Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-08
FEARS PEOPLE
ARE TlRING OF
OLD METHODS
Charles Edward Russell Puts
Mark Twain's Mantle on
Will Hays Shoulders.
NO SPIRIT IN CHICAGO
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.

By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.
(copywrighted, 1920, by International
News Service.)
CHICAGO. June S.-Teu me not in
mournful numbers it's the absence OF
barley corn that casts gloom over this
convention.
In the first place, he is not absent. as
plenty of frst-class evidence attests and
guess that in the last forty-eight hours
have had breathed on me enough full.
rich whisky breaths to come pretty near
: knowing.
: And in the next place If old Bacchus
5 himself were to prance down Michigan
avenue, crowned with green vine leaves
and bearing a wine sack on each shoulder
{ he couldn't stir more than 4 passing in
terest in this solemn gathering.
It seems to have on it's mind something
{ moro important than wine bibbing.
Last night Senator Harding and Irwin
Cobb were standing together, an artist
! came along and sketched Cobb and ig
nored Harding, and eco persons watched
the artist and thought he had made the
right selection
The Californians breezed in and tried
~ AdAoC tlAE uEOupLuE SRAE4AS VIII a
band some cheering IN the good old
style, but there was something to make
you SILVER in the way the prevailing
chill stole surely and lethally over their
once joyous spirits until they, foo, melted
! away into gloom and silence. The Mas
sachusetts delegation arrived and moved
like a cortege down the sidewalk, headed
! by Crane and Lodge, two sad faced old
! men that seemed to have buried hopes
Men looked for the coffin TO come next
Last night a glee club tried to sing a
! song for Harding. L sounded like an
elegy.
begin TO fear that these people are
pretty nearly on to Us at last. They are
disillusioned. like adults at a Punch and
Judy show They begin to suspect that
! while the convention may hold at the
: Coliseum, the choice Of a candidate is
being made in about two rooms in the
Congress hotel.
That's one thing, and another is they
/ are beginning to suspect that the choice
who ever it may be, doesn't mean any
thing to them. They hear the hired
barkers Of this candidate and tbst bel
: low or bleat about individual merits ana
claims. but never q word as TO any way
By which wages can be made TO overtake
price lists. They see the pictures lavishly
: QlSOlHXeu Oh hi iuS6S bAAA0 O~A AA~N' -
perfect statesmen. but they don't heard
5 a word as 10 what any Of the owners Of
the faces stand for.
They are tired Of bunk, brethren, dead
tired Of 1t.
The ever genial Mr.. Hays, chairman Of
the national republican committee
obliged US with a statement that this is
an Embossed convention. At the time the
hoi poiH was being RECALLED with this in
formation the gentlemen who will decide
upon the nominee had almost made up
! their minds that they could chance II
with the man they really prefer, who is
Lowden, and If he seemed too much Of a
risk, they would make il Sproul.
To reach this conclusion they had
nearly melted the telegraph wire that
s leads direct from the Congress hotel 10
the bedside Of a large fat man lying
sick in Philadelphia. Over inst wire they
: had been comforting with him almost
! constantly for three days.
Since the death OF Mark Twain this
country has mourned the lack Of a really
hrst-elass humorisL Let it now sing
{ hail to Mr.. Hays. When 1t comes to
humor he has all the rest lashed TO the
mast.