The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-27
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$3.50 Hoover but who believe his
ssSs 3 California can furnish in
ns...s1lon about the expenditures
- joknson In California, are think
- seriously Of / sisting that the
80 California primary be aired
49, The senate committee.
ns.bt Enters Calculations.
r,om the first the peculiar power
-s,eh Hiram Johnson has held
~, his colleagues in the senate
-. hen attributed partly to the
=, Of his personality and his
ss,i,tv to pound out his thoughts In
$500 with biting effectiveness and
s,tiv 70 the fear that IL Johnson
rot continuously placated, he
.,,i nit the convention at Chicago
.snding Republican hopes for VIC
.sry from the vantage point Of GER
s.inty TO the uncomfortable stages
= raj doubt. No matter what the
democrats have thought. the Re-
.nhlicsns have right along sim
ssrely believed they had an easy
,irtory before them In November.
M Johnson spectre has raised
m.ny Ifs" and "buts"-also, there
l. no telling what the progressives
will do.
Discontent and murmurs are
growing over the famous conference
here last week over the framing OF
the Republican platform. Will
Hays brought the results Of weeks
and weeks of research to the vet
eran politicians on Capitol hill,
thinking they would Of course ac-
cent the report as a basis for rec
concentrations. The report was to
have been made public by this time.
put something has delayed it. And
Everett Colby, militant Progressive
from New Jersey, is out with q
statement that the old guard is
really pigeon-holing the big volume
Of reports compiled by the commit
fee Of platform and policies. In
stead OF making recommendations"
the elder statesmen on Capitol hill
are reported to have said that they
did not feel they should dictate to
the committee on resolutions of the
Republican national convention but
that they would present the reports
Of the advisory committee appoint
ed by Will Hays as information. T"
OF course, it is too early to say
what the Chicago convention will
DO with the advisory committees
work. 1t may adopt the whole
thing. But just now some OF those
who worked on the advisory COM
mittee feel that they have been
rudely relegated to the ranks and
that old guard rule still prevails.
Politically speaking there is indeed
4 danger in publishing anything in
advance Of the conventions that
might appear to commit the party
because it might later be sized upon
bys rival political party as a basis
for criticism. If the plat1erm omit
ted anything that the advisory com
mittee recommended, the Demo-
cratic orators would not hesitate
to point the finger Of inconsistency
At the Republicans.
Not Easy for Democrats.
But while the Republicans are
having their troubles, something
analogous to "old guard" rule is
going on in the Democratic ranks.
Democratic leaders are insisting
privately that if MIR. Wilson insists
on an unqualified endorsement Of
the covenant, he will wreck the
Democratic party and its chances
for victory. Here and there in
surgency is cropping out, especial
ly in connection with the demand
Of eastern Democrats for a damp
platform and the insistence Of the
western Democrats that they
couldn't hope to carry the west un-
less they eliminated prohibition as
an issue. Neither Republicans mol
Democrats are very happy over the
immediate future. They will all be
immensely relieved when the two
conventions are adjourned-if in
deed there be only two conventions