Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-12
By CLINTON w. GILBERT
1920. bv Public Ledger co.

COPYRIGHT, 1920, by Public Ledger co.
Chicago, June IA Harveyized
League of Nations plank in the Repub-
lican platform is one Of the oddities of
this strange convention. Colonel Har-
vey is an old Democratic editor belong
ing to the now nearly extinct Thomas
f. Ryan faction Of the Democratic
party. He was the discoverer of Will
son as a candidate for President, and
because Wilson, on account of Ryan
connections, wanted to push Harvey
into the background, the colonel became
incensed at his candidate and has been
having his revenge ever since. The
colonel edits n weekly Of sixteen pages,
fourteen of which are devoted to de-
nouncing Wilson.
The colonel has house in Washing
ton on X street, right between the
homes of those two leading bitter
enders, Senators Knox and Brandegee'
He has been in the thick of the treaty
fight. being the inspiration of the anti
leaauers. And here Mt Chicago his
rooms at the Blackstone was the meet
ing place where the League of Nations
nlank was agreed upon and where SEN
ator Borah shook his fist under the
rose of ex Senator Murray Crane.
There is good cheer wherever Har-
ysy has his headquarters, which may
he one reason why the former Demo
cratic editor was the host OF the Re-
nublican platform makers. But the
roIoneTs clever editorial pencil was
in demand. His editing is all over the
mionk His revenge on Wilson is now
complete, provided that bitter ender
stands upon the Harvcyizcd platform
wbotber the Democratic editor had a
bord in nominating the Republican can
d;date, as we'll as in writing the Re-
n,thI;can platform, is not yet disclosed.
put II is an odd comment in the situa :
t;on that two Democratic editors tried
~ furn;sh to the Republican party the
ioodsrahip which the Republicans were
Law n provide for Observation-Disclosures
on Tho platform and Hearst in naming
the candidate.
An omen convention like this is full
=, nortunities-mostly lost. There was
Coyernor Allen, of Kansas. When he
dobotad with Gompers in New York, the
TincoIn Douglas parallel occurred to
n,;nd Allen had his opportunity. He
';rbt have won the country in the de-
hatc and become the candidate for Presi-
dent.
Aoo;p when it came to making the
,',inot;on speech for Wood, Allen
n,;nht have repeated the Garfield paral-
IL nf 1890. At the 1880 convention
Carfeld WAS not a candidate. He made
wonderful speech nominating Sher-
Con- ~ Ohio, to whom he was pledged.
R,, tbo sneech he caught the eye of the
anrvontion and though for thirty five
hoI,ots he never had more than fifty
Ito on the thirty sixth he was nom
mated for President.
The 1880 convention was the longest
strugple in the history of the Repub-
loan marty. General Grant, who had
served two terms as President. was,
after an interval Of four years, n can
didate for a third nomination. His
forces were led by the famous Senator
Roscoe Conkling, of New York.
Conkling made a great nominating
srsech probably the most eloquent in
the history of party conventions.
| And out OF the struggle Whlch deVel-
oned between the partisans of Grant,
blaine and Sherman came the split in
the Republican party which inspired the
r,mrder OF Garfield and which resulted
LATER. when Blaine himself was nomi. |.
mated. in the first return of the Demo
cratic party to power with the election
of Grover Cleveland.
Garfield was one man who was made
| president by the eloquence of his nom
missed becoming President in the same
way was Herbert Hadley in the con
yention OF 1912. Hadley led the Roose :
welt forces in the great fight on Taft.
and by his eloquence and the charm OF
his personality tremendously impressed
the delegates.
The convention wished to avoid the