Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-08
LACK Of ENTHUSIASM !.
MARKS OPENING Of
G. 0. ?. CONVENTION
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the convention hall and dampened
any attempt at out OF door demon
STATIONS Except for the women.
Five thousand Of them, suffragists
| from many states, trudged for two
| hours through the downpour to the
! sounds Of bands. Hotel corridors
reeked with wet raincoats and UNI
brellas, buntings hung bedraggled and
stained from stats and walls and
booster clubs and booster bands
| quickly disbanded with nghtfall.
The Republican National convention
assembled in the Coliseum today and
! heard the keynote speech delivered
by Senator Warren Hearing of Ohio,
deferred organization and adjourned
until II O'clock tomorrow morning. 1t
took Just two hours and, in lack Of
demonstration or outbursts of any
| kind, and it's strict attention to he
business in hand, the convention was
reminiscent Of the Philadelphia con-
vention in 1900 that nominated Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt. y
For one hour and stwenty minutes
Senator Harding, Temporary chair.
man, delivered 10 carefully prepared
speech, punctuatsd ihs telling points
with brief periods OF handclapping
and applause, but atsno time did the
/ demonstration occupy more than half
a minute by the watch.
Lacksof Enthusiasm.
The convention WIS Is minutes be.
hind the hour arranged for its as
!. sembly, but when Chairman Hilles of
the republican national committee
brought down his gavel at 1925
O'Clock, the session moved quietly
and with precision until adjournment
at 1:25. Those of the old day time
leaders present who used to march
down the aisles to their seats to the
tune of an uproar walked today al
most unrecognized. w. Murray Crane,
Senator Lodges, Reed Smoot and a
lot of others came in practically un.
noticed, probably because a majority
of the DELEGATES did not even know
them by sight.
The hour for assembling was set
for II O'Clock, but there was no SEM
blans of order at that time and no
one made any pretense Of securing
it. 81
"Patriotism in Politics."
"The hour of II o'clock having ar
rived and a quorum being present"
said Hilles. the convention will be in
order. Paraphrasing remark by the
hate President Mckinley, this is a
year, whatever may have been true
of past years, when politics is patri-
otism and patriotism is politics,
therefore the audience will please
rise and sing two verses of America
The band launched into the patriotic
air and, led by a male quartet, the
floor and galleries joinedd in a mighty
chorus that swept through the big
| Coliseum. There was a moment OF
confusion at the end of the singing
as the delegates found their seats
! again and the Rev. John Timothy
Stone of Chicago read - prayer. The
big audience remained seated at his
request. .
Roll Of Convention. .,E
Secretary Reynolds then the roll
for the convention which was publish
ed last night 1t was only formal
/ ity. That over, Chairman Hilles pre-
sented Senator, Harding Of Ohio as
temporary chairman. jz,
The Idaho delegation announced
that Senator Borah was lnavoidably
absent, SO Mr.. Crane and Mrs. NC
Kinley marched up with Mr.. Harding
His appointment was signal for the
first genuine outburst of applause,
but it was brief and he plunged into
his prepared speech appealing for
harmony, counseling the delegates
that it was not time for recrimina'
ton, but a day of reconsecration. He
spoke more than an hour and was in
terrupted frequently by applause as
he scored the democratic admins
tration for its "ineiIiciency, incapac'
! AttE !