The Holt County sentinel., 1920-07-02
UNDER THE BIG TOP.


dictive vetoes OF the president, and
against his League OF Nations, and
the Republican paity's historic atti-
tude on the tariff as one of its car
dinal planks, all these measures were
heartily applauded. There were minor
lpanks. which were given little atteL.
tion--thcrc are always an iunumci-
able number of little noses pressed
against the pancs of party platform 4
demanding entrance, each sponsored
by some crank yocferous in his de /,
mands for recognition, that | wonder
there is not more damned foolcry in |
our platform than there is--most Of
them merely isms. but the tendency |
Of parties within the past ten years |
H. Co cater tn these isms. and our own
party is no exception TO the trend. |
It's all right, quoting my young
friends. Dick Dobyns and Henry Gel
"a authority. "when calling on girl
OF taking your sweetheart out for q
stroll 20 run conversation like q
Presbyterian Sunday school on one Of
Bert Naples trucks with stops to pick
| flowers" but in convention your sen. |
fences should be the shortest possible |
distances between periods
Before the platform could be- ADOPT |
Il u yoInL fellow named Gross, one
of the type who always want to be
in the limclight, something like in an.
other way Herbert Hadley used to be
when he was a factor in Missouri pol. !
i,ics. took the platform to present "a
minority report. 1t sure was, for u
Frank Walker said ut was solely his
own, one Of those diatribes or me- !
langes Of sm-l.afolletteism and
Organism the country has got No tired
of in the past years. He knew thu,
his so-callcd ideas were rcpungant and
ldistastcful TO the convention, whose
time he was usurping, that he was in f,
the wrong pew 80 to say, and that his
views should have no place In Re
publican platform, however well they |
might be suited 10 "a convention where |
Eugene Debbs or "A Lenine and Trot-
| sky dominated" The little man want. !
ed to pose as "a martyr and the con
vcn,ion. which by this time was hot
md IN no hrmor to listen to what II
deemed a squirt. was willing to allow
him the pose, yclls call and cat crys
Ircsorndcd through the hall, cries "i
take him out. fire him, sit down, rose
| In mighty volume and the whole CON
ycnton was turned into bcdlam. u
was indeed the storm of outraged
boredom and ovcr-wrought nerves. Bu,
the Masters hand appeared, the icy,
cold New England personality wa'
aroused and the Master arose. Henry
Cabot Lodge had demonstrated al
ready at the din and wild confusion
lreigning. lie now strobe down the
laislc, smashed the gavol upon the
table, faced the excited audience, and
lthundercd out, "Mr. Gross Is just AZ
much entitled TO be heard as any dele
gate here. As for the galleries, " u
not my wish, II is my last wish tol
have them cleared, but they viii be
iclcared unless this confusion ceases
and order IL restored. The business
upun whic this convention II engaged
| Is the most important business upon
which American citizens can be called
lupon to transact and transacted II VIII
Ibe." Crash went the gavcl again, ana
silence rcgncd in the hall. The hand
of the Master was seen and the crowd
sobcrcd down instantly, and the man
who had sought the martyrs crown
went on with his droning reading WITH
his conclusion, quirklng up his iealh-
ers much like nm English sparrow al,
ter meal. A minority report, US !
have my genial friend, Cal Pierce :
definition Of Il, lis the last oitleial
groan u man Is allowed to give while
he h FLYING through the air after be-
ing kicked down the stairs, ami Mr.
Gross 50 found II, for when Chairman
Lodge called for vote on the MINOR
ity report, there came such u now oil
nos that felt the roof OF the building
was going off. In another minute, 70
quote my good friend, Ralph Stauoef
quaint phrase, they had prt the WAY
cd slippers on the young martyrs rect
and were sliding him in the direction
of the stock Yards to return the bu'i
| wbere he rot him 10 all Young men