The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-09


CHICAGO. Juno p
Loud yells do not q boomlet
mako
Nor no, airs cop the dough.
Minds Innocent and youthful
take
For real what's only show.
Old ~ise guys 81, In study
brown
Ard give all this the up ard
down.
Full many a boom come. 20 town
behind tho brass band and rides
home Ia tho sad and silent hoarse
When Garfield was trying TO
nominate John sherman and really
nominating himself thirty.six years
ago. ho said something about the
depth OF the ocean no; being de.
terfnincd from tho height OF the
passing waves.
II ia 80 here. IA a way that tends
10 cheer tho dropping Hpiriia.
On tho Friday and Saturday be-
fore tho convention met. the col.
onel's friends started for him n big
drive OF enthusiasm that was to
take the convention managers off
/ their feet.
The thlng vas well planned and
lot OF observers that ought to
have known better. fell for 81.
But tho convention managers
/ were not taken OF their feet
They just looked around aud said.
There's Teddy playing horse
agaln-brisat little boy" and vent
on shuffilng tho cards as before.
This. of course. is a good thing
II doesn't help TO have any noni.
nations carried by bayonet charges.
Orc reason why the drive
didn't catch hold In just the
way expected was THE GREAT
MIDDLE WEST.
Thus Justly famed region has
all It's crops In and they are
looking fine. and II doesn't feel
In It's hear, any particular
throbblngs about this chip and
shoulder business
lt's for America. all right, and
the old flag and all that. but II
isn't what you would call keen
for a trouble hunt at this June
ture.
so when many thousands OF ami.
able youth went tearing past with
great thrce.cornered badges and
making sizzlc for T. n. old 81 Per.
klns OF Blue Grass. Iowa. Just
smiled pleasantly and said Il was
good fun and this was n lively town
all right and NEVER JOINED IN
a CHEER
So the nomination was decided
on basis OF calm calculation in.
stead OF sand dance WHICH Is
A BLAMED GOOD THING.
Tho fact IL. you can't make much
OF dent IN politics any moro by
Just opening your mouth and let.
ting out n yell that curdles the cir
cumambient-
What goes now Is SOLID, MER.
CHARITABLE ADVANTAGE.
What BUSINESS have you got TO
offer7 That's the idea salesman.
ship. good business. goods against
goods and that sort OF thing
suppose yon might have been
able once 10 rush the convention
trenches with a loud glad cry. but
that was before the Hon. Reed
Smoot and the Hon. Murray Crane
got to RUNNING things. These
gents are all for business.
You could pass either OF them
through n coffee strainer and not
get any more sentiment than there
IN in grindstone.
There is another thing about this
convention calculated TO boom up
optimism two points on rising
market
All tho other old timers will agree
with me that II Is far and away
the most honest convention we
have seen.
mean, OF course. among conven-
tions where there was any kind Of a
fight
There are fewer men that can be
bought, aud stay bought, which is
we'll known TO be the final test of
an honest mani
have seen conventions
where votes wero offered on
street corners like potatoes In a
truck wagon and delegations
walked openly from headquar-
tiers to headquarters comparing
quotations.
A gentleman whose business
10 exclusively In this line Of
commodities tells me, that he
had succeeded in buying only
thlrty-two delegates all told.
II was the smallest number
he had ever dealt In at any con.
vention, and In HE opinion Il
showed tho business had gone