New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-08

its ringing chorus
We want true American
There in the White House chair
Just like our own old glory
Red, white true blue and square.
] am Hiram,
Yes ! am.
He's for the u. s. A.
Three cheers for Hiram Johnson.
Hip-hip ! Hip-hip Hurray
If the many tons of campaign lit
Auditorium really have any effect, Her
bert Hoover ought to win hands down.
The folders from his Office say nothing
there is, as far as we know no Hoover
Headquarters in the Congress and the
marching song.
Instead the various leaflets present
Hoover's program to reduce the high
cost of living, his attitude toward the
league Of nations, on collective tNr
gaining and on national budget
system.
From the point of view Of this
casual non-poitical observer, Hoover
is the only candidate whose campaign
of issues rather than souvenirs.
Everywhere else the voter is asked to
choose between red feathers, tin bears
and cardboard oranges.
| We must admit a certain weakness IS
for Samuel Adams, Of the Southern ex-
posture, because at his headquarters
one can get real apples. This, at least,
is substantial, if not altogether polit-
ically convincing. We have also a
slight leaning toward Warren Harding,
because in one of his campaign leaflets
he is described as having been "a
toiler, earning his bread by the sweat
In3 Fonn "4 hc1.a hot
any man who sanctions such depart
ure from the traditional form can be
entirely reactionary.
Found 4 Per Cent Beer
If there is to be any legislation to
restrict preconvention expenses in en-
suing years we trust that there will be
some clause about buttons.
The whole business of the hotel
headquarters here is cheap and SEEM
ingly unintelligent. All the leading
candidates have huge headquarters
Lowden's, as you may have heard, is
in the gold room Of the Congress.
These headquarters are thronged with
crowds which do not assay more than
one delegate or alternate to each
10000 visitors. On the contrary, they
are merely souvenir hunters who are
collecting buttons or waiting around
W HCdA WudL us LduleS Dana, Oh
Harrington, Kan, can do with Oar
danella."
Nothing in the world is go easy
to collect as buttons. No Initiative is
necessary. Eager workers pin them
on your coat or stick them in your
| pockets when you are not looking.
Perhaps it i'll becomes US to criticize
souvenir hunters because we now have
three dozen assorted buttons Of our
own and five red feathers. We car
only say that we have defended our
self to the best of our ability on ev-
cry occasion.
The. only consolation for anybody
who feels that a fearful amount Of
cheap and tawdry publicity has grown
up around the nominating conventions
lies in the fact that most of the ex-
perts now are voicing the belief that
the ultimate winner will be a dark
horse, that somebody without a banner
or button or a dodger to his name
will get the nomination.
The two most persistent rumors
which we have encountered are that
it looks like Charles E. Hughes and
that there is a place on State Street
which sells per cent beer.
Mote to the managing editor: We
have succeeded in running down that
rumor about the per cent. 1t seems
q
pie to the Office for analysis.
Bryan Applauds Johnson
When Hiram johnson attacked Arti-
Gle x of the covenant of the league of
nations in his speech at the Auditorium
Theater tonight William Jennings
Bryan was among those who Joined in
packed theater when johnson was
about half through his address. Just
after the distinguished Democratic cor
respondent had seated himself on a
piano stool in the orchestra pit, which
was reserved for reporters, Hiram
johnson swung into his attack on Ar
ticle X.
"In the future, as in the past" said
johnson, I'VE would ever respond to
humanity's call and civilizations cry
All that we insist upon is that when
the crisis occurs, when the time ar
rives, the American people shall de-
termine whether they act and how
they act, and no European nations shall
determine 1t for them. We want our
independence Of action unfettered, oul
freedom untouched, our sovereignty un.
impeached."
The audience gave johnson his heart.
lest applause of the night at this point
The galleries whstled. Men anc
women in the orchestra stood up and
waved little American flags. Almost
everybody shouted and Mr.. Bryan, for
getting for the moment that he was
Democrat and a reporter, hit his left
hand against his right. He did i,
twice. Not violently, to be sure, but
emphatically. Then he went back tc
his reporting.
Mr.. Bryan seemed particularly en-.
thusiastic when Senator johnson anc
Senator Borah attacked the use OF
money in the pre-convention cam
paigns. Although neither Mr. Boraf
nor Mr.. johnson mentioned any candi
dates by name, the audience supplied
them from time to time. Borah, ir
particular, aroused great applause
when nc said: We're not going to sci
the Presidency Of the United States fol
sl,boo,ooo. That's too cheap"
At the end Of the meeting q specta
tor asked Mr.. Bryan, "How did yor
like the speeches p"
Well" replied Bryan with a smile
They're getting up fight that's very
satisfactory"
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