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Show i Harding isNominated By kdward v. pioka rd. For President: Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. For Vice President: Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts There is Ihe ticket with which the Republicans hope and intend to regain possession i r the national government next fall. For president, a man from the home stale of many presidents, a statesman of long experience and a solid Republican, Repub-lican, who has heen a memher of the United Stales senate since 1014, a member of the "Old Guard" who stands well willi I he Republicans who are In control of the senate. For vice president, the governor of the Bay Slate, who was virtually unknown un-known to the nation at large until the strike of Boston policemen and his vigorous vig-orous course in Its suppression gave him a vast amount of publicity and made him the favorite son of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts In the balloting for first place on the ticket. The gentlemen now stand before the electors of the country on a platform that is so broad that it embraces nearly every topic and Issue of the day, though there are those who assert as-sert that In some places the planks are perilously thin. Its builders, however, maintain that there is no danger of the candidates falling through the weak spois and It may he that, with ifiome judicious straddling and sidestepping side-stepping this will prove true. Seldom, if ever lias the choice of a presidential candidate been so closely connected wilh the building of the platform or it might be more exact to say the rejection of a candidate for if Hiram Johnson, and Ids .supporters, .sup-porters, could have compelled the adoption adop-tion of just the plank Ihey demanded on the league of nations issue, the California scnalor. and lit1 alone, could with consistency have consented to go before the people standing on Ihe platform. plat-form. As it was. his threat to holt 1he parly caused a long deadlock in the deliberations of the commit lee on resolutions and at last forced the adoption adop-tion of a plank based on the cabled suggestion of Kliliu Uoot. That, wise man had gone to F.uropc, but kept in close touch wilh Ihe doings in Chicago and at the crucial moment his plan was presented to Johnson, Borah, Mc-Cormick Mc-Cormick and the other "irreconcil-ahles" "irreconcil-ahles" and aeeepied by them. Tho resolution -is finally incorporated incorpor-ated in the platform and swallowed by Ihe convention, almost without a quiver, completely avoids any pledge to ralify the treaty of peace and the 'league covenant with fir without reser- valions, strongly indorses Ihe del Ion of the Republican senators in that regard re-gard and promises that the party will work for some kind of international agreement for the peaceful adjustment adjust-ment of disputes between nations without with-out the sacrifice of American sovereignty. sover-eignty. Thus, as will be seen, die way is left open for an administration elected on this plalform to do almost anything it sees fit In Ibis regard except ex-cept to ratify a Irealy and league cov enant such as president Wilson brought home from Paris. For Ihe rest, the platform. In brief, scores President Wilson and the Democratic Dem-ocratic administration for their un-preparedness un-preparedness for war and for the equally unprepared condition of the nation for the reception of pence. Denouncing De-nouncing the autocratic assumption of authority hy the president the platform plat-form pledges the restoration of constitutional consti-tutional government. The Republican congress Is praised for Its efforts to cope with the problems caused by the president's course. The farmers gained their requested support for extension of farm loans and the right to engage! In cooperative market lug and buying. The industrial plank was the subject sub-ject of much discussion. Some of the committee members, presumably speaking speak-ing for big business, favored n plank for the prevention of strikes by law. Coventor Allen and others wanted the Kansas Industrial court plan Indorsed, and President Gompors travelled nil the way to Chicago to tell "he committee com-mittee what kind of plank the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor demanded. None of these requests were satisfied but the plank adopted recognized tlie justice of collective bargaining and continues : "The strike or the lockout, as a means of settling Industrial disputes, inflicts such loss and suffering en the coinmunily as to justify government Initiative to reduce Its frequency and limit its consequences. "We deny the right to strike against the government: but the rights and interests in-terests of all government employees nuisi be safeguarded by impartial laws and tribunals." The failure of the administration to retrench during the post war period and the u.ldilhm of thousands of Swivel -1 1 : i i i- warmers are denied and the party pledges t,.lf to a poli.,-, of ennomy and a carefully planned re- ! djUstmrV. The 1 1 of at exec utive budget and condemnation of the presidential veto that defeated this financial reform was coupled with caustic characterization of the manner in which the president, according to the Republicans, clings to his war time powers. Revision of taxation also is demanded. Coming to the great iss'ie of the high cost of living, the committee drew up a declaration to the effect that the present conditions are the result of an Inflation of the currency and of credit which the party pledges Itself to correct cor-rect by deflation, the prevention of unreasonable profits and the stimulation stimula-tion of private thrift by a change In the Income tax law. The party reaffirmed re-affirmed its belief In the protective tariff and pledged the encouragement of an Amerlean merchant marine hy the application of the workman's compensation com-pensation act and the exemption from canal tolls of the merchant marine. Profiteering was condemned, government govern-ment ownership of railways opposed, waterways encouraged and the regulation regula-tion of industry and commerce promised prom-ised in order to prevent monopolies. Resumption of trade relations with every nation with which America Is at peace was pledged. No changes were promised in the existing immigration laws, but the bettering of naturalization naturaliza-tion laws was pledged and the party went on record as favoring a policy by which American women who marry foreigners shall not lose their citizenship. citizen-ship. The government's authority to deport and exclude undesirable aliens was upheld, but assurance was given that the rights of free speech, free ' pi'ess and free assembly will not be I abridged. A large number of minor topics were handled in the platform, and then the plank on Mexico. It dealt very severely se-verely with President Wilson's policy and pledged that the party will not recognize any Mexican government unless the lives and property of Americans are protected. Armenia came next in the list of planks. Deep sympathy was expressed for the Armenians, Ar-menians, but the president was condemned con-demned for asking for authority to accept an Armenian mandate and it was added that the Republican party was unalterably against the acceptance of a mandate for any country In F.urope or Asia. The men who fought In the great war were assured of the party's deep gratitude grat-itude and were promised liberal legislation legis-lation for the care of the disabled, infirm in-firm and dependents. Though William Jennings P.ryap was present throughout the entire life of the convention with the avowed purpose pur-pose of persuading the Republicans to insert a "dry" plank in their platform he failed, posMhly because the timely decision of the supreme court s,.,.nied to render unnecessary any explicit declaration. The convention merely declared that all laws should be en- ; forced and let It go at that. j Two other elements also were disappointed. These were the suffragists suffra-gists and the friends of the Irish -republic." The former, under the leadership leader-ship of the heads of the Woman's ! party, were in Chicago ;n M j, ! and during the entire week r. aiiiain-! I'd around 1 he ( '..lis, ;i:,i a line , :' . I'.mlidod the C:iij.-Y.. and w M I... satisfied with no less. A plank was inserted In the platform urging Republican Re-publican legislatures that have not acted to ratify the suffrage amendment, amend-ment, but they did not appease the holies. In the last few moments of the last session they dropped from a balcony a great yellow banner on which was the statement that they wanted votes, not planks. As for the Irish, they too, made a big demonstration demonstra-tion In Chicago and DeValera, the president of their "republic" was there to deliver a speech before a great gathering. But something went wrong with the plans, and the plank which was tentatively shaped for the platform suited them so little that It was omitted entirely and nothing put In its place. There was a story that this resolution had been drawn up by Justice Cohalun of New York in the hope that it would be unsuitable and Uiat the Democrats in San Francisco would be enabled to take advantage of the circumstances. So, though considerable con-siderable space has perforce been given to the platform of the Republican Republi-can party, it Is not because it must be considered as a great or a particularly particu-larly strong pronouncement. Lots of men and women In the party are far from pleased with many parts of it and It must be confessed that the writer failed to find any one who was crazed with enthusiasm over it. The story of this convention would be intensely interesting If one could tell till the truth about the secret influences in-fluences that governed Its actions. On Ihe surface it was not a very exciting excit-ing affair and the enthusiastic outbursts out-bursts lhat characterized some of Its sessions appeared too often to he facetious. For live days Ihe -1,00(1 delegates, nlternnies, seat holders and possessors of tickets lhat allowed them to stand about the few open places and hamper everybody else gathered faithfully In the Coliseum, prepared to howl with glee over expected ex-pected contests and triumphs. But most of 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 cheer leader who had been brought up from Camp Dovens. From the first it was heralded as that most unusual thing, an tinhossod convention. All the experts asserted that the delegates were going to do as they pleased and that the old-time leadership was Impotent. For a day or two this seemed true but then the senate coterie got into action and from that time to the end what was done was generally what It wished done. To start with. Senator Lodge was selected as temporary chairman, was continued permanently In the place, the entire temporary organization being be-ing retained, i in the all important committee on resolutions there were numerous senators and ex-senators, and they pretty much dictated the make-up of the platform. In the selection of the ticket their influence was seen and felt in every move and every shift of vot.-s. clear down to the moitc-nt when Senator Harding received Ihe ballots that made him the Convention choice. All this tilnej s: iil aliv e, s. r ),;. , IVn. b;, on a si, k )...,! in hi- I'i.ihelel- j scarcely an hour of the day or night when he was not in comniunicat ion with his friend John T. King. He knew all that was going on. and il is fair to assume thai in niosl cases he: knew beforehand lhat it was going to go on. What happened, happened because be-cause be willed thai il should happen. This is not written exactly in criticism, for It may be that what Penrose decreed de-creed will suit the party and result In Its victory In November. But the fact cannot he blinked that some eminent Democrats who attended the convention conven-tion went away with grins of satisfaction satisfac-tion decorating their faces. To go back to the beginning, something some-thing must be said of the keynote address by Chairman Lodge. It was one of the most scholarly efforts of Its kind, and the great mass of the delegates, dele-gates, to say nothing of the audience, utterly failed to comprehend It. The senator did not once descend to Ihe level of most of his hearers and consequently con-sequently he failed to arouse any great measure of enthusiasm. It was noticable that his address as well as every other speech and the platform as well, devoted its denunciatory denuncia-tory pages not to the Democratic party as usually Ihe case, but to President Presi-dent Wilson. It was always his acts and his policies that were condemned and the language used In dealing with' him was scorching. Of course the reason for this is that, from the viewpoint of the Republicans, Mr. Wilson has been the Democratic party for the last seven years. The first day found three candidates candi-dates in the forefront of the race for the' nomination. And while the preliminaries pre-liminaries were completed their workers work-ers were straining every nerve to have them make the best possible showing on the first ballot. These men were Governor Lowden of Illinois, General Wood and Senator Hiram Johnson of California. From their elaborate headquarters In the hotels swarms of men and women flocked to the Coliseum Coli-seum with banners and buttons and Chv Republican Nominees 7fi) Senator Warren G. Harding. Governor Calvin Coolidge. literature. Each of them was certain of victory for public consumption but each of them knew In his heart that, he could not win If the senatorial bosses had their way. All the rest of the possible candidates really ranked as dark horses. They included Herbert Her-bert Hoover. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler But-ler of Columbia university. Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Senator Poindoxter of Washington, Senator Howard Sutherland of West Virginia, Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania, Senator Philander Knox of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin. Wis-consin. A long enough list In all conscience. con-science. From these dark horses. It was predicted, would emerge the winner, win-ner, and the prophesy was fulfilled. It required three days to get through with the preliminary work of! the gathering and to have the plat- form built, read anil adopted. 'The latter took place on Thursday. As has been said the resolutions met with almost unanimous approval. A ; young man from Milwaukee was the only dissenting member of the committee com-mittee and he presented a minority re- port that embodied many of the jwill- ' cles advocated by LaFollette. The audience did not want to hear him and he took advantage of their Impatience Im-patience to try to place himself In the position of a martyr, but I'hnirman J.odge cleverly forestalled this and the minority report was i-peedily dumped into the waste basket. Friday was the dsy of oratory. Men who thought themselves eloquent and others who really were eloquent mounted the speaker's platform in procession throughout most ,,f the day. to place hefore ihe convention the nan. os aid qual'tioa t ion . of the candidate-. In in.iU" ase- women vv.-re among those v.!.. seconded the no, ninth nin-th .-i . .-. mm h :. o:e 'o ;1 ,. s .- v. men. for ihey were brief, snappy and gruoef.il of address. in ihe roll-call of siaios. Arizona yielded lo Kansas. and Governor Henry .1. Allen stepped up lo nouiin-ale nouiin-ale General W ood. Though olivioll -ly j nervous and not quile adequate of i voice he did his excellent subject full Justice, selling forth especially the fine record Ihe general hail made in Cuba and the Phillippincs and his preparedness pre-paredness for war when the great conflict con-flict broke oul. We hoard from him no platitudes about a million men springing to arms "over night" cried Allen, and everyone strained for a look at Mr. Bryan who sat In the press stand close to the speaker. The governor went on to describe de-scribe Wood's skillful training of an army and his unselfish and uncomplaining uncom-plaining devotion to duty when he was kept from going to Europe In command com-mand of the hoys whom he had taught how to fight and conquer. He nlso recounted the general's success in quelling labor and race disturbances within the last year or so and dwelt on his popularity with the very men whom he had been sent to quiet. As the governor ceased speaking a slorm of applause broke out and another an-other storm of red and green feathers fell from the rafters all over the house. The Wood delegates marched through the aisles, led by Beveridge of Indiana and Frank Hitchcock and the tumult continued for half an hour. "If Wood drops feathers, I suppose Johnson will drop light wines and beers from the rafters," laughed Mr. Bryan, and some one snld, "Get your cup ready then, William.' ' The demonstration was calmed nt lust really It did not seem very spontaneous spon-taneous and after Frank Knox of New Hampshire had made a seconding second-ing speech, the first of the convention's conven-tion's woman orators appeared. She was Mrs. Corlnne Roosevelt Robinson Robin-son of New York, sister of the late Colonel Roosevelt. With much of the colonel's fire and vim, she told why Leonard Wood should he the next president, and she told It so well that prolonged applause rewarded her efforts. ef-forts. Governor Lowden's turn came next and the honor of presenting his name was entrusted to Congressman Roden-berg Roden-berg of Illinois, a big man with a big voice, who made an old-fashioned speech that hit the audience In the right way. He, too, had an excellent subject wlioso cause was handicapped only by the revelations of excessive expenditures brought out by the sen-ale sen-ale committee at the instigation of Johnson and his friends. Lowden's ovnllon oullasled lhat for Wood bill was more enthusiastic. enthusias-tic. It was featured by a display of banners and purl rails of the candidate and by a pretty girl in a cerise sweater who was carried on men's shoulders at. the bead of the parade. Lowden, too, had a woman among bis seconders, Mrs. Fletcher Dohyns of Chicago, a clever politician and good speaker. Then Governor Morris of Kentucky, told why the Republicans of his slate loved Lowden ami wanted him for president. Charles S. Wheeler of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, had been deputed to place Senator Sen-ator Johnson In nomination and much was expected of him because a reputation repu-tation of fiery eloquence had proceeded proceed-ed him. But though his address was smooth and his voice pleasing lie scored the worst failure of the enllre convention. He evoked some cheering cheer-ing from the galleries by a denunciation denuncia-tion of Ihe league of nations, hut soon after made the gross mistake of twitting twit-ting the rcservationists on having been worsted by Johnson In the couiniltlee on resolutions. " The delegates did not relish that nor did most' of .the others In the hall. Then he made an unfortunate allusion to the campaign expenditure revelations, and as those had hit most of the candidates their friends resented It with boos and hisses. Mr. Wheeler smilingly wailed for the row to cense, and proceeded to finish an address that was fully twice as long as It should have been. Ills poor performance cast a wet blanket on the planned demonstration, and the California delegates, accompanied by a few others, marched rather sadly through the aisles, listlessly waiving flags. Far heller than Wheeler's was the speech for Johnson by Thomas D. Schall. the blind congressman from Minneapolis, and better also were the brief talks by Richard Dolierty of New Jorsey, Charles P. O'.Veil of Michigan and Mrs. Kalherine Phillips Kelson of California. Now began the parade of dark horses. They were led forth' as follows: fol-lows: Calvin Coolidge, by Speaker Gillette of the House of Representatives Representa-tives and Mrs. Alexander Pelf for; Butler, by Ogden Mills of New York: Prltehard, by Marion Butler of North Carolina; Hoover by Judge Nathan L. Miller of New York; Harding, by Frank Wills of Ohio; Sproul. by William Wil-liam I. Schaffer; Poindoxter. by George II. Walker, and Sutherland, by Joseph M. Sanders. When Wisconsin was reached on the roll-call the clerk paused expectantly but no one appeared ap-peared to nominate LaFollette and the crowd seemed grateful. The powers Unit were decreed that several ballots should be taken lhat day before adjournment, and In an escorted push the call of the states wan begun. The push did not last, however, for I'M-ry considerable vote f.,r any one a-pirant was greeted with ,-heers of his friends. As had he.;, fo;-etohl. Wood o, on tl. f,r-t l.ii.iot with L'sT1; vote,. .p.t, -.'.:;- se.-oml v. i-h 1! 1 I : - . and J.,i ... ga'1-r.-.l in : 'I le- ,.- Ill P'M-l el et . a- -,,,. o, il,,. j voles of their home stales and a f-'.v more. if the Wisconsin delegation. '- voted for LaFollette: and it may n well be recorded here lhat those '-' I delegates kept voting for LaKollettn to the hitter end. and every lime the n nnoiineomeul w as gi led with groans and hisses from the galleries. In the following three ballots Wood climbed In 31-Pj, which the wise one said was about his maximum strength. Lowden nlso Increased his vote, going iqi to "S'.l. while Johnson reached 140V The vole for the dark horses did not vary to any great extent though Boiler Boi-ler lost steadily and Prltehard soon dropped out. By this lime everyone was ready for a rest and the convention conven-tion adjourned to Saturday morning. The crowd filled the Coliseum to suffocation on what was destined to he the final day of the convention, for It was felt that the conferences of the preceding night would be fruitful. The senatorial coterie had been in session . many hours and the word was passed around that they had picked on Harding Hard-ing as the nominee, in the early ballots bal-lots of Saturday the ohloan did not gain rapidly, and all were wailing for the moment when the big delegations from New York. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts would find the time ripe for a break. The men from t lie Keystone state had been voting almost solidly for Sproul. for the bosses were not decided between hlin and Harding. And the New Yorkers really did not know to whom to throw their strength. Johnson's vote dwindled gradually and then the Lowden column suddenly began to go to pieces. He was really the victim of the shift, for the Wood delegations stood by the general almost to the last moment. On the ninth ballot bal-lot It was seen that Harding could be "put across," so the uncertain ones climbed Into the band wagon on the tenth and gave the Ohio senator a grand total of G74V4, which was LSI i more than necessary to nominate. The hubbub was deafening and after Pennsylvania put 00 votes In the Harding Hard-ing column the clerks could scarcely complete tho roll call. At lis finish the usual motion to make the choice unanimous was made but those 2-1 LaFollette La-Follette men from Wisconsin voted 111 the negative and marred the love feast. There si ill remained the task of selecting se-lecting a vice presidential candidate. Senator I.enrool of Wisconsin. Governor Gover-nor Allen of Kansas, Governor Coolidge Cool-idge of Massachusel Is and Col. Harry Anderson of Virginia were placed In nominal ion and the roll of Ihe slates was catted. Lenroot received a good vole, but Coolidge was the evident favorlle and long before the roll was completed his nomination was assured. The 'J LiiFullollo men voled for Senator Sen-ator Grotina. CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS. Herringlon, Kan., kept the weary delegates soothed wilh a ladies' uniformed uni-formed band recruited entirely from that Kansas town. The girls all wore Wood feathers in Ibeir lint s. Irish freedom rooters and picketing picket-ing suffragisls had adjoining headquarters head-quarters opposite tlie main entrance lo the Coliseum. Mrs. Minnie L. Grlnslead, Liberal, Kansas, doesn't like the air In I hose convention hotel lobbies. She pul a bill through Ihe Kansas legislature forbidding smoking in any cafe, reh-laurant. reh-laurant. or oilier public eating place and she would like to see someone do It in Illinois. She preaches when Ihe Kansas legislature, of which she Is a member, Isn't silling. Mayor Itolph of San Francisco was In Chicago picking up pointers on how-to how-to entertain a national convention. Tho Democrats go to his city In three weeks. When Chairman Will Hays called the convention to order be used a gavel made from a rafler of Independence Inde-pendence ball. Mayor .Moore of Philadelphia Phila-delphia brought It. Lowden folks seal a hand around In serenade rival headqiia rl ers. The rivals pinned Ibelr bullous on the bandsmen. Earmarks of a genuine convention appeared on the opening dev. Several fisllc bouts between supporters of various candidates were reported. Incldenlally, most of the fights occurred oc-curred after the supreme court upheld the Volslead law. To be distinguished In Chicago these days you must not f.ivvy a cane. The cane wave engulfed nearly everybody every-body and peddlers made a cleanup hawking cheap walking slichs outside the hotels. Convention hoadqunrlers of the American Independence league were established al Ihe Blackslone by John K. Milholland of New York. The league Is beaded by Eimum De Valora, president of the Irish "republic." Bill Bryan was almost carried away by the fine horns lhat were used lo aeoenlualo the speakers' voices. llo gazed longingly al them as If he were about to burst out Into oratory. Mayor Bill Thompson gave the hoys a treat by swaggering through Ihe lobby of the Congress with Ills while cowboy bat cocked over one eye. He had a band of trnlm-d singers with him, who told In verse what a great town Chicago Is. Dan o Leary. who got the late President McKinley Into the habit of wearing a i a mat Ion. was around. He has worn a carnation every day for sixty-six years, according to a statement state-ment he Issued. Wonder who was the pug;hs!e gentleman from West Vitg.nia v ho -lipped off his sm.peieleis ami then g'a,e, at the hand b-ader vie-,, the ,m,-!e - ; i-i i - 1. nti "IPieb.-n. I'.m ln-ii. I've l:.-ii Tliini. ng " |