The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-27
WHAT WILL BE THE
RESULT No ONE IS
ABLE TO FORECAST
Patriot After Patriot Gives
Convention His Very Best
Oratory and Conven-
ton Yawns
EVERYBODY SEEMS
DETERMINED TO
NOT-COMPROMlSE
As the Case Stands No Man
Can Be Nominated and
Someone Must Yield
Before Candidate
Is Named
by ROBERT l.. GRAY.
(StaT Corresponding Richmond Nir-
Cinian1.

ginianI.
CONVENTION HALL BAI.TI-
MORE, MD, June 26-Today the
convention has gone off into a dust
of oratory, through which the sun
shined gloriously.
Most of US tattet 10 take sdvan-
tage OF the opportunity or free sun
barn@ths only tnrng, ry ma way.
which is free in this fair city. You can
get ali the politics you wish free
gratis fer nothing Nhaa. you. ass
for anything else the average Balti-
morean concludes instantly that
you've got it--and that he ought TO
have at TO the credit OF the Balti-
moreau, Re IL said. he usually gets
Il.
The oratory today vas far worse
than that of yesterday. and that Is
saying great deal. The patience OF
hundreds who have come at great
expense TO fight for what they think
typifes this that or the other thing
n remarkable
n&AG 1tfFth jtA AAAN AtRbAtH ~
hotelg They are the fellows WHO
jostle you on the streets aud wish for
the sake OF bolstering their loyalty to
eubmerge their own opinion. They
talk a great deal about progressive
men and progressive measures. When
YOU tie them down they are unable
10 say anything except that they are
progressive without knowing what
= 1t means.
Convention All Frost,
As stated above the convention of
today was all the frost that it's heart
lest opponent could hand IL We had
cold storage politics from one end OF
the proceedings 10 the other
Patriot after patriot tretftets=e. Come
little things were done, among theh'
the election of T. T. Britton. city
editor OF Josephus Daniels Raleigh
News and Observer as secretary of
the national committee. kritton -
q natural born secretary, and will
All the lob All the same IL iS mat
ter az wonder in Baltimore as 10
whether the convention did not rush
his luck"
After such a session as that OF yes
terday the proceedings so far nave
been boring to an extreme.
The significant thing IL absolute de-
termination Of everybody not to com
promise. with the compromising state
uent from everybody that they Will
have 10 compromise or quit.
With a peculiar opportunity, have
ouizzad any number of f'f"ef@sstF IS
10 give me their IDEA OF what the
movement stHrei. fssfv-iI- tiluIai=-
mating 70 consider the fact ihat syery
man so approached is either rfdicu-
a q his NAV De.
Question Is One Man.
Boiled down the question is one
man, with a nebulous question "a TO
nrincin,e attaching to the men Them
selves knowing the smartness or
newspaper men. | am refralning from
reading soi;ts OF these excellent Hnes
my friends are printing They may
be right and they may not.
In the convention We had ovation
after ovation 1t was very pretty
Those of us who stood up on lhs
rickety chairs ~ hsch they have pro-
yided for the press observed Pc
culiar sectional quality in the cneer~
ing. A tev, delegations would be in
eruption. In the galleries here and
there would be turmoil. But there
we're a fearsone want OF either the
determination or the insanity that are
the alternative parents of nomina-
ton.
Already In Deadlock.
AS the case stands no man can ne
nominated. Clark's supporters are
vigorous and energetic. They point
TO the deal which put Parker through
They purposely forget the deal which
Bryan has ordered as compromise
this afternoon when he made ONE
James chairman and thus asserted IN
~ control WHICH
every one recognizes.
what the result will be no man
knows 1 give a prediction, worm
NO more than a postage stamp.
Watch Gaynor-"
We are going to hit scrap mere.
The man who has least enemies has
the most 10 face. Even Bryan mas
nothing against Gaynor Hearst mates
him That liability may turn out 10
be an asset.
Watch Gaynor"