Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-15
By EARL GOODWIN.


thing about former Gov. Martin Glynn's
keynote speech which cannot be sue
cessfully controverted, and that is 1t
contains glory enough to go around.
1t contains glory enough to go around
| the coliseum. or around the block, or
| around the city. or around the world.
The prediction in the keynote that
President Wilson would be reelected
\ was received with violent cheers. OF
course, but practical politicians who
have to go stamping this fall found
| another virtue therein. When they lack
for ideas they can turn back the pages
to Gov. Glynn's keynote speech and
carve out large sections of it for use
in the counties. and after they have
| spread it on thick they can go back
and still find an inexhaustible quantity
| remaining. They can take out tons and
| tons of keynote, and break it up in
] chunks for family trade, and then re-
| turn to the mine and discover that
| layer upon layer of good carboniferous
| political fuel is left.
| If the coal supply of this continent
was deep. and broad and wide and
long and plentiful as former Gov.
Glynns keynote. biologists could re-
caste their estimates on liberal scale
| and predict that the Pennsylvania coal
least. No one imagined that Martin
Glynn, who is a slightly built gentle
man. could sound keynote which
would ring for most of the afternoon.
and yet he certainly proved that as
, keynoter he is an entire symphony. He
even outdid the great success achieved
by former Gov. Willis of Ohio. who in
troduced the Australian crawl stroke
into campaign oratory and whose NOM
| ination of former Senator Burton for
| the presidency was characterized by
Representative Rodenberg of East st.
Louis, ILL.,, as the most magnificent
| physical effort he had ever seen. The
keynote showed that this campaign is
! to be fought out with an inexhaustible
supply of verbal shrapnel. After the
| keynote has ceased vibrating, and the
deep diapason of the political organs of
the country starts to rumble deep down
| in their innards the dome of reason
| will begin to totter.
| OF course, the conventions opening
| was all a great joy-fest for the democ-
racy and a whooping big time for the
vided for their President and glad to
be given a chance to let loose. The
| city of ST. Louis. or the convention
| managers, or some one saw to it that
| the American flag should be in evil
| dence. Boy Scouts with great sheaves
of flags went through the convention
early, giving flag to every man and
| woman there. so that when cheer
i
| ing flags. a most beautiful sight in
deed. There were flags in the gallef-
les. and bunting hung from every pos
| sible niche and corner and projection.
and the inevitable convention band.
| seated in a sort of bird cage high up
at one end. played merrily on all kinds
| of wind instruments capable of pro-
| ducing martial airs.
! In the national committee headquar-
l to Low hxy Gov 1f
son buttons with the slogan America
| first" A man on the outside of the
| hotel is selling the same buttons mark
ed safety first" Take your choice.
While the clans were assembling in
| the hall. fine old Irish gentleman
named Patrick OKeefe, whose long
residence in the state of Texas has not
taken away from him any of the Gaelic
attributes brought by him from the
an elaborate Irish reel. AS the band
played Mr.. O'Keefe. who admits to at
least sixty-five, astonished every one
| by leaping over a four-foot barrier and
dancing like eixteen-year old. He
| spun around on one foot, and then
| jumped up and cracked his heels to-
| gether and shouted. He did this three
| separate times. His enthusiasm could
| keep it within himself. but while Rev.
DR.. James w. Lee of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church South was reciting
the words of an opening prayer the
spirit within Patrick OKeefe burst
l forth and e.yelled at the top of his
lungs: Go 1t, old boy. you said some
thing then"
| Had 1T not been in the midst of
prayer, 1t is likely that the Coliseum
| would have exploded with laughter.
for every one was in an explosive mood.
They all exploded loudly when William
4 Jennings Bryan took his seat in the
press section; they exploded again at
the sight of Senator Ollie James and
| Representative Tom Helm, who still
| wears his long black frock coat despite
| the hot weather. They exploded for
Chairman McCombs and Representative
| Rainey of Illinois and Senator William
| Hughes of New Jersey, and when Ben
| net Clarks name was mentioned as the
parlimentarian of the convention, the
Missourians threw in an extra loud
yell.
| Chicago newspaper men have been
sending back word to their papers that
this Is a cold convention. evidently try
ing. to make the home folks believe
| there never was anything like the Chi
| cago meetings of last week. However,
/ A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania
| nearly went mad yelling at the open
ing Of this democratic convention, and
! any one who knows the severity of the
Palmer countenance will agree that
there is, indeed. enthusiasm in the air
when Mr.. Palmer begins to shout.
| The Cook county democracy. the heav-
| lest aggregation of democrats in the
| city, had considerable to do with the
| tumult. This organization from Chi
| cago comes here bent on stirring up
| boom for Roger Sullivan for Vice Presi-
dent. Mr. Sullivan himself says he
| knows the boys don't want him down
in Washington, and his political oppon-
emit, Senator James Hamilton Lewis
| has this to say of all such booms in ST.
| Louis: They come here as candidates
for the vice presidency of the United
| States, and then use the noise to help
| them run for their state legislatures
| But as to the weight Of the Cook
| county democracy: 1t is composed of
some of the largest men ever seen.
| Scarcely one Of them weighs less than
! 200 pounds They all dress in gray
| clothes. high collars and have their
| handkerchfefs stuck into their necks.
| They discard the American flag for
the palm-leaf fan. Upon arriving at
| the Coliseum they Immediately elected
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky an
| honorary member for life.
The Tammany outfit, scarcely less
weighty. played a mean trick OF the
| Cook county boys. There is a New
| York drummer in the same hotel with
| the Cook county team. His name is
| Rosenthal. and he is carrying a fine