The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-10
THE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
Senator Lodge Permanent Chairman
Enthusiasm Entirely Lacking
and the Prediction is Made
That Dark Horse
May Secure the
Nomination.

The national Republican conven'
ton, at Chicago, was called to order
Tuesday noon and Senator Lodge
was elected permanent chairman and
made the keynote speech. For ell
tire absence OF enthusiasm this CON
vention is making record. The high
lights in the speech OF Senator Lodge
evoked practically no applause and
no attention was paid to the one time
leaders when they walked down the
aisles to their seats. The band made
repeated efforts to put some pep in
to the proceedings by paying patri-
otto airs, but it was no use.
The Globe-Democrat's special cor
respondent has the following to say
of the proceedings: =
Altogether there was about as
much enthusiasm at the Coliseum this
afternoon as one might expect at a
gathering of Dorcas society called
to pass resolutions the death of the
best cake baker in the county. The
delegates sat in decorous silence
while bishop prayed for the good OF
their souls and Henry Cabot Lodge
for the good of the party and the eter-
nal damnation of the League OF Ma
tions as brought back to America by
a gentleman of academic tastes, whom
he referred to altogether as Mr.. Will
SON..
Despite an elaborate system of
sounding boards, transmission tubes
and amplifiers, guaranteed to turn a
whisper ito piercing shrek, the Gull
tured Back Bay accents OF the schol-
arly statesman from Massachusetts
could not be heard even in the press
stands, which abut and lie adjacent to
the speakers platform. AS a key
note speech the efforts of the Senator
will go resounding quietly down IN
the corridors OF time as great little
soliloquy.
MIR. Lodge spoke altogether from
manuscript, a manuscript that he
seemed to have some little trouble
reading Whenever he appeared
about to make point, he would peer
at his papers and i'll the absorption
the kick to disappear into well of
whispers. He talked without en-
phasis, made few gestures and seemed
highly relieved when the ordeal was
over.
The Senator must get credit tor
one thing He did not mention the
name OF Lincoln once, and a Repub-
lican spellbinder who can talk fifteen
minutes without pulling i'll the name
of the great Emancipator is indeed
master of self-denal. For the rest,
the Ike yHeter efforts were along the
lines OF the speeches he has made in
the Senate about the League OF Ma
tons and his reservations to that i'll
famous document which, we gather
from conversation hereabouts. is the
basis of an effert to make everybody
in America talk with all English &C
cent and fight daily for the preserva-
ton OF the seigneurial rights OF the
AhkUond OF Swat.
There is no question at all but that
Lowden has been grievously injured
by the Missouri scandal. as ii is
called here, but whether it has hurt
him sufficiently to utterly destroy his
chances it is question. The dele
gates are not much worried by the /
ethical consideration involved i'll tlE |
Morse Goldstcin- Babler matter. but
as practical politicians they fear the
nomination OF the lllinoisan will pro-
NIuS lHC democrats Will iCdNS
weapon OF attack.
Scores of votes. uninstructed or i'll
structed for others. that Lowden
might have hoped for on the second
-or third ballots wilt be withheld be-
cause of the scandal, it is believed by
impartial observers.
Because OF the fact that Wood is
tarred with the stick of huge expen
ditures, and because of Johnson's ex-
IRENE radicalisn, it is thought that
the second and later choices will go
to dark horses. There is a possibility
that after three or four votes the
three present leaders in the race will
find themselves trailing behind one
or more of the brunette steeds that
have been led forth, from the sena-
torial and gubernatorial stables.
While theye is not much Hoover
talk, the few boosters he has declare
that deadlock is certain to bring the
Food Administrator into the running |
strong In general, however, his can
didacy is not taken seriously by the
bulk of the delegates regardless of
what contingencies may arise in the
balloting."