Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
CONVENTIONS To
ABSORB INTEREST
CONGRESS, ADJOURNED OR NOT,
WILL SOON BE THINKING MOST
OF THOSE MEETINGS.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

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certainly is an optimist. He has al
lowed it to be known that he believes
congress will adjourn on or about the
| first day Of the month of roses. Pres
idents propose and congresses dispose.
The house probably can get through
its work by June 1, and so can the
| senate if it's desire so to do is unani-
nous, but the upper house of con-
| gress cannot do things by majority
rule.
If ninety of the senators should
press for adjournment on June they
could not secure what they want If the
| other six senator's should make up
their minds to keep their tongues wag-
ging. 1t is easy to talk adjournment,
or anything else, to death in the sen
ate of the United States.
In about a months time, no mat
| ter what may be the developments
i along oil lines or those which lead into
and from the Department of Justice,
| the keenest interest of the congress
men will be in the Forthcoming nation
| al conventions of the two parties. In
terest is high now but soon it will
shadow all other interests.
The Republican convention is to be
held in Cleveland and the Democratic
convention is to be held in New York
! city. In the old days it was thought
that some political advantage would
accrue to a party from the holding OF
a convention in certain city. There
still is mild feeling that advantage
may come to some candidate as re-
| suit Of placing the convention in the
! town Of the choice of his friends, but
as q matter of fact the city where a
convention is held has little or moth
| Ing to do with the choice Of the nom
| inee.
Why G. o. P. Chose Cleveland.
When Cleveland was chosen it was
said that President Coolidge influenced
the choice because of his desire to
make Ohio safe for Republicanism.
There probably was precious little
| basis for this statement. There is d
feeling that the Republicans preferred
Cleveland to Chicago this year be
cause of certain party factional trou-
bles in the bigger city which might
have made for friction within the con
| vention hall.
Cleveland was chosen because it is
well located city, has one of the
best halls in the country and because
the Clevelandites promised to do and
to give-and this sums up the chief
reasons for the choice of the town by
the G. o. P.
A good many of the western Demo
Gratis originally didn't want to have
the convention of their party called
for New York city. Seemingly the
directors thought that, New York be-
| ing the home town Of Alfred e. Smith
his chances for the nomination would
be increased by the enthusiasm Of To-
cal adherents who might get whole
sale admissions to the galleries and
proceed to do the stampeding act
Nothing to 1t.
New York was chosen because the
city has not seen a Democratic con-
vention since the one which nominated
Horatio Seymour fifty-six years ago
| and because it has fine hotel accom-
modations and good hall, but princi-
pally because the majority of the Dem
Ocratic national committee, knowing
unquestionably how the states which
they represent feel In the matter, be
lieved an eastern convention best
1 would serve the interests of the party
Location Doesn't Help Candidates.
Those who hold that the choice OF
a certain city is likely to be Of bene-
at to the ambitions of certain candi-
| dates find it difficult In political his
tory to Ak on a case which will but
tress their belief William Jennings
Bryan was nominated in Chicago in
| 1895. Sentiment in the city so far as
it expressed itself was against his
nomination. He made speech which
swept the delegates off their feet and
he was nominated, and that is the
| whole story Grover Cleveland was
nominated in Chicago in 1892, where
certainly preponderance of local
sentiment was against him.
| In 1920 there was no appreciable
sentiment for Warren G. Harding to
be found in the city Of Chicago The
galleries largely were either for Wood
or for Lowden. Harding was nominal
ed by the delegates who were sitting
In what might be called hostile en-
vironment James M. Cox was nom
mated by the Democrats in San Fran
cisco, more than two thousand miles
away from his home
The subcommittee of the national
committees and the local Cleveland
and New York committees which have
| charge of preparations for the con-
ventions, properly policing and regu-
lating them, have and will continue to
have for some time work on their
hands. In each convention there will
| be six or seven hundred assistant SER
geants-at-arms, four or five hundred
doorkeepers, ushers, messengers and
pages, scores Of telegraph operators
and an astounding number of news
paper correspondents. A complete
staff Of physicians and nurses is
| needed.
Marines In Honduras.
Down in Honduras where there has
| been a revolution, or at any rate a
| vo~o++v stiff kind Of q war hptWonn