Show F F is W A nominated ily W riKA ltD for presidents president warren 0 harding of ohio I 1 for vice presidents president i calvin coolidge of there la Is tho the ticket with which the hope and intend to regain possession of the national government inept fall F for or president a man from the home anto state of many preside presidents fits it a statesman ot of long experience and ft a solid republican lican who has been a member of the united states senate since 1914 1014 a member of tile the old guard who stands well with the f republicans who are in torl ivol of tile tho senate for vice president the governor of the hc hay bay state who was viRu virtually ally un on keown toabe to the nation at large until tile tho strike of boston policemen and ills vigorous course in its suppression gays gave him filin a vast amount of publicity and made him the favorite son of massa chu in tho ilia balloting for first I 1 place orf on tho the ticket tho the gentlemen now stand before the electors of the tho country ona platform tm that Is so broad that it embraces nearly every topic and issue of the day though there here are those who assort asbert that piat in some places the planks are thin its builders however plain tain that thero li Is no danger of tile the candidates falling failing through the eak spots and it 4 may inny be that with come judicious straddling and sidestepping this will provo prove true i seldom it if ever has tho the choice of a presidential candidate been so closely c connected 0 with the tho building of the platform or it might bo be more exact to say the rejection of a candidate for or it gillrain Jo Johns linson and his sup slip porters could have compelled the adoption ot nt just the plank they demanded on hie league of nations nation esuo california senator and lie he alone could with will consistency have consented to gp go before the people standing on oil the plat form As it was ills threat to bolt the party caused a n hodg deadlock lit in the deliberations of the alie committee on oil resolutions and nt at last forced the ho adap atlon ico it of 0 fi a on the cabled isuga i sugg eillon of hoot 1 that man had gone to europe but kept in close touch with the doings lit in chicago find and at tile tho crucial moment ills his plon plan was presented to johnson Toh borah boi ah abc cormicle Corm lck and tile lio other Ir reconell table 3 and accepted by them ohp resolution as finally ain corpor filed iu in the anil swallowed by y tile tho convention almost without it quiver completely avoids riny pledge to ratify the treaty pt peace arid and the league covenant wither with or without reser ovations vat lons strongly endorses indorses Indor ses the a action c bon of the ilia republican senators in that regard and promises that lie he party will work for some kind of international agreement for the lite peaceful adjustment of disputes between nations without tho the sacrifice of american saver olg rity titus thus its as will be seen thomay tho way Is left open tor for un an administration elected on tills this plat platform torm to do almost anything it sees fit in this regard except to ratify a treaty and league covenant such as president wilson brought homo home from paris I 1 for the rest tile platform in brief scores president wilson and the dem administration for their for war and and fi for or the equally unprepared con condition dillon ot of the nation for the reception of peace denouncing noun cing tile autocratic assumption of authority by the president the plat afat torm tom pledges the restoration of constitutional tut ional government the republican con congress grgas Is praised for its efforts to pope copo wibb flie file problems caused by the president course the farmers gained their requested support for extension of form farm loans and tho ilia right to engage in cooperative ra marketing ar and buying the industrial plank was tile the subject of much discussion some of the committee members presumably speaking for big business favored a plank for the prevention ot of strikes by law governor allen alien anil and others wanted the kansas industrial court plan endorsed indorsed Indor lud oried sed and president gompers Gomp tra travelled all the way to chicago to tell the committee what kind of plank the american federation ot of labor deman demanded dedi none of these requests questa re were satisfied t 1 but 9 t alie io plank adopted recognized flie justice austice bf collective bargaining and continues tho the strike or the lockout na as a of settling industrial disputes inflicts such loss and suffering on tho the community as to justify government initiative to reduce its frequency and limit its consequences we deny the right to strike against via the but tha rights and in afi twists of af nil government employees anis isis be by impartial laws lawa tribu tints 11 lid ho failure pt the administration to rp tench derink the postwar post war period t end ilia ho addition of thousands ot of chair iia warmers are derided and ali unity ty itself to a policy of tind it t r planned re t tiu dived of an hit exee exec autive budget and condemnation of the presidential veto that defeated this ahta financial reform was coupled with caustic characterization of the planner manner in which the president dent act according to the republicans republican clings to his war time powers Revision of taxation also alo Is demanded corning coming to the groat great Is alsie ne of tho the high cost of its living ing the committee drew up a declaration to tho ilia effect that the present conditions are the result of nit an inflation of tho the currency and at credit which tho party pledges itself to correct by deflation tho prevention of profits and the sti mula hod of private thrift by a chango change in tho the income tax law the party reaffirmed itty lt belief in the protective tar tariff lff and pledged the encouragement of an american merchant marine by the application of thi the workmans work mans compensation pensa tion act and the exemption from canal tolls of the merchant marine profiteering wait wa condemned government ownership of railways opposed waterways encouraged and the regulation tion ol at industry and commerce promised in order to prevent monopolies of trade relations with every nation with which america s at peace was pledged no changes were promised in tha ati e existing immigration laws but tile the bettering of naturalization laws was pledged and the party went ven on record as favoring a volley policy ly by which american wamen wit alio a warry marry bep u adri nom anees Is V z r IM S 04 n f AI senator warren Q G hording harding governor calvin coolidge foreigners shall not lose hilr citizenship tito governments authority to deport arid and exclude undesirable aliens was upheld but assurance given that the lio rights of freo free speech I 1 free press and foo assembly will not be abridged A large number of minor topics were I 1 handled in tho the plat forni and then the plank ori on mexico exico Bl it dealt very severely with president wilsonn Wilson Wll sona 4 policy and pledged that tho the party will not recognize any mexican b government unless tho the lives arid and property of americans are protected armenia came next in the list of planks deep sympathy was expressed for tile the ar medians men ians but tile the president was condemned for or ashing for to accept an armenian mandate and it was added that tho the republican party was unalterably the accept acceptance anca of a mandate for pay any country in europe or asia tho the men who fought in tho the great war were assured of the bartys deep gratitude and were promised liberal legislation tor for the cure care of 0 the disabled infirm arid and dependents though william jennings bryan was present throughout tho the entire life of the convention with tho the avowed purpose the republicans to insert a dry plank in their platform he failed possibly because the timely decision of tin supreme cou court rt seemed to render unit unnecessary ec essary any explicit declaration the convention merely declared that nil all laws should be enforced and let it go at that two other elements also were disappointed these were the guffra fists and tile the friends of tile the irish ire republic tito tho former under the leader ship of the alio heads of tho the womans comans party were in chicago in strength and during titer entire weck maintained around ho coliseum a line alno of pickets bearing banners that warned the that hat ilia women do handed tho the franchise and would be satisfied with no lesh lens A plank was vas inserted in tile alie platform urging lie be legislatures that have not acted to ratify tile suffrage amendment inelia but thoy they did not appease tho indio indies 9 in the last few moments of tile last session they dropped from it balcony a great yellow banner on which was the statement that they wanted votes aotoa not planks As aa for the irish they too made a big denion demonstration stra tion in chicalo chicago and devalera DaVa lern the lie president of their republic was there to deliver a speech before a treat gathering but something went wrong with tile tho plans and the plank which wn was tentatively shaped for tile platform suited thet them so go little that it was omitted entirely and nothing put in its ati place there was a story that this resolution had been drawn udby up by just justuce ace Coli cohalan alan of now new york in the hope that it would be ba unsuitable and that the democrats in san francisco would pe ba enabled to take advantage of the circumstances so though con sid erable space has perforce been given to the platform of tho the republican party part it la Is not because it must be considered as a great or a particularly cu strong pronouncement lots of men and women in the party are far from pleased with many porte parts of it anti and it must be confessed that the writer billed to find any ofle who w lio ats was razed crazed with enthusiasm over it TI alie ie story of this convent convention lop would I 1 be intensely interesting it if one could tell nil all the truth about ilia secret influences fluen ces that governed its actions on the alie surface it was not a very exciting ing affair and the enthusiastic outbursts that characterized some ox of its sessions appeared too often to bo be facetious for five daya anya tile l delegates alternates sent seat holders and possessors ot of tickets that allowed them to stand about the alio few open clacel arid and hamper everybody else also gathered git faithfully falth fully in tile the coliseum prepared to howl with glee over expected contests and triumphs but of tho the time all they could do was to cheer for their favorite on occasion and try to keep up with the strong lunged song and dicer cheer leader who had and been brought up from camp devens prom From tho the first it was waa heralded as that most unusual thing ad convention all the experts asserted that the delegates were going to do as titer hey pleased and that tho the old time leadership was ItA impotent potent for a day or two this seemed true but then the senate coterie got into fiction und and from that time to tile the end what was done was generally what it wished dole clone to start cart with senator lodge was selected as temporary chairman was continued permanently nUy in the place tile tho entire temporary organization being retained on tho the all important committee on resolutions there more wro were numerous senators and ex senators end and they pretty touch much dictated the makeup make up of the platform in the selection select loh of 0 tho the ticket their influence was seen sean and felt in every move and every shift of votes clear down t to 0 the moment when senator harddng received the afie ballots that made him the convention choice all this time the greatest of uie olit old time party bosses still alive senator boles bales pon pen roseI LIY on it a sick pick bed bea in his villa phan home aut a direct telephone wira was run into that hut room and was ic arcely cly an hour of tile tho day or when tie ho was not cot iri in with ills friend john jelin T xing king lie ho knew flit al lint hat was going on oil and it Is fair to assume that mut in fit most ciesta basya lie knew beforehand that hut it wun was going to 0 o RO 90 on hn pinned bi be enuse ho willed lint it should happen vis als it not writtie ii exactly to lu criticism it way bo be that what penrose du de creed will suit tile party and result in its victory in november but tile the fact cannot be blinked that soine eminent who attended tile th convert conven tion went uway away with grisim of 0 flori decorating their fayevt to go back to the bickl mil lift some thing must ho sald bald of tile tho keynote address hy by chairman lodge it was oneff one of the most scholarly efforts effort of at its kind find and tho the great mass ot of lie ho delegate gata s to say nothing of tho the audience nud lonco utterly failed to comprehend it tito tho senator did not once descend to thu the levat of most of 0 ills his hearers arid and consequently lie ho failed to arouse any great measure of enthusiasm it was not leable that hint lila ills address as well as every other speech anti and tho the plat platform forin as well devoted its denunciatory pages not to tile tho democratic party ns ad usually tho ilia case but to president wilson allson it was always ills nets acts and ills his policies eliat condemned and tile the language used lit in dealing with him was scorching of courso coulsn tho the reason for this Is that from the viewpoint of tho mr wilson has been tile tho democratic party for tile tho last seven boscn years tito tho first lay day found three candidates in the forefront of the lie race for the nomination arid and while the ilia pr pro a limin luminaries aries were completed their workers were straining every norro to have ifie them make maka tile best possible showing on the first ballot these men wore were governor So vernor lowden of illinois general wood and senator hiram johnson of california prom from their ela boraU borato headquarters in the hotels swarms of men and women flocked to the coll selitri sc inn banners ond buttons nit and literature R each ach of them was certain of victory for public consumption but each of then them know knew in his heart that lie ho could not tile tho senatorial bosses find bud their way all tho the rest of the possible candidates really ranked no as dark horses they included herbert Il hoover dr nicholas murray but berof of columbia university dov calvin coolidge cooledge of massachusetts senator poindexter of washington Senit senator tor howard sutherland of west virginia governor sprout sproul of pennsylvania senator philander knox of pennsylvania and senator pf af wis cousin A long enough list in all con science lenco sc prom theme thee dark horses it was predicted would emerge the win nor and the prophesy was fulfilled it required three days to get through with the preliminary work of tho the gathering catherine and to have bavo thor 1110 platform built read and adopted the latter took place on thursday As has been said tho the resolutions mot met with almost unanimous approval A young roan man from milwaukee was fas we th e only dissenting member of tho the earn corn cittee and he presented a report that embodied many of the poll cles clea advocated by UP Larol ollette letto tito the audience did not want to hear him and he took advantage of their impatience to try to place himself in tile the position of a martyr but chairman lodge cleverly forestalled this and the minority report was speedily dumped into tho the waste basket friday wn was the dy of oratory men alon who thought themselves eloquent and others other who really we were to eloquent mounted the ilia speakers platform jn in procession throughout moat of tho 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