The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-08
Steele; Ohio, Walter

Alfred steele, ONO, waiter II
Brown; Oklahoma, L. G. Disney;
Oregon. W. H. Brooke; Pennsylvania,
Robert McAfee; Rhode Island, Rich
ard S. Aldrich; South Dakota, s. X.
Way; Tennessee, A v. McIain;
Texas and Utah, blank; Vermont,
II. N. Jackson; Virginia, r. A. Full,
weller, Washington, w. T. Laube;
West Virginia, w. F. Hite; Wiscon-
sin, H. J. Mortensen; Wyoming, w.
r. Weeks; Alaska, Thomas M. Reed !;
District Of Columbia. James A. Cobb;
Philippines, A. S. Grossfield; Porto
Rico, R. H. Todd
All Ready for Big Show.
i1By Hugh Baillle, United Press Sta1
Correspondent
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June g.
The big top is open. The crowd Is
filing through the menagerie into the
big show.
An hour before the main event WIS
to begin, the huge Coliseum was
slowly filling with principals ano
spectators for the republican conveh-
ton.
The space reserved for delegates,
however, was a vast sea Of emptiness
at that hour It was dotted. howeve-..
by little islands on which rested the
state standards. which later in the
week probably will be carried about
the hall in faworite son demonstra-
tons.
Perched high in temporary bal
,cony, at the far end Of the hall was
"a brass band so high and so far from
the platform that the musicians LOOK
ed like boys on roof.
The Coliseum was mass of Amer
iican flags from the topmost steel
girder to the concrete floor. Thou
sands upon thousands of Stars and
Stripes were massed and festooned
from roof to balcony.
Outside the great gray building,
Automobiles, street cars and pedes-
TRANS were tangling themselves IN
"a mass in which mounted policemen
labor valiantly to keep the people and
the vehicles moving.
The day was hot but clear. Palm
beach suits were popular and hun
dreds Of spectators carried their
coats over their arms, as they ploddel
toward the Coliseum.
Cool and Self Possessed.
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 81
Senator Lodge was a picture of cool
mess and self possession when he
delivered the republican Eeynote
speech.
Standing directly beneath big
sounding board, Lodge planted him
self solidly on his feet. scarceIy
shifting them from beginning to end.
His gestures were few, but effective.
Occasionally he raised hand TO en-
Iphasize a point or shook an admon1sf-
ing finger as he referred to the demo-
cratic administration. Frequently the
thumb OF his right hand was inserted
in his trousers pocket In which att'
Itude he stood much of the time while
holding his manuscript in his left
hand.
The senator was clad In a black
frock coat, black trousers and shoes
and a white waistcoat spotted with
tiny black dots.
His delivery was incisfve. At the
start his voice was strong, but after
he had spoken half an hour 1t grew
a trine husky.
The crowd listened with unusur,
lintentness, and the applause gave In
dication that his auditors We're really
endorsing his statements, rather tnaa
merely seeking an excuse to cheer
IIBy L. c. Martin, United Press Staff
Correspondent
CHICAGO, June s. - The work of
putting the republican platform on
paper is to begin soon after the first
session of the convention meets today.
Senator Watson, of Indiana, appear
ed early today to have the edge over
Ogden Mills, OF New York, In the con-