The Washington times., 1920-06-10

The committee on credentials report
is read. One solitary man from Ten
nessee has q protesting minority re-
port. He rises TO say that he will be
a good sport. and will not spoil the
harmony.
"I'n carry my tight back to Ten
nessee," says be. and the convention
applauds this patriotic willingness to
be steam rolled.
There will be for some time now
the reading of committee reports by
men with nne voices. II it were pos
sible to transplant tho right voice to
the weak vocal cords that usually
live below an able brain, there would
be many fine orators in the world.
But humorous nature gives the big
voice to the little thinker. and the big
thinker to the little voice, as a rule.
Thus the balance is preserved and
''The trees do not grow into the
heavens"
Just now they are reading the rules
of 1916, which are to run this con-
vention, with slight changes. They
are good old rules, under which Theo-
dore Roosevelt was steam rolled out
of this house in 1916 and Woodrow
Wilson was steam rolled into the
White House. These gentlemen are
apt to repeat the 1915 episode with
the L916 rules. The episode, like the
rules, will have some slight Naria-
tions.
For instance, il they compel Hiram
Johnson to run as An independent
and Mr.. Lodge is the kind OF man
to make the same mistake twice and
think highly Of himself for it-if
they make the mistake that they
made in 1916, Hiram johnson will
run as an independent, but his run
will elect him. 1T won't elect the
Democrat this time.
The steam roller that was being
nicely CREASED by the old guard be-
tween the hours of II and this
morning will roll over one perfectly
good Democratic candidate as well
as one Republican. Johnson as an
Independent will beat them both.
This is as good a place as any to
repeat for your information the fact
that Hiram Johnson will be the next
President of the United states, and
II necessary, he will make an inde-
pendent run.
Now Chauncey Depew is called upon
to speak. Somehow or other IT seems
quite appropriate in convention that
after world war goes back to 1910
for its rules and to Mark Hanna Tor
its methods. You are glad that Depew
Is called, when you see the happy
smile on his old face and the light OF
battle come back to his eye through
forty years of time. Age puripes
everything. which is the only excuse
for old age. Everybody cheers and
laughs as some of us laughed forty
years ago when they heard frag-
ments OF Depew's first story About
the mountains OF Colorado, concern
ing which some one said you are
either a miracle or a damned liar"
Mr.. Depew just now is telling how
he used to see Lincoln in Washington
sixty years ago. BY and by, perhaps
he will tell how he was once elected
president of the New York Central
Railroad, and his friends. wishing TO
compliment him, predicted: "Chaun-
cey, after you have been president OF
the railroad for n year it's stock Will
be within the reach of the poorest
man in. the country" II he tells that
story. everybody will know that his
health and his memory are good. The
miracle Is that he can make the $4,000
people hear, and he Is eighty-six years
old.
r. S.-He Is not a prohibitionist or
a total abstainer. Too bad, but the
truth must be told.
Just now the wonderful old man is