The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-09

: him, and some of the delegates tried
( TO make the matter an occasion for a
! demonstration. but nothing much
came OF the effort.
| Senator Smoot of Utah. who hustled
about the floor all day long with more
ardor than any man in the house, Of
I fered a resolution admitting the dele
gates from Hawaii and Porto Rico
which was done with a flourish, and
about that moment william Jennings
Bryan arrived in the press box in his
role of reporter. creating slight d.
version, Tho wheels Of business hav-
ing been clogged today by the COM
mittee on resolutions. Senator Harding
hit upon the expedient of having a
little speech-making. He went about
/ II by appointing committee to escort
Chauncey M. Depew to the platform.
Uncle Joe" Is Called.
Uncle Joe" Cannon had reached
the platform while MIR. Depew was
talking. and when the latter con-
Guided there was loud call for
Uncle joe" Senator Harding intro
duced the former Speaker of the
House very briefly. and Mr. Canno
came forward even more sprightly
than Mr.. Depew. though his eighty
two years are but two less than the
years of the New Yorker.
senator Nllilam II. Borah of Idaho
was selected by Senator Harding as
the representative of the younger ele-
ment, bat he spoke with great calm
ness and with none OF the fire of the
aged mon who had preceded him. He
dw"'f UDon the shortcomings of De-
mocracy to some extent and he also
. br0ugh: in Mexico
Columbus and Glenn Springs were
the answers to the policy after San
Nsabel." he said. "A nation that is
too proud to fight will soon be regard
ed as too cowardly TO live
There were few empty seats at the
afternoon session. The streets outside
the hail were damned with motor cars
carrying Chicago ard visiting society
and IL took time to get the crowd
settled down in the seats. After call
i:g tho convention to order Senator
Harding found another brief gap in
his program because the committee on
resolutions was not yet quite ready
SO the Chairmal called upon the band
In The gallery to play while the dele
gates and spectators took to visiting
about the hall.
senator Lodge finally showed up,
however, and the convention restored
Itself TO order to hear the platform.
Mr. Lodge evidently knew his report
hy heart.
At the concluding of the reading OF
he report Mr.. Lodge moved its adop-
ton. The chair then recognized f.
!. Gross, Of Milwaukee Wis, a small
. man with black hair close crop
prd, who came forward and read
r. tnority report.
Report Is Minority Affair.
1t developed subsequently that this
/ report was indeed II minority affair
! because, as MIR Lodge explained to
/ the convention, it was signed only by
/ Mr.. Gross. Nevertheless. II contained
certain points of sufficient interest to
arouse the antagonisn Of some of the
{ delegates.
Senator Lodge replied briefly to Mr..
! Gross and informed the convention
( mat 1t was one-man report which
/ the gentleman from Wisconsin had
Just read and that most of The things
1t mentioned had been considered by
the committee. The convention laugh
ed and then on viva voce vote on a
motion to substitute the minority for
| the ma1orit" report. squashed Mr.
I Gross document. About half dozen
voices weakly called aye while there
was laundering mo" on the motion
The majority report was then adopted
/ In the same fashion.