The Washington times., 1920-06-09

Mr.. brtsbans's COMMENT on the
day Uas received too late TO be pub
tion Of tho opening Of the oonclavs:
Will Hays has walked out on the
gangplAnk running like q sea cap
tsin's bridge beyond the main plat
form. He has q big wooden hammer
In his hand, calling for order. and an
nounces the prayer. The praying
bishop, grateful for all our blessings
In ages past. looks like an energetic
young modern business man. His
prayer deals with generslities: no
reference TO the fact that some power
full men have been trying to direct
the convention with a soap more pro-
sale and practical than a guidance
from above.
$40 a. m.-Prayer ended, every
body standing up sang THE Star
Spangled Banner" Big-lunged man
calls for three cheers for America.
"the greatest country on earth"
Bryan helps the crowd to give the
cheers. and says, "Weii. they're Civ
ing us something we can all Join In"
1t is the greatest country. all the
more reason for not putting UP the
Presidency at auction. and all the
worse for the Republican party if II
prefers ivory soap or any other brand
of money corruption to johnson, OF
California.
Party Bers sixty Years Age.
Here In this city. under Lincoln.
the Republican party was born sixty
years ago, and here under ivory soap
Will die IL the people learn by John
sons defeat that the party OF Lincoln
and Freedom has really and hope
lessly become corrupt-which Is one
more reason for not beating the peo-
pie out of the candidate they want,
Hiram Johnson.
Mr.. Bryan is absolutely positive in
his assertion that this convention
won't nominate Johnson, and Bryan
knows what conventions do. He Is
the most powerful American in hand
ling a convention and there is no sec
ond to him.
Mr.. Lodge attracts as little attcn-
ton as a trainman calling out some
body else's train until he says: "Mr.
Wilson and his dynasty must be
driven from power in the United
states" That pleases the Repubii-
cans, as you will understand McAdoo
is the Dynasty" However. the peo-
pie would probably object no more to
a Wilson dynasty than an ivory soap
dynssty-the party Of ivory soap.
Hays Like Young Robin.
Now Mr.. Hays, out once more. is
taking his real ovation. Perhaps you
have seen a young robin take worms
from it's mother. Mr.. Hays looks like
your young robin, and about she same
age.
He is now saying that in this free
and open convention the people arc
deciding the government of the
United States. We shall know more
about that later. Mr.. Hays is max
ing a flowery speech. He says there
will be no bolt in this convention"
And there will not be IL it dominates
bolt outside of the convention as
will startle the placidity of Mr.. Hays.
Now Lodge is nominated for chair
man. Depew, Hcrrick, of Ohio. and
Mrs. Hume, the California delegate.
are named as a committee to escort
Lodge.
When Lodge, at the last convention
here. laughed at Melville Stone, Sc
cretly working the woman suffrage
idea. he did not imagine that four
years later a woman delegate would
MN 10 tHC UT tIdl
Hiram Johnson would be the one
man worrying and tormcnting with
his power the whole Republican
standpat machine.
Lodge Looks Older.
Lodge is out on the captains bridge
and looking four long years older
than last time and a few more-thc
curly hair is thinner. Bright electric
spotlights are turned on him, and a
man of lung power calls for three
cheers for Lodge" They are feeble
cheers, any one OF a hundred men in
the hall would get a better greeting
Lodge is speaking or rather reading
from manuscript with his Boston ac-
cent. Advance" is spoken lad
vahnce."
Lodge has written literary speech
describing the ocean with its waves,
telling of dead that return not" and
shadows OF sorrow that will never
be lifted" Well written, but it moves
and convinces no one.
1socrates, teacher of elocution, said
more than two thousand years ago.
ITO convince others, first be yourself
convinced"
Mr.. Lodge. all in decent black, docs
not believe very much in anything,
and no one believes very much in him.
Compared to Hiram Johnson, for in
stance. Lodge is like trained bull,
family piping its pretty note, COM
pared with an American bison
A single Cheer.
Now Lodge says Path Of Washing
ton. Lincoln and Roosevelt from
which Wilson has fought to drag
us" One alarmed delegate cheers,
and subsidies evidently when he finds
himself cheering alone. We are gre
e.arious people, and bark best in
packs.
while Lodge crates on darkness OF
anarchy" etc, Edna Ferber says her
pearls are not real. They cost $23 nve
years ago in Florence. III could
afford real pearls I'd be ashamed to
wear them"
Mr.. Bryan and your narrator in
spcct the pearls more closely, and
they do look false once you know
they are. Speaking of false pearls.
Bryan says something about Lodge,
but adds mo, don't print that" so