Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-09
Senator Lodges Keynote
Speech Appeal to Sweep
Wilson Dynasty Out.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
OTHERWISE is VERY TAME
Delegates Have Soldering
Conviction That the Party
Is on Thin Ice.
EAGER FOR PosTMAsTERsHIps
Evidenced When Chairman Hays
Accepted Mandate to Govern
United States.
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CHICAGO, June S.-The Republican
national Convention demonstrated at
its opening two-hour session today
that IL it lacked leadership, 1t did
not lack harmony. for the prelimt-
naries. at least.
Most OF the session was taken ap
with the Keynote speech OF Senator
Lodge, the temporary chairman.
From the moment that National
Chairman Hays stepped out on the
speakers platform and called the as
semblaEe to order until adjourn
mcnt time. the average Iookers-on
might have imagined that it was
all over but the shouting. Not n.
lung let loose with any wild scream
fSr davorile; not a voice was
raised In protest to any set plan for
the preliminaries. and all Joined In
shouting approval at Senator I.odre,
call to the party to rise up and
sweep the Wilson dynasty" out of
power.
But as conventions so, it was tame.
The only real life was evidenced
when the band navnd .raetYne,s
IL seemed as If some of the factions
teit that the ice was thin.
Is Lntc In Starting.
Half an hour late in STARTING ~.
Gun h.eh'ioh dumped quickly to its
work. First came the nationaI
chairman. who received roar =.
eheers from the delegates, and then
."e Nt' Key Charles Z. Woodcock.
Va LOUISVILLE. ky.. whose opening
"atted through sound ampli-
'ers' reached every part of the hall.
me crowd that had been reverent-
~ silent during the prayer, shut.
neu IT'S feet and kept up n con-
tinuous rattle of talk while the sec.
retary' in droning tone, read Tho
iorinal call for the meeting, A III
tie carrier, 1t had roarcd with lauehter
al the acrobatic antics of SOM
ieader as he followed Chairman Havs
10 the tongue of the platform to lead
the singing and cheers.
ihere was roar OF approval from
.he delegates when Chairman Hav.
declared that tho Republican marty
mad met in free and omen cony.n.
ton TO accept from the people
mandate for the government OF the
United States" A second outbu-st
came when he shouted: There will
DC no bolt in this convention"
me appearance OF Senator Lodge
VINO sad oeen escorted to the stage
from his place on the floor with the
massachusetts delegation. was tho
sisnal for the first real demonstra-
tion OF the day. Crowds in the gal
'eries stood. as did the delegates.
cheering and waving flags.
Cheering Starts Afresh
lhe cheering broke out afresh as
lie was introduced by Mr. Hays as
senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of the
United States" Then for an hour
and half he held the close atten-
tlon OF the big audience and broupb,
iorth cheering by sharp thrusts at
all the policies Of the Wilson admin
istration.
Senator Lodge got one OF his frs.
real hits with his reference to Pres
ident Wilson's participation in tho
peace conference
He went himself" said Senator
Lodge. because mo trusted no ono
else" The delegatcs laughed heat,
NY and followed up with applause.
as they did also when the sonator
IN succession lambasted the Mexican
''N'' N'O SpNci B operation or
railroads and the proposal to accent
mandate over Armenia. There
was another burst of applause and
approval when Senator Lodge, refer
ring to the defeat of the peace treaty.
said Republican Senators considered
the difficult task OF defeating tho
peace treaty their duty and did not
shrink from fulfilling It,"
The speech, which abounded
throughout with attacks on tho
PRESIDENT, was. in part. as follows:
Our Grinding Pressure OF Debt.
Behind us lies the greatest war
OF history, now for the most part
fallen silent. together with all the
hideous advances OF science In
methods OF taking human life, which
battened upon it, halted and quies-
cent.
The ruined towns. the broken In.
dustries. tho desolated farms are
there before our eyes wherever tho
battles were foushr. Countless lit
tie mounds mark tho resting placer
of the dead In the fields and ON. tha