Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-10
DOROTHY DIX IN ON
LONG, LONG TRAIL
Famous Woman Writer Makes
Observations of Republican
National Convention.
Special Dispatch to Every Evening
BY Dorothy Dix.
tCcuxrightcd by Wheeler Syndicate)
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CHICAGO, June 10.
With the great Coliseum blaze OF
color. the glorious red, white and blue
floating from every raftcr and beam
and draining every wall, covering up IN
reality. as il docs so often metaphoricaliy
81 much uglness and sordldncss, the
curtain went ,lp again this morning Tor
another act of the great american pollt-
zeal drama. entitled Nominating the
Candidate for President
The house was packed: vou looked
across n sea of flags, or rathcr OF hcadS;
so manv Of them bald that you wondered
nobody has ever asked to have plank
i,scrtcd in the platform of both OF the
ercat political parties demanding some
reliable hair tonic rs Il TRYING national
need. But pink and shining, they n"ddcd
like A field OF ovcrhlown poppies around
their State standards, wlnlc band up IN
the gallery PLAYED music that no one listen
ed to and the hands of the clock crcPt
around 10 the hour that the convention
was scheduled to start
IRIS \ lone. 1oNG rRNI.
Then stout Young man IN his SHIRT
sleeves stepped Ia the front ot the pat
form and waving his arms iranticallN.
called upon the audience 10 Jon num- IA
singing the "rhcrc.s 4 Long Long ra'
a Winding They stood III they sang
Il 1t hoomed ont magn'iiccn'lN from
The thousands of mcn'~ throats and one
wondered how many Of thom were remcn-
cring how significant the selection was
.,n,lcr the circumstances Ior 70 many
i man IN that as-pmllagc, the long, long
troll had wound up from The iurroWs
# the rornlicld. from the butcher block.
and tho harksuthS anvil ~ scat ~
thu councils ol his country Nor conid
,n,, forget that tp ono man among tlcm
the long. long trail would wind on and on
until II probably ended IN the NhitC
House while for others who also coveted
hat land of their desire. tho trail would
lead from the convention hall to the moraSs
It black Despair.
CHN-NcE1 0N THE ION
Tho convention settled down TO work
Yesterday when somebody Waved 4 wand
ar performed some other soit at political
hacuS poellv that changed Senator IodE'
rom temporary chairman into permanent
chairman. after Vmch various Colmnt-
tCrmcu presented ther reports
Next came Chaunccy Dcpcw. without
whom no Republican, convention could
legally nominate 4 candidate tic came
forward gallautlv bearing bus olghtN-
wears liEFltBN anu it tx tA8lti ttt'' '5i
Lodge stood together. both politicians
II Old school, facing tins political kinder
carton IN which nobody seems 70 know
which way thev arc golng. or where they
ire headed. | would have glVcn my best
sunday go-to-ncctnE bonnet to know
uSt what they were thinking N those cid
prcy heads. or how much they were sigh
me for the good old days and rcaI
elective steam roller III good working ordcl
III the hands of these who knew how tr
manipulate It.
woNA< GETS : LOok N,
As bcfttcd ono Who Is nearing tho
century mark. Mr. Depev grew renln-
scent He told Of his first convention
The one that nominated Abraham IN
coin and he recalled tho " ashIngton ot
Ilncolns time. which WASH at al ~ his
opinion like that Of Wilson time amt ht
look few humorous shots III the League
of Nations. for which there appears Is
ho no closed season il the convention
Following Mr. Depev, Nr Lodge intro
duced Mrs. Margaret Nc( aSter OF Kansas
he first woman delegate ~ speak toI
rnfranchised women IN a political convcn-
non IN America tho first woman VIII,
could say that she WAS one Of the twenty
million Of women who viii vote IN tht
election TINS iaiI- MIS-, NJ saS'1i - I.
pretty little woman, smarfly groomcd
who is moi only woman Of influence y
Kansas but an authorcss as well, haVns
i six-best seller to her credit.
She spoke clearly and well and i sh'
waved the star Spanglcd Banner
little too often il must +" forgiven her
Tor she was bricf in her remarks and Whci
>hr was through she sat down which Is ~
art few men political speakers have yc
acquired