The Washington times., 1924-06-12

IearleSSly. SAID 1t proudly.
That 1t was a futile heroism made
u only the more compelling.
Recognized" by the chair, treated
with a specious consideration that
all but disarmed him on the
speakers stand among the mighty
OF the administration wing in
power, he silenced the boots and
5eers by his venerable presence, his
unabashed sincerity, his vigorous
attack.
He. doubled his aged fist and
swung 1t on high as he read aloud
the words, Of Whitelaw Reid, who
said that grave danger lurked In
the arrogance Of the intrenched
majority and the charges Of traitor.
GUS disloyality made by partisan
majorities against honest minded
EntnoritieS.
Birth Place Of Party.
He pointed out that he came from,
q State in which Republication was
born, a State which had been cat
called by experts in 10, these many
conventions, for daring and pre-
Stunning to propose planks-most Of
which have since become the law Of
the land, adopted with staggering
g1ee in time by the politicians who
6ooed them when they first came
from the progressives.
A hush fell over the multitude
The organized scoffers> grew dumb
Even the gallery smart alexis
those who had come to cheer and
those who had come to jeer, yielded
to this impassioned, unafrai1 old
gentleman, who was making q
losing fight against established odds
OF thousands to one.
Americans always rise to courage
and even a hostile mob reacts to
garieness.
Cooper. of Wisconsin, asked the
chance to offer the one.State mi.
nority recommendation for the plat.
form Of the Republican party.
Practically keynote speech for
the nomination of La Toilette II
was, and everybody knew 1t. Time
was when any candidate for nomina,
ton who had a solid State behind
him got a hearing, and usually q
cheering.
But in this conclave 1t came al
IN element of surprise, almost
shock, that anyone should out
spokenly advance the ideas Of any
one but Calvin Coolidge or Calvin
Coolidge's selected coterie.
Cooper of Wisconsin talked right
up. Somewhat as Bryan had STAN.
peded the Chicago Democratic con.
vention twenty-eight years ago with
his cross Of gold and crown sof
thorns, this grizzled stranger, bear.
~
the crown of light radiating from
MS ghstening scalp, looked square
~ into the collective eyes Of that
enemy gathering-and got 'em.
Some brave soul, perhaps, in re
pentance. perhaps in admiration
brought two hands together. - II
was an astounding sound there IN
those circumstances. Like a con.
Migration 1t was taken up, and like
. cloudburst, it fell, until the great
ana solid hall rocked with the re.
sounding echoes of good will.
Had Cooper Of Wisconsin been q
political Mountebank there is nc
saying how he might have finished.
Had he gone on, in the punchy
style In which he got off and which
ne maintained during his preamble
to the reading of the La Toilette
platform, he can easily be imagined
az having a chance to deeply aRi-
tate that gathering, though he
could scarcely have panicked II
into doing anything not scheduled
and approved by the organization
which here was as strong and
solid as the masonry Of the mag.
nificent structure in which It sat.
But Cooper of Wisconsin had not
come to praise Caesar or to bury
Coolidge. He had come to read
the minority report, which had
been turned down by the commit.
tee on resolutions by a vote Of
81 to l, all States and Territories
but Wisconsin repudiating It.
He took from one pocket his
epectacles and from another the
typewriter pages. And he started
into the reading.
Contrary to PIatitudes.
Progressive, sometimes radical.
almost entirely contrary to the
palatable platitudes which had been
recited by Ambassador Warren on
behalf of the Coolidge majority in
the committee to constitute the
handmade Grand Rapids platform
which had come to Cleveland ali
sawed and planed and ready to be
assembled In the presence of the
convention. nevertheless La Fol.
Iette's platform as read by Cooper
OF Wisconsin lacked the dramatic
fire Of his Introductory, spontaneous
address.
The clauses were applauded by
the few and several times were
Booted at by the many The cleo.
tric effect of the mans personality
had dwindled and was dying under
the anti-climax of the prepared