The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-07
CONCENTRATION ON LOWDEN SENSATION
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by business. Coolidge and Allen have la Dor against them. And so on through the list. Labor will support Lowden. The farmers like him. Eastern business would welcome his nomination Who else is so generally acceptable? He has only one little speck on him.
 This argument that Lowden, while leav- ing a good deal to be desired. is as good as any candidate that can be named may in the end prevail It has not yet pre- vailed. It is necessary to take with a grain of salt the organizations rallylng to him. The head and front of the Low den concentration is Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman of the repub- lican national committee. MT. Hert founded this shelteTiag arms for the homeless uninstructed delegate the Low den concentration. MT. Hert says that Lowden can be nominated. The speck upon him, it is nothing, says Mir Hert and you listen to him, fat, smiling, not easily moved by trifles, you believe for the moment that the speck is nothing at all And if you are of the right kind you go out and say: The organization can put Lowden over"
 But will it dare? Yes it will dare.''
 WILL IT DARE?
 Then two men in succession say to you that it won't dare and after that you be- Rln to ask the QucSllOH yOufStll ana IT. nally you have to go to MT. Hert again to be reassured about the courage of the convention
 Mr. Hert started something in this concentration on Lowden. This shelter ing arms for the homeless uninstructed delegate beset by the perils of the Wood and Johnson movements. Therefore, MT. Hert is a leader. He is assuming the proportions of Penroses's successor The
 :~A leader and MT. Hert affords them the op- portunity it wants to believe that a can didate has been found. Therefore it takes the Lowden concentration seriously. At- ways, however with the 'if it dares' reservation. It wants good story. That the breach created by the lack of leader ship has stopped. MT. Hert is good story.
 Everybody likes to believe in mira c1es. with reservations. The sudden ability of leaderless convention to find leader and name a candidate is a miracle If this convention crowd were writing the book of Genesis. it would not say that in six days God created the hsans and the earth and all the rest It would say that it was all done in six minutes. That would be better story.
 STRANGE REPLIES
 Now, take this reservation about Lowden, If the convention dares." Is this reservation or nullifying You get strange replies that that question. A reformer from New York will come in. You ask him and he will look at you with astonish- ment. The speck on Lowden is noth- ing. professional politician whom the reformer- has spent his life de- nouncings will come to town and he wiH also look at you with astonish- meht. To him a nan who got caught giving money to delegates is unthink- able. A newspaper man here summed up the general view. "Lowden is like woman who has been compromised. You say nice, sympathetic things about her. You say 1t is unfair and unfor- tunate. But you don't invite her to your parties.' Lowden doubtless is a fine, clean fellow and has got himself compromised and is being made the victim of Caesars wife rule.
 The concentration on Lowden was in- evitable. The organization had to have some one with whom it could hold to- gether its strength. It has to have somewherea big block of delegates to possess the balance of power. Low den offered the natural rallying point. Probably it is all the easier to rally to him for the time being because he is compromised. because he probably cannot be nominated. The ralliers can to a final decision.
 TORPEDO WOOD FIRST
 The plan of the organization is to