The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1920-07-09

seems To support the claim OF Fred
Gardner and Frank Farrg, who OPP.
pose him for president, that he lacks
practical experience in politics, and
that sum would have made two thous-
and more offices for deserving Demo-
Gratis"
However that plank, anent the
League Of Nations that you and other
gentlemen from the Provences were 50
loudly cheering and applauding u
short time ago. and which thought
would lead you to tearing off your
shirt, 50 violent and vigorous Were You
in your enthusiasm, does not lack the
want Of practical politics | have been
noting In Hoover. and which is so sad.
dcning to pic eaters like Governor
Gardener and professional boodlers like
Frank Ferris, for like that useful, "
not graceful feminine garment, known
as the Mother Hubbard, that plank
covers everything and touches nothing.
nor continued my philosophical Demo.
cratic friend. Is practical politics, con-
fined 10 the g. o. l.. platform alone.
Son-noticc that word "son" in con.
tradistinctiUn to the little personal in
cidcnt in the taxi which have already
mentioned. For real smoothncss that
appeals to your vanity some men
can even equal the feminine article,
;hOlgh no man can drop you with
The real kcr-plunk woman can.
| have been dropped by both, and
experience give YOU both knowl-
edge and sore spots. Notice, will
YOU. the air Of idcalism that the
followers of the rcsiduary lcgatee, the
Crown Prince, are throwing around
McAdoo's candidacy; idealism, hell,
take out the sentiment based on past
favors and expectation Of more to
come. and Barney Baruch's big doodle
campaign fund In the background, and
Il wouldn't last longer than Il pretty
and charming young widows. Gates
Ajar Wreath" does over her dcccas-
eds dear first husbands grave.
Aud then came Ex-Governor Frank
u. Willis with the real speech Of the
convention. and "a speech which had
much to do with making Warren G.
harding the Republican nominee. Will
H. Is big, fine looking man, with a
voice that carries like "A Winchester
rifle ball, and yet voice which Is
kindly in its tones. lie knows that
you cant get under "a mans skin by
shooting over his head, and that man
can gaze into the clouds too long and
miss "a mighty lot Of interesting and
important things going on in the val
ley, and ! will add that the valley Is
never neglected by Frank u. Willis,
as witness that touch of human nature,
that getting down into the valley play
II his when he said, SAY, boys and
girls, why not" and how the conven-
tion took II and checred Il, But when
Willis wants to get up in the clouds,
he can soar as high in altitude as any
OF them, us witness when speaking of
Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt" he
said, left no successor, his man
tie fell on no earthly shoulders,
no chieftain remains to bend the bow
of Ulysses Talk about brilliancy,
you have n cube of II there-some-
thing such US James q. Blaine and
Robert G. Ingersoll and such orators
were capable Of. Remember, he said,
that Republicans on battle fields, and
Congress and in all the vocations of
private life did their full duty as
Americans, regardless of the repeated
insults Of the most bitter partisan ad-
ministration in the history Of the Re-
public, and the official announcement
Of that autocrat Of the White House
Woodrow Wilson, that the only way "a
sustain the Republic and be patriotic
was to vote the Democratic ticket
that party that won in 1915, because
II kept US out Of war, and now seeks
In 1920 to win because II has kept us
out Of peace. The un'
swerving loyalty of American
traditions and institutions from Wash,
ington TO Roosevelt has been super
ceded by q vague, misty, polygamou,
patriotism that would scatter its af'
iections Unfortunately among Beng
alese and Bolsheviki, and which woult
prove as unsatisfactory and trouble
breeding in international, as well al
domestic affairs, Ohio presents fol-
your calm consideration one of III
plain sons, one of its common folks
a stalwart. fighting Republican,,
man of dignity, urbanity and breadth
of character like William Mckinley, I
man who carried Ohio in 1914 fol
United States Senator by 100000 an,
the whole ticket with him and myself
with il, sane man always-Warrer
lG. Harding. The Coliseum rung with
Applause at the conclusion of THU
speech, and the Ohio delegation rose
in their seats and cheered; in a vague
land misty way the convention seemed
even then to realize that the man o.
the hour had come, and their instincts
were not wrong, and the ladies seem
ed to feel II as well as the men, FOL
after Willis denunciation Of Wilson
| heard the lady behind me say how
lawfully bad the parents who named
their innocent children after Woodrow
Wilson must feel. for the little Wood
Ivov,s are iust retting bip enough nov