Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-06-23

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ply, Sullivan, Taggart ana the minor
state bosses are the only people who
really are being seriously bossed. And
they don't like It. 1
Sullivan Boom, 4 Protest.
The Sullivan candidacy, which has
all the big bosses behind it and no
votes to speak Of, is largely an at
tempt to show the president that he
Is not the whole Democratic party.
Excepting the Illinois end of the Sui
Ivan candidacy. it is entirely a dem.
onstration against President Wilson.
In Illinois the Sullivan candidacy
reaches back half a decade into the
subterranean workings of Illinois for.
tfonal politics. The Sullivan candi-
dacy Is partly an attempt to take
the Illinois delegation away from "Jim
Ham" and this part is rather a por-
geous failure partly an ATTEMPT
to fort1fy Mr.. Sullivan for the next
senatorial election.
Merely Stare at Lewis,
The only real news item of todayn
convention arises from the fact that
this morning when Senator Lewis
breezed into the dining room Of the
Jefferson and smiled affably at Sui
Ivan and Brennan and the attendants
outriders. and heralds around the sa:
cred person, the whole bunch stared
at Lewis and refused to speak to him,
and all because in his innocence he
had copied out two dozen Illinois dele
gates from the Sullivan private stock
the night before and set up a festive
little vice presidential boomerino Of
his own.
In a convention where the most thrill
ing episode is suspension Of rela-
lions between Jim Ham Lewis and
r. G. Sullivan, there is indeed dole
full lack Of ginger.
Roger Sullivan's vice presidential
candidacy, at this moment the only
really serious thing in the convention,
is received as a gorgeous joke.
Delegates do not realize that Sui
Ivan is. not in need Of advertising that
he has no reason for grandstanding,
and that If he could get half dozen
state bosses with him, who dislike VIII
son-as, for instance, Murphy of New
York, Reed Of Missouri, Taggart of
Indiana and Bailey Of Texas-they
might use the nomination Of Sullivan
as patronage club that would force
from the president nearly anything
they would want.
Sullivan Would Bring Defeat.
For Sullivan on the Democratic tick
ct would defeat it; no one knows this
better than Sullivan and the big state
bosses who are liable to be attracted
by his game.
Yet If the president is going ahead
for the next four years, as he has
gone during the last four, recognize
ing the bosses only under pressure,
now is the time to know it, and Roger
G. Sullivan is the handle of the front
door that will open into that query.
Yet the convention regards the Sui
Ivan boom as joke; and its opposi-
ton by Jim Ham Lewis, who is a
kind Of political Charley Chaplin. has
set the corridors aroar,
Another convention Joke is the con.
dict between the stories of the time
when the president shall be nominated.
Think Wilson SuperstitIous.
One story declares that President
Wilson, being superstitious, has sent
word that he desires no nomination
on Friday and that the nomination IL
to be delayed until one minute after
IL Saturday morning.
Another story equally well authen.
ticated by delegates who desire to get
home for Sunday breakfast and who
have no desire to sit until midnight
listening to dry seconding speeches il
that the president has sent word that
his lucky day is Friday and that he
prefers Friday Of all days.
But no one seems to care much.
The g1ggly stage has to come and go
In every convention. And this IL the
gtggly stage. Tomorrow serious
things will loom out of the fog.
Then the tragedy Of the Sullivan
movement may assert itself; then the
latent force Of Mr.. Bryan, coming
merely as one Of the scribes to tho
Sanhedrin where for 20 years he has
been high priest, may become viz
ible.
Bryan Still 4 Factor.
Bryan is still Bryan in the Demo-
cratic party and will have to be con.
sidered in every important delibera-
ton.
But today he and peace and pro-
hibitton and woman suffrage and
Roger Sullivan and Jim Ham, the
movie queen, and the superstitions Of
the president are the sublimed ct
sence of the great American joke.
And 1t Is well that they are. For,
after all, our 'sense Of honor saves us
whole"
Fancy the national mind all dressed
up and nowhere to go for q whole long
week but to serious consideration
OF the difference between "Jim Ham"
and "R. c." It's inst as wol1 IN oioo1a