The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-02

may CUTTIpTUIIIiSE issue by the simple expedent of alto gether leaving out wet blanks and dry blanks, and while bitterly deploring de- lirium tremens, at the same time heartily commend the raisin and the yeast cake to the attention of the voter at large. We may pause in passing to drop few of the blossoms of fond remembrance upon the graves of states rights and free trade. or then again we maly not do so.
 But one thing no insidious influence. no malignant secret force may prevail upon us to do. We positively will not throw down the American flag. And that goes also for the convention of the third party outfit that Mir. Hearst is now or ganizing, he having already obtained ms own consent to be personally present and is now busily engaged in trying to get the following of Senator Reed of Mis- souri to come, too I hear that wire has been received stating that Senator Reeds following will probably attend and may bring their wives along.
 HISTORY HAS HARD DAY
 Well, any way, today we concluded one tiresome but necessary phase of the convention by putting in nomina- ton a few more hitherto anonymous candidates who accidentally got mis- laid in the discard yesterday and then the resolutions committee pro- ceeded to enrich history. History has my most sincere sympathy. When you have one faction trying to bore bung- holes in the platform and another fac ton trying to caulk it with moisture proof declarations-wh you have MT. Bryan endeavoring to demonstrate that those who live in glass houses should take out liability insuranee-when you hit the spectacle of Governor Cox en- deavoring to walk straddle wise in such a a ShiQn aC to l. dry a nd the other foot wet, when all the while little boomlets are scuttling about un der ones feet like cock reaches. history is due for an awfully hard afternoon and evening.
 It is curious how Mr Bryan keeps creeping into these dispatches. I am having almost as hard time trying to keep him out of my stuff as the resolu- tions committee had in trying 10 squelch him. I'll say this for him: Punishment doesn't effect his gastric juices. He eats just as heartily as he did in 1912 at Baltimore when he was causing the honorable Champ Clark to live up to his first name and just as heartily as he ate three summers ago when 1 ran into him out on the Chautauqua circuit where he was delivering his lecture, The Landmark of the Ages" which then was a reminiscense and now is an auto biography. The Bryan appetite is one of the sights of Lincoln Neb. They take visitors out to see it just as soon as they have shown 'em the new library and the soldiers monument
 BRYAN'S APPETITE
 A certain waiter at the St Francis hotel is in position to state that it is withstanding the wear and tear of time. This waiter served MT. Bryan at breakfast today. For his breakfast Mr. Bryan led off with part of this years canteloupe crop and a boiler of coffee He then ate derby hat full of oat- meal and a rosary of lamb chops, con- cluding with about as many griddle cakes as would be required to tesselate the floor of small reception hall. Upon signing his check, he left dime and a nickle under his plate for the waiter, but turning back at the door, he re- claimed the nickle. As the waiter gath cred up the dime he said: And he's the guy that never took drink. l don't blame him neither-once het got through eating-he wouldn't have no place to put it."
 The convention abounds in picture sequences and in vocal enthusiasm which the republican convention did not,e It would seem that the fewer colored dele- gates convention boasts the more real color it has.
 Both in the hall and on the outside little things are constantly occurring to give snap and go to the incidental features. For instance, a Brooklyn leader came right out today for Gen eral Pershing as dark horse probably on the theory that General Pershing is not nearly so dead as General George B. Mcclellan. Another interesting bit of by-play was offered when dele- gate from a western state, in the heat of argument over the platform, took 8 delegate from a corn belt state by the throat and choked him until his tongue hung out on his chest like pink plush neckties.
 It is little things such as these which show that democracy is in the saddle But after all what's the use of being in the saddle if you haven't got any. where to go.