New-York tribune., 1922-09-28


ALBANY. Sept. 27.-The keynote to
the state Republican convention this
year il "No hokum.' Experts in the
political practice OF phraseology will
define it in more melliHuous language,
but they will mean the same thing.
Senator Roots speech probably con-
tains less hyperbole to the square inch
than any keynote address ever deliv-
cred at any convention of any party.
Even in his most lofty moments he con-
nned himself to words Of plain mean
ing and arguments of obvious intent.
Not once did he speak of any great Re-
publican as "a friend Of the people !"
There was not single screech from n
soaring eagle, nor solitary reference
to the star-spangled flag of our fore
fathers. Senator Root did not either
point with pride or view with alarm.
He did not even call attention to the
fact that this country won the war.
In effect, what he said was: "Look
here, folks, Governor Miller has given
us good, sound, businesslike admins
tration, and for that reason we ought
to indorse him for second term And,
incidentally, President Harding is Civ
ing US the same sort of an administra-
ton at Washington. Therefore, if you
ask me, the Republican party is in
pretty good shape to appeal to the peo-
pie of New York State for support on
its record, and it's my suggestion that
we do exactly that
We have faint suspicion that things
will be different at Syracuse, where the
professional friends of the people
ought to have great big inning and
the view -with-alarmists should be right
up in the front row. The difference is
that Senator Root gives the people Of
New York State credit for having good
sense
That shouldn't make anybody mad
Harmanus Bleecker Hall isn't any
thing like il sounds. Delegates from
New York who feared something like
these places Of assemblage which are
similarly named on the East Side Of
New York were pleasantly surprised to
find themselves oregathering in a well
lighted, lofty and excellently equipped
theater. There was ample accommo-
daton. except for newspaper men.
Some day some party is going to pro-
vide enough room at some convention
for all the reporters to do their work
in comfort.
That party will poll a practically
solid newspaper vote, regardless of it's
policies.
AS it was some Of the harassed
writers flowed over into vacant places
properly belonging to delegates who
were late in arriving, and VIXEN these
came the confusion was not to the sd-
vantage of Senator Root. Other
writers who managed to crowd thcir
corporeal individualitfes into the
chairs provided found it practically i'm
possible to get out again until the
session was over, and the perform
ance of "The Star Spargled Banner"
by the convention band pretty nearly
cut two good legs away from at least
one reporter who wa obliged to ex-
tract himself from beneath table on
NHC osiOi tSol pVSolUlC lot1Ce.
The floor was we'll filled with dele
gates and the dress circle with sprawl
ers, but the upper gallery held only
a few individual members of the gen
eral public who just happened to drop
in. Evidently the unemployment prob
lem isn't acute in Albany.
Whoever had charge of the decora-
tions must have made the grave error
Of hiring some small-souled Democrat
to do the banner, which hung behind
the stage and which Haunted before
the public gaze what was intended to
be q representation of the features Of
President Harding and Governor Miller.
Among the unsophisticated there was
much speculation as to whose these
portraits were meant to be. The vote
was about evenly divided between the
suggestion that they were the Smith
Bros, after having been shaved for