The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-29
HOOVER sNAMP6
SENATOR LODGE
At LOVE FEAST
Publishers. Writers, Cartoon
lists, Actors Pass Up Wood,
Lowden and Johnson for
Former Food Administrator.
BY ROBERT }. eEnpeR.

ncan national committee tried out a
number Of things Saturday night on a
hyper-critical gathering of leading
publishers. journalists. authors, actors
n c~artoonists, with reactions that
We're carefully noted by the party
leaders.
":ss meeting designed TO give
the great propaganda influences of
the country something republican to
spread to the corners of the nation.
And whether it was a coincidence or
not the three most prominently men
tone candidates for the convention
craftsmanship YER passed in review,
former Senator, B~everidge, of In
diana, Senator Lodge, and Governor
Edwards Morrow, OF Kentucky. Also
the leading issues of the campaign
were put through the PAGES
From the standpoint of monlentary
rating per written, spoken, acted, or
c~artooned thought, the assenblage
might be regarded as a $1,000, Q0o, 900
one Whether the conclusions drawn
by this talent prove to be worth that
much to h party remains to be seen,
bu here are some convictions they
held, as demonstrated by applause at
the time n discussion afterwards:
No Cheers For Ladae.
That Senator Beveridge viii not DO
as convention chairman. His view
with alarm" speech declaring tina in
WI years indications are that from
10 to 100000 men will be out of
work with no jobs for them, did not
prove uplifting. His further counsel
that h party faced a grave test
n that unless it made good it would
Gle, didn't quite hit the spot.
That the decidedly faint applause
drawn by Senator Lodge for his de-
tense of his stand on the league of
nations was regarded as significant.
AT the same time his emphatic de-
clarations that ~"organized labor not
only should be recognized cut that It
also should organize and that the
railroads could never again go back
to operation such as they conducted
before government control, and that
henceforth the government must Z
ercise a watchful interest in their
direction. was regarded as a marked
step forward in his thought.
That Governor Morrow, telling a
simple heart interest story of hornely
cabin life in Kentucky, stole the whole
show from the other speakers and
would make the best convention
chairman of any Of the trio.
Morrow INDUCED in a bit of art for
the artists and it made a great hit.
1t was his first appearance in q re-
publican poW-woW of national i'm
portance and, being the republican
governor of a democratic state, which
the republicans hope to carry next
November, his performance was the
talk of the political leaders assem-
bled.
League the Issue-loaee.
Lodges speech was listened to with
great interest. He declared that the
republicans already had two great,
progressive measures upon which to
go before thec country" One of these
ne said was the Cummlns-lcsch rail-
road bill, defining the terms under
which the roads were returned to
their owners. The second was the
blocking of President Wilson's plan
to foist upon this country an alliance
with European powers hat would
have endangered the nation by
making for war"
The league, freedom Of speech and
freedom of government from pres
ent bureaucratic state" were among
the leading issues of the coming
campaign, Lodge said. As for the
league, he said there has been q
great change of sentiment and / be-
lieve a very small minority, indeed,
now favor our entering a league I'M
der the exact conditions Laid down
by President Wilson"
The dinner was dry" the onIy
wet" thing about it being motion
pictures of how to mix the old fash
ioned palate teasers. This went on
until the crowd rose to it's feet IN
anguish and chorused: stop, our
hearts are breaking"
Other stunts included pantomime
and theatrical jabs al the democratic
administration in general and presi-
dent Wilson In particular.
Strong for Hoover.
Formal discussion OF candidates
was taboo, but informal group COM
PARSONS Of the merits OF those yrun-
ming developed & strong Hoover SEN
timent. There were present, in ad-
dition to the artistic talent, Wood,
Hoover, Lowden, and johnson cam
paign leaders of more or less prom
inence. But a taken showed
a majority of che $50 present for the
former food administrator. It was
sc pronounced, in fact, that some OF
the Hoover fans considered drafting
q resolution of thanks to the nation
al committee for the party and sug-
costing that 1t was the opinion of q
great number Of those attending
the dinner. that Herbert Hoover was
the best man for the republicans to
nominate. The idea was abandoned.
however. when those In charge of
the event said such action would
prove an embarrassment to the ma
tional committee.
Among the pro-Hoover men pres
emit was r. A. Carothers, publisher
of the San Francisco Bulletin, who
told me that the Hoover sentiment in
California had grown to such pro-
portions that he certainly would get
a good bunch OF delegates II, in fact,
he did not carry the state. Caroth-
ers said that th. trade %upionists in
San Francisco nave come ont for