The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-20
"TOO Bad Have to Tell Truth
About Each Other.o
WRITES OF GOSPEL OF HATE
Says 1t Has Torn Republican
Party Asunder.
Fra Believes Heney Should Be
on Roosevelt Ticket.

| CAT the Ringside. by Ebert Hubbard.)
Chicago. June 2O.-Wednesday Hem
! enway of Indiana passed Finn of
Pennsylvania a few.
Finn waved his delegation to their
feet, and it looked as if they were
about to rush the platform.
A good many thought it was the
Signal
Half the people in the audience
stood up.
| Chairman Root came quickly down
to the front followed by Sergeant at
Arms Stone. and Finn was personally
| directed, like a naughty school boy, to
sit down.
| But there was one man in. the audi
ence who did not stand up and who
certainly was not disturbed, and that
was reporter by the name of William
Jennings Bryan.
Some one, few minutes before, had
laid big American beauty rose on his
was at its height, Colonel Bryan smiled
serenely, examined the big rose low
ingly, and looked as if he were about
to give little lecture on horticulture.
Bryan Enjoys 1t.
Bryan has place in what he calls
the peace zone" among the reporters.
His seat adjoins the space sacred to
the delegates. There he holds a sort
of continuous noncommittal reception.
During a lull in the wordy warfare
, he was asked how he liked it.
Splendid, splendid" was the reply.
I'm enjoying it, but it is too bad that
they have to tell the truth about each
other" And even the dozen delegates
who heard the remark laughed.
David Harum once remarked that a
reasonable number of f1eas on a dog
was a good thing.
The argument was that it kept the
90, ina fro ff7fr
by was he prevented from mentally
dwelling on the fact of his unhappy
pedigree.
Colonel Harum did not explain how
many f1eas were a reasonable number
There is no doubt but that a reason
able amount of hate for the wrong. or
that which we think is wrong, is rea-
sonable and right.
where the law of diminishing returns
begins to act. And beyond this, hate
continued becomes a weakness, then
fault next a blunder and finally
crime.
There is a sizzling surplus of hate in
the atmosphere of the Coliseum.
1t is a kid-gloved crowd, all right,
and before action began, you might
have supposed that we were about to
hear Tetrazzini sing.
Alas and alas, we were to hear in
definite harangue.
Heney the Fighting Man.
Following the lead of his illustrious
leader, Heney Tuesday exhausted the
billingsgate calendar, and then its
synonyms.
The only thing he could have done
further would have been to take up
the underground vocabulary. which all
good Republicans understood but sell
dom use.
The good old words theft, thievery,
brigandage, holdup, hand-picked tools,
We're used in running the gamut of
hate.
Up and down, backward and for
ward, transposed, over and over again,
the forms of insult were banded.
tossed, flung and spit into the faces of
the soca1led tainted delegates. who sat
just below the gatling fire of oratory.
The steam roller is not intended to
squelch oratory. Oratory is a harm
less drainage tube for the disap-
pointed.
So the chairman allowed one hand
to toy p1ayfuly with the electric tiller
of the steam roller as he looked off
into space in a tired way, and Hon.
Francis ]. Heney agitated the other.
Heney was using fighting language,
and Heney is a fighting man. He has
shot and has been shot.
And now he was using the language
that often precedes bloodshed.
The lie is the first blow. Heney |
flung the lie and danced it to a two