The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-11

rose, said many things. cl,ir>i
many things, most OF which yyor,
never true. as subsequent events ds,
closed
He rang the changes on wha, Pen
rose would do or not do: what Pen.
rose said or didn't say. And all ,hs
while 1t was well known that wat.
son more than any other man wa.
in Penrose's confidence; that had ths
sick man any plan to carry ont Il
would be Watson that would speak
and act for him.
King was out to beat Wood al anv
price For the best reason In the
world. He hated wood personally
because Wood had discrcditcd him
publicly. There was "a lot Of otheA
men there who desired the defeat y
Wood. but for different reasons
johnson and Borah did So d.s
Lowden, and Harding, and Spr1u
and every other gentleman with "a,
axe of his own 10 grind To ret
together a coalition for the purposs
of preventing the nomination u
Wood was the easiest thing m t.g
world.
But it was utterly impossible 90
secure that coalitions agreement 10
any other candidate. Thus it was
negative, purely and simply ~
holding the votes for favorite son.
and many cand dates 1t was pos.
sihle to block Wood. But by ne
time that was accomplished LoNlan
and Johnson were also blocked
Wood and johnson yet held cons
itrol Of the situation In their hands
and in the interest Of the progrcs.
sive, or old Roosevelt faction. had
an accommodation between tho two
been possible. It was impossible
Absolutely so; because human ma.
turc Is human nature and for uo
other reason on earth
How Harding's Nomination Wa
"Dictatcd"
Thus Il was that accomm odatiuns
must he had elsewhere, and thus 1t
was that the winning combination
was formed in the Blackstone hutei
not by the international bankers or
bankers Of any other kind but by
politicians genuinely concerned In
naming a ticket that could stand tho
gruelling pace necessary to win the
approval OF the American peoplo
The candidate finally agreed on was
selected after Hughes had been con-
sidered and rejected as unavailable
because of his own failure TO inspire
support, as well as because OF John
sons opposition.
renrose' choice was Knox. then
Sproul He had given his assent
according TO King to Lowden. lie
had said once that Harding was not
acceptable. In that firal conference
where the quest was for a constitu.
tionalist first Of ala man who
would typify America and whose rec
cord showed him to be unaltcrab!v
attached TO American institutions
there was no attention paid TO the
issues Of 1912. The point was Wy
raised. The purpose was to meetN
nations necessities Ard once again
let it be said that II the purpose Is
to find the one man who contributed
more than any other individual %
the final result the credit rests on
a democrat, Coz. George Marvey.
Tho whole purpose OF the Chicago
convention was to re-establish party
government IN America in order that
the country might be taken away
from the one-man idea that had
prevailed to it's distinct annoyance
and diSapproval. And SUCH is in fact
the result OF tho Chicago convention.
Such must inded be the nature o.,
3
And Now Consider Frisco.
Now let us turn to Frisco after
the nominations had ben made. In
SANITY the administration commis.
stonaireS were in action. The nation
has never witnessed u more subtle
OF insincere candidacy than was Nc
Atoos Every art of the substle poll
tician was employed. Mr. McAdo0
left the cabinet running for presi-
\ 4
when he made \ government sub
servient to the trade uuionist and
created the biggest railroad problem
\ the nation has ever had. And it
was with the full approval of his
fathcr-in law, too.
| The withdrawal, the beating ot
tom-toms TO arouse the federal
clans the :H5!nccro Jonkins
speech explaining that McAdoo had
refused the use of his name and
then putting his name before the
| convention--a full and complete line
/ OF the cheapest kind of political
tricks, all was for the single pur.
pose OF putting McAdoo on the plat
form in such a manner as to make
| 1t appear that his candidacy was
not dictated but that he was drafted
| against his will.
once again the inevitable human
nature prevented the administrs
tons plan from bearing full frut
| Palmer was also a candidate with
white house absolution, and he 20.
sented the intrusion OF the. crown
prince; resented II with a bitterness
that created "A frame of mind
! wherein there was the determine
ton to see the devil himself win
rather than the former cabinet as
sociate.
For 43 ballots, covering a period
of nearly a week, the federal com
! missionaries dashed themselves
against the old guard that, aided by
Palmer, held stubbornly, The man
who would not permit the use OF
! his name, who was not a candidate
/ had able lieutenants and a resource
' father in law. He fought bitterly
for the thing he confessed rot 10
want. But In vain.
The administration punished is
critics and it dictated the platform
and 1t organized the convention
but 1t did not nominate Us crown
! prince. But the force that did name
the candidate is the old guard tha'
| forward looking gentlemen have
| professed TO despise.
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