Evening star., 1924-06-09
Familiar Faces of Powerful Group
Of Yesteryear Missing at
Convention.
DEATH TOOK HEAVY TOLL
Daugherty, VERY Regular" Will
Vote "Solemnly for Coolidge"
BY ROBERT II. SMALL.

meet in the back room of a hotel ar
any other place and say just what
Republican convention should do?
Four years ago they were in their
glory. Today they are scattered to
the four winds Small wonder then
that the Cleveland convention seems
different.
Call the roll OF the president
makers of 1929. They met in the
Blackstone Hotel in Chicago early
on Saturday morning, when the
delegates and the casual observers
thought the convention was in a se-
rieus deadlock. There was Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts and x-Sen-
ator Murray Crane Of the same state:
"Pussyfoot" they used to call him.
There was Senator smoot of Utah
Senator Knox OF Pennsylvania. and
there was the ail-powerful Senator
Penrose on the far end of long
distance telephone line leading to
was George Harvey. the journalist.
who had made" Grover Cleveland
and Woodrow Wilson before he turn
ed pubIican to make" Warren G..
Harding. There was Will H Hays Of
Indiana, chairman of the Republican
national committee: and last but by
no means least, there was Harry M.
Daueherty Of Ohio, the very man who
had predicted from the beginning
that the nomination OF 1920 would
go to the winner of the back room
conference.
Stricken By Death.
Death laid q heavy hand upon that
assembIage. Murray Crane was first
to go, then Knox. and then Penrose
Four of the others are here in Cleve-
land. but they are scattered among
the crowds far from the throne room
or even the approaches TO the seats
of the mighty.
There is Senator Lodge, all power
ful in the selection Of a candidate
from Ohio four years ago, but not
consulted today about any detail Of
the candidacy of man from his own
home state. Few persons realize the
full extent of the political ignominy
which has come to the senior senator
from the land of the sacred cod.
For twenty-four years Henry Cabot
Lodge has been a masterful figure at
his party conventions. He actually
has presided over three of the last
six national gatherings. He was per-
manent chairman at Philadelphia in
second term. He welded the gavel
again in 1908 when Taft first was
named, and he steeTed the ship of the
G.. o. p. at Chicago four years ago
when Warren Harding received what
proved TO be a sentence of death. At
the intervening conventions Cabot
Lodge either was chairman of the
resolutions committee, which drafted
the platform, or held other high Of
fee. 1t has remained for 1924 to see
his fall from grace. 1t is asserted
that he has failed to support Presi-
dent Coolidge and he is paying the
penalty. He has been bereft of al
~ ~
that he must cast for Calvin Coolidge.
snoot's Group Loyal.
Senator Smoot Ii here also, but, like
his colleague from the old Bay state.
he is no longer in the inner circle
His state delegation still is loyal to
him. however, and he has been given
the committee memberships of his
own selection. Mr.. Smoot would like
Senate in the platform. but he will
not be surprised if he is disappointed
Harry M. Daugherty, former Attor-
ney General, is here as q delegate at
large from Ohio. This was an honor
he could not win when he vas max
ing a President. but it has come to
him at the hands of the people OF his
state after his resignation from the
cabinet was requested. Mr.. Daugh-
erty is very regular" and is going
along with his delegation. ready to
vote solemnly and solidly for Mr..
ing begins. But the Coolidge ma
chine" heeds him not.
Col. Harvey ION Deck
Col. George Harvey, the President
maker extraordinary and President
breaker plenipetentiary. is here in all
the glory of his new occupation as
the editor in chief of a daily news
paper The colonel arrived with
couple of secretaries, a valet, and a
retnue of reporters. He came out on
4 train from Washington with Frank
W. Stearns of the Coolidge campaign
cabinet, but never the twain did
meet. There will be no conferences
N the colonel's rooms in Cleveland.
,nly the busy click OF a couple OF
versatile and volatile typewriters.
Perhaps the colonel is waiting to
DO his stuff At the New York conven-
tion later i'm the month. 1t may be
the Democrats turn.
Will Hays Missing.
This accounts for all but one Of
the President makers of 1920. The
missing one is Will H. Hays. Some
how or other, the party seems de-
termined to carry on this year with
out this little Napoleon of politics.
Mr.. Hays deserted some three years
ago to &C into the movies, and since
hat time has been spending most Of
yis busy moments in Hollywood and
New York. E1tween absenting him
self from Indiana and not living long
enough in the other two places Mr..
Hays got left in the scramble this
year and is not smong those present
Or fully accounted for.
Sic transit gloria politicus! Or words
10 that effect.
.ip and the boom are missing from
his convention. There were no or
<anized boosters, no marching clubs,
10 torchlight PROFESSIONS. One band
blew into town from somewhere on
Sunday morning and played couple
o get frightened at its own noise
and hurried away to shelter and
silence.
Lack Of Coler Reported.
The lack Of color il due to the fact
doesn't need any bands or
banners. A few Of his pictures
small NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the pillars
IF the hotel lobbies- But that is all.
There are no other pictures anywhere
means of support Usually the hotel
obbies at convention time are
,eritable picture gallery.
-Four dancing elephants. magnif-
.ent specimens OF the mastodon, are
performing at local vaudeville
heater. Between turns they parade
The streets and trumpet in front of
he Coolidge headquarters. at Hotel
SMeea~u rr~d~s $3.50
Convention special trains make
strange car-feiIovs. Coming out from
was Senator Jimmie
Wadsworth of New York, who orig
na1ly was slated for permanent
chairman, and former Representative
of wyoming, who succeeded