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Show ARTHUR BRISBANE'S VIEWS HY ARTHUR BRISBANE. COLISEUM. CHICAGO. June 10. Convention hall, second session. It Is getting to be a tiresome convention. con-vention. "Tout passe tout casse tout lassce," especially organized finance trying lo capture a great political party, and not quite daring to make the necessary fight. f Mr. McAdoo is watching this session, ses-sion, getting "a few ideas" perhaps, for some other sessions at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Ills wife, the daughter of the president, 13 with him. It is the first national political convention of either party that she has over seen, although her father had an interest in two of them. She says she hopes it will be "exciting" "ex-citing" and this writer has promised to ask Med 111 McCormlck lo ask Lodge to make If so. Perhaps Borah. Johnson or somebody some-body will mako It exciting without any help from Lodge. Mr, McAdoo wears a simple business suit and a demure expression, a cross between that of a bride and an ox-1 perlenccd chaperon. Before you have' a chance to tell him that he Is the only one the Democrats can possibly! nominate, unless they go crazy, be-i cause he is tho only Democrat that has any definite following, he 3ays "I am not a candidate." He will be nominated by tho Democrats, Demo-crats, of course, because for good or ill, and whether they want him or not, the Democrats have got to take him. There is no question that ho has a I very strong labor following, he will! "satisfy Wall street" which in some vavs is conslderablv mom lrnDortant than a labor following. For .these! reasons the others. he will be tho Democratic nominee, on that you may count safely. . Of course In saying that Mr. McAdoo Mc-Adoo is the only man the Democrats can nominate, with a following, it ia assumed that William Jennings Bryan who sits and can read this as it is written, has become a historian, a sort of Ulysses inspiring tho young tolo-machuseo tolo-machuseo of politics. n Mr. Bryan, needless to say, has got counied and safe a certain number, of millions of votes that nobody clscj has. If this convention should be foolish, and force Johnson to run Independent-! ly, the Democrats would show their: wisdom In taking Bryan. It is prob-1 able that he could do more than any other Democrat to keep the Demo-' cratic party from being swopt along with the Republicans In tho Johnson-whirlwind, Johnson-whirlwind, j All kinds of people talk to Mr. Bry- an as he sits and thinks and writes looking down on this pitcher full of I political vipers, - as Teufclsdroekhl looked down on his sleeping city. Just now it is .Mrs. Maurice Rothschild Roths-child to whom he is. saying that hoi knows her brother. Ira Morris, tho ambassador, very well. Edna Ferber Is! sitting in front of him. but she re-j marks philosophically that sho ls the' kind of a serpent that knows enough not to gnaw the same file more than pnee In one day. She has switched to. young Mr. Howard, whose wrist watch can bo seen to trcrnblo as he tries toi think up answers. The session that was to convene ati -1 o'clock starts now at twenty minutes min-utes to five. Mr. Lodge orders tho secretary to call tho roll of delegations. delega-tions. As he mentions each state, a delegato rises and names the national committeeman in the delegation, who is the delegation boss, When Illinois' turn comes, Senator Sherman Is named, and cheered loudly.. loud-ly.. If the dplegatco here were mado up-of the. soldiers whoso bonus Sherman Sher-man helped to take from them, the cheers would not be so loud. Now Boles Penroso Is named, and believe it or not. the first ;real demonstration demon-stration of this cold-blooded convention conven-tion is started. Thero Is a roar' of applause, men in many delegations jump to their feot yelling. And tho galleries that don't know what it is they are cheering, hoping that something some-thing is happening, take up tho encoring encor-ing aso. It doesn't last very long, however, only a minute or two. Even this kind of convention can't get up much excitement ex-citement about Mr. Penrose. Now Mr. Hllies of New York presents pre-sents a resolution limiting speeches In support of candidates to two speeches for each 'candidate, not more than five minutes to each of tho two speakers. If more than two speakers want to second a nomination each of them shall he limited to two minutes. Tho resolution Is adopted, with a few groans. Mr. Bryan wants to know, "What do wo get for our money and what h? to become of Senator Bcver- idgo with such a resolution in force?" The resolution, of course, is a little attachment put on the steam rollor to hasten Its work and prevent the making mak-ing of speeches sufficiently long and enthusiastic to have any real effect. Mr. Bryan's famous spooch about "the Cross of Gold" in 1S96 lasted thirty minutes. He was asked just now if he could have got the same result in five minutes and he replied: "No. not In twenty. You must lay your foundation first." Tho steam roller doesn't Intend to have Imitation of the "cross of gold" here. Now Mr. Joe Cannon, not quite eighty five years old, is amusing tho crowd Intensely with a glass of water. An excruciatingly funny pantomime. He drinks half of tho water, shudders, holds It up in his hand for tho crowd to see, believing that they will share his contempt for it. It is a good pieco of acting- for a man eighty four years old, and the crowds reward him with roars of laughter. 9 ! Tho rest of his speech is "good sound Republican doctrine" ,and you don't, want space given to that. . Before Mr. Cannon began speaking! Lodge had announced that there would have to be a delay of 10 minutes while waiting for a committee lo report. Mr. Cannon is put up to keep the crowd pacified, llo knows it and says' so, and when he gets a little tired. I after 15 minutes, ho turns around and I asks the management, "Haven't got somebody else ready to bring out'.'" Mr. Cannon retires and the crowd yells for Beveridge. That orators could now escape the five minuto fate that Mr. Bryan Imagined for him. Beverldge doesn't, however, respond. Porhaps he Isn't here. Now the crowd yells for "Teddy, Jr." No response from'hlm, either. If It wero his father at the same age, Teddy, Sr., would be on the spot. Nobody appears to say how much hotter the Republican party Is than anything else, so the band plays while fourteen thousand proud sovereigns that have nothing at all lo say about their own government or thejr own presldont fan thomselve3 and listen. At this moment your correspondent rccoives a memorandum from tho committee com-mittee room, telling that William Allen j "Whito got pny eight votes in support of his effort to have the Republican platform indorse unequivocally tho prohibition amendment and the enforcement en-forcement of the Volstead act. Absolute prohibition is killed, or rather allowed to die, as far as the constitution will let It, in this convention. conven-tion. Old Mr. Cannon making Ihe crowd laugh by mocking a class of water, expresses ex-presses the spirit or at least SO per cent of the men here. The. news lhat prohibition- is not to bo endorsed by the Republican platform plat-form la handed to Bryan. A smile lhat was on his face leaves suddenly, and 1 , his mouth, which can be as hard as Iron, and would have fitted the face of Calvin or Cromwell, falls at the corners. cor-ners. Bryan, bf course, woud not admit It to this or any other reporter. But you can put it down that Just two things" would mako him go to California Califor-nia and fight for tho Democratic nomination, nom-ination, which otherwise he would not want. Ono thing that would make him fight, would be this Republican action, or rather lack of action on prohibition. 1 Another would be any plank of can-) dldate committing the Republican, party to universal military training, j Anything against , prohibition or in ' j favor . of militarism, would set Bryan I l.fighting in a .minute. But please re-j '. member that he Is not saying this. The delegates are singing, "God I .Only Knows How Dry 1 Am." I Bryan does not care for that tune. By tho way, ho .carries his black hati folded up In his Inside breast pocket J j Reporters will make allowances for! ;its wrinkles. C:15 p. ui. More than an hour has been wasted. Now Senator Watson of Indiana -is reading the platform. Tho! cake Is baked and ready to serve, at last. Yvou will see It elsewhere in I this newspaper and know what kind of "political arguments" the machine has decided to feed to tho crowd. Tho first cheer comes when Watson says that the Democratic party has shown complote unpreparedness for war, and complete unpreparedness for peacc. As usual, of course, tho platform tells what a terrible calamity the Democratic" Dem-ocratic" party has1 been and what seraphic se-raphic perfection may be expected from the Republican party. Another cheer comes for "we undertake under-take to end executive autocracy." There Isn't the faintest sound of a! cheer when Mr. Watson brags about taking telephones and telegraphs from the government, and railroads from the government and returning them to private ownership. There is a cheer' when he says the "Republicans "submitted to tho couri" try iho constitutional amendment for woman suffrage." He doesn't expluin why one of tho three Republican states could do it, Connecticut, Vermont and Delaware, does not glvo the necessary thirty-sixth thirty-sixth vole -and pass the amendment. Yo.u would hardly be,lievo It, but tho startling original statement, "the farmer far-mer ls the backbone of the nation" Is "applauded as a rno3t brilliant effort. ef-fort. Watson's words leading up to a platform plat-form nlank for thn control of lnhor are applauded and moat violently applauded, ap-plauded, with the loudest yell of the whole convention are his words, "we deny tho right to strike against the governmonL" Bryan says "There they have struck something that tholr hearts are set on." The crowd Is cheering and yoll-Ing yoll-Ing for the platform statement. "Wo approve government ownership of tho 1 ail way." . Now, -. quarter to seven, Watson fsj reading the ylahk on iriternatlonal trade and tariff. This convention naturally" applauds tho promise of a high tariff, and ap-l plauds most wisely tho plank that comes later permitting American ships to pass through the Panama canal, whl:h American money built, without paying tolls. The plank on International trade tariff, although the crowd doesn't know it, calls most sensibly for the resumption of trade with Russia. Russia Rus-sia is not mentioned, but is included in the declaration that we shall re-sumo re-sumo commercial relations with all countries, with which we are not at war. Tho loudesjt applause thus far comes when the platform demands lhat all foreigners shall register onco a year until naturalized. Free speech Is also applauded, with freo press and assembly, but more mildly. And even more mildly the. suggestion that an American woman shall not lose her citizenship by mar-ryinr; mar-ryinr; a foreigner. The dolegatcs rise and cheer for tho first time when Watson reads the plank declaring that attempt to overthrow over-throw the government by violence ls not legalT and that aliens in tho United Unit-ed Statos, unlike citizens of the United States, "are not entitled of right to liberty of agitation directed against the government." The five mild lines against lynching do not say much. But some colored delegates rise and applaud. Small favors fa-vors thankfully received. After the plank on lynching, the "Irish republic" plank, expressing sympathy with homo rule should have been read. But It was not read, per-Ihaps per-Ihaps it will come later. Now comes the plank about the soldiers, sol-diers, plenty of wind and noise In it, but no bonus. Having killed tho soldiers sol-diers bonus, the platform says that the Republicans will do something very nice, some time. It does not say exactly what or when, and tho word bonus is left out. Mr. Bryan, reading the the platform plat-form of which ho has a copy before him, discovers with satisfaction that there Is no reference to universal compulsory com-pulsory military training, although thero is a recommendatlou of "physical "physi-cal training," for young people. And tliat might easily be changed to military mili-tary training. Mr. Bryan observes also that the plank on woman suffrage suf-frage has been changed from the origin ori-gin so as to leavo out tho request to tho Republican governors to call special sessions of the legislature to pass the constitutional amendment. The plank merely asks the legislatures legisla-tures to act. It docs not call upon the governors who could really put it through. The league of nations. Now comes the big thing, the rofuaal to accent any mandate having heeu heartily .-jp-Iplaudod. The peace league plank simply sim-ply throws the peace leaguo ovar-I ovar-I board, il is applauded. And that, as j far as the Republican party is concerned, con-cerned, settles the peace league. This peace league plank means the defeat of Lodge and the international bankers and the people are indebted for it to Hiram Johnson and Borah. But for them and tho fight they mado in advance there in the platform wpuld be a half-hearted hamstrung indorsement of some kind of peace league, a plank that would havo said. '"Wo don't want tho peace league but. Wo are afraid lo say so." . Nof ono word about prohibition. Can It be possible that the great moral Is sue Is to bo left with its little nose pressed against the pale outside the! Republican platform? You should see Bryan's face as he says, "well knowing by the tone of Watson's volcd ( that he is winding up, they have lef '. out prohibition." Yes, they have left ;H it out and apparently the Irish repnb- I jH lie plank was killed at the last mo- T'l ment. The platform reading is over, jil. every delegate ls standing and. cheer- jH lug. it may be adopted before the convention adjourns. Watson move "j jH the adoption of the platform now. (: It is on the whole a good platform, W barring private ownership of railroads IH and a few other typical Wall street 1 M planks. R Now Mr Gross of Wisconsin will . M read a minority signed by himself M H alone. He wants to make tho plank I H more violently bitter against ' trfi tj H league of nations, but after you have 1 I; ,H kilied a thing, why worry the corpse. W H However, Mr. Gross, a clean-cut ftp H young man with a good voice, has his !H say and before he finishes tho crowd (ft flH that did not want to hear him is cheer- (FH ing him part of the time, hissing at -2H other times. ftfjl He denounces the league of nation? IH as an insult to this country, saying It 1 IJH "would forever fasten slavery o'n Hl Egypt, India and Ireland. BH Thus the name of Ireland is men- 1 'H tioned after all although so far as thi: I ''KH writer and Mr. Bryan could hear, it Li VlH not mentioned in the-regular Ropubll- j 'EH car. platform. Mr. Gross denounces ! CH the sedition act. Some applaud, sorny ; I hiss, one chivalrous unknown yells, ' ( H "Go on, Ikoy." When Mr. Gross de- ' 'H nounces the Esch-Cummlns bill that t 'H makes the people guarantee railroad "H profits with tho railroads In private lfl hands there is hissing, and there is a sll terrible outroar of indignation which I JH would be very welcome to Armour, H Swift, Morris, Cudahy and "Wilson .VflH when Mr. Gross says that he wants lj H lo abolish the stockyards, "graduallv." (j H He does not say exactly how he ElJI would carry on the distribution of cat- 'lll tic, sheep and swine, but he doubtless 'rUH a plan. aiH There is such a roar of hate from K'tH I the galleries that Mr. Lodge, thor- iH ;oughly angry, threatens to drive out Sl every gallery visitor. For onco in his 1 jH life, meaning what he says, he loses il at least eighty-five per cent of his ill special kind of refined English ac- iil cent, as he warns tho galleries that tl they arc guests of the convention. j 1 H Mr. Gross demands "that taxes be H laid upon wealth in proportion to nbil- J H lty to pay. He denounces the usnrpo7- H tion of law making power by the fed H oral courts and he wants federal tH Judges elected by the people. - s H Of course, yim could not expect thi delegates to notice such talk as that they don't. H |