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Show R 1 1 ; Report of Credentials Commit- , 1 j tee Is Adopted as Read by I IH Chairman , wk CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW j FLINGS AT PRESIDENT JM Second Session of G. 0. P. H Convention Seems to Be Quite, Dull Affair ! COUSEUM, CHICAGO, Juno a ' jH . The Republican national convention 1 H j was in session only an hour. today" mu i1 IH i devoted itself entirely to routiu-o pro- 'M The temporary organization wb IH made permanent, tho report: of the I IH credentials' committee was approve.l IH ' with the changes made last uignt, H J somo of which reversed previous dc- IH ! ctsions of tlio national comlfcu.' i. H 1 For its second day sensation, Uie H , convention heard a -Woman speaker, j IH .Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter; ofJ:f$au- f jas, the firKiviiun' touddre'asna' M j llonal convention"'' """V,' H Platform Not Ready. M I The platform committco was not ' ready to report and only send wcrd that it was making progress. H Chauncey M. Depew entertained the convention with a brief address :-.:ia i apparently the convention manage-ment manage-ment had decided to do away with tho string of speakers, who in previous H eurshave entertained the conven- H lion while tho committees wcra -worJv-! ing for there were no other "enter-, "enter-, tuin:nent"spoukeis on hand. H Miiic and Oratory. ! IH The next sossion will beat 11 o'clock 1 : tomorrow morning. H The rank and file of convention I H ! visitors always likes a lot of music 'and oratory and this year they are ! certain to get it. "Saturday noon at the earliest" Is 1 the estimate of leaders when asked when adjournment may come. Tho delay nuy be attributed to , jH platform- difficulties than to uncer- ' lainty over a nomination. H Tho committee has decided to gio IH I the radicals every chance to present their views and stop any possibility IH of a steam rolling, or as some call it, IH an "excuse for a bolt." I CHICAGO. June 0. While commit- ' 1 tees continued to grind away at or- ' I ganixatlon prelimintiries, the Republi- , can national convention went through . the motions of a second day's session. ' It escaped a second keynote speech 1 I by the selection of Senator Lodge i ins permanent chairman., thus follow- I ing the plan of 1912 and 19 10 of mak- ! J ing the lempor.ii'y organization per- manent. IH Today's buslne consisted of hear- IH j lug a report of progress from th ; committee framing the platform and ? ! IH j report from credentials' committee I which makes up the permanent roll, Missouri got back her two lost dele- gcles through last night's action. 61 jH the credentials' commltti-c whlch-'-re-ci'sed tho national committee's doc I H t .slon thai conditional in the electoral i in Kansas City were, so bad it wqul jH j not scat any of tho delegates. 'Tha: ' restoreil the total number of delegates I in the convention to 9.S-1 and the mini- 1 I ber noccasary for nomination to ;93. ' Comes ah Surprise. , The overturning of. tho national ' ' conimltlee's decision in the Tennessee ' contest also caniu as a surprise. Rob-left Rob-left R. Church, of .Memphis, reputed to be one of the wealthiest and most IH . influential negroes in the south, had been seated by the national commit-. commit-. teo niter a straight out black and white fight in which tho wlrites charged that the negroes had bolted j the convention. Church, said to favor lLowden, was sealed by the national i cummltteo and had the backing of I many prominent mombor in hlij fight 'though tho credentials committee j threw hi in out. j Tho white contestants appealed tc 1 the 'committee to take the Republican ! stato convention out of tho hands of tho negroets. I Sproul Up luarly. Governor Sproul was up early loda and resumed conferences with partj leaders after a scries of meetings with delegates from different parts of the country last night, Tho special telegraph wiro froih Peunsylcanla headquarters to Senator Penrose's homo in Philadelphia con- I tlnues to carry the doings of the party leaders here. Tasto of Summer. The day had begun Crisp and cool. but it took a sudden shift as the ' convention began assembling and it looked as though tho delegate and , visitors wro about to get their first 1 taste of Juno convention weather, The sun beating down on the big drum-like roof of the coliseum, radiatod its heat down into the space below. Palm leaf fans began appearing, collars showed aigns of wilting, and coats began to (Continued, on Page Three) Delegates Entertained as Framers Sweat Continued from Page 1.) come off. "The band and the entertainers enter-tainers didn't seem to mind the growing grow-ing heat, however, and kept up a constant program of music and songs. Not JlnlT Tilled. At 11 o'clock. ,the opening time, the convention hall was not half full. It looked as if the convention would get away at leust a half hour late as It did yesterday. The principal candidato managers, knowing that today's to-day's proceedings were largely perfunctory, per-functory, were In no hurry, remained down town, rounding up forces and strengthening the lines. Somo of the important figures of tho convention wore engaged in the work of tho committee com-mittee framing the platform. . lioduc Arrives. At 11:145 , Ghalrmnn Lodge arrived on the platform with Chairman Hays. A song leader tried to got tho audience audi-ence to slnr "The Long, Long Trail." but had a hard time getting out the voices. The song leader stripped off his coat and rolling up his sleeves, called for more pop. lie got a little better response and he took a hand at tjircc cheers for the Republican party. In closing Bishop Stone led the great audience in the Lord's prayer. The song leader was Immediately on the job again and led the audience In "The Star Spangled Banner." They brought out- a stout table for Chairman Lodge to wharf: his gavel on. lie called for the report of the credentials' committee. Chairman Du-fleld, Du-fleld, of New Jersey, camo to the platform lo present it. Paul Ilowland. of Cleveland, Ohio, presented the report of the committee commit-tee on rules and order of business. Report Adopted Tho convention speedily adopted the report. Mr. Lodge said he would enforce the rule limiting speeches to five mln- iitnu o t-wl atia unf Oli nn Ann Q H 1 1 n P t the same day unless the convention ordered or-dered otherwise. The resolutions committee sent word It could only report re-port progress and was not ready to present a platform yet. Chairman Lodge asked the convention conven-tion what It wanted to do in the meanwhile and there were cries, of "Depew! Depew!' froih the floor. Mrs. Hume was on the platform waiting wait-ing to speak and 6ome had thought the honor of first addressing the convention con-vention would go to a woman. Mr. Dopew walked out on the speakers' platform lo an accompaniment of applause ap-plause and cheers. "Ho needs no introduction to a Republican Re-publican convention," said Senator ; Lodge introducing him. Depew r.s Speaker. "Sonator Lodge says I'm an old man, but he's mistaken," said Mr. Depew. "A man down south who heard me speak recently wrote me a letter and said he heard I claimed to be only St5. 'All T have to say Is.' he wrote, "that you are either a miracle or a damned liar.' " j Mr. Dopew said tho country needed need-ed experiencod statesmanship to deal with tiie problems growing- out of the war, declaring Ihc Republican party, had handled it "with ability after tho civil war," and has proven Us ability to do so. 4 Flings n. "Wilson. Mr. Depew took successive fjings at President Wilson's trip to Europe to I tho great amusement of the delegates, Other presidents, he said, had doalt with foreign nations but had selected the best brains and men In tho country coun-try to go and do it. "When Mr. Wilson went to Europe and the diplomats and politicians said to him 'what do you want,' he replied, '1 want a league of nations, a heaven on earth of which I shall be tho recording re-cording angel.' " Tho convention got a good laush out of that. "The league of nations is there and there Is no man who can add one- word lo the description which was given by our chairman, Senator Lodge, As I travel about man aiter man comes to mo and says, '1 always have been a Democrat, but Mr. Wilson has laWen away overy principle of the Democratic Demo-cratic party and I Want you to nominate nomi-nate a good man iMid win,' "I think during the summer millions of tho Democrats will vote our ticket." At thnt point Jtl r, Depew Wouldn't resist the temptation to- tell a story. |