The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-06-18
Worst Delivered and Worst
Received of Any Similar
Speech in the History of
Republican Party.
PERFORMANCE
IS A FIASCO
Lodged Damned Wilson. in
Hymn of Hate and Pre-
diets Victory in a Written
Speech, While Bored and
Tired Delegates File From
Coliseum.
MADE PATRIOTIC
HORSE PLAY

MADE PATRIOTIC
HORSE PLAY
By Paul Hanna,
Staff Correspondent, Federated Press
Chicago, June 9.-For an hour and
a half Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
bored the Republican delegates and
the huge audience which packed the
Coliseum with what was perhaps the
worst delivered and the worst re-
ceived keynote speech that has been
heard in many years.
Lodge is only partly to blame for
the fasco. He had nothing to say,
and the delegates knew it. When he
damned Woodrow Wilson those who
heard his voice found spirit enough
to cheer little. When he predicted
certain victory for the Republican
party few more cheered a little
louder. A total Of perhaps fifty men
among nearly thousand delegates
applauded when Lodge urged the
DELEGATES Look FOR SPOILS
The fgurative odor and the actual
pep Of stale beer lay upon the assemb-
lage. The floor was filled with dele
gates who had come together DOM
mated by the single hope that they
might divide among themselves the
spoils Of office during the next four
years. They and heir leaders on the
platform were Interested in nothing
else. So the warmed-over ucnuncia-
ton and apostrophes which Lodge
ground out were as refreshing t. the
audience as the slow trIckle OF per-
peratiOn which once wsls mountain
water.
DELEGATES QUIT LODGE
just as no one had clapped hand
in recognition when great leaders"
entered and took their seas, so no
one was surprised when delegates and
visitors began to file out of the build
ing before Lodge was half through.
What he said brought the delegates
no nearer the patronage and in the
speakers labored renaissance of ante
bellum oratory the galleries heard
nothing to remind them that new
birth OF freedom had come to reward
them for the miseries and repression
of bloody war.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW, THE OLD
AND NEW"
Chauncey M. Depew appeared to
symbolic the occasion when he lead
Lodge through the Indifferent aisles
to the stand of the temporary chair
man. Depew witnessed the birth of
the Republican party in this city just
sixty years ago. Is he here again, at
Sc, to see it die? One had to ask
himself. For while Depew and the
party are both alive To-Day the pulse
and lifeblood of both are so sluggish
that onlookers mop their brows and
ask, How long will this last ?"
DELEGATES.
And to overcome this grave leth-
argy what remedies are being ap-
piled? "Three cheers for the great
est country on earth, the United
States of American" screamed a lead
er who could endure his boredom no
longer. In the queer spattering re-
Spouse to his cry there was no lack
OF loyalty implied. The assembled
citizens seemed rather to feel that the
United States of America would be as
we'll or better off without the unne-
cessary shot of obvious dope.
SuFFRAGETTS HECKLE CONVEN-
TON.
Two fine revelations of virile, out
law and indeminable enthusiasm illu-
minated the day. From end to end of
the Coliseum entrance facade flutter-
ing yellow Founders held aloft by
women greeted the endless arrival Of
delegates and visitors. They were the
challenge of the Alice Paul pickets-
the demand of the National Woman's
Party for immediate action by the
Republicans to ratify the Anthony
suffrage amendment.
I'VE are here-where is the Seth
State" said one of the &c banners,
and another declared, 1--WE have had
enough resolutions; give us the Seth
State" Twice as many women as
banners were in line. The women
came from twenty-five states.
AS to the success of today's de-
monstration," said Miss Paul tonight,
Il can only say that believe it has
contributed toward the accomplish
ment Of our object, that is to end Re-
publican obstruction to suffrage. We
insist upon party pressure in the Re-
publican states of Connecticut and
AMNESTY PICKETS DISPLAY
BANNERS.
No less conspicuous before the
convention doors were the champions
Of political amnesty, represented by
thirty women Of the American Free
dom Foundation whose placards
stated, Chicago Church Federation
Demands Amnesty" 1.-THE American
Federation Of Labor with Four Million
Voters Demands Amnesty" "Why
are There Fifteen Hundred Political
Prisoners Still in Our Prisons" "Brit-
ish War Directors Were Released in
1919. Why are Americans still in pris-
on" "Interned Germans Have Been
Freed. Why are Americans Kept Be-
hind Bars I"
IN behalf Of political prisoners in
creaaing demonstrations will DO con-