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PENROSE AND AIDES TAKE CHARGE OF CONVENTION
Convention Adjourns After Adopting Reports
SENATOR LODGE IS
CHOSEN PERMANENT
CONVENTION HEAD
Platform Committee Not
Ready With Report,
Chauncey Depew Makes
Short Speech to Delegates
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 9.
The Republican national convention
was in session only an hour today
and devoted itself entirely to routine
preliminaries. The temporary organ
ization was made permanent, the re
port of the credentials committee
was approved with the changes made
last night, some of which reversed
previous decisions of the national
committee.
For its second day sensation the
convention heard a woman speaker,
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, of Kan
sas, the first woman to address a
_pational convention.
The platform committee was not
ready to report and only sent word
that it was making progress.
Chauncey M. Depew entertained the
convention with a brief address and
apparently the convention manage
ment had decided to do away with
the string of speakers who in pre
vious years have entertained the con
vention while the committees -tfere
working, for there were no other “en
tertainment” speakers on hand.
The next session will be at 11
o’clock tomorrow morning.
Platform Delay
The rank and file of convention
visitors always likes a lot of music
and oratory and this year they are
certain to get it.
“Saturday noon, at the earliest.”
Jis the estimate of leaders when
adjournment may come.
The delay is more attributable to
platform differences than to uncer
tainty over a nomination. The word
has gone out to give the radicals ev
ery Cfcance to present their views
and stop any possibility of a charge
of . steam rolling, or as some call it,
an "excuse for a bolt.”
And until the platform is built
there will be no one named to stand
on it. The fact that more than half
of the delegates are uninstructed has
added to the list of nominating
sepeeches. There are three or more
for some and in a few instances six
or more speeches r-iix sight for each
candidate. Between these spech
es and the platform contest it
carried over till Saturday.
The reply to inquiries as to “what
is in the air” on vice president, are
met with unanimous response:
“Nothing; it depends on who is put
over to head the ticket.” But there
are a lot of budding candidates for
second place with all of the lead
ing figures for first place dodging.
To those who flatly say they “will
not take it,” the reply is that “we
heard that from Theodore Roose
velt, Charles Warren Fairbanks and
other and we’ll see.”
Ideal convention weather contin
ued today. A cool, crisp breeze blew
off Lake Michigan and the sun was
shining. It was the remark of ev
eryone that the convention hall was
unusually comfortable.
Penrose Takes Hand
The Republican national conven
tion assembled today for its Second
session today with little more than
routine in prospect. A brief sessioff
to perfect the permanent organiza
tion was forecast.
During the first hour before the
opening the convention hall was giv
en over to the usual entertainment
preliminaries which are counted on
to amuse and hold delegates while
the convention is getting ready to
get down to business. The big band
up in the balcony blared popular airs,
q" male quartet took a turn at a
little jazz and a talking machine was
attached to the electric amplifiers
■ which have been installed to carry
'the voices <of the speakers to the
farthest galleries.
Delegates and alternates were slow
in arriving and there was a marked
absence of notables in the prelimi
’nary moments.
The “drift to Lowden” and the
“growing strength of Wood”«and the
"turn of the delegates to Johnson,”
which one heard so much talk about
downtown, were little in evidence in
the convention hall. The delegates
who arrived early seemed to be talk
ing anything but politics and even
the visitors’ galleries were slow 'n
filling up.
Most of the women delegates were
on hand early and as they scattered
about the floor photographers sought
them. There was no fashion dis
play. It was too warm. One wom
an, with furs wrapped close about
her neck, finally had to shake them.
Governor Sproul was up early to
day and resumed conferences with
party leaders after a series of meet
ings with delegates from different
parts of the country last night.
The special telegraph wire from
Pennsylvania headquarters to Sena
tor Penrose’s home in Philadelphia,
continues to carry the doings of the
party leaders here to the Pennsyl
vania senator.
Lodge Takes Chair
At 11 o’clock, the opening time,
the convention hall was not half full.
✓lt looked as if tne convention would
* get away at least a half hour late,
as it did yesteraay. The principal
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Convention Enthusiasm
Generally Arranged in
Advance, States Cobb
BY IRVIN S. COBB
(Copyright, 1920 for The Atlanta
Journal)
CHICAGO, June 9.—One of the
chief joys of covering a story such
as this is, that I, having been hired
by the job an<J not by ’the month, i
may say what I please regarding the I
merits of the proposition as they ap-
IL
it
peal to me, doing
so with an abso
lute disregard for
private convic
tions and the po-'
litical slants of
the paper which
prints my little
pieces. It, there
fore, results that
I, as the reporter,
may let my fancy
rove wild and
free, on the news
page saying
things about the
affair which the editor on the editor
ial page may coincidentally or sub- <
sequently take deep joy in refuting j
as utter heresy. At the same time, ,
one advantage remains to'me —the,
stuff I write goes to the reader be
fore the stuff he writes does. I
shall now procedd for a brief space
to make full use of that advantage.
Let us take, for example, the sub
ject of a national convention. You
may take almost any national con
vention of almost any party, practi
cally all of them share certain com
mon characteristics. Personall I pre- >
fer to ..ake the one whir’- 1 started here <
today as offering a present and a
timely and a typical case.
Take the delegates. Most of them
have traveled long distances, defying
en route the well-known Pullman or
canned ptomaine of the dining car
and the rigors of the Pullman berth,
in order to get here. They have
come freighted with a sense of re
sponsibility. They are wearing their
best clothes. Their bosoms bravely
gleam with grand badges. A favor--
ed few among them will get places
as dummy members of hand-picked
committees.
Whisper But Have No Voice
They are weighted beneath the
burden of the obligation which rests
upon their shoulders. They confer
in grave whispers. They manifest a
portentous and concerned demeanor
And yet not one delegate in fifty act
ually has any voice, however puny
and piping, in the real deliberations,
unless, following a deadlock the con
vention should be swept off its feet
by a burst of oratory from some un
expected source; unless some un
broken and unbranded Maverick colt
of a prevalent darkish complexion
should lead a stampede, the pros
pects are that not one delegate in
fifty will have an opportunity to ex
press and to record his individual
preference for any candidate other
than the candidate selected by some
one else and for whom, by order
from on high, he will obediently cast
his vote.
He is here to sit in the show win
dow with the rest of the wax works.
He is not expected to do anything
on his own personal account. To
permit him individually to indulge in
any miscellaneous and independent
thinking would be dangerous to the
plans of the hidden powers and
might entail a perilous strain upon
his mentality. The thinking is in
the hands of competent experts and
does not concern him.
I inscribe these words on the
subject of the Republican national
convention. With equal truth I may
pen them three weeks hence with re
gard to the Democratic national con*
vention.
Let us take the dramatic aspects
of the matter. The carefully pre
pared and rehearsed theatricalism
which the spectator beholds spread
before his vision in a convention city
is merely a standard device of the
concealed stage managers. Planned
beforehand to furnish a popular
spectacle, any national convention
run on isiness priciples would do
its work ad name its ticket and,
barring unforeseen and unlikely con
tingencies, could adjourn in eighteen
hours.
Behind the Scenes
The real drama goes on behind the
scenes. It is going on now behind
th© scenes where Uncle Murray
Crane, the most noiseless thing that
has come out of New England since
the Maxim silencer was invented, was
conferring with Senator Reed
Smooth, who taugh the tabby cats
of Utah, how to stalk mice, and
where over the long distance telephone
wires, the cautious voice of Senator
Boies Penrose is at intervals- saying,
“Hush, hush.”
So far as the public ear is con
cerned the audible effects of these
invisible and unpicturesque of coun
cillings is about as noisy as the
sound produced by a streak of moon
light. Falling upon the surface of
a cup custard, and yet therefrom,
sooner or later, the actual fruitage of
the convention will almost inevitably
issue.
Take the scene when a convention
gets under way for its opening ses
sion. Pursuing my right of choice
I shall take the scene presented to
day at the coliseum.
There was comedy aplenty but it
was of the unconscious variety main
ly. To some it may have appeared
that the humor struck when the solo
cornetist of the official brass band
struck such a sour note that four
bars of “America, the Gem of the
Ocean,” clabbered as solid as a
smearkase. Some may think that the
funniest spectacle was unwittingly
offered by a long line of suff ladies,
who stood on the sunny side of a
hot street patiently cooking their
complexions to a rich golden oak
tone. But to my way of speaking
Mr. William Jennings Bryan’s little
boy’s hat struck the first and fore
most note of hilarity.
Bryan’s Boy-Size Hat
Mr. Bryan must have been pass
ing a place where they were adver
tising a cut sale of seasonable wear
ing apparel for the tiny tots and
having an eye ever for a bargain he
dropped in and picked himself out
a rollo lid that had been left over
from last season. Perhaps he was
trying to recall the happy days when
he was a boy orator of the Platte,
or was it the boy profligate? Other
wise his costume, as is customary
with him, was chastely that of a
prosperous peasant. Constant wear
ing of a halo has worn his back hair
away somewhat: Otherwise he looks
just as he did four years ago when
I last saw him sitting in the same
press row where today he sat.
Mr. Bryan, as you know, goes to
all national conventions. He goes
to Republican conventions as a re
porter and to Democratic conventions
as a candidate. It is believed by
his friends that he may eventually
succeed at one of these two profes
sions. But if I were him I should
drop candidating as a calling and be
tween Chautauqua seasons, go in>en-
EFFORTS MADE TO
KEEP TREATY FROM
COM FLOOR
Platform Committee Believes
That Compromise Agree
ment With the Irreconcil
ables Can Be Reached
CHICAGO, June 9.—The league of
nations plank still was undefined
today, twenty-four hours before the
Republican platform was to be pre
sented to the national convention.
Members of the subcommittee of
thirteen when they went into session
to smooth out th'e remaining plat
form troubles, expressed confidence
that they could agree, but all of
them were somewhat hazy on how
it was to be done.
Senator Watson, of Indiana, head
of the subcommittee, maintained
that in the end the Indiana plank,
with some modifications, would get
the support of all Republican ele
ments. Senators Borah, of Idaho
and McCormick, of Illinois thought
there would have to be material
modifications to pacify the irrecon ■
cilables. The mild reservation group
also' wanted changes made, but in
the opposite direction.
Bolstering the predictions of an
agreement, however, was a feeling
in many quarters that the league
question must not be permitted to
reach the convention floor, where
everyone realized it might set off
fireworks of a destructive nature.
Aside from the treaty issue, most
of the platform material was in such
shape that; only, the finishing touches
had to be added by the subcommit
tee. There still remained to be de
termined, however, some details of
the Mexican declaration and some
questions of policy regarding indus
trial relations.
While the thirteen were in deliber
ation the remainder of the resolu
tions committee, of 53, were receiv
ing in open hearings the advice of
labor leaders and others on a wide
diversity of subjects.
Committee in Action
Demands that the Republican party
take an “unequivocal” stand for en
forcement of the fourteenth amend
ment and against continuation of the
“reign of lynch law” were made by a
delegation headed by William H.
Lewis, negro, former assistant Unit
ed States attorney general, He urged
a congressional investigation looking
to a reduction in the national repre
sentation in congress from states
where full enfranchisement has not
been allowed the'negro.
Edward H. Wright, Chicago negro,
who spoke on the demands, also de
clared that none of the claims had
come "from us as supplicants, for
we come as your brothers and your
equals.”
Realizing that it had serious party
history to write, the subcommittee
moved away from the swirl of dele
gates. took up quarters in a se
cluded hotel bedroom, left orders that
it was not to be disturbed for any
one or for any reason, took off
their coats literally as welL as fig--
uratively, and settled down to its
job. Members predicted it would not
be ready to quit before midnight, at
the earliest.
Senator Borah was on hand from
the start, although the league plank
was not to be taken up for several
hours. He picked <Mit a comfortable
berth on a bed and waited.
At the outset of its meeting, the
subcommittee read through the re
port of Chairman Hays’ committee
of 171 as it had been revised in pre
convention conferences. It dealt
with virtually no controverted sub
jects and most of it was written into
the platform without extended dis
cussion.
Labor Problem
The labor question also arose to
vex the resolutions committee to
day. Samuel Gompers, heading a
delegation from the American Fed
eration of Labor, appeared at
a public hearing before the full
committee to demand that the party
go on record as indorsing the doc
trine that workers have the right
to strike, and that no public inter
est is higher than the right of the
mass of the toilers to protect them
selves against capitalistic exploita
tion. Inasmuch as there is much
sentiment in the party and the reso
lutions committee for an anti-strike
plank modeled on the anti-strike
provisions of the Esch-Cummins rail
road law, Mr. Gompers appearance
was the signal for argument on
the general proposition of the para
mountcy of public or class interest.
Mr. Gompers came prepared to
assail also the suggestion of Gov
ernor Allen, of Kansas, that the
party indorse his industrial court
idea.
A decision is expected on the
Mexican plank without much contro
versy. Many committee members fa
vor Henry Lane Wilson’s blanket
declaration for a firm policy to
wards Mexico, with protection of
American lives and property, with
out committing the party to inter-'
vention or any other definite step,
as the plank drafted by Senator Fall
would do.
The range of subjects on which the
committee was urged to report
planks was very wide. Representa
tives of the League of Women
Voters, headed by Mrs. Maud Wood
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tirely for reportorial work, somehow
he seems to have better luck in that
field than in the other.
When the New York outfit appear
ed, Boss Bill Barnes, who weighs
240 on the scales and nearly 200 When
he is telling you what his weight
is, was closely followed by Sam
Koenig, the half portion leader of
Manhattan, suggesting the famous
wild life picture, “Mother hippo with
the young.”
It was noted that a colored dele
gate acquires added merit by wearing
a white vest. If, in addition to a
white vest, h? has on gold-rimmed
spectacles and carries a cane, it
him six for game and gives
him a chance to turn jack and go out.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920.
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sent a foreign government here as minister. She is counselor of the
Greek legation, and in the absence of George Roussos is acting
minister.
VEHICLE LAW IS
HELD INVALID BY
JUDGE PENDLETON
Judge John T. Pendleton, of Ful
ton superior court, on Wednesday
morning held that the Georgia Motor
Vehicle law is unconstitutional by
reason of the fact that it was pass
ed without a roll call in the house
of the senate.
The constitution of Georgia re
quires that all bills in the nature
of appropriations shall be passed by j
a roll call vote. The motor vehicle
law imposes a license upon motor
vehicles and appropriates the re
ceipts to the state highway depart
ment. To this extent, therefore, it
was an appropriation bill.
Judge Pendleton’s decision was
rendered in the test case brought by
Governor Dorsey to determine the
constitutionality of the law. At
torney General Denny recently held
that the law is unconstitutional for
the reason above stated. In order
to settle the question, Governor Dor
sey drew his warrant upon the state
highway fund for $30,000 to cover a
voucher from the highway depart
ment.
‘Acting upon the attorney general’s
ruling Comptroller General Wright
declined to approve the warrant. Gov
ernor Dorsey then petitioned the Ful
ton superior court for the issuance
of a mandamus requiring the comp
troller to show cause why he should
not be ordered to approve the war
rant. This petition was argued be
fore Judge Pendleton on Tuesday and
his decision was rendered on Wed
nesday morning. • ,
Judge H. J. Quincey, attorney to
the highway board, who represented
Governor Dorsey in the proceedings,
will immediately appeal the case to
the supreme court on a fast bill of
exceptions ’to get a final decision at
the earliest possible date. Comp
troller General Wright is represnt
ed in the proceedings by Attorney
General Denny. /
Taunted Woman Suicides
ROCIIESTEK, England. Taunted by
neighbors because she bad been sent to jail
for cruelty to one of her children, Mrs.
Edith Mary Kelly committed suicide by cut
ting her throat with a razor.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth street, Milwaukee. Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: “1 had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso. 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee
Wis., and ask for a feottie of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
writes him.”—(Advt.)
13 KILLED AND 21
INJURED IN N.Y.C.
RAILROAD WRECK
SCHENECTADY, N. Y„ June 9. —
Thirteen persons were killed and
twent-one injured today when a train
of express cars crashed into the rear
end of a passenger train which had
stopped about two miles from
Schenectady because of engine trou
ble.
All but one of those killed were
asleep in two Pullmans at the rear
of the passenger train. Martin Doyle,
of Albany, engineer of the express,
died at his post, one hand being fast
to the throttle when his body was
found in the wreckage. The pas
sengers killed were:
Mrs. Nellie Crouse, Utica, N. Y.,
her twelve-year-old son and her in
fant daughter.
Seven unidentified rrfen.
One unidentified woman.
Train No. 34. a Michigan Central
special with ten cars carrying ex
press matter, disregarded signals
and went at high speed into train
No. 28, a New York Central passenger
train, bound from Buffalo to New
York, according to the story of C.
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FLORIDA REBUKES
GOVERNOR CATTSi
RETURIffiFLETGHER
Carey Hardee, Speaker of
House, Nominated Govern
or Over Van C. Sweringer,
Catts’ Aide
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.. June 9. —
Florida has returned United States
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher to the
senate and rebuked Governor Sidney
J. Catts by a veritabe landslide, early
returns from yesterday’s Democratic
primary indicate.
Carey D. Hardee, former speaker
of the Florida house of representa
tives, apparently has been swept into
the governor’s chair by the same
tidal wave, leading his nearest op
ponent, Van C. Swearingen, Catts' at
torney general, by a vote of three
to one.
Owing to rain yesterday through
out the state an unusually light vote
was cast. Returns from one-fourth
of the precincts show: Fletcher, 11,-
467; Catts, 2,357; Hardee, 10,469;
Swearingen, 3.472.
FLETCSER POLLS THREE TO
CATTS’ ONE, TABLE SHOWS
JACKSONVILLE. Fla., June 9.
Democratic primary returns from ,335.
of .the 977 precincts in the state as
tabulated by the Florida Metropolis
give: '
For senator: Fletcher, 18,630; Catts,
6,239.
For governor: Hardee, 15,983;
Swearingen, 8,307; Hulley, 1,629.
Hoke Smith Comments
On Mr. Stovall’s Card
WASHINGTON, June’ 9. —After
reading the recent article addressed
“To the Public” and signed by Pleas
ant A. Stovall, editor of the Savan
nah Press, the same being published
in the Atlanta Constitution and other
Georgia papers, Senator Hoke Smith
issued the following statement:
“Mr. Stoval] has ben using his pa
per to viciously slander me ever
since his name has been suggested
for the senate. An ingrate is the
meanest sort of an enemy.”
Robinson, brakeman of No. 28. He
said he waved a red lantern in vain
and finally threw it into the cab as
the express dashed by.
The Pullman at the rear of the
train had twelve passengers and was
demolished. Its passengers were
bound for New York. Next to it was
a Pullman with twenty-two passen
gers destined for Boston.
Robinson gave the following ver
sion of the accident:
“I went back thirty car lengths
and saw No. 34 coming toward me,
and I stayed in the middle of the
track as long as I dared. She kept
coming and did not blow her whis
tle. I waved my red lantern and
threw the red fuse into the cab as
it whizzed by, but I didn’t see the
engineer do anything.”
BY RING W. LABDNEB
CHICAGO, 111., June 9. —The con
vention opened today with a prayer
by the Episcopal bishop of Louis
ville, where they sometimes have
races, so I guess I bettar open this
story with a prayer, which is that I
hope you like it.
Well, if the Republican nominee
lasts as long as the prayer we will
? jflfl
JMBbbl,
be in office at least
four years and
maybe longer. But
speaking about
length. I refer
you to the key
note speech of
Henry Cabot
Lodge, and I don’t
know what key it
was in, but 1
would say it was
a sustained note,
as it started about
noon and when we
walked—out of the
convention at 1
o’clock, he was just getting warmed
1 up. The trouble with having Mr.
• Lodge make a speech is that he is
probably the only delegate to the
convention that can speak English,
and, of course, the rest of the dele
gates couldn’t understand him, and
besides they wanted to sleep, so
Harry’s keynote speech will go down
in history as a speech that was never
heard, and if it was heard, it wasn’t
understood.
But, speaking about Senator Lodge,
he got up there garbed in a A. M.
coat like he was usher at a wed
ding, and I looked around at several
other delegates and three of them
had on A. M. coats and fancy vests.
But Harry’s looked like the only one
that the wearer owned and hadn’t
rented from a one-day tailor.
Like Six-Day Race
But I will try and describe the
first day of the convention in alpha
bet order. In the first place we got
there about 11 o’clock and got to
our seat by knocking down a lot of
! good reporters and then Mr. Hays
introduced the secretary of the na
tional committee and he read the
official summons to the convention
out of a book, and if that part of
the program had of been left out
we would of all thought it was >
six-day bicycle race. So then come
the prayer and then the band played
“Dixie,” and as usual the crowd
thought it was “The Star-Spangled
Banner,” and stood up with their
heads bared, and then Mr. Hays said
he wanted to intrdopce the temporary
chairman, Mr. Lodge, and it took two
gents and one lady, including Chaun
cey Depew, to escort the speaker to
the platform. But Mr. Hays pulled a
boner by not having any committee
to get him off of there. So, as I say,
he was still talking at 1 o’clock and
didn’t seem to be getting anywhere,
and you can probably read his speech
in some paper that has got a surplus
of white print paper, so I will not
repeat it
Well when' we got in our places
who should loom up in front of us
but William J. Bryan and the man
setting next to me said this is the
first time I ever went slumming m
the day. ,
Far be it from me to tell the Re
publicans how to run their conven
tions,, but I want to say that the
next time they have a keynote speech
that they put' it on a Victtola so you
can listen to it in your room and
smoke at the same time. And anoth
er suggestion I want to make here
was a poor stenographer probably
getting $100,090 per week. And Iw
had to stand behind Harry and take
the whole speech down for publica
tion where as if they would make
Cabot put in a carbon sheet they
could save the stenographer’s salary
to say nothing about his self respect
because the poor gtiy had to laugh at
every gag Harry sprung ad none ot
the rqst of us could hear it.
Walting on Penrose
They was no candidates names
mentioned in this* session for the
reason that everybody knows the
names of I and Johnson and Hoover
and Wood and Lowden and etc.,
and nobodv knows how to pronounce
the name of Sproul, or whether its
animal, vegetable or mineral. When
boys or girls Penrose finely calls UP
maybe I will tell you who this bird
is, but anyway I got a huach from
the Pennsylvania delegation last
night was that they are all going
to vote for Sproul on the first bal
lot and as soon as tliey see how
far he is sunk they will switch to
Philanderer C. Knox, and nobody
knows what his middle initial stands
for.
Personally I think I have still got
a sweet chance and the minute th?
bovs start comparing my war
ord to Joe Hoovers and Jack John
son and Harry Lowden and etc
why I can make them look like a
monkey. Hoover got to Belgium but
I am the only one in the party tha.t
got to Label!, France
(Copyright,. 1920, Bell Syndicate Inc.)
Recess Appointments
Made by Wilson for
Commerce Contmission
WASHINGTON. June 9. —President
Wilson today made recess appoint
ments of Henry Jones Ford, of New
Jersey; Mark W. Potter, of New
York, and James Duncan, of Massa
chusetts, to be members of the in
terstate commerce cemmission.
Marston Taylor Bogert. of New
JTork, and Samuel W. McCall, of Mas
sachusetts, were named members of
the United States tariff commission.
Nicholas Kelley, of New York, was
appointed assistant secretary of the
treasury.
The appointees to the interstate
commerce commission were nomi
nated some weeks ago. but the sen
ate failed to act on them. .When
they take office all vancies on the
commission will have been filled, in
cluding the two new places created
by the transportation act, which in
creased the membership from nine to
eleven.
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PMDERKNOXIS
"OB HORSE” OF
. REAL WOO"
Governor Sproul Likely to
Get Nomination If Senator
Johnson Refuses to Take
Second Place /
BY DAVID LAWKirCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlnnla Joaraal.) *
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, Juu* I
The inside story of what is happen
ing at the Republican national Con
vention Is a fascinating battle be
tween masterful politicians. The
candidates are only pawns. And the
most striking development is that
the real “old guard,” namely Sen
ator Boies Penrose and his asso
ciates in the senatorial group, in
cluding former Senator Murray
Crane, of Massachusetts, have quiet
ly taken charge of the whole situa
tion.
; The key to it all lies in the hands
of the New York, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts delegations and the
various moves of the last twenty- •
'four hours indicate that Leonard
Wood will be eliminated by a com
bination of Johnson and Lowden
strategists, then Lowden will be
eliminated by a coalition of the
same forces assisted to some ex
tent by the defeated Wood lieuten
ants and the final effort to put
Hiram ,Jdhnson over will be made
in all sincerity by the senatorial
group with the full expectation that
the rank and file or the New York,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
delegations will decline to accept
the California senator, leaving ths
field to a dark horse, who at this
writing would appear to be Philan
der Knox, if Senator Johnson will
agree to run as vice president and
Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania,
if Senator Johnson refuses to agree.
Considerable of a flurry has fol-
Ipwed the brilliant move by which
Frank Hitchcock, leader of the
Wood forces, secured control of the
credentials coAimittee. This veteran
politician quietly went to work in
each delegation three days ago and
saw to it that one of his own men
was selected by each state to sit
on that credentials committee. With
a majority of thirty out of forty
eight members, Mr. Hitchcock, would
be able to unseat many Lowdpn
delegates who had been previously
seated by the national committee
But while he is worrying Tobias
Hert, the Lowden general, the lat
ter will surely carry the fight to
the floor of the convention if Hitch
cock does attempt rudely to throw '
out Lowden delegates. Neverthe
less a blow has been suffered by
Messrs. Hert and Will Hays which
may affect their prestige in the
convention and correspondingly Mr.
Hitchcock’s stock as a leader has
gone up.
Spanked Via Long Distance
Parallel with the strategy whereby
the Wood forces routed the Lowden ,
managers in the credentials commit
tee is another move, the significance
of which will be apparent as it is un
folded.
Will Hays, who is suspected by
the Wood forces of being too friend
ly to Lowden, was deserted at the
last moment in his attempt to make
State Senator Ogden Mills chairman
of the resolutions committee, which
drafts the platform. That old guard
veteran, Senator Jim Watson, of In
diana, took a fall out of his rival.
Will Hays, by rolling Mills over-
a vote of 40 to 3. Now
where did Mr. Watson get such an
overwhelming majority and how did
Will Hays come to have so little in
fluence in the choice of a chairman
of resolutions committee?
The answer is simply that Frank
Hitchcock threw the support of all .
the Wood delegates on the resolutions
committee to Senator Watson. Mr.
Mills had counted on the help of
Leonard Wood delegates, but he was
beaten by the old guard without
trouble. For back of Senator Wat
son, indeed, back of every senator
in his fight, is Senator Penrose, of
Pennsylvania, who. through the me
dium of a long distance wire and
trusted lieutenants, is simply spank
ing the new "old guard” and teach
ing them lessons in practical poli
tics which they will not soon forget.
Now, as .to the nominee, again one
must turn to the senior senator from
Pennsylvania for the answer. His
statement that the Republicans must
nominate a man who can win and
only one who is sure to win was, of
course, being construed by the sup
porters of each candidate to mean
their own man, but the writer has
the highest authority for the state
ment that Senator Penrose believes
the following men could win if nom
inated :
Senator Hiram Johnson—but he
can’t be nominated.
Herbert Hoover—but he can’t be
nominated.
Philander C. Knox, and he can be
nominated, only if Senator Johnson
agrees to accept him and run as vice
president.
Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania.
Penrose in Control
There is no doubt in my mind that
the “old guard” is very friendly to
Johnson and believe him a remark
able vote-getter, but they know that
the delegates from eastern states
and the business men in other dele
gations are absolutely opposed to
him. Even if the “old guard” wanted
to do it, they are powerless without
the assent of the conservative busi
ness men <who are the backbone of
the Republican party. Big business
is represented here. The most f«»-
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