The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-06-18
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For what it is worth, repeat what
was said by one of these disinterested
men of great wealth when, in view
Of the treaty plank satisfactory to
hiram johnson. A friend remarked
that johnson could now retire from
the field with a moral victory to suck
during the next four years.
"On the contrary" murmured the
banker, johnson is the logical man
to expound an anti-treaty plank.
don't see how any one else can be
nominated"
Bankers always mean something
when they talk, but they frequently
speak in code and mean just the op-
posite of what they say. This prac-
tice has the advantage, also of al
lowing them to say exactly what they
mean without being suspected of tell
ing the truth That remark at this
moment, may be either Johnson's po-
litical death warrant or the prologue
to his inauguration as president.
! Philip Gibbs waited six years be-
fore he could write "Now 1t Can Be
Told' about the great war. Report
ers wandering around Chicago for the
past six days are forced to write
Prophesy among correspondents is
paralyzed by the fact that bosses are
not conspicuous around this conven-
ton. And Republican convention
without boss is mighty scary
spectacle to the reporter. 1t pro-
duces upon him exactly the effect that
a lone goose in deep forest has up
on a sophisticated fox. 1t sets him
running in circles to see where the
trap is laid There's ketch in it
somewhere they all declare.
THE "KETCH" is AT THE
BLACKSTONE HOTEL.
Alice Paul's suffrage pickcts are
still the splas Of color and dash of
courage at the Coliseum. Charles
Hilles thinks so, too. He used to be
chairman of the Republican National
Committee: Today he approached
the line of pickets, praised them for
their persistence and presented them
with five sets of tickets to the cOnven-
ton.
Now Hilles is wondering whether
Miss Paul will be jealous enough for
her cause to get up during prayer or
and demand that the Re- !
publicans fish or cut bait on the !
thirty-sixth state. One of the planks |
adopted today urge prompt action by ;
some state to complete suffrage rati-
Confronted with that news, I
Miss Paul remarked:
1.-The sentiment is all right but we
won't accept moral support as sub
stitute for the 36th state"
There is not going to be any bolt
by johnson, Borah ct al. When the
makes it's ambiguous
promise to reject the Wilson treaty
and league, the horns will drop of
The little Steer Moose crowd and its
leaders will 20 on a journey around
the world till they can grow whiskers
10 hide their faces from the home
folks who took them seriously.
The majority report Of platform
was adopted with one dis
senting vote, Gross of Wisconsin. rep
'esenting the LaFollette faction. faced
! hostile and jeering convention,
which Senator Lodge had repeatedly
% call to order before Gross could
his minority report which
Tanned the treaty and league of ma
ions outright and called for progress
live adoption of public ownership for
'ailroads. packing plants and other
industries. The scatter
HS applause NHiSH C(Aluc ~ \1OSS |
rom various sections was repeatedly
overwhelmed by cat calls and person.
Il insults.
"You pretend to defend democracy.
nut you would deny me the right to
present a duly prepared substitute for
he majority report" cried Gross ut
me point.
The majority report gives lip recog-
,ition to lahor's right to collective
denies the right of gov
workers to strike, would en-
end the labor clauses of the Cum
nins law. and is fatty opposed to gov
rnment ownership.
A significant plank declares I'VE
'ledge the government t. the re-
of trade with every country
With which we are ut peace" refer.
ing perhaps "a the Wilson blockade
gainSt Russia.
Another plank would require the