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

is in the penitentiary and you should
be"
Then Mr. Heney explained that 1t
was he who placed Abe Reuf in the
penitentiary, which was an intlmatlon
that Mr.. Stevenson would yet go the
same route, on Mr.. Heneys initiative.
The audience gufrawed, 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 tluidity 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-
| flected the spirit of hate inoarnate.
The audience was one vast roar Of
disapproval. Heney 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 alarms Stone
Chairs Subtle Rebuke.
me sergeant alta arms moved forward
TO the edge of the platform and sent out
the message, clear, shriH, sharp and
distinct by megaphone, as follows:
The chair orders me to saw that tbe
speaker must be given RESPECT
Full hearing"
1t was rebuke to the speaker so
subtle that he certainly never saw If
although it changed the wave of disap-
proval to ripple of laughter.
The chairman's order, being inter
preted, was that man making a dis
respectful speech should be given
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-
tate6 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 epitEet that we applv
to another fits ourselves best"
The Republican party is rent and
torn in tatters by this spirit of hate
Hadley Ashamed of His Company
HHdley Is commanding figure. and
If dark horses had been on exhibition
in the ring he would have been ac-
counted 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 ito
men and women.
Hadley is fine type of man. But II
is apparent TO some that he is slightly
ashamed of the company that he is ;,st
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 are, perrneate,i by. II fnII
to the. point Of saturation with the
ptomaines of contempt and the virus of
violence.
This d. y le-distilled quintessence Of
hate has shattered and torn the Repuh-
lican party to tatters.
Get enough hate diffused through the
nation and the United States of Amer
lea would live only in the history of
things that were.
And on the ruins of republic. a
dictatorship would rear it's 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 7nd sails, and sails and scars.
coming nearer, nearer
Hate means dis raction, disintegra-
ton, dissipation, feat and death.