The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-09
NOT EVEN KEYNOTE SPEECH 0F LODGE
 BRINGS OUTbURST Casual OnlOoker Mig h t Have Considered It All Over But Shouting, So
 Tame Was Session
By Associated Prsss

publican national convention demonstrated at it's opening two-hour session today that if it lacked leadership, it did not lack harmony, for the prelim- inaries, at least.
 Most of the session was taken up with the keynote speech of Senator Lodge, the temporary chairman.
 From the moment that National Chairman Hayes stepped out on the speakers platform and called the as semblage to order. until adjournment time, the average lookers-on might have imagined that it was all over but the shouting.
 Not lung let loose with any
 wild scream for a favOrite; not
 voice was raised in protest to any
 set plan for the preliminaries, and
 all Joined in shouting approval at
 Senator Lodges call to the party to
 rise up and sweep the "Wilson
 dynasty" out of power. But as conventions go. it was tame. It seemed as if some of the factions felt that the ice was thin.
 QUICKLY TO WORK
 Half an hour late in starting, the convention jumped quickly to it's work. First came the national chairman. who received a roar of cheers from the dele gates, and then the Right Rev. Charles E. Woodcock of Louisville, Ky, whose opening prayer. waited through. sound anplifiers. reached every part of the hall.
 The crowd that had been reverently silent during the prayer, shuffled it's feet and kept up a continuous rattle of talk while the secretary, in droning tone, read the formal call for the meeting. A little earlier it had roared with laughter at the acrobatic antics of a song leader as he followed Chairman Hays to the tongue of the platform to lead the singing and cheers.
 There was roar of approval from the delegates when Chairman Hays declared that the republican party had met in free and open convention "to accept from the people mandate for the government of the United States" A second outburst came a moment later when he shouted, There will be no bolt in this conven- tion.'
 10 TheAappearance of Senator Lodge, who had been escorted to the stage from his place on the floor with the Massachu- setts delegation, was the signal for the first real demonstration of the day. Crowds in the galleries stood, as did the delegates. cheering and waving flags. The cheering broke out afresh as he vas introduced by Mir. Hays as "Sena- tor Henry Cabot Lodge of the United States" Then for an hour and half he teld the close attention of the big audi ence, and brought forth cheering by sharp thrusts at all the policies of the Wilson administration.
 It did not take long after Senator Lodge finished speaking to wind up the other work. The usual announcements were made and organization resolutions passed. That was the end of the first days work, and on motion of Governor Beeck- man of Rhode Island the convention ad- journed until Il a. m. tomorrow.
 With the adjournment the various com mfttees immediately went to work, the resolutions committee beginning consid- eration of the platform and the creden- tials committee to review some of the dei- egate contests which were decided last week by the national committee.
 CHEERS GREET DECLARATION Roars of cheers and continued ap- plause marked Chairman Lodge's g declaration that every one connected with the dynasty of Woodrow Will son, must be driven from power"
 Senator Lodge continued that they must be driven out, mot because they are democrats. but because MT. Will sons theory of government Is not American"
 '"The defeat of the present admin istratton.' said Senator Lodge. trans cends every other question. The ground thus cleared. it becomes our duty as Americans to reinstate several funda- mental principles which have been both shocked and invaded"
 William Jennings Bryan. from his seat on the press stand listened in- tently to Senator Lodges hot denun- citation of "Mr Wilson and his asso- ciates,' who. he declared. had at- tempted to drag us from the path of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt
 BRYAN IS THOUGHTFUL
 MT. Bryan stroked his chin though fully. but maintained poker face throughout.
 There was another wave of laughter and applause when Senator Lodge re- ferred to President Wilson as "a demo- cratic free trader with socialistic pro- clivities."
 Senator Lodge got one of his first real hits with his reference to Presi- dent wilson's participation in the peace conference.
 @He wont himself" said Senator Lodge. because he trusted no one else"
 The delegates laughed heartily and followed up with applause as they did also when the senator in succession lambasted the Mexican policy, the gov ernment's operation of railroads and the proposal to accept a mandate over Armenia.
 There was another burst of applause and approval when Senator Lodge. re- ferring to the defeat of the peace treaty. said republican senators con sidered the difficult task of defeating the peace treaty their duty, "and did not shrink from fulfilling it,"
 It took Senator Lodge exactly one
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