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Show Bryan Hurls More Shafts At Senator Lodge; Depew Is Hit BY 11,1,1 AM JENNINGS BRYAN. (Copyrlffht, Is 20, By Win. J. Bryan.) CHICAGO, June j The second (hi's session w.if as usual :i very brief one. Tli? seCsnd day f a national convention scrs'vory llitlo actual work (June. The CORirnlttCs on permanent organisation reported in favor of Senator Sen-ator I.odjre for permanent chairman a .ad disappointment to the friends of ex-Senator Beverldae, Who were anxious to gixo him a chance to sound ' a second keynote. The senator from Massachusetts aroused genuine applause when ho stated that he would not make a speech. lie did not Improve the opportunity op-portunity offered to withdraw nny-ihlnK nny-ihlnK that he had left out. Over In thins that he har left out. Over in London they have a very apt phrase. !z. "eabwit" which they use to describe de-scribe the bright thoughts lhat come to n speaker as he rides home from .i hieetlngv Senator Lodge evidently j walked home He might have called attention to the Volstead Act and told , how :i Kepiil.llc.iii cent,'! -s hid by an I overwhelming vote put into statutory language the national prohibition amendment- -a triumph for the na- ; tlon's conscience. H Ls bitterness to-1 ward the president might even have found expression In the suggestion that S Republican congress put war pro- I hibiiion Into effect In spite of an executive exec-utive veto, but not a word on this important subject, Boilllfl Not Mentioned He might have described the league of- nations as the Republican senators voted for It. He might have pledged his party to continue its fight for an international tribunal in which disputes dis-putes between nations may be settled without resort lo war. This subject would have given him a great chance to picture his party as an angel of peace guarding the world against future fu-ture wars. But no lie did not even mention a bonus lo the soldiers who won the last war. The burning words remained unspoken, and the convention conven-tion who turned over to that ancient . mariner, the Hon. Chauncey Depew, the most popular living represents- I tive of big business who has appeared In American politics during the last j fifty years i alcin for ii ii mi ir The talent for humor on which he has u monopoly has been on tap for : main' decades, whenever a serious political situation needed to be en-livened en-livened The visitors had the piivilece ..f looking ii), on the no. st -inking illustration illus-tration generations off neglected op-portii'nity. op-portii'nity. Theformet senator from New York i-- nov. four score and SlJC years old ami sflU b'uoyartl In spjrit agile of mind and unexhausted ol physical strength. His natural ability was studious!) developed and his -n-tire life with B sbrllliant prospects of usefulness as any young man ever possessed Had he given himself to his country he might have enjoyed the highest honors that It had to give and ln-Bured ln-Bured himself place among the great men. But instead of that he became the leg.ii representative of big busi ness lb Bold his birthright for a mess or pottage. For a time he di-vided di-vided his attention between the New ork Central railroad and the United States senate. Better or Bargain. This road paid him about ten times as much as the government and yet got more for its money than the taxpayers tax-payers did. He led the last fight against the election of l 'nlted States senators by the people and has failed to Identify himself with any important reform Bach four years he Is called upon to drive dull care away whenever a Republican national convention has nothing important on hand It is pathetic that ;i man so brilliant-and so loveable gjhould have made no di eper Impress upon the thought of his nation that a tree so full of. blossoms blos-soms should have yielded 80 little fruit While the convention marks lime, tin committees ar at work, especially the big committee the committee on resolutions. The chairman of the committee Senator Watson of Indiana presides with great dignity, while those who have id. inks to present are being heard. And by the way. the selection if Mr Wits, n by an overwhelming majority affords ample proof of the character of this convention Watson Standpatter. Senator Watson has been in public life long enough to have made a record; rec-ord; the roteis tuke Judicial notice of the fact that he is a standpatter from away back. He was one of the brilliant coterie of statesmen, or coterie cot-erie r brilliant statesmen, who engine. engi-ne. -i id the scientifically arranged steam roller process 'Of Ihe Taft oon-ventlon oon-ventlon In 1912. He can claim a fair share of the credit for that famous campaign from which the Republican party emerged with the electoral voters vot-ers of two states. L'tah and Vermont Three very Influential groups whose members asked for platform recognition recogni-tion of the subjects which they presented, pre-sented, first came the supporters of national prohibition with Wayne B. Wheeler as their spokesman. Hacked by the officials of the league, by the W. C T. L and by all the other temperance and church organizations that have sent representatives to Ohio, he urged the commltte to report a plank specifying endorsing prohibition prohibi-tion and pledging the convention's candidates. If elected, to the endorsement endorse-ment of the Volstead act as Interpreted by the supreme court. It Is tfulto cer-i cer-i tiit th.it Hie i oivtmit leeinan from m any. If not nil of tno dry" states will Insist upon a straight out declaration and will carry the fight to the floor of the convention if the committee tries to side track the issue. supiMirt ir apper, Y illiam Allen White of Kansas. Is one of the most prominent of the dry members of the committee and he will hae the active sirpport of Senator Sena-tor rapper In any contest on this snbject. President Gompcrs of the Federation of I.-ibor. made an earnest nlea In behalf of the recognition of labor's Interests. The most Imposing group to be heard was a committee of the national board of farm organizations. Thesi' men, representing nearly all the Important Im-portant farm organizations, made the committee sit up and take notice and well they might, for no more earnest bo'dy of men are In attendance ou this convention. 1 have condensed as much as possl-ble possl-ble the matters presented, but the ! above will show the Importance of the problems with which the resolutions cmmittee Is wrestling. Tt Is o.uite likely that the committee will be divided di-vided on some of these subjects; If so. i the session at which the platform is1 discussed will be worth attending. |