The Washington times., 1924-06-13
OLD GUARD HITS
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MACHINE !.
Named Dawes When Butler
Made Final Effort to Put
Hoover Over
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nominating Of Kenyon. The sug.
gestions about him. were recalled.
The convention was left at sea.
AS it drifted the Coolidge ma.
chine suddenly let it be known that
Borah was the man. The conyen.
ton was glad enough to hear OF II,
The convention was quite willing
to be bossed IL only the bosses
would boss well and make good
job OF 1t.
Loses Prestige and Control.
In few minutes, however, the
convention learned with disnay
that Borah would not accept. At
that instant the Coolidge machine
lost its prestige and lost its control
The delegates began saying to
one another: -, II
"First they let us think that II is
Kenyon, and then they withdraw
Kenyon, Then they announce that
it is Borah, and Borah withdraws
himself. 1t Is clear that they do
not know where they are or how
they are going to get out"
This feeling by the ordinary dele.
gates added itself to the resentment
which the great old guard leaders
were cherishing against the Cool.
idge machine for snubbing them
and for discarding them out Of the
conventions chief places of honor.
Thus two forces were thereupon
Joined together:
The discomfort Of the Old Guard
and the sudden disbursement Of
the mass Of the delegates regarding
the new Coolidge machine.
Old Machine in Charge
The old machine thereupon took
charge. Since the new men who
were running the steam roller
Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Stearns and Mr..
Mellon and others--did not seem to
be able to make 1t roll, the old.line
machinists mounted to their old
time seats and took hold and began
to make the steam roller do some
real rolling, even over the bodies
of -Coolidge's personal new guard.
The first proof Of the returned
power of the Old Guard was in the
nominating Of Lowden. This nomi.
mating amazed the Coolidge new
guard and it surprised even the
returned old guard.
Just before the ballot in which
Lowden was nominated, William NJ.
Butler. the Coolidge manager, had
remarked:
Now on this next ballot we will
make 1t Burton"
Burton Was Choice.
He was referring to Theodore e.
Burton. of Ohio. Burton was the
Coolidge machine choice on that
ballot -,
The old guard thereupon started
to consolidate on Lowdeu and to
run up votes for him. They did
not intend to nominate him. They
intended only to get enough vote;
for him to prevent Burton from
being nominated.
They slightly overshot themselves,
They downed Burton so hard and
they got so many votes for Lowden
that Lowden, to their great surprise,
got a majority.
Senator James w. wadsworth.
Of New York. had been edged out
Of the permanent Craftsmanship of
the convention by the Coolidge ma.
chine. When he stood up and an
nounced that the votes Of New
York would. eighty-six Of them,
be changed to Lowden against Bur.I
ton, he did not look at all unhappy.
ElatiOn In DemeanOr.
On the contrary. a certain eIation
was discoverable in the demeanor
Of the senior senator from New
York.
Lowden having been thus unex.
pectedly nominated, It became nec-
essary to recess for an hour and
q half while Lowden could refuse
to accept the nomination and while
both the new guard and the old
guard could do a little thinking and
planning.
When the convention reconvened
Mr.. Butler at once suggested to
Mr.. Henry ]. Rohraback, the leader
of the Connecticut delegation, and
to various others, that the right
man would be Hoover.
This became known to the Old
Guard. The Old Guard thereupon
had to concentrate on somebody
against Hoover.
Had Been Rejected.
At that point one of the greatest
and strangest jocularities of the
convention developed. Dawes had
already been considered at a great
conference Of leaders Of the conven.
ton, including both new guardsters