The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-16
THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE

During one OF the many tense moments at
Chicago IA men held the fate of the republican
party in their hands Some thought and said
with them rested tho fate Of the nation The
mon were those who composed the subcommit.
tee appointed by the resolutions committee to
thresh out that plank OF the platform having
TO do with the league OF nations and other
stressed subjects
Before this committee appeared special
pleader after special pleadcr. Tho Irish ma.
tionalis's, less considerate Of the party than
OF their own selfish cause. desired n plank
that would have been inconsistent and might
have embroiled the nation In foreign quarrel.
They were rejected, The labor oligarchy, pre-.
sumptuously assuming to speak for all men
who labor, asked special consideration. not for
labors sake, but for the prestige OF political
labor leaders. They were rejected
The whisky mon, also concerned only with
their special interests. sought TO commit the
party to pledge that It would wink at law
violation. while the prohibitionists sought to
Stultify It by having It put iu the platform the
obligation that it's candidate must assume In
his oath, that the laws OF tho land would be
enforced. Roth were rejected.
Committee after committee each seeking
what 1t had no right to demand under the
original and best conception OF the American
form OF government were denied their prayer.
with the result that the platform finally re-
ported to the convention and unanimously
adopted is one Of the finest exhibitions OF
courageous Americanism that has come from
national convention OF any party In many.
many years
There is in It the trumpet call OF a great
party sounding retreat on many subjects. not
the retreat Of defeat. but II" necessary retreat
that the nation may he again put on constitu-
tional ground. And this is good
American political history affords no event
comparable to that long 30 hours when the ~
men were the Cynosutc OF the eyes OF an the
world as they did battle ON the impossible issue
which was thrust into the domestic affnhA 3 Of
this nation through the mnnlacal ambition Of
president cra2cd with the ldealistlc beauties Of
sociastic intornntionaIism
The battle fought In that room Of the Audi.
torium hotel during those % hours will become
memorable. Pitted against each other were
patriots and adroit politicians The east and
the west ioustod, not for ladys favor but
for the honor OF a nation nut the conflict
cannot be characterized as a conflict between
sections but as a conflict between conceptions
OF nationhood
For there stood with the far west embittcred
and at bay, the Puritan Of the far east. and It
what one eloquent writer donomlnatcd the
last OF the Purltans, Henry Cabot Lodge "
Massachusetts, who stepped across the chasm
yawnins wider between the factions Of the
party onto the side Of the west that ended the
fray and drove the sinister house OF Morgan.
represented by Murray Crane which sought 10
dominate the republican party as It has dom-
mated the Wilson administration, ingloriously
from the field, It's banners trailing and its
lances broken.
What transpred In that room tho final
morning, when lioO0 people waited in the
coliseum ~ blocks distant, hoping that an
accommodation would bc reached yet fearful
that another party break was impending. would
thrill the nation could It be depicted on a
stage within the view Of everyone
The west had said Give approval to this
league OF nations even WITH reservations and
we will consider 1t our patriotic duty to defeat
both platform and candidate" And Crane, |