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Show SOCIALIST TREND AMONG PURLIG Action' Not Words, Demanded vtU of Both Parties, Declares lM Senator Capper fl BY HON. ARTHUR CAPPER. United States Senator from Kansas. H (Written exclusively for Universal H Service. Copyright, 1920, by Universal 'J Sorvlco.) H COLISEUM, CHICAGO. June 11. lmmt The barber who shaved me this morn- 'l lng' asked if I was a delegate to the convention, and finding that I was not. ,H proceeded to unburden himself ot his , ;H ideas upon things political and so- H "I don't know," he said, "that it H makes a great of difference whom H they nominate or whom wo elect in H November. The same old gang1 will jH be in charge of things, anyway, and H the poor man will get it In the neck JH just the same. Personally I've al- JH ways been a good Democrat and my jf dud before me, but I'll be darned if' I H ain't about made up my mind that I'll - tJI vote for Debs. If them Socialists H would roll up a million votes it might H teach tho bosses something," ,H Sentiment of Many. ; With a keen-edged razor sliding' 'H over my lather-covered face, I felt no ;B inclination for an argument, but my 'l mind wandered to snatches of convcr- tl satlon henrd here and there and I re-called re-called the sentiments expressed in thousands of letters which came to my 'H desk, expressions of discouragement 'H and pessimism as gloomy as that of H tho man who shaved inc. and I won- .H dercd how many of the 9S4 delegates H In the convention and how many of 1 j thousands of visitora and boosters who ' 'aro hero to see that the convention makes no mistake, realize thc'slze of tho job the Republican party lias be-fore be-fore It to say nothing; of tho job be- fore the nation. IH Performance and Promise. Governor Allen in tho first speech of nomination mado this morning said that what this convention does is of more importance than what any con- ventlon has done since the nomination - .J ot Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Robinson, in the best speech mcfclo during- the convention, said: "We want works, not words," and both phrases were generously cheered. IH But gratifying as was the applause, It must be remembered that oratory and fine sentiment finely expressed will not win this campaign. To decldo jH the Issue in November, It must bo jH made suro that performances will fol- low promises. 1 IH Can't Help But Sec. Political leaders, in either party, are not entiroly blind to tho state of un- rest and dissatisfaction that is nimost IH universal. They cannot close their IH I eyes to it. But they aro too apt to j attribute the discontent of tho people to the natural depravity of man. or to regard it as the work of the devil ' or tho "foreign agitators." or to any- Ji thing and ' everything but the real f cause. They see the symptoms rather ! than the disease. It seems never tc- j JM occur to many of them that the un- bridled greed, the flagrant injustice ' JM and the barefaced robbery that have , been the outstanding characteristics of f 1 our recent history, fl.ro not exactly jH conducive to a happy frame of mind H among tho victims of the plunder- , IH |