The courier-index., 1920-07-02
ROBINSON MAKES
 DELEGATES HOWL
ARKANSAS SENATOR'S SPEECH SCORES BIG HIT AT CONVEN- TIoN-DENoUNcEs REPUBLI- CANS.


 TION-DENoUNcEs REPUBLI.
 CANS.
 San Francisco, June 29.-In key note speech No. 2 of the Democratic convention, the Republican party was again lashed to the mast by Sen. Joseph T. Robinson of Arkan- sas, permanent chairman. He took the G. O. P's. platform as his text in the second days session and said things about it that made the dele gates scream with delight. As an opener, Senator Robinson remarked:
 "The Republican platform is an amazing tumble of ambiguties, in- constituencies, evasions, misrepresen- tations, saddles and islanders" After unbelting that package the Arkansas senator rolling up his sleeves, so to speak, proceeded to wade in with rhetorical elbow-and- shoulder effect. He fought the war over again, much as Homer Cum mings did yesterday, and likewise Washington over the treaty and the LSdSuc Ol NdIlOtlS. DcIWccH WHlIcS he dwelt upon the Republican ticket.
 "In 1912," he said, "Sen. Hard ing in his own newspaper printed an editorial in which he called Hi ] ram Johnson destructionist and worse, and said Theodore Roosevelt was a Benedict Arnold. I wonder what Hiram thinks of Harding now?"
  As if drilled the delegates jumped up as one man howled with pleas ure, later they set up cheers when Robinson took one item to which the Republicans point with pride," namely, the pairing of more than $1, 900, 100000 out of the estimates ! of needed appropriations.
 "The absurdity of this boast" he said, lis disclosed by the fact that S1 ,000, 100000 in excess of the amount appropriated by the Demo- cratic congress in 1916 has been authorized for the coming fiscal year. This does mot include emer- gency or war expenditures, only appropriations for ordinary activity of the government"
 From this the permanent chairman sauntered on his way, flicking the heads of the dandelions at every step. Tariff, profiteering, campaign expenditures, foreign policy, Mexi- co, bleeding Armenia" the League of Nations, woman suffrage-Ahe missed nothing. And at every wal lop, "whoop-eev screamed the un- terrified Democrats as MT. Cum mings with characteristic original | ity had termed them earlier in the l day.
 Everybody is Happy After their morning ride down the bay and through the Golden Gate the delegates were slow in as- sembling. But they soon were filled with bounces. Even the great pipe organ caught the tone and rumbled out fragments of rag-time-it struck the ears as it might if church choir had substituted "The Jazz Town Blues," for the Eastern an- them. Elderly delegates and alter mates pranced into the isles and threw highland filings. Up in the loft a megaphoned quartet trailed the Long, Long Trair' few thou sand miles. There was an extended period of song, laughter and cheers. But the big chiefs were upstairs in the various committee rooms. At length an hour late, chair man Cummings at two o'clock brings down the gavel and introduces. Blsh- op L. W. Leonard of the Methodist Episcopal church of San Francisco, who delivers the prayer The re- port of the Credentials Committee is read by S. D. Jamieson of Shen- andoah, Ia. A roar of applause bursts out as he reports on the case of Senator Reed of Missouri, who was thrown out by the National Committee and then by the Creden- tials Committee by a vote of 29 to l9. X
 Senator Reed Turned Down. Joseph B. Shannon of Kansas City, the uncontested delegate from the Fifth district, takes the rostrum to present Senator Reeds case and protest to the floor. His appeal gets nowhere.
 "Our district" he said, 'is the banner district of Missouri, ours is the district which stood by with a plurality of 15,O00 four years ago when we wired the message to stand by the president We protest against the National Committee, the national convention and the state convention setting aside the regu- larly elected delegate of our dis trict, James A. Reed
 The flashlights are turned on, the delegates roar" Tells from the floor, "Take him away! Go to- sleep" and the like.> Shannon, however, sticks to his job. He says that Reed was tossed out simply because he differed with somebody on questions on which differences of opinion are Justifla- ble. The delegates redoubled their noise. Cummings hits the desk with such a whack that the head drops off the mallet. Th;s strikes the delegates as fair