The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-02-14


iaays session was taken up by discus
rion of representation in eOnven5ion
snd incidentally an airing Of the GO
cred mans EOes and grievances
America. On Wednesday uisht tie
was a great elimax, when Gov LOwder
and Chairman win II. Hays OF the
National Republican Committee both
spoke TO the assembled delegates. The
address of Chairman Hays was really
splendid, well prepared American
document. 1t shoEed careful prepare.
ton, and was delivered in such man
ner as to indicate that the speakers
heart went with his words. Mr.. Hays
is man of small stature, but of
mighty intellect and apparently of
great heart He did not fatter nor
ca ole the eolOred people as so many
public men do. He gave in wen chosen
phrase, the ideas and ideals Of the
great organization which he heads. lie
was frequently interrupted by gener
Gus and timely applause. Roscoe Sim
mons described by some person present,
as the greatest Jazz orator of the age,
made many speeches some of them de-
lightfully picturesque, and some in
questionable taste, but all evidently
very pleasing to the great audience.
For example he said that God almighty
was knocking on the Jim Crow car
door, not 50 much because he was in
terested in getting the Negroes out of
the Jim Crow ear, as 10 was because
lie (the Almighty was tired of riding
in the Jim Crow car with the Negroes.
II did not seem to shock the audience
which seemed TO take it for granted
that God must be fiding in the Jim
Crow car because his eolOred people
were there. Anyhow Simmons got by
with il as he does with many raw
stunts, because it is Simmons.
He introduced Governor LOwden in
both serious and fiPpant way. The
Governor was greatly impressed, and
confessed his delight in hearing for the
first time the man of whom he had
heard so much. Governor Lowden 3
address dealt with Lincoln and his
ideals. 1t was well delivered and many
people remarked that as an orator
Governor Lowden takes first rank. He
seemed thoroughly and deeply in earn
est as he told of the great emancipation
and the homage that the man Of the
world are constantly paying as they
kneel in reverence before this Ameri-
can shrine. He did not hesitate to say
that this tribute was not only to the
greatest American, but the greatest of
the human race Of all the ages. He
eOunseled the eOlored people among his
fellow citizens to take Lincoln s love
for the law as their shining example
of civic duty. He paid great eompli-
ment to the great services to American
arms rendered by eolored soldiers in
two great lwars. He was given a tire
mendOus ovation both in the beginning
and close Of the wonderfully eloquent
address On Thursday morning the
League had Mayor ThOmpsOn's well
come and of course there were suf-
fieient numbers Of Chicago people pres
ent to make Big Bills entry and re-
eeption a signal event. Roscoe Sim
mons introduced him as the greatest
living American and the Mayor smiled
as though he actually believed it, and
the distinguished eOurtiers of his col
ored eonfreres on the platform wished
for words of larger import than ever
Roscoe had used in speaking of their
chief.
The Mayor was at his best.He, has
improved wonderfully within the past
two years and the wonderful thing
about him is that he seems to be in
earnest about some of the things for
which he has been denounced as a
demagogue. Like Cato of old, who
began and ended every speech,
Carthage delenda est, he made the
Traction company the burden of his
song after he got outside Of the con-
stitution which he unfolded and read
in measure and told his hearers how
they should reverence and venerate it.
He was interrupted so frequently by
applause that it took him quite a while
to deliver his address. But it was
really worth hearing. Maj. Gen. Wood
came in while ''Your Mayor" was
speaking and received quite an ovation
in which the Mayor appeared to join.
When the time came for the General
to speak, the audience applauded
Justify. and it must have delighted him
extremely for he spoke ehamingly and
well. He has none of the arts of the
orator, but his words strike like bull
lets. His sentences are epigramatie,
and his statement that he is for the
fnl enforcement Of the law and the
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