Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
Conservatism KEY
to Nomination
By CLINTON W. GILBERT)


Continued from Page One
avoided, and a definite political philos-
ophy has been enunciated. For con-
servatiSm You can make d fight.
Ogden L. Mills, chairman of the ad-
yisory committee on resolutions, con-
tends that the country is conservative
as well as strongly anti Democratic.
The Republican party, even though it
Wilson administration, at any rate Of
fers the only effective opposition to the
Democracy. and the opposition vote, even
though not entirely pleased and salts
fed, will have nowhere else to 20 than
TO Harding and Coolidge. AS to the
conservative tendency of the people. Mr..
Mills pointed at the convention itself
as striking example. .'~
Delegates Conservative
And the delegates were amazingly
conservative. They would not have
anything to do with johnson, cared
nothing about his vote getting power
so far as allowing him to influence
the action of the convention on candi-
date or platform. They, or the GAL
leries, or both. Kissed and booed the
Wisconsin delegation at every ballot
WutH lut tIdlI1lluu VI JuuJ
arose and made the monotonous an
nouncement. wisconsin casts twenty
four votes for Robert NJ. La Toilette"
There was no mistaking the mood of the
delegates. They had made their selec-
tion and were going to cast out the
devil of radicalism and all his works.
IL they truly represent the majority
sentiment Of the country. the Harding
ticket will win easily. The delegates
were either curiously confident that con
servatism would have an easy victory
or else they had made up their minds
that 1t was better to go down in defeat
for the cause of conservatism than to
win by further trafiicking with the other
side. " 0''
But it takes little out of your con-
fdence that the delegates were truly
representatives of the great masses of
population when you see your hotel
bills. The man who pays $50 or $50
day for hotel room is not either ona
OF the white collar slaves nor one of
the blue denim clad workers. The dele
gate to a convention, by reason of the
cost OF attending it, is necessarily a
man of means. He has profitable bust
ness or he has comfortable bank ac-
count. Even the men who were elected
the direct primaries as Johnson dele
yes turned ont to be hard boiled con-
NATIVES, who voted for johnson re-
y tntly and rejoiced in the small figure
Johnson cut In the convention. The
country may be in an intensely conserv
atye mood. but this convention noces-
.arIy could not be fair cross section
OF public opinion. '''D
Radicals May Quit Party
Now let us get at the liberal point
H view, that expressed by Mr.. White,
te expressed doubt of Harding's carry
hansas. Kansas is not well chosen
an example of Mr.. Hardinp's dis
sultles' Kansas is an apricultmraI
NNate, where plenty men are rich
dotns dSnsaS mas a certain liberalism which
% f'es from the past, a survival, n SORT
ma ren9 OF old emotions. And this echo
WS;oh uiS out during campaign in
soc;O., !he interests of one class of
ipterssS,aiS Is qehnitely arrayed against she
Tbo OF the other class. IN
was "e missing of La Toilette sAhame
delegate "'Hre t serious symptom. The
unSIlnGtlvely where the line was innI iim,Heu
tb" tbero "nere the fight would be, piainIr
WI Vas a reading out of tho tf, nartn,
ha % Iah roiictte' the NOnpartisan Ieaoucs
cus ",o ,Soor vote and all those miscc,Iano,'
lsft wing. ""''n make up the party's
tion ine ire, fight develops, as tbo corro,
foIior,. ,.nuLcated. Wisconsin is ,ikoi, -
nnhIioo La Toilette out Of tho ~
tbe ioSa party intossomethinp elsc ,r;th
hubliconso vi IT'S electoral vote to the Re-
f1tendnSs' And the whole tier of statoo
sota, tbn IRON from Wisconsin to Mime