The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
Chairman Hilles had called the con

pa 1iOTLu Oh which G. -. r.. uOStS WILL
battle. this fall.
The convention adopted the rules
.of the 1908 convention. Its action
was In line with the plea for harmony
sounded in Senator Harding's keynote
speech and was considered especially
significant in view of the attempts at
amalgamation with the progressive.L
There were few points in the
rules which governed the 1912 con-
vention, which led to dispute" said
Senator Harding, explaining the 1908
switch. SO we simply took the 1905
regulations which have never been in
dispute
Senator Smoot of Utah, one of the
old guard. who has been conspicuous
in waving the olive branch toward the
progressives, went further in his COM
ment on the matter.
The 1912 controversy between
Taft and Roosevelt resulted in the
rules OF that convention being subse-
quently laid on the table," he said
We operated after that without any
rules. simply following ordinary par
liamentary practice. as laid down in
the congressional precedents.'
The Keynote Speech.
CHICAGO, June 7.-"Americanism"
was the keynote and party unity the
appeal of Senator Warren G. Hard
ing's speech, formally opening the re-
publican national convention today.
The vast majority Of the people,
Harding said, expected the party
sponsors to write anew the sacred
covenant of repub..canism and recon
secrate the party to the nations ser
vice.
I'VE did not do very well in max
ing for harmony the last time we
met" the temporary chairman said,
in opening his address. THE coun-
try has regretted; let US forget-and
make am ends to our country. We
did not divide over fundamental prin-
ciples; we did not disagree over ma
tional policy. We split over methods
of party procedure and preferred per-
sonalities.
THE allied hosts of the believers in
republican principles are In a vast
majority in this country-when the
banners of harmony are unfurled.
We have seen the re-enlistment of
those who believe in republican doc
trines. Re-dedicatfng here and now
the republican party to progress and
glory of the republic. let us bury
ton which our differences put in.o
power"
Harding expressed the belief that
can bearing credentials in the conven-
ton and odded. mo party can endure
which is not progressive. know tho
republican party is genuineiy progress
siye as well as effective"
After extending the olive branch
to the progressive, in convention at
the Auditorium, Harding outlined the
fundamentals upon which the party
planned to reconstruct its powfr AT
the same time. he fiayed the Wilsoa
administration, concluding that
everything is abnormal except the
depleted condition Of the federal
treasury, which is chara cteristic of
democratic control and the facility of
the administration for writing varied
notes without effective notice, and
speaking with more rhetoric than
resolution"
Bleeding Europe. he said, is a
warning for prudent, patriotic and
ample national defense. Let him who
is anxious about the cost remem Der
that republican policies afford the
ample means without conscious bur-
dens upon the people. I'VE proclaim
justice and we love peace and we
mean to have them-even il we have
to fight for them"
He warned any man. against appre-
hending the curse of militarism in
this fair land I'VE declare unalter-
ably against il. Our free citizenship
should tolerate no such blight on
American Institutions.
A protective policy and square deal
for business were urged by the
speaker. The people, he said, know
the protective policy which made US
industrially and commercially emin-
ent is necessary to preserve that
eminence. / know they want it re-
stored and maintained-a protective
and productive tariff, which prospers
America first
Of the prosperity wave in the
country now no one disputes II, Hard
ing, says But it is sectional in its
factory aspect. abnormal IN its fever
ed rush, fictitious in it's essentials and
perverting in it's tendency. Worse, it
is gold-sluiced from the river OF bloc l.
poured out by the horrifying sacrifice
by the millions Of our fellow men,"
Some Snap Shots
HBy George Martin, United Press
Staff Correspondent
COLISEUM. CHICAGO. June ..
12:45 p. m. passed by CENSOR Sena.
tor Harding averaged forty-five en-
phatic arm gestures, seven takings off
and outings on of his rubber tired
prinz-nez and seven rising ups on his
heel and coming down plump, to the
minute. He mopped his brow with a
black and white Powered handker-
chief an average of once every three
minutes and stumbled in his deliver
about once every fifteen minutes. His
favorite gesture was TO raise his right
hand as high above his head as he
could reach. and then let it trembie
there, vibrating with his fog horn
voice.
Victor Rosewater OF Nebraska, coal
boy and assistant wiper on the 1872
steam roller sits down among the
sc,,lJious of the pNsss as a mere re-