Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-21
SURPLUS OF HATRED AT
CHICAGO CONVENTION,
SAYS EBERT HUBBARD

is in the penitentiary and you should
be"
Then Mr.. Heney explained that it
was he who placed Abe Reuf in the
penitentiary. which was an intimatlon
that Mr.. Stevenson would yet go the
same route, on Mr.. Heneys initiative.
The audience euffawed, then Kissed
and groaned in disappointment. Heney
folded his arms and took the attitude
of perfect blissful peace.
He grinned, and the grin sat upon his
face like plaster of paris cast Of a
Cheshire cat. Such grins are not be-
coming. There is no fluidity of spirit
behind them. The grin did not token
the smile of content, of peace and good
Will 1t was the very antithesis. 1t re-
Elected the spirit of hate incarnate.
The audience was one vast roar Of
disapproval. IIeney stood with folded
arms and the geologic grin. However.
he at last appealed to the chair for
order
The chairman took one hand off the
steering gear long enough to motion
Sergeant at Arms Stone.
Chairs Subtle Rebuke,
The sergeant at arms moved forvard
to the edge ofthe platform and sent out
the message, clear, shrilI. sharp and
distinct by megaphone as follows:
The chair orders me to say that the
speaker must be given a RESPECT
Full hearing"
1t was a rebuke to the speaker so
subtle that he certainly never saw it,
although it changed the wave of disan-
prevail to ripple of laughter
The chairmans order, being inter
preted, was that a man making a dis
respectful speech should be given a
respectful hearing.
1t showed how perfectly under con-
troll the Old Guard has this conven-
ton.
Happily, this scene occurred among
people descended from the Norsemen
and Teutonic tribes and not from the
Oriental and Latin races: otherwise
this city Of Chicago would be devas-
tated by mob and the lamp posts
would be doing double duty.
This convention is full of hatred
Emerson says: I'VE are the thing we
hate and every epithet that we apply
to another fits ourselves best"
The Republican party is rent and
torn in tatters by this spirit of hate.
Hadley Ashamed of His Company.
Hadley is a commanding figure. and
If dark horses had been on exhibition
in the ring he would have been ac-
counted a thoroughbred.
The Missouri hen and the Missouri
mule do not compose the total assets Of
the state that demands visual demon
stration Missouri's best crop is its
men and women.
Hadley is fine type of man. But it
is apparent to some that he is slightly
ashamed of the company that he is lust
now in
The man who best represents the
Rooseveltian spirit in the convention is
Francis J. Heney.
The mental attitude of these men is
the same They hate so thoroughly and
well that they arr permeated bv II full
to the, point of saturation with the
ptomaines of contempt and the virus of
violence
This Q le-distilled quintessence Of
hate has shattered and torn the Repub :
lican party to tatters.
Get enough hate didused through the
nation and the United States of Amer
lea would live only in the history OF
things that We're.
And on the ruins of republic, a
dictatorship would rear its turreted
head and its loopholes would look out
at land drenched with the blood OF
brothers. When the professional con-
queror conquers, red ruin is hammer
ing at the gates.
And afar On the horizon buzzard
scars and sails, and sails and scars
coming nearer. nes rer.
Hate means dis traction, disintegra-
! ton, dissipation, d feat and death.