The Archive · 1920

Senator Harding

U. S. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION — HOW HIS SELECTION WAS WORKED From Our Own Correspondent

Washington, June 24.

It is not always' that "coming events cast their shadows before, and thée@fepublican National Coo vention, whose proceedings—they cannot be called deliberations—have recently come to an end wasa ease in point. While all the 934 delegates, so-called, were present in a quasi-representative capacity, they were little more than a fortuitous concourse of atoms so far as initiative or singleness of purpose was concerned. What unity of sentiment existed among them was merely anti-Wilsonism, and inasmuch as their individual feelings with regard to the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations differed just as much as did those of the Republican members of the Senate, their anti-Wilsonism like wise varied in intensity. So widely indeed did it vary that for the first few days a disruption appeare? inevitable.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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