The Washington times., 1920-06-09
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~ CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL
written Expressly for the Internstioa aai
News ssrvice)
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CHICAGO, June 9.--If this copyen-
ton has any sympsthy for virtue. II
u knows the beating OF any chord
respoDsively TO modest merit, II will
end all this controversy tresl and
pinlicated) about candidates and
choose Henry Cabot Lodge to be. the
party's standard bearer.
l am for Lodge. and after that
great speech he made to US yesterday
morning who could feel otherwissy
All that heard 1t, must admit IL re-
veals him as the very man for the
occasion. II ives indeed a keynote.
| enort. for this convention and this
occasion, flawless. BY no possibility
| could there have been a more beauti-
| sion.
Text OF Senator.
Mr.. Lodge chose for his text the
well-known and justly admired sen
timent 1--WE should worry" and made
OF 1t a mastery exposition, Is tho
country confronted with desperate
problems that threaten its economic
safety? Leave them 70 the next ad-
| mfnistration which Will be Repub-
lican and therefore knows exactly
what to do about these things. Tho
high cost Of living. / am told. dis
| turbs many persons. There is moth
ing we can do about II. Profiteering
Is said by some to be a great evil.
Let the laws be enforced and some
| profiteers be punished.
| The currency is reported on good
| authority to be inflated. Leave that
to the Federal Reserve Board, which
| Is now clothed with the necessary
power. We are reliably informed
4 that there is need of increased pro-
duction. II that is the case let pro-
ductfon be increased. "In conclusion.
my fellow citizens, let us be true to
our highest traditions: let us beg that
happiness may abound everywhere
! In our broad land"
The convention received with joy
these original thoughts. Not with SO
much joy as might perhaps be wished
In our best circles. but still dutifully
and with joy. 1t liked Mr.. Lodge, or
parts OF it, did. hope it will nomi-
nate him. 1t could find no other man
ESQ accurately rejecting the ideas that
are going to dominate its final action.
But the dread day that is ahead. for
us is the day of the nominating
speeches. Mr.. Lodge is a scholar; he
knows Shakespeare and Milton and
takes from these popular authors
quotations that are always enjoyed.
For the day of wrath to come now
upon US there is not even this relief
II l have succeeded in getting a line
on an advance collection of these
speeches and arise from it's perusal to
warn the impressionable. If'you are
not immune to boredom and have no
ready access to. an anesthetic avoid
the Coliseum that day as you would
the pestSence. The gates of flub
dub are to be opened wide and out
WIFI come n delugc.
Must stand For II.
Some fieRd has invented and rigged
up an apparatus that carries to the
remotest corner of the building the
i lightest word uttered on the plat
form. There will be no escape, you
haven't a chance on earth: oratory
rhetoric and a Noah's flood of words
will inundate the place and my advice
is to keep strictly away.
These gentlemen that will stab tn Q
woundless air with desperate speech
OF that day will ono and all abor
under the singular delusion that they
ere putting somebody in nomination.
This Is a quadriennial joke of great
antiquity. When the last fountain of
eloquent piffle has ceased TO play
the last reference to Lincoln and
: 1860 has ceased to rcsound, and
the last old whiskered chestnut
: to be dragged from a mouldy past.
the big moncycd interests that have
!, hitherto been keeping up this contest
among the candidates will decide
which one they want to put over.
the machine operators here that rep
resent these interests will get thcir
orders, the thing will be done. aud
the cloauence of the rostrum will he
Z only a weary and bitter rcminesccncc.
: Finds Lack OF Pep"
: II is some perception of these cs-
sential facts that is far more respon-
: sible than the vanished rum fiend for
the lack of pep in this convention.
: That and more still. an intuition that
D all these gyrations have nothing to
1 do with any human issue really be-
fore the people. The crop reports are
showing week by week the startling
prospect of food shortage, farms are
Iceasing TO produce because there Is
no labor to till them, we are likely
within a year to be searching the
world for food to Import a large part
l OF the population is beintg pinchcd
cruclly by high prices and" soa ring
rents, the treasury OF the Unite cd
States will require in the next four
years a supreme financial. genius to
mahagt It. and as remedy for these
. most SOLDERING condi itions we are in
vited to listen to the pipe of the
charmer concerning the personal be-
atitudcs of gentlemen with large cor
lporation backgrounds, oil and other.
No wonder nobody cares for this con-
vention. What is there To care about!
Il Mr.. Hays says that it is not bosscd
land II isn't. either.
Il 1t isn't bossed any more than a
gang OF track layers on Southwest
ern railroad is bossed by 3. section
, foreman.