The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12

plant about this among convention
attaches.
Delegates uneasily comment that
there is only one day more to do bust
ness, for it is a general and deep con-
viction that some catastrophe would
attend the candidacy of anyone nomi-
mated on Friday the 18th. These best
citizens are nothing if not fundamen-
talists.
"Why doesn't somebody put some
pep into this thing?" asked one. BE
cause everybody with any pep in him
has quit the Republican party" an
swered an old political shark. 1.-THE
pep is out west. 1t didn't come"
Does LaFollette expect to reform
this bunch?" exclaims man. What
did his delegation come here for?"
No answer.
Kenyon is Heard From.
Now and then the name of Kenyon
is muttered by delegates, who COM
ment on the happy rythum of the
words: Coolidge and Kenyon" There
is, or was, theory that the Mr.. But
Ter, the new mark Hanna" of the
Republican party, would put Kenyon
on the ticket "to catch some of the
Wild West vote" But each days
developments make this seem more
and more like a dream. After the
gauntlet was thrown down by Burton
in the keynote speech of yesterday,
it is the accepted opinion that the
policy of the convention will be mo
concessions to the radicals" Under
the influence of Buttons batting of
the insurgents in yesterdays session
the mimics among the federal Office
holders, who make probably the
bulk of the visitors gallery, several
times raised the cry, Throw
out the radicals" This note was
developed almost into hysteria dur
ing the committee sessions yester-
day afternoon, when the LaFolletteites
were Kissed and jeered in widest
tumult when they presented their
trust-busting platform.
Actually the word "Bolshevik" is be-
coming current in the hall, being ap-
piled to the radical" bloc of meek
reformers in congress. 1t is freely pre-
dicted that a Juror against "Bolshe-
vism"-in the Republican party
may be raised as an answer to La
Follette's platform proposals, and the
convention swept of its equity feet
for the first time.
Negroes Look Forlorn.
A forlorn group Of Negro delegates
here, apparently touched with the
new spirit"--or at least the faint re-
Election Of that spirit--which cropped
up among returned Negro ex-soldiers
after the war, is playing with the
idea that the Republican convention
might pass a platform proposal with
teeth in it which, translated into law,
might enable effective action against
lynching. This proposal is privately
sneered at by the high powers as be-
ing merely one of the many nut
resolution measures with which SEN
sible men are always bothered at
conventions. However, II may not be
fatty turned down. but may only have
the teeth drawn and be passed as a
harmless gesture.
The Ku Klux Khan has fixed up
regular headquarters In a house on
Euclid Avenue, where the Imperial
Wizard, Hiram w. Evans, with Walter
Bossert, Grand Dragon Of Indiana,
and Billion Elrood, minor function
airy, are conducting vigorous and ap.
parently successful campaign against
the anti-Klan platform-plank which
the New York delegation has brought
in. This town, in sore need of jokes
to kill the tedium OF sick conven
ton, INDUCES In the remark that al
the next Khan "konklave" all the miss
ing bed-sheets OF the Hotel Static
J will show up.