The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-11
ROOT HANDLES
TREATY PLANK
IN fine SHAPE
Welded All Factions by Docu-
ment Written Before He
Sailed for Europe, Two
Weeks Ago, Says Blythe.
MASTER COMPROMISE
BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE
Copyright, 1920, by the Central Pres
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CHICAGO, Illinois, June 11.-While
Senator Lodge beat time with a long
and cultured forefinger, the delegates
at the Coliseum, aided vociferouSly by
the spectators, who were humidity
awaiting the platform and the promis
ed row over it, sang Hail, Hail, the
Gangs All Here" thereby putting in
the song the greatest truth enunciated
in any manner since the convention
opened.
The gang was all there, calling for
the platform, waiting to applaud the
warriors who were to leap bodily into
the arena and rend one another over
the league of nations, and made this
marching song the battle hymn.
But there was no battle. There was
nothing over which any battler, how
ever rancorous, could do battle. E'ihu
Root, the eminent citizen. fixit of the
republican party prior to sailing for
Europe, left in safe hands an express
sion on the league of nations that at
the proper moment was slipped into
! the platform by the liberal use of the
usual emolients, and the bolters
couldn't bolt, nor the battlers battle.
Some Compromise, Thinks Blythe.
AS a compromise it was universal,
enveloping all shades of opinion and
reducing them to a harmonious and
supportable, if neglible whole. AS.
traddle, it has one foot resting on the
Golden Gate and the other on Ply
mouth Rock. 1t gives all contenders
opportunity to shout that theirs is the
victory. 1t certainly earns for Mr..
Root added laurels as the Sam Slick
Of the crisis that did not crise, because
of his ability to play on the English
! language as the Brown Brothers play
on the saxaphone.
The gang listened DULY while James
A. Watson read it with great declama.
tory effect. There was no carnage.
One feeble protest came from Wiscon-
sin, but the previous question put that
protester in his place. It was again
shown that while boilers may bluff,
buffers may never bolt The machine
operated without hitch. creak or jar
after the preliminary crashing was
! over.
The republicans are on the outside
! looking hungrily in, and far be 1t
from tlem to delay their entrance by
going into meticulous detail on any
policy when a broad general set OF
remarks on the subject will suffice
| ceal thought, and platform language
was made to corral votes When com
bined plank like today's is the ex
! pert result.
The political campaign with its
bluff, Doodle, ballyhoo, and beligerence
has been a campaign of education
and in every campaign of education
somebody is bound to be educated.
| Diplomas are about to be delivered
| to large class of freshmen, who have
been posing as seniors. fooling them
| selves, but not the professors who
! have been educating them.
| Things are nearly all set for com
mencement exercises to take place al
the coliseum within a very few days
and. Immediately afterwards, the de
gree of n. F. P. (nominee for presi
dent) will be conferred on the gentle,
man selected for that honor by the
professors. not the one favored by any
group of students.
Unprofessional as it may sound, the
-, time is close at hand when the profes
sors will shout. Let's CO." and. there
upon, the whole mess and boiling will
proceed to go.
Just Enough Votes, Whole Problem
There has never been anything tC
this convention but the necessity ol
making a combination that would pro
duce enough votes to nominate an &C
ceptable man. No avowed individual
candidate has produced enough votes
to nominate himself, nor has any
avowed candidate been able to make
a combination for himself. Hence, the
work has fallen on other and more
skillful combiners. who, without can
didatorial obligations have searched
earnestly for a parsonage on whom
they might unite-a man they coulc
push over, as the saying is.
This is the top, bottom and middle
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