The Washington times., 1924-06-10
COP. CHIEFS At
CONVENTION
L|MNED
William Hard Sketches Men
Who Have Big Parts in
Cleveland Farley
BY, WILLIAM HARD.

say the convention is due to be
dull, but that's only the convention.
The people in it. as people. are
just as amusing as ever.
Here comes John T. Adams. chair.
man of the Republican National
Committee, florid, plumpish, pleas.
ant, inclined to chuckle and in.
disposed to crate.
He opens the convention today
with few words. They will be
the. fewest with which any con-
vention could be opened. If Mr..
Adams and Calvin Coolidge would
start joint word sayings account.
they would soon have more unex.
pended verbal capital than any
other two men in the county.
Mr.. Adams has one hobby. He
opposes American participation in
European affairs. No Secretary of
State and no President ever could
or ever can stop him from doing
so. He just simply forever keeps
on doing so. Humanity he moves
along with a multitude of warm
friendships. In political views he
is an iceberg which no Gulf stream
can melt.
The "Key.NOter."
He is followed by Theodore E.
Burton, of Ohio, our temporary
chairman, our "key-noter."
MIR. Burton is seventy-two. Mr..
Mondell. our permanent chairman,
is sixty-three. Apparently Mr..
Coolidge. being only fifty-one. wants
to be esure that his youthful i'm
petuousness will be kept sufficiently
in check by our elder statesmen.
Mr.. Burton Is gentleman of
great dignity and also Of great
independence. In the House of
Representatives he has just finished
opposing the granting of Muscle
Shoals to Henry Ford in spite of
the White House blessing which
Mr.. Ford was wearing.
Mr.. Burton votes the way he
wants to vote and then explains
it to his party colleagues and to his
constituents afterwards IL he hap.
pens to think of doing 80. His
constituents seem to like this
method and have given him ten
. And here's another Burton
Marion Leroy Burton, of Michigan.
He is Matching out the eloquence
with which he. will astonish the con.
vention when he steps forward to
suggest that the presidential nomi
nation be given to- Calvin Coolidge.
Burton 81 Michigan.
This Burton is young, erect,
alert, tense, EXPLOSIVES man with
a flame and a flare. AS. head OF
the University of Michigan, he is
vigorously successful in the negotia
tons which lead to an ample fin.
ancial support of the University by
the State.
He is not scholar in a cell. He
could run the United States Steel
Corporation. His speech nominating
Mr. Coolidge is expected to be veI y
much the same speech that might
IN similar circumstances be made py
E. H. Gary after a course in oratOry
and elocution.
And, speaking of takers. here
comes the climax. Here are jim
Watson and Albert Beveridge, the
well-known warblers of the Wabash
They went to school together in
Indiana, and spoke. They left
school, and continued spea king: They
outspoke everybody else in a Stat
where everybody speaks. For years
they have been trying to outspeak
each other. They have not sue
ceeded. Each is an unconquerCd
paladin of platform performance.
Their fellow Indianans, constitute
ing jury of experts, say that Wat,
son makes the best speech on the
Republican party and its merits Aid
beauties, while Beveridge makes the
best speech on the Constitution, on
the Stars and Stripes, on the Bible
and on God.
May BE Asked for Duet.
1t is widely demanded that they
he asked to give the convention d
duet.
This convention must have ol..
tory. 1t wants conservative views
put in fiery words.
1t is difficult prescription. Most
fiery takers are demagogues. No
0emagogues are wanted here.
Burton. Of Ohio, as temporary
chairman; Frank Mondell, as perma
nent chairman; Charles D. Warren,
as chairman of the resolutions com.
nittee-they all of them are dea tn
on demagogues.
Yet the convention must be in.
spired. All! There's George Whar-
ton Pepper sitting in the Pennsyl-
vania delegation.
Tall, broad.shouldered, athletic,
well-dressed, cultivated in manner,
cultivated in mind. learned, anus
ing, gracious of face, graceful of
phrase, the perfect person the
flower Of culture!
Also our leading light in really
catch-as.catch.can oratory.
He may save the situation. If
tomorrow Mr.. Mondell,. as per-
manent chairman, should say,
Senator Pepper will now for five
minutes amuse and thrill the con-
vention with some observations on
the Nicene Creed, the Battle Of
Waterloo, and the multiplication
table," Pepper will get up and do
1t and will make the convention
laugh and cry and look forward
with confidence to November
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