The Washington times., 1920-06-09
'O[DSTAND-PAT.
CROWDRUL|NG.
Blythe Finds Republican Party
Dominated by Forces as In
:. Mark Hanna Days.
by SAMUEL @. BLYTHE.

Copyright. 1870. BY Samuel q. blyths)
CHICAGO, June 9.-The Republican
party. as IL registers through its
leaders here. Is as stsndpat as It ever
was when Mark Hanna was running
It,. 1t is evident that the intention
Is to prove TO the country at large
that no radicaiism has seeped into IL,
and that 1t is a rock ribbed re-
spectacle. conservative institution
The watchword OF the men In
charge is: Put no progressive on
guard. Every step that has been
taken has proved that. Ihe
mai proof came when Senator
James w. Watson was made chairman
of the resolutions committee. ana
when Senator Lodge was continued
as permanent chairman OF the con
yention. Watson is a standpat ne
publican. So Is Lodge.
Conservatism Wins.
1t had been the desire of the men
who are of progressive tendencies TO
have former Senator Beveridge. OF
Senator Mccormick. or Senator Borsh
serve as permanent chairman. Ineso
men are progressives. None OF them
was chosen. Conservatism Is the OASIS
of the whole affair. and conservatism
of the old standpat variety. not even
conservatism OF the 1920 variety.
That same spirit will be shown IN
the platform 1t was the theme OF
Lodges keynote speech. Further. and
more important, IT will be the funda-
mental requirement in the CANDIDATE
IL ia proved over and over again IN
the desperate opposition to johnson.
II. is shown in every act, IN every
plan. No radicals need apply nor
need any radicalism, however. sane
and in spirit with the times. seek al
mittance to this impregnable conVo-
cation. Everything is safe and sane
Eyerything will be kept SO.
With Watson presiding over the
platform making no doctrine that Is
not tried and true. that has not the
cachet of precedent, convention ana
tradition will break into that docu-
ment. What was good enough TOT
,he golden days Of 1900 Is gooa
enough now. They would make high
protection the issue IL they could.
VIII Nominate Tory.
All this predicates, politically, the
character OF the man they intend to
nominate. There will be no seeking
for an exponent Of the idea that new
conditions prevail. that the past nve
years have wrought tremendous po-
,itical, economic, and social changes
In our national fabric; nor any recog-
milton in the nominee that we are
living anywhere but in the past.
They intend to nominate a con-
servative on a conservative platform;
not a conservative in liberal and
advanced sense, but a conservative
within the meaning of their inter
pretation OF the term-a standpat He-
nublican, who is OF the old order, or
ut least for the old order. That Is,
they intend to nominate such a man
II they have their way, and they are
very likely to. Nobody here can stop
them. Back Of this, working for it
and with it, is a closely corporated
body of Republican United States
Senators, who, with a good success,
are seeking to run things along these
lines.
All Oh Guard Present.
One cannot go about the streets
without humping into q Republican
United States Senator, and one steps
on them in every hotel lobby. They
are nearly all here, all intent. first.
on maintaining the past as the SYM
bol, and their own part in it as the
precedent. and of seeing to it that
their own brand of conservatism,
which is the Aldrich-Hanna brand, is
the one adopted for use in this cam
paign.
Looking at the conventions, its
manifestations, and at the men who
ere most powerful in 1t, the conclu-
sion is inevitable that the Republican
party is now q party Of, for, and by
the United States Senate.