need the illusions of youth to
yield to the pcrsunsjnns of n cheer lead
or doing the gyiniiustics, of a "rnh-rali"
boy from a pint form. And (he con
vention lias neither illusions nor youth
Pel-hups that was what was the' mm.'
tcr with it. Anyway, something was
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