The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-11

committee was impossible. All
agreed as TO the wisdom of this pur-
pose
Chicago subcommittee Was Brilliant
In making up the subcommittee
Chairman Watson, of Indiana, Sc
lected not only the most prominent
men OF the party. but was parti-
cularly careful to select the leaders
OF the conflicting thought with ref
erence to the leading issue.
And here is the first glaring diff
ference between Chicago and San
Francisco. Precisely the same sub
ject was the bone OF contention at
Frisco. There, as in Chicago, IT was
the very heart of the platform.
Chairman Watson at Chicago
made his subcommittee read like
the honor roll of the republican
statesman for the past two decades.
Borah, the irreconcilable and radical
of the senate lodge, was one of the
first men named. Crane. the advo-
cate of the international bankers
and plea,lcr for the Wilson pact, was
also named. Neither WATSON nor
any other man could have selected
committee more notably repre-
sentative OF the one great issue and
party.
At Frisco Chairman Glass APP
pointed committee that sent even
the Washington correspondents TO
their files for information concern
ing its personnel. Not a singl.
prominent and outstanding demo-
cratic statesman was appointed to
that committee which was to write
the party doctrine. While such
well known leaders as Bryan, Mar
shan. Pomerene, Taegart, Reed,
Smith and score of others that
have made their names synonymous
with democratic regularity for a
quarter OF century, were standing
by, a Crane, a Pettingall, a Hodges
and a few other equally wel un-
known men, We're approving the
draft of the platform Chairman
Glass had received from the white
house before leaving Washington.
Opposition at Frisco Not Allowed.
The opposition TO the president
and his league OF internationalisn
was not represented on the sub
committee at all. 1t is true that
Walsh. OF Montana, who had mildly
opposed some OF the league provi'
sions was there, but under th'
pledge that he would not start any
thing. the assurance that he was fol
a league and Wilson endorsement
There was not a single member oI
the committee that In the slightes
degree represented the opposition
TO the administration plan. Had tn,
Frisco convention h'en less bosseC
! and steam -rollered than 1t was dur
ing all the time it was being organ
ized and the platform maze, Reed
or Shields or Smith or Bryan woulC
have occupied place on the sub
committee just as Senator Borah die
! on the republican sub committee.
Reed, tho communicated. wa,
| yer more outspoken in opposition
to democratic Leadership on tht
! league issue than was Borah in op
position TO republican leadership
| Reed never had threatened to boil
| his ticket and party. Borah did
more than a year previous. And hi
| had been muttering threats anC
| preaching revolt right along under
the very shadow OF the Coliseum
He was virtually >defeated as dele
gate in his own state; fairly too, Blu
| the other delegates. though disa
| greeing with him. belonged 10 a par
| " that pledged individual liberty o.
] tHOuEUlg hIttNH anu dNllphs anu INV
/ made room for him on the deloga
| tion and ne was contributed to IN,
resolutions committee that he nigh
| in all fairness be heard for th'
cause ne represented. There wa
never any thought of unseating hin
or refusing his credentials. It wa
taken for granted that he would b'
on the resolutions committee.
But the promised Embossed con
ventior at Frisco repudiated Reed
credentials signed though they wer
by the electors OF his district, barret
| him from the convention and woul,
not permit him 10 be heard for hi
cause. Likewise Smith and all tn
others,
Another GIaring Difference.
A great service was performed h,
tho subcommittee at Chicago. Ev
erybody was given a respectful hear
ing. Irish. labor, wet dry, opei
shopper, women-nobody that care
to he heard, and had a riCht 10 N
heard but was heard and consid
cred. No special pieader was granted