The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-10
KNOX is RED
HERRING FOR
CAMPA|CNERS
Try to Get Other Fellow Wor-
ried, Referring to Strength
Watson Ignores Idealistic
Platform.
RADICALS THREATENING
BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE
Copyright, 1920, by the Central Press
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CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 10-The scent
of the Knox Herring across the trail
of the various candidates was noted
again today. Every so often, with a
periodicity that is as measured as the
phases of the day, comes the whisper
that grows to the chorus, Knox senti-
ment is growing" Always the appli-
cation Of the herring to the trail can
be traced to persons that view with
alarm the growth of other candidates
than their own.
1t is an Interesting minor manifes-
tation Of a convention that Is eXtraor-
dinary for its embroideries but is en-
tfrely ordinary so far as the basis
fabric is concerned Last night they
had the senator arriving secretly.
fastening to the Chicago club and
there meeting diverse influential per
sons of influential personal divers, as
the case may have been.
The Knox story of course, is thrown
out for the discontinue of Sproul.
Barring the fact that Sproul is the
candidate Of the Pennsylvania delega-
tion, that Knox has endorsed Sproul
heartily and publicly, the story has
passing interest in all it's other feat
ureS, save one, and that is this: Sen
ator Penrose in communication with
Chicago last night and today, gave
the word that he is unreservedly for
Sproul and set machinery in motion
to help Sproul.
Still the Knox story has it's value
1t serves as medium for helping the
humid millers about in the hotel lob
bies from thinking too much, or dwell
ing too sadly on the terrible dreary
hours and hours ahead of them, when
unless oil and water can be mixed
into an acceptable salve by that ex-
pert mixologist, James w. Watson,
who is chairman of the resolutions
committee, they will hear 9,763 miles
and three parasangs of talk about the
league OF nations.
League Great Underlying Topic.
All the talk about the league of ma
tiOnS will not be exuded in the con
vention hall and league of nations talk
Is the basis of dire predictions that
there will be bolt by those who are
irreconcilably against that covenant ir
any form or shape whatsoever
Chairman Will Hays declared
There will be no bolt in his opening
speech at the convention but the wise
acres In the streets and hotels dispute
that with him. Indeed, you can finC
plans and specifications for a bolt in
any gathering Of more than three
Persh1ng patriots at any place below
Twelfth street and Madison on the
Michigan boulevard. 1t is all set, the,
say.
Borah is to march out and johnson
and various others, splitting the Re
publican party as wide as a breakfas,
1nackerel; provided. of course, the
platform, in this regard, does not com
prehend their ideas on the matter
That Is what We hear. The Repub
1ican managers look forward to this
exodus. If it comes with considerable
equanimity, for it is their opinion tha
bolt on an academic question doe:
not get anywhere in particular, anc
their experience. too, as an 1S9,
veteran will recall, the Roosevelt Dol
in 1912. that really did split the Re
publicans wasn't based on an aca
demic question, but on the rec
blooded, understandable and concret,
proposition. robbery, theft, arson, anc
various other high crimes and mis-
Gemeanors.
They'll Talk 1t Out First.
Still, interesting and, as yet inclu
sive as this bolt talk is, and believ,
me, fellow citizens, there will b,
oc' ans of further talk before it hap
pens, it leaves one chief factor out o
consideration, namely, Senator R. NJ
LaFollette, of Wisconsin.
Senator Lafollette underwent al
operation the other day, and the de
tails Of it are lacking, but it is
certainty that whatever the surgeon
did cut out of him they did not eH
terminate his radicalsm and it wa
very we'll known before he went ol
the table what he has in mind after h
comes off and recoverS. Furthermore
there is every evidence that a thir,
Iarty is forming to which the bolter
may bolt if they do bolt and all sign
and portents indicate a triangula
campaign
Therefore, with the next fight sche6
uled to come on the platform it /
interesting to know whatever the trou
tles Of the Republicans. they will hav
nothing on the Democrats. 1t can b
said uron authority the programme Q
William ]. Bryan. at San Francisc
entails three separate knockdown an
drag-out fights over the platform.
First fight for dry plank; second
fight against the Wilsonian CON
mand that tho peace treaty shall b
ratified without ''the dotting of an
or the crossing of T." which doesn
mean by the way without blacking o,
an eye: Third, on profiteering.
Thus. the resolutions Of each part
IS the more expert at straddling. TIL
Republican committee resolutions is i
muggy, maugged and mugwoumpis
consideration Of its platform as this i
written.
Don't Want MeaninqfuI Words
1t is searching it's aggregate soul t
find words to mean what it says will
cut saying what 1t means and this
strange, because there was forme
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