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The Evening World Dai Monday ¥. May 15 i916 . Our National Conventions The Story of Their Beginning and Development I¢ Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Pubjishing Company, Nos. as Park Row, New Yoru. basic! RALPH PULt President, 63 Park Row. MUNGUS SHAW irreasuren 6s Pare R JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Entered at the Post-OMice at New York ae Second-Class Matter, ben = gd twee et Secu Ge tee tuausae and Copyriaist, 1410, vy ‘tue trom Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), Wo: for in! imtries national v ‘and Canada, cunt ostal Union No. 2—The Unit Rule and First Platform. One Year... $3.60 /One Yen: rere OLITICAL national conventions for the first few trials were mere ratifi- One Month.. -40/One Month. cation meetings, without contests and without excitement. But with the conventions for the campaign of 1840 they developed competing candidates and political manipulation. Thurlow Weed, the boss of New | York State,. devised the unit rule of voting State delegations solidly, a prac- tice whioh was followed by Whig and Republican parties almost as closely \98 the Democrats have clung to the two-thirds rule, The Whig Convention met in the Lutheran Church at Hartisburg, Pa. jin December, 1839, Henry Clay was the popular Idol of the party and the leading candidate. Weed opposed him for various reasons, principally be- VOLUME 56.... NO. 19,991 PATRIOTISM. ATRIOTISM! What is it? P Breakfast table outbursts over the morning news with the! demand that Washington do something? Denting the mahog- aay of the corner saloon in the desire to see some one smashed?! Headiuess to stand by and cheer anybody elee who is willing to speud ® month in camp wearing Uncle Sam's uniform? No and yes, Let’s be reasonable, It’s no discredit to true patriot- ism that it has to detach itself slowly from habit—that it doesn't } instantly unfurl itself like a flag or flare like a trumpet. “Patriotism,” an American wel) said, “is simple and trustful, like| family affection, and its subordinate place in the ordinary life of the} nation is seen in the fact that it rarely shows itself except in nations! | emergencies.” What is more, we forget that the patriotism we are forever Jaud-| | ing in other generations has been purified by time and imagination 3 of al! the selfishness and sordidness that clung about it at the moment.' We talk now of the “Spirit of °61.” Read the records, See what a ; task Lincoln had to drag regiments out of grudging States. | | That stanch old despiser of flub-dub, Dr. Samuel Johnson, once | | said: “There are inexcusable lies and consecrated lies. For instance, | we are told that on the arrival of the news of the unfortunate battle of Fontenoy every heart beat and every eye was in tears. Now we know thet no man ate his dinner the worse. but there should have been ali this concern; and to say there was may be reckoned a con- tecrated lie.” | The inctinct of this nation is not for war. To assert the contrary | is a lie not even consecrated. Peace, industry and commerce are, at they have been, our chief concern. Why be ashamed of it? Since the) outbreak of host: in Europe thie country has been in many respects like a busy modern citizen suddenly confronted with the fact | that duelling still survives. It has been a long time since the Unit.) States bas been forced to take cognizance of a code handed down from the Middle Ages. Even now, when the nation is convinced that madness still gets| ' the better of civilization and common sense, it cannot be expected | that all Americans will agree where they stand and how they must! New York was instructed for Scott. | Clay had delegates from nearly ali States that together would Bave made his nomination possible on the first ballot. Weed got the other | didates to join with him in adopting the unit rule, which cut out Clay |Cause of belief that Clay could not carry New York and Pennsylvania. So jhe encouraged a number of rival candidates, among them Gen. Scott and | Daniel Webster, but his favorite was Gen. Williain Hi. Harrison, althodgh tt + strength in all the States where he did not have a majority of the delegates. « |The etrategy worked, Clay was headed off and Harrison nominated and elected. } Clay’s disappointment was keen, and though many times a candidate hej’ seemed fated, like Blaine and Bryan afterward, never to attain the Whitey) A | House. Five times Clay was # candidate; three times the nominee—Iin 1824, # | 1882 and 1844. He failed of nomination in the conventions of 1840 and 1848 } \ J | The Democratic Convention of 1840 introd: the novelty of a party platform. It was the idea of Martin Ven Buren, who was hopelessly etrivii for @ second term in the White House. The first written code of Democratic | principles was laid down in a series of resolutions which set the pattern for future declarations, An unusual exception was the last paragraph of the platform, which stated: bat several of the States which have nominated Martin Van | Buren as e candidate for the Presidency have pit in nomination differeat | individuals as candidates for Vice President, thus indicating a diversity of opinion as to the person best entitied to the nomination; “Resolved, That the convention deem it expedient at the present time | not to choose between the individuals 12 nomination, but to leave the deci. | sion to their Kepublican fellow citizens in the several States, trusting that before election shall take place their opinions will become @o concentrated aa to secure the choice of a Vice President by the Electoral College.” No one candidate was finally nominated, but most of the party votes went to Vice President Richard M. Johnson. However, the Van *aren | tleket went down to crushing defeat before “Old “ :ppecanoe” Harrizon and | the lack of a single Vice Presidential candidate made no difference. Just a Wife--(Her Diary); . fi. Edited by Janet Trevor. enna RAR RRA P PPD LDP LPD DLA LPL PPP LPPOP PPP LED Copyright, 1916. by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). { CHAPTER Xill. } of all my unhappiness. Dan has paid the h bills. We always have = 24—Patty Kane came to see louse bills. @ always mind stoops not to showe of dross.—SHAKESPEARE. enough to eat. But he gives me me to-day. Her mother and my| neither a housckeeping allowance nor mother are close friends, and | & personal allowance. I have to ask have known her ever since I was a/tim for every penny and explain just although she is several \ how it is to be spent. Sometimes he {little girl, wes me the sum I want. Sometimes 4 ‘ ; L In the busy of Al hy act. Some are trying to Inll their fellow countrymen into false secur-| Petar ari poste my lord and master “Ot the Speketbon ity. Othere seek to lash them into a bellicose state epposed to be, | marriage I rather lost track of her,| .jlent part of it mine? Doms t : gpod for the national soul. Meanwhile the country goes on resolutely | ' rejecting both extremes. Despite the attempts of pecifists to brand it as militari thing lees militaristic then- Saturday's great parade in this city would be hard to imagine. Those thousands of business men, engi-| neers, lawyers, workers of all sorts, were not thinking of arms or| battle. They were only getting together shoulder to:shoulder in an| effort to feel their way toward some convincing demonstration of | | and I was almost startled when iow ‘her this afternoon. She has been married only four years. She is not twenty-five, but | she looks thirty-five. There are deop | the ‘corners between her eyes and * dren, nurse him when he's ill? Don't I deserve something more ti board and an occasional ;Which I must plead prettily have to pay a servant good wage. do my work, “It has reached the point where ¢ will not ask him for one penny un- less I am absolutely compelled to do so. I walked to your house this afternoon and I shell walk back, be- cause I have no carfare. I am wear- ing last year's clothes because I won't e the corners of her mouth, And couldn't help. nots thet sho was | wearing last year's sult an an |*qMSnowed her all my pretty things: ‘ehe hadn't seen even my trousseau. ——|'Then we had tea in the living room. I forget what we were talking about it, Mollie, you have a good fight- seenom end} » That is about i ive e | when I looked up to see a Dig tear | ask for new ones. And, of course, | ftitete awn couatnuarciee} The Office Force The Jarr Family nha eee ottas |artars Emertane Shae. | : her lap. » nings as he used to do. j The fact is there is nobody big enough to argue or coerce the — By Bide Dudley —_ —— By Roy L. McCardell — y what ts the trouble?” I pleaded.“ cot eat to' gee you |ing chance.” She looked at me in- look so unhappy.” ‘She sobbed unrestrainedly and for Is this ®/a moment could not speak. Mrs. Jarr camo tripping into the | Saloon? | “Don't you love Dan oy, maret tr room and said, “Now, isn't this! Mr. Jarr shook his head (whether anes wronaer teat?) Dan ts Patty's better?" hi country into being patriotic as he pefsonally conceives that state. \ | lucky thing for a nation committed to a policy of peace. Coprright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Eveuing World) } 5 | FOPPLE, the ebipping clerk, held Slice, “What's the arsument this Americans, one and all, are working it ont together, The ma-| bis watch to his ear. morning?” he asked. “Bobbie used the word ‘humidor,’ acca “Stopped again!” he growled. | repli om fority of them believe, we think, that proparedness can be achicvod| sggspe it ieee apring ailment,” | Kero ay sias Primm, “and he doesn’t tently. “I don’t know what domestic arrangements are and [ don’t want to know. But if Ned isn’¢ giving you 4 personal and a house al- lowance, get both while he Is still so much in love with you that he'll fol- your Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), T was a warm spring evening and no maraschino cherries. of them up to date. Wid, etuck bis head out of bis private It's a strong heart (hat hos no turning—-under a May moon. rt ade. iteppea out to buy an evening paper, Nobody can find anything there. r \ A ii know what it m What ts your unhappy at the thought that it was) “ws I love him,” she replied in aj low your suggestions. You must save = | ie without any grinding of teeth or shouting of battle cries. They must| suggested Miss Primm, private #ec- dea, Mr. Snooks? Mr. Jarr looked up. “This” evidently | 2°! ® saloon or just because he could I coies teed with bitterness, “although your self-respect.” eine cin eenea 4 1 also have sense enough to seo thet patriotism sooner or Inter descends| retary to the boss. “You know, they're] g Vainuialiorh unwed, tne bom with ferred to a glass pitcher of home- |NOt think of tho risht answer) and) Tm sure 1 dont know, why, | Moege story ever since she left; Ned is the ' from an idea to a practical question for each man to put to himself: | Tuite szllsh Just now.” @ humorist's room.” brewed lemonade Mrs, Jarr was con-| uttered that lemonade always] I'm going to, tel Tall a iite. Per-| moat generous boy in the world. But | P , i elf:| "Bobble, the office boy, faced her.| “That's exactly what I told her,”| veying toward him. tocepe ices with cherries: tA 16 reek ye story will help you to avetd|I should hate to ask him for money | What shall I give? What can I do?—which is where the genuine| “Gee, whiz!” he said, “are we goin’ baa haa! i aa “Better than what?" asked Mr. Jarr, |, “YOU drink your ivmonade and stop | “similar mistake, every time I wanted a little < i article becomes instantly distinguishable from its imitations. |to have to listen to a lot of Mag with a laugh ‘Mr. Snooks retired im] “Why, better thn. those pols a) bape ta ‘ urd bee ‘In one word, money t# the cause (To Be Continue 4 > 4 rf y ad as » But let living Americans cease to flay one another in the name of | nes inser titeea te bias in al ietetly’ foward Bonbion mm turned they ell men at auch Places #8 thatiyog would have asked for it!” | rere 83 : > " wu ss!" gal rs. Jarr. ” * % patriotism until they have developed the quality I ote -for-nothin "You little simpleto she said. We had some preserved cherries M M ine it quality enough to standard Hie pe DH dl erties ad Guat to enlighten our two-for-a:) ‘Haven't you got some maraschino lin the house lust week" faltered. Ar| Pop s utual otor. J . | know that joke was absolutely orig- @ humidor ts a receptacie for imara.” nee ocmut 1Aey of carat Jars. | By Alma Woodward. aoa seed iobble shoo! ead. “No,” he; “Now, there’ you go!” rs. | . ol i ' We agree with Col. Tim Willams. The Public Service MO ee at a cautd | Hoge Me GURPldOr nat boy tat” {A silver dish you'd ask where was the lin ice cream. Anyway, those mara-| Scr: Piv's vetrom, at 120 A, M “| Ma (orithout, gloas)—Tes. 1 do, H Commission is just as competent as the Traffic Department of think up Jokes as good as that you'd| sighed Miss Primm. And the morn-| moon and stars and why wasn't the | schino cherries aro only the start.” | A Gauspiclously)—Are 798) AP sh get up and go Ret the car | ; the BR. T. be @ famous comedian on the'stage.”| {8 ‘!scussion was over dish a gold one! Of course, T Pave) wstart of what?” asked Mr. Jarr. | ape and try to butt into a corner position . — ee “Ob, that reminds me,” sald Bobbie, illite “The start of men drinking,” sald} . ae and get chased by the cops and most : nl e not at all abashed by Miss Primm's Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of Mrs. Jarr. “First they drink lemon-| Ma (scornfully) we Preparers Usely be fined for contempt or eome- Hits From Sharp Wits \berating, “of a feller who wanted to| the body.—ROUSSEAU. ade, which is healthful temperance |Pey., And you iP aR A a ' ‘i ae a ate cS | get into a musical show. He wore a —— Then they want cherries) "E54, (calmiy)—Not fe tite, man) sein Recdinge as, ajmnoattys Se tehee Beeld ways will be doubt in 9 at the end of her arguments she| wrist watch on his anki Dian't I tell you my chiro) mind of the av man whether the | cries. eae ( in dal-suicide for me to| Pp, hal ater) — gl ofl EAR ylbee ped ead cathe | awrnet yon her demanded e ec i on aaure they do! satd Mr. Jare, |'t would ie im paying for treat. | wher eee Me ‘hour intery=- Be) randy worth living.—Toledo Blade. ‘The readier a man is e Primm ha t f “They never serve you a lemonade in t I do as the doctor ot Ma (cheerily)—All right, dear. Ron se 8 every one else, the more eens} “Nechurally it must ‘a’ been s 0) a first-class place without putting{ "ste (softening a trifle)—Well, t/eiong and get your little car. The of wisdom 1s usually the | he is likely to be to take advice, even | ‘Watch Your Step," replied Bobbie. | e bits of decorative color in in the way isn't necessary for you to march. 1} ia, sung aj) the way to the para part that is missing,—Deseret Nows. | when it is perfectiy good. Miss Ti GR igor | ifnow you have corns. But I want to | te engine. ell ote EE Bis. nan rely io ile, the bi d stenographer, |, ACHe|LOK Girl } ler merscnins chore wrgou hare cormk, ut want 1 ada fa ot i * ; Indulged in # hearty laugh and then ; “I suppose your home isn't a first- | 8° that I saw it. blows the hom, Ma looks out of the window » Nothing !9 so very remarkable in| Superaensitive persons can be known 4 say, in after years, G the story that a man born without|by the slight regard that they have | complimented Lubbie, “That's the By Helen Rowland class place then,” said Mrs, Jarr, “I|°"Bop' ‘(geaticulating)—1 told you} Pop (tmpatiently)—Aren't you bande becomes a Sine pecman. We for the feelings of others.—Albany | btct Joke I've beard in years," she | won't put them in the lemonade, be-| they were getting five dpllars bE rs-o4 ad yes her floges}=-Come | Bele tauedte Hine Tt ites Jamie, “Avs fine | Copyright, 1910, by ‘The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Byouina World). cause they are preserved in alcohol,” |on the stands 18 Ti w @ minute, dear, Ag , © s As soon as they open their ep,” .admitted Bobbie, “It's| HE only kind of love worth anything is the kind that you get for] “Do you think a poor little pre-| °Ma (pltyingly)—Ab, you poor cere-| Pop (entering the fiat)—What's When a man is at the end of hie! many’ “logient™ candidates promowtne| numer Gites fromm the Duaaa nothing. served cherry starts one upon the| bral lightwelgnt! What have you got |the matter? Want me to hook your argument he cusses, When a woman they are not—Philadelphia Inquirer, | 4, Bat de yeu as d +” ak fp car for? All you have to 6 | dress :| Miss Primm stittly. downward path?” asked Mr. Jarr. == | forland get 4 position on a side| Ma (mischtevously)—Listen, Mii- . rde: things have a ‘sinning, ani and wait yor y are com- etters rom t Pe ° that. word,” suid Bobow, “Her | feels rich enough to order a lot more, and the moment he has won the ‘ 4 | ane you'll get a good place. ing for the week-end and I wanted he I eople a ett tno Bnylish iangunge | beart of one woman he feels concolted enough to fancy he can win all|{rmly belleve mon start drinking | enough yOWll fe Toe Saves onelto get things ready. And 1 knew I'd “ Nil N } that way. First they want cherries Op te e" of Pratees Eattorial. | war with Prussia and Austria) nad a| Bey ney eee nidor Now, Miss | the others? in their lemonade. That starte the |C°pe Wome le Por i a, Lee ee ie he are BA eer, Tet 1 ort nI “¢ “ Ay Vrimm, @ bu ; i . | He ey will. Anyway,|other way. I wanted to be pr a, aig heed el i an Witch ald ae thag red Rolf Krake,! ‘Ways you little fool, you!” snapped ih ~ craving. ‘Then they want claret lem-|iroyve got suough todo. to handle | you see. REE ig 4 (from my point of view, conudor| {he storm against” the “Dueppler | ou gut’ Sonu.’ ‘Aud, In, addition, | B!Mgs she is bound to cultivate something—nerves, debts, dogs, jealousy | beer, After guzzling beer they find it | early epouRh LOT ie LN oe real iel cata rink inne oan this one of the mont concise treativws|Schanzen (redoubte-trenches), Ll you're entirely too fresh. I'l bet you| or another man. isn't strong enough. ‘Then they take! ,, 4 ou get thare early [that's made in Port Jervis nnd Bie on the subject What as wer som 8 now thie AEE she CHW. (a niskel you fon mnow, the meaning small drinks of whiskey, then large peruanee What do you want me to ‘Marsetiiais i I guess there'll benent If It were DOB. |1y ve x OP ctneg oared {*.u8 "rou pay if you bot?” asked Alas! To-morrow would always be sweet if only we could forget the | drinks.” |do? (Get up at nie hour and make me preparedness then! Fare- a a As an American of English qe. Bobb! foolish things we did yesterday. “Then the gutter?" asked Mr, Jarre, ™yselt miserable? ei language ber: understood by hi! erent ee me correct Edmond gan, | bet! > 00 “Not just yet. They drink ab- compares I »| sAll right! ‘The bet'son, Pay me! " You ave certain Btate. "Tho difference ia Natay Tork | bay your—wat do You mean‘ When s man’s head is fired with champagne he can always fancy |*nthe nest And shen, comes the ond Facts Not Worth Knowing. Empire State governs itsuit, ‘t You said you'd pay if you bet.” | that his heart is fired with love and that that is what is making the world], | : 4 i ‘ » its Vell, J never!” Sung out Miss ‘Tie lots uf people drinking absinthe and By Arthi Ba people electing the Governo Md a one ON) ' 1 Pp ur er. jomary, Not Owl legiviatora. Ireland does not ott ee Te aAVS Lak, MORSE WR me. BHR no indications of the d. g.” | Coprright, 1916, by The dt Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World) ‘west to give bila i ty Teiniaeeee age ae pay if you bet; not if you won, Miss Habit is the cement which holds the links of matrimony together es Mane MD HET Whars| For ihe deneft of honeymooners, a Western ratiroad advertises that ita written refsrences to @ man whom he} status was that of New Rland's| Primm.” , aed : ‘ad BARS 3 y that? } i O44 ean a Me omaplon Pest ooo should Mr. Egan. at Dae ee why} “Oh, rot!” snapped Miss Primm, when the ties of romance have crumbled. “The drunkard’s grave," said Mr. tunnels have the finest scenery in the world. and who leaves of bis own accord? |mond in his fight for Home. Rute, | poe Ree ee ental ae He eek ved Jarr, solemnly. Then he arose, ‘I erlsisa cana hat Sle | Sonate aleees: CHLRRUDeat, that | doean's. know." When it comes to winning a battle or a woman, a wise fool some-|don’t feel in the mood for lemonade| Contrary to the opinion of young wives, salmon ten’t caught canned. _ References, tn such cages, Are oun. a fi, 3 pail | rae,,om and spilt tt, kkld, it you] times rushes in and wins while @ fool angel is preparing to tread. to-night,” he said;,"your talk has —— ) ou . n 3 now," su! ne 5 pe. x law, Liked Leekhast story, | Mure 1 will,” replied the boy, “a — mado me thi ty I think a) go out The company that formerly manufactured moustache cups now makes Daninh Submarines tw 1864, To the Editor of The Evening World humidor is the second button on the He that telleth @ secret unto @ married man may prepare Almself for eer or maybe an fendere to keep whiskers out of soup plates, the Raita he Hrening Worl ot the Sunday coat worn by t of free advertising; for, lo, the c . ‘To tue Rites of The Please compliment Caroline Look. | ee%Se4 | Whopp a lot of free advertising; for, lo, the conjugal pillow {s the root of all ‘ A, read an art hart for me on the beautiful story ahe Sata "bh Ane eee | Sossip. t ov Beet i cern coy The het of the oun S40 oreat thet no Auman Deine com live there “Phe Submur wrote for The Evening World,” Phe "it's. not! pena’ kinds 3 ‘oun er, the Ir, y. @ Senitor from broaden | Man From Bitter Roots.” Thope thac| Mice Prime i. sald | , ‘ Himer did not know how to make an| Aion fortwactely prevents ferter Getting up there and spoting (. thy stating Uh ot we will “Flow do you know {t isn’t?” asked A man would rather be stormed at than cried at; hot words may sting| apsinthe frappe, and, unyway, Mr, | Cveruthing. B Jokn P, Holland the inventor of for ded quite abruptly. Misa Tillie. “Lave you evor heen Ms vanity, but salt tears simply wash all the color ont of his love. Jarr oniy, had w nickel, and Mr, Jerr, — ener y america. the ipl’ ‘ovel a Week” very down there?” | ale eturned home and drank the lem t 4 boats were used as far interesting and 1 have reac every one Just then Mr, Snooks, the boss, if He pretended he had just 1 yeu want to Ride fump inte © Ring cage,