| Show Big Business Showing Good I Generalship at Baltimore HP HE liE Ryan Belmont combination which has had T TilE th the mach machinery of or the thc Democratic national convention convention con con- in in its hands ever c since the thc great meeting meeting meet meet- in ing opened seems to have accomplished at last w X w L it has been hoping to do from the inning cause h beginning cause a bl brash bleach between William lliam Jennings Bryan an and Champ Clark Mr Ir Bryans Bryan's action in ill refusing to vote for Clark so long as New Kew York lork cast casts its vote ote for him startled the convention cOll but hut its his hi position had no such significance as has later been attached to it b by the vitriolic statement which Clark afterwards s. s issued hurling hurling- defiance into the Nebraskans Nebraskan's s 's very er teeth Mr Bryans Bryan's attitude altitude against Clark although in instructed instructed for him so long as New Xe York favored ored th the Missourian was merely his protest protect against the deal into which Tammany entered with Clark b by which the Clark forces in the convention supported Jud Judge c cI I Parker for temporary chairman and in return f for r- r which Murphy guaranteed the ninety votes Totes of New NewYork NewYork York for fur Clark on a certain number of ballots Bryan is too clever er a n politician not to understand I exactly how his candidate for chairman was beaten and he made his plans to prevent Clark from receiving ing illS the benefits for an act which Bryan BIJan denounced I as treachery to the progress progressive C cause Mr r. r Bryan has realized from the beginning of the nomination on contest that his enemies in th the party part were hoping that he mi might ht indicate a desire for on one particular candidate The Nebraskan however was wa too oo well gifted in the science science of politics to stumble into the trap and he let lct it be known n that either Clark or 01 Wilson lson would suit him B By craftily coaxing Clark into supporting Parker for chairman on the plea that such action would contribute to party harmony harmony harmony har har- mony the first breach between Bryan Bran and the speaker speake was made and it was wac accentuated when New York voted for Clark for the nomination And now that Bryan has ha refused to cast his ballot for Clark so solo soone lo one as Tammany supports him the situation is is welt well defined especially in of the sharp retort Clarc Clar has made mad to the Bryan insinuations insinuation The predatory i interests have ha always res resented Mr tr Bryans Bryan's influence in the party councils and nd tb want no candidate that is satisfactory to the Ne- Ne Their evident joy over oer the breach between bet Clark Hark and Bryan Bran and their success in forcing forcin Bryan Bran Branto to o choose between the two radical candidates and accept Wilson shows that bi big business has been showing showing show show- ing ing- good generalship and that the contest is taking the he shape big business desires 1 1 i r rIN N most of the great cities of NOT SO I IN the United States the thc proportion proportion pro pro- portion porton o of or the population FOREIGN which is IS composed of oi two AS THEY TREY classes classes the the foreign born and MAY SEEM the native-born native who arc of foreign parentage parentage looms looms tremendously tremendously tremendously tre tre- tre- tre large to the average American who glances at the official figures lie He reads that in New York this part of the population population population pop pop- is per cent that it is equally equall great in Milwaukee j that in Chicago the foreign born and the native-born native children of foreign born parents constitute constitute tute ute per cent of the whole number of inhabitants and that in Cleveland eland the proportion is per cent He finds in in Boston those inhabitants who ho are foreign by 3 birth or by parentage are arc per cent and in Detroit 74 Td per cent of the total w with th other large cities ranging down from per cent in Buffalo to per cent in Newark ark in Jersey Cit City per cent in San Francisco and nOlI per cent in Min Min- neapolis I But in one vital point these figures do not mean as much as aE they seem to signify The They are arc based upon the tha curious assumption that the native born son or daughter of ot parents one of or Whom is native native- horn born and the other foreign-born foreign ought to be bc considered considered considered con con- of foreign rather than of nati native e parentage There arc are great c t numbers of Americans of sue such mixed parentage and the major majority t of them have bave nat native born e bom mothers and foreign-born foreign fathers immigration immigration immigration gration being always composed more moro largely largel of men than of women omen The sons and daughters of these native-born native mothers grow up under such influences and in homes so dominated by American sentiment and American conditions as a a. a rule that they are as a much American as the average a American who is of native born parentage on both sides But for that matter millions of nati native born born e-born children chil chil- children dren of foreign-born foreign parents are so truly and thoroughly thor American that they might well be counted with the Americans of the older stock They know no other country in experience or in feeling All their schooling their associations and their sym sympathies ID pat hies are thoroughly American And in de devotion to this republic and love of America America- millions of naturalized Americans who were born in other countries countries countries coun coun- tries cm ot be surpassed by any of their fellow citizens citizens citizens cit cit- no matter how far back their American ancestry ancestry ancestry an an- may go el 1 44 2 3 4 4 S of the SPECTATORS DESCRIPTIONS scenes at Baltimore in inthe inthe the e Democratic national AT GREAT convention largely a parallel NATIONAL of those in the Republican CONVENTION gathering at Chicago demon demon- I 1 strate that some m m. ans must be found for curbing the enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- outbursts of the spectators The confusion which reigns the hysterical demonstrations which occupy the time of or the convention on during which it ia is 3 not possible to transact the business for which thich the the convention contention is called are due to the spectators and rot rotto rotto rotto to the thc delegates the members of the convention Th The delegates s are there for a definite and specific purpose the they have business before them which they are anxious anxious ious to transact that the they ma may return to their homes The repeated oft-repeated threat which is heard from every ery chairman that has presided over a national convention for man many years that the the galleries ries will be cleared if the confusion ion is not stopped is idle as everybody y knows because be ause the attempt to do so would hate a riot not The Chicago gathering could have completed it its work in half the thc time had the Coliseum been cleared of all except delegates officers reporters and others who had legitimate business there although Chairman Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man Root Hoot had much better control than either cither Parker Parker Par Par- ker or James appear to have at Baltimore The spectators s eem seem to be regarded as ns a necessary evil il but it is 15 they who ho retard the business of the convention convention con con- and who convert orderly proc procedure into bed bed- lam Some Seme method must be found either of controlling controlling con con- trolling them or of f barring them diem from the convention hall hail f J 1 K |
