Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-07-17
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were the results achieved. For those
acts of congress to which he could
give approval he claimed full credit
for the Democratic party and what
he referred to as the progressive ele-
ment In the Republican party. For
the majority element in the Republican
party he had no single word of COM
mendation. But no one was very much
surprised at all Of that, as no one
had expected him to commend the
enemy. That was not what he was
there to do. Even Congressman The
odore Burton, the Republican keynoter
at Cleveland, who attended the Demo-
cratic show as guest, did not seem
to take any serious offense at what
was said about himself and his Re
publican colleagues.
1t did not seem that Senator Har-
rison had overlooked anything that
could be said in opposition to the Re-
publicans, but along came the perma-
nent chairman, Senator Walsh, on
Wednesday, June %, with new
list of charges, or at least a
new vocabulary. While he spoke
the sun streamed down upon the
glass roof OF the convention hall
and turned it into bake oven, but
his denunciation of the political en-
envy caused the, delegates to forget,
for the time, their differences over
platform planks and favored candi-
dates. They shed coats and, in many
cases, collars as well; they displayed
black and green and blue "gal1uses,"
and despite the heat enjoyed to the
full everything the leader of the oil
investigations gave them as first-hand
information. For it all they paid him
to the full In convention COMA long,
a loud, a terrific demonstration.
When the delegates assembled
on Saturday morning, June %, it was
with the expectation that they would
receive the report of the resolutions
committee. But that was not to be.
For 80 long and almost continuous
hours the committee, headed by Homer
S. Cummings, had labored over its
task, and the stumbling blocks 1t had
struck were Khan and League Of Ma
lions. On the latter subject Ex-Secre-
tary of War Baker was leading the
fight to a straight-away declaration
in favor Of the League, and would be
satisfied with nothing less, but he was
in the minority. That did not repre-
sent a serious situation for the party,
but the other subject, that Of the
Khan, did. There seemed to be no
grounds upon which to compromise,
and at the end Of so hours of labor
the venerable leader, William J. Bryan,
dropped to his knees in the committee
room and asked the members Of the
committee to joirl with him in asking
Divine guidance in their hour Of diff
Guilty.
The resolution Mr.. Bryan favored,
and for which he had worked through
the long hours, contained plank on
the subject of religious liberty, and
condemning secret orders that were
opposed to the provisions of the Con-
stitution, but it did not name the
Khan. That was the plank that was
written into the majority report of the
committee. But it was not satisfac-
tory to a large element in the party.
Governor Smith announced that he
would withdraw from the contest for
the nomination if the party attempted
to straddle the subject. William R..
Pattangall, Democratic candidate for
governor of Maine; cambridge Colby
Of New Jersey, former secretary of
staae; Joseph A. Kellogg Of New York,
were among other leaders that were
backing Governor Smith and his fol-
lowing.
Fight Over Platform
The committee did not report until
after three o'clock Saturday afternoon,
and then they gave to the convention