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! ALMOST caught myself pressing
the hand OF the reporter next to
me. I was 30 thrilled.
But the high spot was not
reached, until Paul Rowland made
his "fifty-fifty" announcement Tor
the committee on rules.
That was the signal for ncn to
shout and women to throw hats
and handkerchiefs into the air.
Now 1t will be fifty-fifty on
everything but alimony and wash.
ing the. dishes, in the Republican
party.
Past to BE Forgiven.
All the past bitter struggle be-
tween the sexes will be forgotten
and forgiven. The men will do
forgetting and the women will do
the forgiving. That's the mascu.
line idea Of "fifty-fifty."
When the cheering had died
down, and the last woman had
Strengthened her hat and powdered
her nose, and asked her husband
what it was all about, a mad, glad
male voice rang out from the gal
lery in a final "whoop, whoop,
whoopee!'
Somebody's husband" whispered
the reporter next to me, some
body's darling, cheering for mama. i"
Everybody seemed glad, and
happy and relieved that it was
over.
/ The wholesome face of that
gloriously wholesome woman, Mrs.
Upton. vice chairman of the ma.
tional committee, was like a spring
sunrise.
A. smile like a rainbow after a
shower broke over the countenance
OF Mrs. Elizabeth Price Martin.
Mrs. Hert, the future vice chair.
man. was as radiant as a rose, and
couldn't stop smiling.
Women Now PEOPLE"
Mrs. Leonard G. Wood looked
ike sunshine party.
After that, they discovered that
the platform committee wasn't
ready with its report. 1t still had
10 have its hair marcelled, rub off
the beauty pack, put on its make
up and decide what to wear and
what to leave off.
But nobody cared. The only
really important thing had han.
pened. 1t doesn't matter now whom
they nominate for Vice President.
or even for President. The real.
the vital, the glittering part of the
convention is over.
Women are people" in the Re.
publican party-and ladies' day is
over.
But don't forget, gentlemen
oelesates' when you kiss your
wives goodnight, this evening, that
you are kissing "people"-and that
you can't fool the same ueople in
the same way, more than half Of
the time.
Get few alibis-and change
from cloves to peppermint, once in
a while.
Fifty-fifty.
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half or thereabouts Of the platform.
there were a good many Of us in
terested to note the considerable an.
plauSe which he received from the
galleries-not from, majority of
the spectators by a good deal, but
from considerable minority of
them.
When the convention adjourned
Wednesday night. delegates in con-
siderable numbers left Cleveland,
prepared to read in the late edition
of Thursday afternoon papers the
story Of, President Coolidge's nomi-
nation and the announcement of
MS running mate, upon whose
selection the members Of the cabi-
net and the managers. OF the con-
vention went into caucus at mid
night.
The Leaders Problem. :
The pressure brought to hear ON
Borah, Lowden and Hoover has
been so widely published that some
men, whom I am NOT at liberty tn
name and who are eligible for the
place. are unwilling to accept what
otners nave so conspicuously and
repeatedly refused. :
Under the circumstances, IL they
40 not conscript Hoover, YOU can
Imagine the perplexity of the lead.
ers to select and submit. a vice.
presidential candidate to a conTen.
tlon, which from the beginning has
looked to few leaders for ali mi.
tiative. -AA'
Thus, except for the nominations.
we nave come to the end Of one of
sne strangest conventions in the
history OF the Republican party. /
nave never seen anything In any
way comparable to 1t, except when
the Democratic convention at
Denver' In 1908, nominated Mr.:
Bryan to run against Theodore
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to where the Wisconsin men sat
some cheering, some hooting, while
the Wisconsin delegates sat and
smiled and jeered back.
World Court Approved.
The delegates gave evidence of
their approval Of the plank regard.
ing the World Court and then an
plauded five-fold louder and longer
when he read the plank declaring
that the Republican party was
firmly and resolutely opposed to the
adhesion to the League Of Nations.
Louder and longer still was the
cheering Of the protective tariff
plank. There were cheers or
hand clapping for the plank de.
clarlng against the governments in.
trusion into business, or against the
governments thwarting private in
ltiatlve. as well as against govern.
ment ownership and operation of
public utilities; but all. Of these, the
loudest and longest, as I have said,
was the demonstration in favor, of a
protective tariff.
There was emphatic and genuine
applause when Mr.. Warren read the
plank calling for the election of a
President and q Congress truly of
the same political faith.
? After Mr.. Warren's reading of the
majority platform there followed an
interesting study in popular psychol.
ogy. It had been bruited abroad
that the rules committee would pro.
vide against the presentation Of the
minority report known to have been
prepared for the Wisconsin delega.
ton. Nevertheless, Congressman
Cooper Of Wisconsin presently came
forward. It was announced that he
would have so many minutes in
which to address the convention
before presenting the Wisconsin
platform. y,
Crowd Wanted to Hear.
Twice during the course of his
short and good-humored speech,
former Congressman Campbell, par.
Humanitarian for the chair, came
forward to notify him that his time
had expired But the audience.
which filled the galleries, although
by fair majority las was after.
ward manifested in favor Of the
regular platform, gave evidence
that It would not tolerate without
protest any unreasonable limitation
upon the time Of the speaker, who
represented Q single delegation
whose favorite son everyone 10 con.
WINGED IL destined to lead the third
party movement.
AS Mr.. Cooper made his speech
and during the reading Of the first
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relt- was due to the fact that the
management of. no political Marty
with any common sense will ever
nolo another convention under
those conditions again. Even AZ a
rlotouS convention like the one in
!S1z were held in this hall in Clave.
!ano DO not believe there vould
nave been the uproar and lack of
dignity which characterized that
convention"
Mr.. Barnes then expressed his
opinion Of President Coolidge. There
was great energy and force in his
voice and great seriousness in his
race. 1t was hard to believe that
Big Bill" has attended conven-
tons for thirty-two years. He was
q young man. He had drunk the
deep drafts of enthusiasnn-his
fountain Of youth,
Long Assured.
Or course, the nomination of
Mr.. Coolidge" Mr.. Barnes said.
was Insured q long time before
the convention. It has always
seemed to me to be assured from
the day he. took Presidential office.
The tremendous vote at the pri.
maries clearly expressed a wave
OF popular opinion in behalf of a
man as President, who, havinx.
good judgment, acts upon II and
lets tho chips fall as they may.
For quarter Of a century, the
people Of the United States have
been talked t. too much from the
White House They are tired AZ
1t. They want q man who is not
talking on the job, who is trying
to reduce taxes, Kidding the coun.
try OF superfluous expenditures
cutting out the dead wood and
going along with the countrv's
business in an American fashion.
Members Of Congress who have
opposed Mr.. Coolidge's Judgment.
i, think, will hear from the folks
at home in a different manner
than they, anticipated. :
Coolidge IL q refreshing dra n
OF clear spring water. Every one
knows that his mind IL made nm
without guile, without desire FOR
plaudit, without scheme or purnOse
other than the best interests of
the people of the country as he
sees it-and he sees straight"
Doubtful on Women,
Mr.. Barnes also commented on
the "fifty.nfty" concession to the
women of the Republican party,
His enthusiasm was not quite al
evident and there was q hint OF
boredom in his manner.
Men have had the field" he
SAID, FOR so many centuries, that
they are better equipped than the
women, who have only Just begun.
1t still remains to be seen what
women in politics can accomplish. .
1T seems to me that IL the
theorem on which equality Il
based is really put into practice,
representative IN each State, de.
pending upon pubic choice whether
II 10 O man or woman. It would
seem that the ruling in the fifty.
fifty, arrangement II there are
actukl e. well, a. theoretical
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BLISS SCHOOL ALUMNI
END FOUR DAY REUNION

Bliss Electrical School alumni,
VIII conclude their four.day reunion
tonight, when G. Francis JenEira
Washington inventor, will sneak ar
lTranmission Of Pictures by Radio !;
at the final meeting at 8 o'cloc,,
at the school. o = =
The alumni yesterday visited
Mount Vernon and the Nationsi
museum: 1t is planned to have the
tomorrow. Louis E. Bliss. president
OF the school and general chairman
OF the executive committee, has
directed alumni arrangements.
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IS
| STIRRED BY
/ PLATFORM
= ObbuuU
Evening Session Takes on As.
Z pect of Real Political
I Meeting
BY SENATOR MEDILL
MCCORMICK.
Copyright, 1924. by International
News Service.)

y Copyright, 1924. by International
News Service.)
!. CLEVELAND. June 12.-If the
first session yesterday preserved its
scalm and school-like decorum, the
evening session took on the aspect
~Sf q real political convention.
When Charles B. Warren, the
very able Ambassador to Mexico,
presented the platform, there were
lat the beginning OF his reading
thereof two notable outbreaks OF
applause, the first, commingled with
Kisses, when he announced that the
platform had been adopted unan.
4 imously by the committee save for
-the vote of one State (WIsconsin).
The reference to the qualifications
yof Calvin Coolidge as President
coupled with the refusal of the
wisconsin delegation to stand and
Join In the applause) evoked a true
convention demonstration, the dele.
gAt0s marching with their banners
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Pennsylvania. He is even younger
than Wordsworth and even more con-
sentative.
May Boss State.
Lean, trim. why, COOL, he looks
like the war veteran that he is. He
fought in France, he fights here,
without excitement.
This young man may some day be
boss Of Pennsylvania. He may be
boss exactly as Penrose was boss.
Penrose was boss not by obeying
the manufacturers but by making
the manufacturers go along with the
|. Republican party. ~
Reed does the same thing. He
comes from Pittsburgh. He was
supposed to speak for the United
States Steel Corporation.
Just the same he put through the
immigration bill which took whole
lot of cheap foreign labor away from:
the United States Steel Corporation.
Reed is for the party, as Snoot
is, as Wadsworth is, as Warren Is,
and as Henry Cabot Lodge is.
Across the convention floor here
goes Lodge, pattering as on Chinese
felt slippers. He seems to be golr z
toward the front door. Everybody
knows that he may be intending 10
slide down the back staircase.
Keeps Ends q Secret.
urn OF dry-as-dust scholarship. Like
Mandarin, he carries a Jumping
jack box of the very best and most
immediate political surprises.
He impressed this writer first
by producing a treatise on the
property rights of husbands and
wives under the laws Of the Anglo.
Saxons in pre-Norman England.
+ He impressed this writer next by
defeating the League Of Nations
while allowing all the anti-leaguers
to think that he was against them
and for the League.
He stands on the unstirring
pyramid of scholarship and on the
whirling top of politics: and, when
all his despisers have fallen off
the top, there still he stands, bal.
anced on one toe! ..s-.s
Right up behind him comes the
Republican party's baby. His name
is Theodore. b
He Is district delegate nom
New York! His father used to
be one. Is
As His Father Made Him.
He is only thirty-six, but It does
not bother him. He has gone to
the only war that has happened
since he could fight. He has as
sistantly run the navy for three
years. NsE tH
He shows his teeth. People
criticize him for showing his teeth.
They say he should not look SO
much like his father.
He cannot help It. His father
just simply made him that way.
He shows his teeth and tells au.
diences of pacifists that they should
be for a big navy. He shows his
teeth and tells audiences of Ku
Kluxers that they should be for
tolerance. He shows his teeth. and
tells audiences of manufacturers
that they should be for a partner
ship with labor. He shows his
teeth and tells audiences Of radi-
calls that they should be for the
Constitution.
Lodge is putting the world court
under one shell and suddenly draw.
ing it out from underneath another
shell. Roosevelt Is showing his
teeth at the occupants of all shells
in turn. Everything Is as 1t has
been. The Republican party sur
wives. Grabbed age and youth, in
spite Of Shakespeare, get on swim
mingly together at Cleveland, 49,.
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This is a rejuvenating occupation.
Sick, wild parrots from Brazil sit
on Shoots shoulder and talk into
his ear. Then they feel better.
Then he also feels better and goes
back to the Senate to. grind the
faces Of the poor and to Cypress
his fellow-man and to be reaction.
airy, as the radicals say.
He Is no more reactiOnary, how.
ever, or conservative, or sensible
than young Wadsworth, OF New
York.
Wordsworth is only forty.five. At
torty-five he Is just as much against
all this contemporary foolishness as
Smoot ever will be If he lives to be
hundred.
just Keeps RepeIIing.
Wordsworth, who is the leading
delegate from New York, and who
is also United States Senator from
New York, gets up early in the
morning and retrospectively resists
and repels the Constitutional amend
ments for woman suffrage and for
prohibition.
Then from II o'clock to IL o'clock
he repels for the future the amend.
ment for making child labor a mat.
ter OF Federal control and coercion.
Then in the afternoon he labors
on behalf of Constitutional amend
ment Of his own for making all flu.
ture Constitutional amendments
more difficult.
Since old age presumably will do
something to- him, 1t is presumed
that perhaps 1t will cause him to
tame down and die down and harden
into being q progressive. At pres
ent ne 10, a wild and dare:devilish
conservative.
Get On Together.
Smoot and Wadsworth have no
difficulty in getting on together
across the gap of years. Both ara
able. Both are studious and in.
dustriouS. Both are realistic. In
them the Republican party finds a
consistent past and an harmonious
future. :
Now on a cursory transit throur,,
Cleveland comes Warren, OF Wyo
ming. He Is eighty. i
Once, six decades ago, at Port
Hudson In Louisiana, In the wear
1858. he had little dispute with
some sConfederates.
He got a Congressional Medal of
Honor for standing pat at that
moment and for not running away.
He has been a stand.patter ever
since.
Worlds Greatest Shepherd.
He tells this writer that the rea.
son why he did not run away was
that he always had calculated that
II a man lost his self.respect ne
would never get on lin the world.
Warren kept his self-respect at
Port Hudson and subsequently in
wyoming he acquired more land
and more sheep than ever before
had been thought possible.
He is commonly called the great.
est. shepherd since Abraham,
He conceals himself in the Senate
by working. AS chairman Of the
Senate's Committee on Appropria-
tons. he spends all day saving
Nobody sends out a dispatch ~ly.
ing: Warren saved another sew.
enteen and q half dollars for the
United States Government today"
However. ilc did it and keeps on
doing It.
He is Mandarin.
Like a Mandarin, he carries an
dollars.
He does not confide his destina.
ton to anybody. Why should he?
Right behind him comes Reed of
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SECRE I IS
Barred BY
ROW
Watson Starts Fight to Get
presidents Words" in It
Before Learning Truth
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON,
International News Service.

By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON,
international News Service. :.
II CLEVELAND, Ohio, June H.
President Coolidge's only per-
sonally written plank in the whole
1924 Republican platform was the
one to cause the greatest friction
In secret sessions of the conven-
stion's platform committee, it was
learned today.
4 The plank, reaffirming the Gov
:ernment's desire to remain out of
ahe League of Nations, developed
10 serious row before it's author
ship was revealed. At the last
mOment, to avert a fight against
the anti-league, plank by dele
gates who desired a stronger de-
nunciation of the league, it was
announced the President had
written it and peace was restored.
( J Watson Starts Clash.
Z The Coolidge plank read: "This
Government has definitely refused
membership in the League Of Ma
ttionS and to assume any obligations
silnder the covenant Of the League.
sOn this we stand"
/ The fight was started by Senator
flames A. Watson Of Indiana; who
desired to insert as the League
plank, a statement by the President
In his first message to Congress. He
did not then know the President
had written the original plank.
my whole life, political career,
sand my every breath is dedicated in
Opposing the League" Watson told
ibis fellow committee members. i"Thls
splank is too weak
"Why, Jim, it's stronger than the
s0ne you PROPOSE, he was. told.
tits not, watson insisted. II
move to insert nay substitute. /
want the words of the President
in the platform. =
z Warned BY Warren.
( The vote was taken, and the com.
smittee rejected Watson's substitute.
sAngered by what he thought was a
slight to the, President, Watson
shouted he would carry his fight
2to the floor ofsthe convention. Cries
lof Don't do it. Umf came from
every corner of the room.
II WILL" Watson retorted. "Tli
carry it to the floor"
Don't do that, Jim," Chairman
Charles B. Warren entreated. You
will only embarrass u.s."
I. Watson remained obdurate.
added Warren, because this plank
was personally written by the hand
of Calvin Coolidge"
A dramatic silence swept the
hall, Watson slowly shook his hand.
Before he could reply, Congress.
man Henry Allen Cooper, La Fol.
lette's lieutenant, leaped to his
feet. shouting for recognition.
AssaiIed By Cooper.
"That's it, Watson" Cooper
roared. take it to the floor. It's
canned platform and they're
trying to jam it down our threats.
Don't take that canned platform,
Jim"
A chorus of wild cries followed
Cooper's charge. Chairman Warren
and j. Ogden Mills, one " the
Presidents spokesman, Indignantly
denied Cooper's statement.
That's not the TRUTH" Mills
shouted. tits not a camel plat
form. The President only wrote the
five lines dealing with the League
OF Nations. We, the members Of
this committee, wrote the rest
eof it,
The assembly waited in dead
silence.
mo, no, boys" he said at last.
I'm a party man and good Re
publican. won't carry 1t TO the
floor.
{ The crisis had passed and the
Eonly plank attributed directly to the
President, was a part Of the plat
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Youth andAgeD oLiue
Together in c. O. p,
Hard Finds
BY WILLIAM HARD.

CLEVELAND June 12Shakespeare said that Grabbed
and youth cannot live together He did not know the Re-
publican party or this convention. 49,
Smoo Of Utah. quite considerable part of the Repub
party and Of the thoughts Of this convention He quite
old He is sixty-two.
However when he is in Washington he goes to the Zoo
an0 talk III norro
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Mrs. Solomon Looksin
on the Convention
By HELEN ROWLAND,
Z. @SN W a1EA4NdDp 80
sF hteFHationaI Service Start COrrespokdent a.
1CunYright 1924 hy tianal =

W
: CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 12.-Yesterday was Ladies'
at the Republican conventonshor and and full
of and song and sentiment just one beautiful bomb
bursting in air, when Paul Rowland announced that Re
publican women are longer to be mems better Ito Of per
From now on, far the committee on rules is con
cerned it's going to be $3.50 affair." Just like modern mar
rage. &4IIE
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HELEN FOX HAS
TALK WITH
BARNES.
nHnM
Big Bill" Likes Coolidge, but
Doubts Benefit of Women
in Politics
By HELEN FOX,
international News Service Otaff
COFRe0pOR0Once.. s4


CLEVELAND, Ohio, June a.
big Bill" Barnes likes President
Coolidge and the auditorium.
big Bill" who earned the 40.
briquet for both his size and his
power In party politics, talked about
the convention today -and who
should know more about conven.
tons than this veteran nominator
OF Presidents? For those whose
memories are short-or young-let
1t be remembered that big Bill"
has attended Republican conven-'
tons since 1892. ~ -. \ +,
He approved Of Coolidge because
he doesn't talk too much, he said.
And he approved OF the audi.
forum housing the, convention be.
cause the seats are comfortable ana
conducive. to dignified behavior in
the gallery. So. -.
Thinner but Stin ''Big."
THE most noteworthy thing
about this convention IL the hall"
Mr.. Barnes doomed deeply from
the depths Of a large chair, which
he overflowed. big Bill" has
grown thinner. He no longer
weighs Two hundred and fifty
pounds. But he still is six feet
odd in height, several feet across
the shoulders and a considerable
amount from toe to heel.
Bill Barnes is still big"
1T is astonishing" he said, what
a difference a properly built,
equipped and dignified structure
means in the temper, in the de.
corum, and in the impressiveness
Of a convention. Instead Of wobbly
wooden chairs, slipping all over the
hall, at the Cleveland auditorium
there, are fixed seats for everybody
delegates, alternates and spec
tators.
Usually DisOrderIy.
National conventions which /
have attended since 1892 have been
disorderly gatherings-even when,
as was the case In three instances,
there was no contest over the
nomination for president. The
galleries constantly interferOd with
the procedure Of the convention. I
think that to q great degree the
disrepute into which conventions
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equality. might read there should
be two committeeman from each
State, one Of which must be. a
man. Certainly IL equality is an
actually and not a thing of words,
that Is just as logical as the form
in which the ruling. will probably
be made, that is. tnere should be
two committeeman from each State,
one Of which must be a woman"
Women In politics did not inter-
est Big Biz very much. He did
not seem to think that there was
any more to be said on the subject.
What do you think my sistars?
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