El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-10
IS CONVENTION
ITS OWN BOSS?
By G. A. MARTIN.
CONTINUED from rage One.)

Z war settlement problem absolutely
untrammeled.
the foreign relations principles Of
! George washington and James Mon
roe
5. Declaration for any plan toward
insuring worldwide peace which
does not conflict with these prin-
ciples.
Is Convention own BOssf
Just as there are two factions in
the johnson matter. there are two di-
visions OF opinion relative TO the con-
vention and how 1t is being run
There are those at the convention
who assert that the Hays machine IS
the best oiled the party has ever had,
and swear that when the time comes
to put on the screws Hays viii do
it and il will soon be over
The other crowd asserts that it is
the first national convention Of the
party in the memory Of man that
has been its own boss running on It's
own momentum
Certainly it is a sober convention
There is very little enthusiasm; so
far all has been quiet and delibera-
tive. The first two sessions Of the
convention showed it to be thorough
~ its own boss, or extremely well
bossed, for there was not murmur
Of dissent anywhere
Those who contend the convention
is not bossed say It viii take it an
other week to pick a nominee and
adjourn. They say after the delegates
have voted ten or dozen times on
Wood, Lowden and johnson, and have
got nowhere, they viii not know
what to do without bosses to lead
the way.
SprouI Favored Dark Horse.
Fortunately those arranging things
furnished everybody with tickets TO
rha Coliseum for six DAYS
Those who say the bosses are IN
control assert that the plan is to let
Wood, Lowden and Johnson wear
each other out, and then spring the
proper man at the rlgnt time as
dark horse, already well groomed-
Sproul, the Pennsylvania governor,
is the favorite in this talk. This fac
tion insists that II the campaign
probe had never been started, Low
den would have been nominated this
afternoon They recall he was the
faTorite three weeks or a month ago
and say the machine could have
turned the uninstructed delegates to
him at once. This could still be
done, they say; but the leaders are I
afraid TO name either Wood or Low ]
den in face OF the showing OF the /
money they spent for they know the l
Democrats viii make much out OF the /
money scandal this fail and that If I
the party can show IL shelved the /
men who spent the money its skirts 4
VIII be clean
LOwden's Stock Falling.
For this reason II looks pretty /
much as II somebody besides Wood. /
Lowden or Johnson viii be named
William Jennings Bryan takes the I
line OF reasoning that the party can 4
not put up a man who is besmirched i
with the money faint, yet cannot &C
cept a man as radical as Johnson be- /
cause OF the resentment his nomina- I
ton would create among the con- /
serTatives- He thinks governor 1
Sproul viii be the nominee. The /
logic Of the thing is recognized l
Even the Chicago Tribune, recog- ]
nized LoWden mouthpiece, admits the !
governors stock is falling regardless !
Of his action in casting to the winds
q Chicago votes rather than COM
promise with mayor Bill" Thompson I
He buried Thompson politically as a
national figure. but Thompson is
having revenge
After leading a convention floor
battle 70 force action repudiating the
.LOwden delegate buying methods
in accordance with the Cook County
Republican Central Committee, mayor
Thompson and corporation counsel
Ettelson will both resign from the
Illinois delegation at large rather
than vote for the Illinois governor. /