The Washington times., 1924-06-09
CHIEFS
| FEAzEDBY
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Whole Convention Machinery
Set Up BY Quiet and Cool
but Efficient Methods.
BY SENATOR MEDILL Me-
CORMICK,
Ra,,,.l.la1ay, 80 VIIsr.o0a

copyright, 1924, by International
News service.) -
CLEVELAND, June 9.-This is
not to be convention but q cere-
mony! The plans have been
made, the decisions have been
taken, the participants upon the
program all have been selected.
It win suggest the simple cere-
inOny Of a college commencement
in its placid procession rather
than an old-time political conven-
ton wherein by a mixture Of con-
tention and compromise men dis.
charged the old-time responsible
ties of delegates.
Nothing Ever Like 1t.
This year there will be short ses-
aions and long recesses for the
delegates. for whose entertainment.
therefore. the local committee has
devised hospitable schemes.
None Of us here have ever seen
anything like it--none Of us who
have attended conventions for
twenty and thirty years, as COM
mttteemen, or writer's, or delegates,
or mere politicians.
ta) The name OF the temporary
chairman was announced weeks ago
III. Theodore Burton;
b) Then week or more before
the gathering Of the convention, Mr..
t@ ~
the delegates the name Of Frank
Mondell, a director Of the war
Finance Corporation, as permanent
chairman Of the convention;
Selections i'm Sequence.
(c) Thereafter followed in sequence
che announcements that the Am
hassador to Mexico, Charles B.
Warren, would be chairman Of the
committee on resolutions;
I'D And that Williams q. Nc.
Kinley OF Illinois, would be chair.
man or the committee on creden-
tials;
; tel And that Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Martin, Of Philadelphia, would be
chairman OF tho committee on
permanent organization; IA
WsAnd that our old friend, Ham
uton ekean, OF New Jersey, would
be. chairman Of the committee on
rules;
(gO During an interval between
these announcements, the news.
paper correspondents learned upon
authority the name of the ex.
perienced, silent, agreeable. and
astute politician who is to be elected
secretary Of the national committee
before that committee itself had
been elected.
(h) The platform, written and re.
v1sed, was brought to Cleveland to.
day to be presented to the commit
tee on resolutions when it is elected.
Old Bosses Distanced.
ID At this hour none has heard
TOO definitely who is to be nomi.
mated for vice president, because
Senator Borah, despite the pressure
brought upon him, decisively and
emphatically would not consider the
nomination; because Secretary
Hoover has presented objections to
his own nomination, objections
which he considers valid; and final.
~, because Governor Lowden has
declined the nomination in a state.
ment issued from his farm in
Illinois.
None Of us, have said, has seen
or heard anything like it--not in
the days Of Don Cameron, of Tom
Platt, Of Matt Quay, Of Nelson Aid.
rich, Of Mark Hanna, Of Boise Pen.
rose, or Of George Cortelyou and
Frank Hitchcock, when each Of the
last two in turn represented Roose.
Welt at the conventions which nom.
mated him in 1904 and Taft in 1908
The genial and agreeable gentle.
man from Massachusetts,, Mr.. But.
Ter. friendly, candidly, amlcabiy,
openly out.bosses all convention
bosses in the history Of Republican
politics.
The delegates who have come to
Cleveland will have an ample CD.
portunity to mark the growth and
the fine civic spirit Of the place.
They will be called upon neither
70 sit long in the convention hall
nor to caucus over much in their
State headquarters.