The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

7. R. CONTROL
William Allen White Fore
sees Deadlock Remote
Possibility.
LOWDEN IS CONFIDENT
Observer Finds Little En-.
thusiasm in Crowds at
Chicago.
LOWDEN IS CONFIDENT
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velt the Republican party lost it's
greatest leader"
And four years ago this June and
eight years ago this June, DIR. But
Ter came to Chicago with just one
idea under his hat: The defeat and
destruction and utter damnation of
Theodore Roosevelt.
Things like the Butler statement
are what lend the deliciously up
rosrious element to an otherwise
whited sepulchural occasion. The
lack Of leadership is due to a lack
of ideas. No one stands for any,
thing in particular excepting John
son and Hoover.
But the delegates are as fright
ened at the positive two-fisted up
standing position of johnson as
the yare confused about the re-
served. qualified, scientific refiec-
tions of Hoover. If Johnson should
win the convention would go mad
IL Hoover had a show of winning it
would adjourn. Yet neither Wood
nor Lowden trusts the other.
Lowden Well Organized.
Lowden probably has the best
staying force in the convention. He
represents the Old Guard in Its
decadence; his campaign is the re-
treat from Moscow; heroic, splendid.
but discouraging. His forces know
what the ywant and somewhat how
to get il. They are not shocked by
the revelations of bribery. Low
den's rebuke of the bribe takers and
! acceptance of the bribe gfvers satis-
6ZQ hn
will stay with him and they expect
! to torpedo the Wood boom on the
second or third ballot.
The Johnson people are willing to
help put Wood out of business, be-
lieving that Lowden will not go.
! They may be right. Lowden will get
little from the failure of Wood If it
comes. Neither will Johnson.
The Wood candidacy is not mer-
chantable. 1t has no collateral
value. 1t will disappear il Wood
fails to grow on the third ballot
and half a score of little booms will
blossom.
Conviction Lacking.
Yet Lowden probably will hold his
strength. 1t is political not person
al. 1t is negotiable. 1t must be con-
SIueTeu- DO w some eAleHt the
Johnson strength. Yet neither John
son nor Lowden has cohesive
strength to weather a deadlock as
Blaine and Grantwithstood the siege
in 1880. So we must not look for
a long convention. No one cares
enough for any candidate to waste
much hotel bill on him and unless
something outside of today's issues
enter the convention 1t will adjourn
Saturday night or else nominate a
President Saturday night and let the
alternates and proxies name the
Vice President and write the plat
form Monday. For the crowd here
lacks the cement of a great convic-
ton. So when a drift set sin for
any man outside of johnson, Wood
or Lowden, it may shift quickly to
stampede.
A nomination Tuesday. the 18th,
might go to Hoover; but nomina-
tion SATURDAY. night may mean Al
! len or Sproul or the Great Unknown
Action Coming Later.
OF course, the convention VIII
liven up. 1t will be action, IL not
progress; friction. IL not felicity. But
1t lacks the gayety, the spontaneity
the headlong human folly OF an ep'
OCH making concourse. 1t can't sins
l"Onward, Christian Soldiers" ane
1t stands scared stiff before a stone
roller.
And the dead rode by the dumt
goes outward with the tide" tonight
But be not deceived; a thousand
earnest Americans. striving for the
Hight, will surely. find IL and follow
lit. 1t is unthinkable that chaos
should control by default In thii
Lcrisis.