The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-08-06
WHY GARFIELD
LOST IN OHIO.
tcene,uded.l

ton.
Whercupon Garfield Published
hin administration plank. praialng
Taft for hls good intentions and
promising support IA the future for
praiseworthy policies Then Bur
ton told the big delegation to walt
So many Of them wanted Ia vote
for Garfield that Burton was afraid
20 test this strength nut he led
them BY bis silence 20 believe that
they would get chance 10 y0iu
for Garfield
The 30 went into the convention
utterly diHorEaniked. nobody know.
ina what 90 DO under amy clrcum
stances that might arise
Cos Delegates usruiy.
Boss Coz. Of Cincinnati. found
his delegates uuruly MANY 81 them
wasted 10 vote for Garfield lie
could not coutrol them Thanks to
Garfield " WAS. np 60 this point,
the first unsettled republican con
ysntion that Ohio has seen since
COX became power
With delegates acting ihia way
lhere Naa no way 60 make q safe
slate. such az a hoKa must have
Things Nere UP In the air Gar
field bad put them there. Matters
looked dark
And. ~ this moment. In stepped
the aid 81 that powerful Influence
At Washington that has 40 nearly
taken congress out Of the hands Of
the people
The committee on resolutions
numbered rs men, chosen by
the delegations. OF these ~,
nlus we're United States con
arsssmen.
Ore was a Nominee for con.
aress.
One was a United States sen.
ator.
over hall OF the resolutions
committee we're siandpas,ers
from Washington
Well. what could yon oxpectf
All thsy had 10 do to beat Gar.
field and 10 beat the delegates who
wanted 10 vote for Garfield was 10
adopt a platform that would be 50
bad that Garfield would refuse to
run on H.
And that ls what they did
Paul Ho~iand'H Past.
Garfield had one supposed friend
on the resolutions committee. Con
Kreaeman Paul Rowland lie was
an insurEcut Of the fair weather
kind.
All night before the day Of nomi.
nations the platform committee
was In session Il adopted planka
which praised Taft fulaomely
But isn't such n blanket reEolu.
ton boost for nalllnE"r one
committeeman asked when We
praise the whole administration.
don't we praise Ballinger7"
OF course they did. but that
didn't make any difference In
fact. such a plank made Il all the
more certain that Garfield wouldn't
run
Rowland thought himself help
less lie might have presented a
MINORITY report. including Gar.
fields platform. which didn't praise
BalHngcrism and MorRanism and
Guggenheimism and privilege
But his political career was NJ
stake. The scorn OF Washington
doomed up before him.
Rowland Lost Nerve.
For five minutes. In a room In a
certain Columbus hotel. Rowland
stood out against the pleadings Of
friends that he introduce mi.
noriiy report and give Garfield a
chance to get his ideas and himself
before the convention. and the del.
egatcs a chance TO az least vote on
them
In one corner Of the room stood
Garfield. silent and grim Rowland
was HIS only chance; Howland was
his only mouthpioce in the plat.
form committee There was no
use begging OF him 10 make the
minority report and brave the
wrath OF Washington. If Rowland
gas brave enough. thought Gar.
Geld, II would be fine: II he wasn't
brave enough. all the coaxing and
threatening In the world could not
drive him on TO make n heartfelt
fighi Aud Rowland wasn't brave
en0uRh With Wall 81. and Aldrich-
ism influences ready 10 batter nj
bis political career. he couldn't
stand the gaff lie dashed out of
the room, out Of the hotel. into an
auto and buried himself in the con
yentlon hall and saw the tide Of the
bosses overwhelm the people
0 Garfield Was Helpless.
eGarneldl Garfield" cried the
delegates.
No Garfield came. He was at
his hotel. helpless. The conven.
ton was going 10 be forced 20
adopt platform that he couldn't
stand on. There was no way to
avoid II.
The bosses and their system
tshe system that starts In Wall 81.
and runs through Washington 20
every corner Of the country
stood like a stone wall between
the people and a man who stood
for what they wanted. The thina
that makes congressman 90
against the people In Washington
made them 90 against the people
In Ohio.
The bosses kept the Man and
the Votes apart.