THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1916,
CONVENTIONS FACE
CHA0TICJ1T0ATI0N
Conference of Harmony Committed
T oaf ISmt YTaum With Ant'
Definite Results.
SECOSD MEETING IS PROBABLE
Chicago, June 9. Delegates to the
republican and progressive national
conventions assembled at the Coli
seum and the Auditorium here this
morning, facing a chaotic situation
unprecedented in American political
history. The progressives met at 10
o'clock and the republi cans at 11
o'clock. .
Uncertainty as thick and obdurate
. s the murky -weather that has hung
over Chicago for three days, ' pre
vailed, ana an eyes were strained to
catch the first possible clearing of
the political clouds or to anticipate
the deeper black of the renewed
party antagonism.
The day was ushered in by a mid
night conference, that will become
historic, of "peace committees" from
the progressives and the republicans,
which took place at the Chicago club
on Michigan boulevard. Ihe confer
ence adjourned before 1 o'clock with
out definite results, it was said., and
details of its deliberations were with
held. It may meet again this after
noon or tonight, or :t may not, only
the developments ot the day can de
termine that., .
Make Remarkable Picture.
It was a remarkable picture formed
by the men seated about the confer
ence board in whose hands rested the
destinies of the republican and pro
gressive parties.
The republican committee was com
posed- of Senator Reed Smoot of
Utah, chairman; former Senator W.
Murray Crane of Massachusetts, Sen
ator William E. Borah of Idaho,
Nicolas Murray Butler of New York
and A. K. Johnson of Ohio.
The progressive committee had
George W. Perkins of New York for
chairman, and the other members
were Governor Hiram W. Johnson of
California, Horace b. Wilkinson of
New York, Charles J. Bonaparte of
Maryland and, John M. barker ot
-ew urleans.
For more than two hours the con
ferees discussed the points at issue
between tne progressives and the re
publicans and took up details of the
peace plans projected earlier in the
day by the two conventions when the
conference committees on harmony
had been appointed. When adjourn
ment came it was announced that we
report progress" and the statement
was made that the members of the
two committees would not get to
gether again until after the sessions
of the conventions today. They pre
pared reports wmcn are being pre
sented to their respective conven
tions. "It is understood," said Senatoi
Borah, after last night's conference,
"that while nominating speeches will
be made in each convention today, no
nominations will be made."' -.
"And," said another member of the
committee, "we will resume negotia
tions in thi afternoon or evening."
Some o' the progressives hoped
that Colo! A Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay would ;end a messsge to the har
mony conferees, or to the progressive,
convention, that would have a bearing
on the situation.
The men advocating the nomination
by the republican convention of Jus
tice Charles E. Hughes of the su
preme court declared this morning
they believed their candidate could
be nominated today and prepared to
press, for action on a nomination
without delay.
Managers forthe various "favorite
son" candidates insisted the harmony
conference program had greatly im
proved the chances for their then.
But in the absence of any definite
report of what happened at the
"peace" conference at the Chicago
club, few were sanguine of definite
results. A majority seemed to think
the two conventions will go ahead
regardless of each other, make their
nominations and adjourn.
In this connection one of the mem
bers of last night's conference de
clared: "The conference has not changed
the situation in respect to the prob
able nomination of Justice Hughes by
the republcan convention. A situa
tion has been created by which the
progressives will probably be willing
to Dostoone the desire of the radical
delegates to rush into a nomination of
Colonel Kooseveit tor tne sole pur
pose of putting a ticket in the field. I
believe the influence of the conference
is for good feeling, regardless of
whether we accomplished the main
purpose of coming together or not."
Bill Countryside
With Navy Appeals
Yeoman Stoner of the Wal navy
.!,.,( fcae Keen trtlirtnor
western Iowa in his peace boat billing
the rural districts wttn pictures ana
printed appeals for men to join the
The oldest inhabitant and principal
grocery store pnuosopner ui uuc iuwu
visited mistook the navy lads for a
trnunc nf actnra and inauired. "Be
you goin' to give somethin' in the
, opry house I
WOULD HAVE PRISONERS
PUT IN NEUTRAL LANDS
London, June 9. The Daily Graph
ic, discussing the alleged hardships of
British prisoners in Germany, sug
gests that the prisoners of all the bel
ligerent nations be transferred to neu
tral countries and be paid for by the
respective governments.
The Graphic urges , the United
States to take up the matter to the
extent of making a special appeal to
the German government to agree to
such an arrangement.
Treat CeiiffbR en Cold at One.
Dangerous bronchial and lun ailment
follow neglected ooldo uk Dr. Kin'. Now
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Rabbi Stolz Makes
Opening Prayer at
Moose Convention
Chicago. Tune 9. Rabbi. Toseoh
Stolz, D. D., of Isaiah temple, Chi
cago, delivered the following invoca
tion before the progressive national
convention here today:
"O Lord, whose throne is the heav
ens, whose footstool is the earth; O
God, who art the Father of all peo
ples, the ruler of all nations; O Eter
nal One, who art supreme above the
din of battle and mighty above the
voices of many waters; Thy judments
reach to the uttermost ends of the
earth, Thou makest for righteousness,
even when clouds and thick darkness
are round about Thee.
"Thou brineest order out of chaos.
light out of darkness, good out of evil,
peace out of conflict, even though the
earth do change and the mountains
be moved, even though nations rage
and kingdoms totter. And we need
have no fear for the days to come, if
we keep the truth and establish jus
tice, if we despise the g.-.in of oppres
sion and sek peace and pursue it.
ihou art our refuge and our
strength, a very present help in times
of trouble and perplexity. Oh, send
us Thy light and Thy truth that they
may lead us to the real sources of na
tional strength. Inspire us with an
ever-growing and ever-deepening love
ot those ideals which have made our
country great, and which can weld to
gether those who left their homes in
all parts of the earth to find security
and liberty within our portals.
"Let Thy spirit of wisdom and un
derstanding, of counsel and might,
rest upon this convention, that its
lofty passions may inspire the confi
dence of the people, that its righteous
indignations may purge the nation of
its materialism, that its high aspira
tions may strengthen the conviction
that the true greatness of our country
lies not in the abundance of the things
we possess, but in the justice of our
laws and institutions, in our devotion
to peace founded on righteousness
and love, in the brotherhood of all
the races and nations, all the classes
and creeds within our borders.
"Bless our country that it may be
a stronghold of peace, an advocate of
peace in the councils of nations, a
messenger of peace unto the peoples
of the earth, an apostle of peace striv
ing earnestly for a realization of the
prophet's dream of the day when men
will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning-hooks,
when nation will not lift up the sword
against nation and they will not learn
war any more, when every man will
sit under his vine and his fig-tree, and
none will make him afraid.
"Thine, O God, be the greatness
and the might and the glory and the
victory. Amen."
Ring Hears Kids Depew and Cannon
and Mr. Borah Make Their Talks
BY RING W. LARDNER.
Chicago, June 9. Special Tele
gram.) Some way or other I under
stood they were going to start yester
day's session at 9 o'clock, so I got
there at a quarter after 11 and they
had just started and then I found out
that U was the starting time and here
I'd worried for the fear 1 was two
hours late and something big might
of happened and Mr. Hyde and Phil
lips and son might not of known how
to handle it. Bryan come in right
after me and the band played, "Rock
of Ages." He bowed his acknowledg
ments then the band played a med
ley of Scotch airs and when they come
to Old Lang Sygne. the southern dele
gation cheered thinking it was Dixie.
Then Mr. Smoot of Utah gave the
report of the committee on foreign
missions and then the temporary or
ganization composed of Mr. Harding
was made permanent and he got up to
thank somebody and received an ova
tion that lasted seven minutes or only
just an hour and a half less than what
Roosevelt was gave at the moose con
vention Wednesday. Mr. Harding an
nounced that the rules committee was
not quite ready to report and the band
played .some more and when Mr.
Warren of Michigan was all ready
with the new rules and when you seen
his manuscript you had to forgive him
for not being ready quicker and if it
had been up to me to write them they
would of been ready the day after
Mr. Thompson is inaugurated at
Washington, D. C.
Rules of the Game.
I suppose other journalists took
down the rules, but I can remember a
few of them from memory.
Rule 7 Hawaiia and Porto Rico
and the Fillipinos get two delegates
apiece after this. Penalty, loss of ten
yards and the down remains the same.
Rule 9 The national committee
has got to set the date of the conven
tion four months ahead of time. Pen
alty, the ball goes to the opponents at
the point offense was committed.
Rules 149 No degradation can
change its vote unless it is proven
that an error was made in announcing
it. Penalty, disqualification of the of
fending players and loss of half the
distance to the goal ot the side on
which he is playing.
I thought Mr. Warren did very
good, and that's from the heart, and
not just because he is from Michigan.
After Mr. Warren got through his
report was adopted and he was
tickled to death at not having to re
write it, but some of us were pretty
mad because if he had of had to re
write over again the convention wouli!
still be goiim on here yet all iicn.
.week, and we couldn't go to St. Louis.
Mo.
Kid Chauncey.
Then they was a kid named Depew
or something got up to speak a piece
and showed a whole lot of nerve for
a kid and told some pretty good gags
and one of them was about the Ford
horseless carriages and he says the
Fords was just like a bath tub be
cause everybody wants one, but no
body wants to be seen in them.
1 thought they was pans of the kids
speech that sounded like as if he was
boosting Roosevelt, but when I told
that to Sid Smith he says I was a
boob, so I guess I won't express no
more opinions.
Young Depew was followed up by a
lad named Cannon that give a speech
and dance. He wound up and whirled
around before he begin his sentences,
and a good umpire would of bawled
him out and says his delivery was un
legal because he didn't stay on the
slab or face the batter.
Hates tne Barber.
Then come Mr. Borah from out
west some where's-nd a darn good
talker, but a barber hater in regards
to his back hair.
None of the boys knew they was
to be called on till last February and
they done very good for not having
no preparations.
Mr. Borah hadn't no sooner set
down than a delegate that hadn't got
called on for a speech lost his tem
per and moved to adjourn till four
bells and the move wa carried on ac
count of everybody being Wild for a
smoke.
Then we was squeezed out of the
place and what do you think it was
doing when we got outside? It was
raining and nobody had expected
nothing like that and no preparations
made to get us down town till one of
the' ushers that knowed ,Sid Smith
ast him and I tore down in a machine.
Well, Sid ast four others to go along
with us and that made eight includ
ing the driver and the machine was
a Ford. So long before we got down
town we knowed another reason why
a Ford and bathtub is both alike be
cause when they's eight people in
them they're kind of crowded.
In return for them giving us the
wlAm An in tftw mmt tllf tO take
lunch with him at one of his clubs
and says good bye to the people that
owned the car. After lunch we come
over to the office and a boy was using
the typewriter, that they give me to
use this week only and I had to be
took in the suite of room's where the
editorial writers has their trance and
Cliff, one of the editorial writers,
says I would better be careful or the
germs would get after me and first
thing you know 1 would be writing
about flood control and the voice of
the people would be writing in and
panning the life out of me.
Cashier Far Off.
While I was trying to write this
stuff Llirl went up to the cashier and
got some more money and the cashier
is on the eleventh floor now and when
Cliff come back and told me where he
had been at I made the remark that it
wasn't convenient for the cashier to
he so far away, and he says it was bet
ter to have the cashier on the eleventh
Moor and not Ihe fifth because when
you got in the elevator to come down
it wasn't so crowded. Well, when a
man can look on the bright side to
that extent 1 don't see what he is do
ing writing editorials. I bet he would
say this was grand weather we're hav
ing, because it keeps you from get
ting freckled in the Coliseum.
After getting the above fine start
on this stuff 1 went to the Congress,
and they was two Kentucky delegates
talking and here's what they says:
"Oid you ever know B. L. Morrow
in Paducah?" ast one of them.
"Very well," says the other. "I
killed him."
So I hurried into another part of
the hotel and bumped into Nelson
Jones, the well known South Bend fu
neral director, who is here with the
Fairbanks crowd. Maybe in his offi
cial capacity Mr. Jones is taking up
politics and says he had to learn seven
or eight languages in order to make
speeches to the inhabitants of St. Jo
feph county, and the languages in
cluded Squinch and Wymie, which he
savs was different Swede dialects.
We taked about this, that and the
other thing, and finally he says he
would have to go into some room
where he had left $13 worth of Okels,
so then I seen he was lasping into
Squinch and I coudn't understand that
queer tongue, so I says:
"Hanger," and that means "good
bye" in Wymie.
"Bross," he says, meaning, I sup
pose, "good-bye" in Squinch.
Wanted to Get Back.
It must be interesting to get into
politics and meet all them Squinch
men and Wymietians. Then I went
out in the street again and tried to
find somebody that was maybe taking
eight or nine people back to the Coli
seum in a Ford, but coudn't find none,
so I had to hire a car and it was a
Indiana-43, and they charged a nickel
apiece for the fellas I took with me.
I was wore out on account of how
hard I worked alt day, and ast Mr.
Phillips and Mr. Hcnning and Mr.
Hyde and so on a personal favor,
would they cover anything that might
come up and leave the paper know
about it, and they promised.
Next week, St. Louis.
Mooted Blaho Ceadjntator.
Dormer, Colo.. June t. Hev. Irvine P.
Johnson, prot.eeor In lh Seabury pivtnlty
eohool of Forlhault. Minn., woo eler-tr.il
Otehop oneitjumtor of the Colorado dtnt'cee
lit Ihe U,Ihoopm1 ohuroh lote today.
AdToare. Time Aw Hoar.
Parte. June Following- the example of
Germany, Kngland, Italy end the 8,emli
navlan nountrlf-e. the annate today adopted
the daylight oevln bill, advanrlna legal
time by one hour.
Nine Conditions
Looking to Peace
for the Chinese
(Oo-reepondeiu-e of th,t Aeooclated Preaa ) .
Peking, May 24. A dispatch sent
from Chengtu, the capital of Szechuen
province, states that Tsai Ao, the rev
olutionary leader, and Chen Yi, the
military governor of Sze-chuen, who
it carrying on negotiations oil behalf
of the Peking government, have
agreed to the following nine condi
tions of peace:
1. To permit Yuan Shi-kai to re
main in office.
I. The re-establishment of parlia
ment within two months.
3. To revert to the regulations gov
erning the administration during the
first year of the republic.
4. To allow the present independ
ent officials to remain in office.
5. To pardon all political offenders.
0. To station a number of southern
troops in Peking. , '
8. To send General Tuan Chi-jui to
Wuchang as military governor.
9. To k-ep GeneVal Feng Kuo
chang at Nanking. .
The revolutionary press asserts
that Tsai Ao has never agreed to any
peace conditions which included the
retention of Yuan Shi-kai as presi
dent. The message has been credited by
the Peking government, which has
had advices indicating satisfactory,
progress in the negotiations between
Chen Yi and Tsai Ao.
Oa Duty.
Young- George eat on - the top rail of a
fence kicking hut heehi agalnat a lower
mil. Along came young Henry.
"Let'a go down to the orook and have a
ewlm," ougffeated Honry.
"Can't" oald George. Tva' been out nut
hero to mind Aunt UalHe'i and Aunt Hattla'e
children." .
Henry looked around wondering!. There
were no children In elghl.
"Where are they?" he naked '
"Blamed It I know," eald Oeorge. New
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4-blade, 8-inch Wheel
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