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sentative, but not a part Of the
political controlling machine, in 30
far as there is one, Of the House.
He has been business independent.
He today gives the elephant his
first PAGES In his new gait.
Meanwhile, Ogden Mills, OF New
York, IL preparing to teach him
new PAGES tomorrow.
The President went over the
heads Of all the established leaders
Of the Senate and Of the House OF
Representatives to make Ogden
Mills the special preparer OF planks
to be inserted into the platform Tor
the elephant to carry this year.
Machine Is Ignored.
Ogden Mills is a member Of the
q young member and he 10 not g
part Of the House managemenL.
Only two members Of either the
House or the Senate have been
chosen to teach PAGES to the ele-
plant in this convention this year.
They are Mr.. Burton and Mr.. Mills,
neither Of whom belongs to the old
inside circle Of House and Senate
controlling management.
The members Of that manage.
ment, in a long row, stand in the
gutter today and watch the ele-
plant go by.
Curtis Of Kansas, Smoot Of Utah,
Wadsworth Of New York, Senators;
Longworth Of Ohio, Smell Of New
York, Greene Of Iowa, members Of
the House Of Representatiyes-they
and their colleagues in Congressional
leadership are permitted to watch
the elephant in Cleveland, but not
to guide him or much to instruct
him.
They stand on one side. On the
other side, equally discarded, stand
Albert j. Beveridge of Indiana,
Medill Mccormick Of Illinois, all OF
them prominent personageS but all
Of them ''progressIves" and ex-
Rooseveltians and condemned to
look on.
In one Of the hotels in Cleveland
there sits the delegation from Wis
consin preparing the radical plat
form which it will present to the
convention and which the conven-
ton will instantly eject through the
quickest exit to the street.
Yet the Wisconsin delegation it.
self will hardly have less power In
this convention than the ex-Roose-
veltians, or than the congressional
regular Old Guard.
The La Follettes, the ex.Roose-
veltianS, and the Old Guard are
equally mourners together today.
They Will be etill more mourners
together tomorrow. f@
Tomort0w Mr.. Frank Mondell, OF
wyoming, who used to be g. mem
Der Of the House of Represents
tives but who now has ceased to
be an elected person and who holds
office in Washington by Presiden-
tial appointment, will become per-
manent chairman of the conven-
ton and will listen to q report on
platform by Mr.. Charles B. War.
rem who has been out Of this coun-
try for a long time by Presidential
appointment to ambassadorshipS in
Japan and in Mexico.
It is noted deeply here by the
Old Guard that Mr.. Mondell and
Mr.. Madden, not being elected per-
sons and on the contrary being
Presidential appointees, are quite
beyond their control or influence.
'Steam Roller Hurts
They complain in all the hotel
Hobbies here that the convention
has been "pre-arranged" and ''sched-
uled" and "steam-rollered."
That, however, Is not the true
point with them.
Plenty of previous conventions
have been ''steam-rollered."
The point with them is that this
convention has been "steam-rol-
Tered" not by the President plus
the Old Guard in Congress, but by
the President plus his own Presi-
dental appointees and friends.
Calvin Coolidge has taken the
elephant away from the politicians
and has handed it to new drivers
about whom the great connecting
fact is as follows:
They, all Of them nave q business
point Of view, and they most Of
them do not hold elective office.
Theodore q Burton. temporary
chairman; Ogden Mills, preliminary
platform maker: Frank Mondell.
permanent chairman; Charles B.
Warren, final platform maker; Mar
ion Leroy Burton, Presidential nomt-
nator; William M. Butler, prospec-
tive chairman Of the national COM
mittee, and Frank w. Stearns, spe-
cial Presidential friend and agent
here; these seven men are the
seven great pivots of the conven-
ton, and all Of them are business
types, and only two Of them are
In elective office.
The mass of the delegates cheer
the change. They are for Coolidge
and for business. They cheer the
elephant as he dashes Congressional
ism to the right Of him and radical
ism to the left Of him and trumpets
away to his new career with Cool
idge and Coolidge's personal BUSH
ness.like friends on his head.
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