The Omaha morning bee., 1924-06-26
Today
SGfvnnlim1, But Dull.
Robinson Harvey.
Roaring Gently.
The Goose Is Missed.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE


House sang the "Star Spangled
Banner" we'll.
Bryan didn't make a speech, but
was there. wearing Florida ban
ner, bright scarlet with the word
FLORIDA" in white, reaching from
the lapel of his coat to his knees.
He is the best advertisement
Florida ever had in this part of the
country. Most of his time during
the convention hours are spent in
shaking hands with men, literally,
from every part of the country.
Anybody who thinks Bryan's popu-
larity dead, is badly informed.
When the convention opened, a
beautiful silver gavel was broken
with the first two or three slams.
Mr.. Hull, introducing Cardinal
Hayes, who made the opening
prayer, got the cardinals name
wrong, presenting him as Cardinal
William Gibbons Hayes. Cardinal
Hayes first name is Patrick.
His prayer, read from manu-
script, was good American prayer,
winding UP with the Lords Prayer,
in which the delegates fervently
joined out loud.
Who will be nominated? You
can't help asking that, although you
know nobody can answer the ques-
ton.
McAdoo still leads. Mr.. Brennan
of Chicago, speaking of our glorious
institutions and the necessity of
protecting them, seemed almost
fearful as he discussed Mr.. Nc
Adoo's big crowd, SO hard to ex-
plain.
Al Smith of New York is fight
ing savagely. On Monday. it was
determined to "put through an anti
Ku Klux plank that would rip the
khan wide open.
Then somebody suggested: eff
you do that, you'll make it absolute
ly impossible for hundreds of dele
gates to vote for Al Smith, even If
they want to. They wouldn't dare
vote for that plank" Now the
plank is to "roar gently" like the
lion in midsummer night"
Leaving out the leading candi-
date, the answer to your questions
about the nominee is Senator
Robinson of Arkansas. Write that
down.
Those who go about quietly,
picking up real opinions, as a jack
daw picks up little pieces of bright
glass. are convinced that it will be
Robinson when the big men die off.
There is George Harvey, who
doesn't waste time in conventions.
His speciality is getting things
done, in some quiet little room,
while convention geese are cack-
ling.
He was roaming the Ritz Carlton
corridors yesterday at about
o'clock, sinking into the velvet car
pets up to his ankles, while Senator
Pat Harrison, in the hot convention
hall, was denouncing "the repub-
lican saturnalia of corruption" IN
which he sees the republican party.
Harvey, looking like $3.50
combination of Beau Brummel and
Mephistopheles, remarks: Gee,
whiz, nobody knows nothing. But
very likely it will be Robinson. You
see, there's nothing against him
and he hasn't any enemies"
That's the worst of politics. You
fight, tear your hair, denounce, up
braid. As the peoples friend you
fay this man and skin the other
alive. Then they nominate some
body else because che has no
enemies.
It's sickening.
The best thing about this conven-
ton is the democratic women. After
you have seen them you don't wor-
ry about your beloved country,
about democrats, republicans, OF
even about well advertised corrup-
ton "saturnalia.
The lady in the Montana delega-
ton, dressed from head to foot IN
cowgirl costume, has a we'll set chin
and firm eye, promising and re-
assuring.
That lady with the white hat,
gentle smile and motherly look in
the Kansas delegation, with the big
sunfower pinned to her breast,
makes you say to yourself: Don't
worry. The sort of children these
mothers are producing will take
care of the country's problems"
With such women, such mothers,
the human race is bound to get bet
ter.from one generation to another.
Even the cussedness and meanness
and selfishness which you see in
the. faces of men must be wiped out
eventually by the goodness of the
mothers. And what change, now
that they can vote. Politicians
smother them with kindness.
Times change. Near the spot
where w. J. Bryan sat yesterday
tanning himself, this writer, as a
young reporter for Charles A. Dana
on the New York Sun, once saw
John L. Sullivan fight and bea'
Charley Mitchell of England. Or
the roof above the convention hall
where they had a roof garden ano
plenty to drink in the olden days
Harry Thaw murdered Stanford
White, architect of the building.
Barnum & Bailey's circus drew
the children as the political circus
draws the grownups today.
Where delegates now sit, the tat
tooed lady, living skeleton, Chang
the Chinese giant, the white ele
phsnt and the trained goose once
displayed their charms.
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