Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1924, Page 3

Old Guard Accepts Coolidge Program Without CONVENTION CALLED TRAGIC TO OLD GUARD White Sees World Court Plank Example of Orders Enforced on Regulars. FIGHTING SPIRIT IS GONE Finds Sessions Deadly Dull, With Unreal Appearance. LAND, Ohio, June day in national conventions is the day when big things hap- pen off-stage. Tuesday, typically is the day which foreshadows the tem- per of the convention, and behind closed doors the great committees meet, threshing out the platform, the rules, the order of business. And in those committees the real direction of the convention is formed. In this convention Wednesday was a day of tragedy for that portion the right wing of the Republican party known as the “old guard.” In committees, it had to take orders, 1ot because the old guard did n have majorities in the committee but because orders came, and trad tionally, the old guard, which never surrenders, does obey orders Old Guard Obeys Orders. Here is a typical instance. In the subcommittee which has been con- sidering the foreign relations planks in the Republican committee the old guard had a majority. The President desired the world court indorsed as Harding, Hughes and Root saw it, even though it is tied up with, the league of nations. That kind of a court was indorsed by Chairman Bur- ton Tuesday. There can be no doubt of Coolidge’s determination to force through Congress the world court as Harding left it to him. The commit- tee which drafted the platform does not believe in that court. It would have no dealings with the league of mations. It was irreconcilable to that committee—but word came from Mr. Butler, President Coolidge's manager, that the world court was to be in- dorsed, and it was indorsed Albert J. Beveridge desired to make a provision that when seven states petitioned for debate upon any plank of the platform debate should come ir. the regular crder—certainly a fair proposition. But orders came against that proposition, and it was aban- | doned. Orders are orders with the right wing of the Republican party, and even majorities do not affect orders. When' the old guard put the insurgents out of the party organiza- tion the old guard stopped growth | within the party. Imagine what a | Bull Mooser would do when he came up agains the orders that easily stopped Jim Watson. The platform is uncompromisingly Coolidge’s. Harmony Held Sacred. Harmony with the old guard, when 1t not a matter of dealing with progressives, is the most sacred thing | about party conduct. There no open explosion. no bitter denuncia- | tions of the Massachusetts method. | The old guard will lick the spoon and bless the hand that gave the| medicine. Outwardly vesterday the few hours of proceedings were typically in the old form. The new chairman of the convention — the permanent chair- man—was introduced and made h speech. Tt was what may be expecte of the discarded regulars during the | whole campaign—the quintessence of blah-blah, abusing the Democrats, praising the Republicans—such a speech as any Republican orator could make in any campalgn or easily ny Democratic orator could make in ¥ campaign. It was flery, impas- siored and short, so the crowd that feared boredom cheered. is Convention Takes Medicine The luncheon hour had arrived. A lake trip for the delegates had been offered. Some one moved adjourn- ment. The vote was put. The “noes” plainly had it, the chair declared the had it; that was the program: 20 no one complained. The conven- tion teok its medicine as the com- mittees were taking their medicine As a matter of fact, from a Pro- gressive viewpoint this Coolidge nostrum is better than the cure-all of the defeated regulars. Coolidge is not in the least a radical, he is just an open-minded conservative. But he is vastly better for the country than the old guard. 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If he understood the western- ers. he would consider their case. But for him the west hegins somewhere near Vermont and ends out near Buffalo. The rest is red Indians and chaos, Puzzled by West. He treats the west not with con- tempt, but with a puzzied disbelief in its reality. What he hns just done to the old guard, who ignored his lead- ership and spurned his recommenda- tions in the Congress, is much more deadly than anything he has done to the westerners. He is on terms of 50 intima socially and politi- cally. with Capper of the farm bloc and Borah, who has his own bloc. He could find no other senator whom he liked better than Capper Tuesday to sit with him and lunch and listen to | the radio proceedings of the coaven- tion. But Lodge, titular leader of the Senate and from Massachusetts, and Curtis, the Republican whip, who forced anti-Coolidge measures through the Senate as the resular Republican program, get no plezsant social invitations to the White House these days. In the convention Cap- per and his kind are sad outsiders. But the insiders of the crowd that has dominated the Republican organ- ization for twenty vears, the crowd that fougrnt ¥ nat-d Harding. only. They sta; or go out as soreheads. zuary never le's go. Eack after Coolidge came Lack after Roos Fighting Spirit Lacking. But the lack of the fighting spirit, which departed from the party when Roosevelt left it, is reflected in this eventless convention. It is heavy with monotony. Yet it is destined to grind on for another day. The nominating speech of Presi- dent Burton of Michigan State Uni- versity probably will take an hour. 1t may, in that hour, reveal a vice presidential possibility. But it would be miraculous_if. under the circum- stances, the Republicans would do honor to a college president so soon after the one whom they delighted to dishbnor had passed. Still, millions of Americans will hang around the radio tomorrow, hoping against hope for a good show. it may be of interest to the millions who are listening to the proceedings of the convention to have some pic- ture of it—to visualize the vocal im- pression from the radio. First, to re- move preconceived impressions of other conventions in other halls, the radio listener should strip out of his imagination the bower of flags that usually decorate great convention halls. There are no flags. One great red, white and blue picture, too large for' a flag, perhaps 40 by 25 feet, hangs on a hand-colored silk curtain at the back of the stage. On this red, white and blue background hang por- traits of Lincoln, McKinley and Roosevelt, done in' large design by some local automobile painter. Decorations Are Different. Having stripped out of the imagin- ation the flags, let readers now move from his pre-conception, the bare steel ribs of the arched ceiling. Usually, these bare steel ribs are wrapped in bunting that almost in- variably decorates the great Ameri- can halls and furnishes a festal air for the occasion—a festal air of un- reality. In the place of these stark steel ribs and girders, put in for the Cleveland convention hall a soft, wide, beautiful arched dome, sky- lighted_in the center of the great hall. Then over the arched dome, through which filters gray light through glass, put a gray, sand, colored, rough - finished plastered ceiling. The effect is beautiful, and considering the inside of most Amer- ican halls of convention, the effect is striking. This gray, rough-finished plaster gives tone to the hall. A sub- dued monotone, into which any splash of gay color—as for instance, the great red, white and blue hanging— comes with agreeable emphasis. It is beautifully done, this vast muni- cipal hall that seats fifteen thousand. The galleries rise from the floor around the oval, except where a deep impression proscenium arch of the same soft sand color, but splashed with long parels in subdued blue and dull gold, is thrown across the nar- row ehd of the hall. On the pros- cenium arch, -at the head of eadh paneled pilaster, are thin bands of dull scarlet. ‘The whole effect is that of decent repression of color to serve by suggestion rather than by direct appeal. Carnival Spirit Gone. The great gray room, solid in ce- ment, in plaster, permanent and real, takes away the foolish spirit of car- nival that pervades so many conven- tion halls, Perhaps the sense of reality which pervades the conven tion as a result of these solid gray walls, may in some way by contrast with the mosphere of other con- ventions give the impression of dull- ness which surely comes out of this convention. But this convention, with its entire lack of spontaniety, with its utter absence of dramatic interest save in a few minor contests, would seem SOEEY in a crystal palace or in a fairy grotto. Yet, in this great, sand-colored hall, fifteen hundred delegates, sitting un- der the eyes of fourteen thousand of their fellow-Americans, are going through the outward form of some ritual which will make history. It is all very real, and in the great story of America unfolding for this decade, this convention will have its proper place. The proceedings as they unwind in as oys The «ld They will come THE EVENING WISCONSIN GROUP TAKE SEATS EARLY Some Reaction Seen From Dis- courtesy Shown During Cooper’s Speech. By a Staff Correspondent. CLEVELAND, June 12—Wiscon- sin’s recalcitrant delegation was in its seats in Convention Hall early to- day, undaunted by the demonstration against it by the other state delegations last night. The delegation was pre- pared, with the one exception in-| structed for Coolidge, to vote for | Senator La Follette for President and Senator Norris of Nebraska for Vice President The Wisconsin delegation will not| place a_nomination formally either | for La Follette or Senator Norris. It} will merely cast its ballot for them | when the votes are taken. Representative Cooper, the veteran who presented the Wisconsin plat- form last night, was congratulated widely on his handling of the situa- tion when the whole convention was howling him down. The Wisconsin delegates and the friends declared that the demonstra- tion staged against them at the con- vention had aided rather than harmed the cause of the progressives. As a matter of fact some of the | regulars were inclined to think that it has been a mistake to turn a dem- onstration for Coolidge into an at- tack on the Badger State delegation Make martyrs of them and th gain _strength” was the idea con- veyed. Before the demonstration had | been concluded there was not a little | feeling in Convention Hall manifested | in the galleries that it was rather | unfair for the delegations of fort seven states, four territories and a | federal district to turn upon a single | delegation and stand over it for half an hour howling. out of orders of the managers of the party have a curiously unreal ap- pearance. Wednesday, in the short session, when Mondell, a typical re- ionary stand-patter of the old Cannon days, seemed to be a puppet on the string, his blah, blah speech abusing the Democrats and extolling the grand old party, carrying con victions of no one, interesting only to those who are traditionally partisan minded, touching no important eco- nomic question, might easily have been the manufactured phonographic patter of a chemically devised autom- aton, a Robot, a Frankenstein cre- ation of the oid party gods. And yet this automatic echo of the dead past, in a cutaway coat and suitable gray trousers, was really doing _something important in the history of America. Perhaps he was a herald or outrider announcing the coming of the new era. Perhaps he was the only visible pallbearer of the | departing day | —Gets Em! No chin stubble in the world can withstand the relentiess new Gem Blade. It changes a pin-cushion whisker patch into satin- smooth skin in less time than it takes to lather. GEM Gse GEM Safety Razors ESIGNING DRESSMAKING MILLINERY SCHOOL Professional and Home Courses Ask for booklet Franklin 7475 Academy 804 17th St N.W. DECORATING!? Homes, Clubs, Schools, ! Churches Harry W. Taylor 2333 18th St. N.W. Col. 1077 . ; SRR SR S ity for man See Mr. Boteler witk W.C. and A. N. Miller Realtors 1119 17th St. | And the plank now adopted is the re- . y STAR, WASHINGTON WORLD COURT PLANK WON BY PRESIDENT (Continued from First Page.) osition should be included in the Re- publican platform. President Coolidge and his support- ers have contended there should be a clear-cut, definite statement with re- gard to the world court. Either the United States should go into the court or it should not. That is the question as seen by the President There has been no thought of involv- ing the United States in the league of nations. The league Is an issue which the President has considered closed. It is so stated in the foreign rela- tions plank of the platform now ap- proved. The President is going to the coun- try in November on this issue along with others. Those senators who have been op- posed to the plan of the President, Gither in whole or in part, came to leveland with the intention of hav- ing included in the platform a plank which, as they said, should be broad enough for all Republicans to stand together on This yspelled compro- mise if carried into éffect. But Presi- dent Coolidge showed himself sadly Jacking in willingness to compromise. sult of his insistence. Johnson Efforts Failed. Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali-| fornia campaigned for the Republi- | can’ nomination for several months, attacking the Coolidge administra- tion and laying particular stress on the iniquities of the world court. He | found that the country was against him. Even California, his own state, instructed its delegates to the con- vention for Coolidge. The world court danger, which Senator Johnson laid before the voters, apparently had no terrors for them. In the committee on resolutions yesterday Senator Watson, a member of that committee, pleaded for a com- promise, for something that would, as he said, make it possible for all the Republican senators to approve the | foreign relations plank. There was much discussion of the plank. Ef- forts were made by those whom Sen- om s e e e — D. C, THURSDAY ator Watson represented to have in- cluded a phrase to the effect that the world court was a tribunal “to which we might go, but not be brought,” but this was turned down. ‘Watsen Gets Angry. The resolutions committee session grew hot and heavy over the issue. Senator Watson argued pleasantly at first, found he was making no headway and grew angry. He insist- ed on having some quotations from a Coolidge speech included in the plank, because he thought they would not make the plank read so plainly and bluntly in favor of the court. “But we're saying just what you want to say, only saying it a good deal stronger,” cxplained Chairman Warren of the committee. But final- ly Watson demanded heatedly: “Why are you so anxious to have it read just your way, Warren?" “Because that is the way the Presi- dent wrote the plank,’ answered Mr. Warren, calmly. The plank, as finally adopted, reads: “The Republican party reafiirms its stand for agreement among the na- tions to prevent war and preserve peace. As an important step in this dirggtion, we indorse the Permanent Couft of International Justice, and favor adherence of the United States to this tribunal as recommended by President Coolidge. This government has definitely refused membership in the league of nations, and to assume any obligations under the covenant of the league. On this we stand.” There is nothing equivocal about it. The country will know where President Coolidge stands. May Be Filibuster. The world court proposal will not come before the Senate until Con- gress reassembles in December, un- less Congress should be called to- gether earlier in special session. That | will be a short session, in which fili- bustering tactics may easily be used to block consideration of measures to which there may be strong opposition The people of the country have not been widely interested in the world court proposal. Domestic issues dur- ing the last six months have held their attention. It may be that it has been given undue prominence in the last week or two. If so, it was be- cause the world court presented an issue between the President and a group of senators, some of whom have withstood the President on other issues. The question has been, would President Coolidge assume the leadership of the Republican party, or would he have to divide it, or even wirld to what has been known as the “Senate oligarchy.” In a measure, tue world court question has been only one phase of the contest for leadership. The Republican party. assembled in national convention, it was pointed out today, has decided not only the world court issue but others involved in favor of the Presi- dent. Semators Disgruntied. It is not to be expected that the senators will be overjoved at the work of the convention, but however disgruntled they may be they failing in support of the Republican national ticket in the coming elec- tion Senator Lodge of Massachuset Paint and Varnish STOPS LEAKS Certaintaed Roof Paint 1 gallon covers 300 square fest, two conts. $1.50 Gallon “CERTAINTEED” Qus. Gal .$1.10 $3.90 ing qoality. 85 110 Outside White ... High grade, good co Flat Wall Paint . Deck Paint For the porch fioor. Floor Varnish ....... .90 Spar Varnish .. . 110 Will mot turn white. Shingle Stain .25 Stove Pipe Enamel, % pint can, 30c Varnish Stains . 235 3.00 375 FLAT TIRE? 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But Senator Lodge has not gained prestige by his re- fusal to support the President on this and other issues, including the veto of the soldier bonus. Today he is at- tending the national convention as a delegate at large from Massachu setts, shorn of power in that delega- tion and sitting in the ranks for the first time in more than a quarter of a century. It is not conceivable, how- ever, that Senator Lodge will not support the Coolldge campaign. In fact, he has said that he will whole- heartedly support it. POINTER ON CAMPAIGN. Michigan Candidate Begins West- Northwest Tour. CHICAGO, June 12—Robert R. Pointer of Dearborn, Mich., nominee of the Peoples' Progressive party for President, today is on his way to the west and northwest to begin an active campaign. B Mr. Pointer, who organized “Henry Ford for President” clubs until Mr. ¥ord indorsed President Coolidge, said four million- voters sent in their pledges for Ford. 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