Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-06-25
No Startling Features in After
math.of the Republican
Convention.
BUTLER INCIDENT SURPRISES
National Interest Soon to Center in
San misunderstanding Candi-
dates and Their Strength
BoIshevism in Crisis
League of Nations
Weakening.
By E. F. cLIPsoN.

The aftermath Of the Republican ma
tional convention has been somewhat
routine as aftermaths of that sort go.
The usual congratulations have been
extended to the winners with evidences
of good craftsmanship and pledges of
party fealty on the part of the nea
winners. Inasmuch as victory fell to
the right or conservative wing of the
party some digruntlement was to be
expected from the left or progressive
wing, but so far, this has not been
manifested to an unusual degree. Pro
greSSive candidates and leaders promi-
lent in the convention, have with a
few exceptions, maintained silence, and
the assumption is that they are in Sc
c%lusion, receiving first aid treatment
for their wounds. Talk of a bolt is not
nearly so voluminous as it was follow
ing the convention of 1916, and is not
receiving serious consideration. This
is not merely opinion, but a fact CLEAN
ed from the news of the day. Several
eminent Progressives, notably Senator
Kenyon of Iowa and Senator Lenroot
of Wisconsin, climbed into the band
wagon within "a hours after the con-
yention.
AS a rule losers are treated sympa-
thetically and charitably, but this fight
has developed the unusual spectacle
of one of the minor contenders venting
his spleen upon the campaign and sup
porters of one of the big figures among
the defeated. Nicholas Murray But
Ter, head of Columbia university, who
evidently assumed that because the
New York delegation supported him in
the convention he was the boss of that
state, has attacked the forces of Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood as boodlers and
stock gamblers who attempted to buy
the presidency. He refrains from any
attack ON General Wood personally
and indeed adopts a ~patronizing atti-
tude toward that gentleman. General
Wood and his principal campaign con-
tributor, Col. William Cooper Proctor,
a man not associated in the public
mind with stock gamblers, but rather
as an aff1uent and somewhat prosaic
manufacturer of a soap that floats,
have ONE back Enthusiastically and
~vitriolically. The burden of their re-
ply is to the effect that Mr.. Butler is
a fakir who would not be able to rec
ognize the truth if he had it under a
magnifying glass. In the use of force
full and soaring words it must be ac-
knowledged that they have the better
of the argument The incident is the
only d%iscordant note that has so far
developed in the band wagon and the
only thing out of the ordinary in con-
vention aftermaths- The bulk of opin-
ion as expressed in dispatches and edi-
| torials Is that college presidents may
be men of much book "larnin'" and
high ideals. but frequently very short
on political wisdom.
Palpitant national interest now
| shifts to the Democratic conclave at
San Francisco. All indications are
that while there will be less external
heat than at Chicago, internal forces,
fires and ambitions will provide quite
as much combustion. Among those
reasonably certain to be placed in
nomination are William G. McAdoo of
New York, James NJ. Cox. governor of
Ohio; A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney
general of the United States, Pennsyl-
vanla; Robert L. Owen. senator from
Oklahoma Edward I. Edwards. gov
ernor of New Jersey Gilbert NJ. Hitch
cock. senator from Nebraska; Hoke
Smith. senator from Georgia, and
John W. Davis, Virginia, ambassa'
dor To Great RIitain Vice President