Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-10
CONVENTION IS
STAMPEDE PROOF
Republicans Decorously Clap
Hands While Bull Moose Try
TO Yell Heads Off
[By a Stan Correspondent

BY q Stan Correspondent
Chicago, Ju-c 10.-Probably the
most striking thing about tEe conven-
tlons held in Chicago this week. out
side OF the weather, which has had an
atrocity all its own. is the difference
In the delegates to the two gatherings.
While the Progressives yell their heads
OF on every occasion, the Republi-
cans manifest approval by deCorous
clapping of hands. And when you
ATrite that you give the story.
= The Republican convention is made
UP to men who would like to have the
party united and who would give the
right hand to the Progressives, but IL
is stampede proof. The Progressive
convention is composed of the radi-
calls of the Republican party and sea-
lots who know but one thing. 1t con-
tains some excellent gentlemen who
are as sincere in their beliefs as four
years ago and who realize what two
tickets mean, hut they are in the min
ority. The favorite battle cry sums up
the Progressive attitude: I'VE want
Teddy"
Throughout the sessions of the Re
publican convention the attitude of
the delegates has been impressing it
self upon the spectators. Some Roose-
Neltian plants" in the convention at
the Coliseum IaVe been apparent
every day, but they have not had much
chance to rip things loose and their
enthusiasm has thus far been confined
10 joining with Vigor in the songs.
But the delegations are composed of
the best men of the Republican party
of the nation. Governors, Senator'S
congressman. businessmen, profess
sional men and politicians who scent
which way the wind is blowing are
sitting under the state standards
Many of them bald. as one of the wo-
men writer's chirped out the other day,
hut the kind of men who are not car
ried off their feet. In other words an
Unconditional convention. very different
from the gathering which raised the
roof of the Auditorium theater this
week.
Speeches Applaudcd.
The precisenoss of the remarks of
Harding, the graceful and humorous
language of Depew and the bellicose
words of Uncle Joe Cannon were ap-
praised and applauded by the Repub-
lican convention as they deserved in
the first two days and the roars of
some fellows years ago, were outbursts
SO solitary that they were laughable.
The Progressive uutbursts were some
thing volcanic. They were spontan-
eous clamorous, frenzied. But they
were only when anyone mentioned the
Colonel.
1t struck me that there was some
thing about two or three of the dem
onstrations which swept over the Pro-
EressiVe convention that resemb bled the
great Bryan demonstration at Denver
In 1908, when the Democrats deter
mined 10 outdo in time the great Re-
publican demonstration in the Chicago
convention of that year. That uproar
lasted ten minutes beyond the Repub-
lyan demonstration and suhsided so
suddenly that there was suspicion of q
signal. The first Roosevelt demonstra- I,
ia. i
was like blowing off steam and every |
one cut loose, but when George W. |
Perkins stopped waving two -by-four /
lag there was not much more to it, |
The other demonstrations we're just |
as furious for a time, but there came
q time whsn the effort was apparent
Progressive Demonstrations.
Some Progressive demonstrations
were as patent as the putting in of |
the Republican orators to kill time for
le platform committee to finish its /
" Nork. There would be period of |
y ?ise and when the throat refused to |
exercise its functions there would be |
lulls. Then some one would bounce |
in with a sign referring to Bunker |
Hill in 1875 and Roosevelt in 1916 or |
comparison between a demand on |
Morocco and a note to Germany and |
j would start all over again. Finally |
one would wave a hand and the root
ers would start to fan themselves in
stead of the air
The Republicans would applaud the .
lam. sting of the Democrats with /.
ginger, but it would soon stop. The J
mention of a candidates name in a .
nominating speech would evoke the |
appropriate cheers and the demonstra-
tion which followed would be enjoyed |
for moment or so. Then the solid /.
substantial men in the delegate seats
would grow restive and the galleries !
would tear around a while and quit
The one thing the two conventions
seemed to have in common was that
the country should have a navy that
would fear none. But they demon
trated it different ways.
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