DENVER AND BEYOND 15 



this heaven-born instrument, without orders? 

 Assuredly not. I cannot tell how it happened. A 

 voice, it seemed to be my own, but it came from 

 very far away, as my knees agitated, suggested 

 another word. The chairman twittered again. 

 A sigh of relief went through the room. The 

 senator from Illinois patted me on the back. 

 ''Does the senator accept the substitute?" ''I 

 do." With a trembling hand the chairman 

 changed the word. The committee arose. T had 

 placed one word in a republican platform. 



''Tell me, ye winged winds that round my 

 pathway roar," did ever delegate to a republican 

 national convention before or since accomplish so 

 much? And all because there was no long-dis- 

 tance 'phone in that committee room. 



That mistake will never occur again. Now 

 every committee room is properly equipped, and 

 no such crisis will ever more confront a com- 

 mittee. And so Denver is ineligible for a national 

 republican convention. 



I left Kansas City with the thermometer dodging 

 the century mark and the asphalt pavement 



