The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-10
Shouting Devours Time.

Shouting Devours Time.
III the Atty and ninety-minute hur
rahs are TO be fixed feature or Ma
tional convention. II will be absolute
ly essential that the people shall con-
tinue 10 select their presidential can
didates In advance, as they did this
year In both parties; for time does
not permit both the selection OF a
nominee and the prolonged shouting
for him When this convention learn
ed on Wednesday that the credentials
committee was not ready 10 report.
II used the unoccupied time In shout
Ing for Bryan. and II did the same on
Thursday night. when waiting for the
platform committee TO come In from
their 4S-hour task. The repeated re-
quests for more time gave the impress
sion of serious and conscientious at
tention 10 this feature OF the conven-
TONS work. The people having saved
the delegates the task OF picking out
the candidate they have been free TO
give ample time to thorough and
thoughtful formulation OF the party's
principles for this campaign. 30 that
whatever it's defects, the instrument
for this year can be put down as
something more than is perfunctory
and empty string OF phrases. The
committee appeared TO have toiled
upon this pronouncement with an
earnest desire to give the candidate
definite, clear-cut enunciation OF
progressive policies in entire conson-
ance with the vital REFORMS he has adj
vocated before the country. II rings
PDr he NJ
the reform professions OF the Repub-
lican platform and embodies a group
O, vital reforms which the president
Of the United States has repeatedly
urged and which his party passed over
entirely In its platform making. In
the expulsion OF undesirables from the
party and In pronouncing for measures
that will go far TO restore to the Deo-
pie the rights which privileged inter
ests have wrested from them, the Den
yer convention has given It's STANDARD
bearer and it's campaigners a decided
advantage for a fight upon the Ques-
ton OF continuing genuine reform. II
has saved them the embarrassment OF
apologizing fOr predatory rich within
their own ranks and has spared them
the awkward necessity OF assuring the
people that their pretensions are real
ly better than their platform. BY Its
explicitness on these things. the Dem
ocratic announcement cuts of all
hope of support from criminal corpor-
atoms. It's appeal Is TO the produc-
ers and for the protection Of honest
property only. and its'challenge to
Mr.. Taft Is 10 say which Of the two
opposing selements whose support he
Is seeking he proposes to serve.
IL was nearly midnight when the
resolutions committee filed In and
marched right through the nominating
speech for Judge Gray 1t was the
morning of another day when the re-
port was read and the convention had
given its approving cheers. 1t was
Friday--Friday for nominating day.
The congressional trick of tying the
hands OF the clock to midnAht's molly
hour couldn't lay the suerstition. But
what did II matter with destiny in
charge? The thing that was inevitable
before the first delegate turned his
face toward Denver was made an ac-
complished fact as the morning light
was creeping over the crest OF the
eastern hills. Thus another record
was broken by the ''unconquerable
SON." All day and far into the night
the voice OF the west had been speak
ing of a better day coming for the OFT
defeated Democracy.
Was the Nebraskans nomination at
the hour OF dawn prefigurement?