The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1912, Page 3

GEORGE ADE SHY OF CALM AS HE TRIES THE BIG POLITICAL CIRCUS Impressions of the Chicago Conven- tion Written to the Home Folks by the County Chairman. BY GEORGE ADE. (Copyright, 1912, by George Ade.) be a hotel next week. But the large cargo of calm with which I started has 1 am all out of calm and can’t find any more. From where I sit, up in the observation tower, I can hear the tom- toms beating and see thousands of pop-eyed men and women jamming their way through the streets In the general direction of Theodore. We are all entirely evaporated. locoed and mussed up this evening. ‘Talk about red fire and melodram 1f condensed atmosphere in the Congress Hotel at this moment could be put into cans and preserved it would keep the theatrical syndicate supplied for the next twenty years, SUSE LIGHTED FOR BIG BLOW OFF. I have been going to these national disturbances ever since the palmy days of Bob Ingersoll and Roscoe Conkling. As a campaign man been accustomed to elbow my way through the noisemakers and get intoa corner with a couple of wise Ikes and receive tho correct dope. This evening If I wanted to gct hold of anything rellable and authentic, 1 would hunt up a fortune telle Probably some of you boys, has any right under the ordained rules plant a ton of dynamite under the main Dore there are many fine ethical points !nvolved in this question, @hicago we have no time to discuss them, because we know been lighted, and the blow-off will come to-morrow. When a man is being carried from one township to another in the close em- brace of a Western cyclone, he is not to formulate any tmpartia: 12m of the weather bureau, me tell you just what I saw to- Perhaps you and the other mil: yho are sitting far away under the soft maples, with part of your rea- e@oning faculties still in operation, and your eyes unbiinded by amoke, can fig- ure out something from these war bui- Jetins. FIRST IMPRESSION ONE OF CALM. We came heading into town this Morning with our swollen valises. On the way up from the station we didn't fad many signs of undue excitement. ‘We had counted on seeing all the sky- @crapers away wack and forth, like reeds ta @ gale, while hundreds of strong men Wen amuck in the streets frothing at the mouth. Every day {s circus day tn Ch!- cago. The streets swarmed with the usual brisk multitudes, but the people al! looked sane and unconcerned, and we ‘were disappointed. and then some. Even the hotels a little removed from the storm centre showed only a mild Duzzing around the doorway. But when we started up the one side grand canyon known us Michigan avenue and saw the skies ahead of us whipping with flags and the broad pavements twinkling with straw hate and white skirts, while the cool breezes delivered us fragments of ragtime, we knew that we The whole tumult and delirium of this busy day have been swashing around @ narrow gulch off Michigan avenue known as Congress stree: ass of Thermopylae, Ww gang of patriots came al h of Congress street is the Auditorium building, a massive fortress It has been the every t! On the nor that might have been Iffted right out of eR the green park level and the blue, is the hotel. THE COLONEL IN THEIR MIDST: The west half is the big theatre, and would have to start a few hundred feet away and dig a tunnel, nel is paying his respects to the opposition in abo the Col words, Te their way in About a m hoping that some vide a little now the stronghold, the agitation may not count them It is generally agreed around the Taft headquarters be on Sagamore Hill this evening, ettting under instead of which he is in our m to be interviewed. ever was more deeply in our midst than A play written by my old friend Bill Shakespeare was to have been put on at the Audftorium this evening. The actors retreated when the Colonel appeared, | electric sign over the “A Midsummer Night's Dream." but they left behind a larg: follows: this as an omen, On the south side of Congress street CONVENTION SEATS AT $50 FOR SERIES; TRAFFIC IS LIVELY. CHTCAGO, June 18.—There was @ lively traffic in convention tickets while the hall was slowly filling up. Across the street from the Collseum, on Wabash avenue, a firm of enterprising ticket epeoulators established an office in Jackson's Storage Warehouse. They put out @ big sign reading; for a complete set oy) five tickets here was $50, The man in charge declined to eay what he paid for those he had ecquired, but declared that ™ had enough for all that would apply. & oop, tnesith, Hak id be ow sitting around tn front of the store, are debating Whether or not an ex-President, who proposes to move back into the White Hou, I am happy to report that later on we got all we expected s making @ speech to the 6,000 Carnegie medal heroes who footballed lon men, women and palicemen are massed around the Citad nment for thelr parched nervous org ‘When I say there are a million, I am merely maki T0 DESCRIBE Chicago, June 17, Vance Jimmison, Antioch, Ind.: MY DEAR VANOE—Before leaving home yesterday 1 took three pre- cautions. First, I pinnet my money instde my vest. Then I filled a large shoe box with home cooking as a si- lent protest {nat the bigh cost of living. Then I laid my hand on Rid- path’s history and made a solemn vow that no matter whet happened this ‘week I would remain calm. Well, my bank roll is still intact except for the wrapper. The reserve of cold vituals is planted under my ttle cot here on the top floor of a madhouse that will straighten up and and nerve-racking suspense—-why, jer T have of the game to tear across country and tabernacle of the rival candidate. I aup- Vp here in the nie fuse has “mot Ouest to Criticize the ther Bureau.” had come to the right spot, and it has been taken and retaken « with @ brass band. the middle ages. The east half, fronting any one desiring admission this evening for tt !s here that 10,00 well-chosen spill out through the windows and pro- isms, © rough estimate, laid nat the Colonel should honeysuckles and refusing dat. the Colonel is at I don't suppose any one | moment. main entrance, It reads Manager MoiKinley nas already hailed! which we used to fe the Congress Hotel from Georgia, offered several newspaper men a full set of delegate’s tlokets for $25. le said that he “needed the money.” THE EVENING _WORLD, TUESDAY; ‘| Roosevelt in His | Fighting Dress At the Chicago Convention call the Annex. storm waves poun: The nse, the marbic co’ dribbled out again after getting piled up in doorways and wedge! on stairways and boosted along by unfeeling police- men, The net {information usually gained by one trip through the merry-go-round was that everything looked “favorable.” I made vartous inquiries of men wear- Ing different sizes of badges and each one leaned over and megaphoned to my ear that everything looked favorable, By the time I escaped through a dark Pe: eway Into the alley I had a pretty clear idea of how things stood. Once I got carried down a long marule chute and wriggled my way into a huge apartment dimly Hghted, that somebody said was the I! ethan room, It wae d with delegates and alternates ¢ to shake hands with the Colonel Shades of Martin Van Buren! A little social function being pulled off right tn the nols of the botler works. Of the three hundred men in the room nine-tenths were under fifty years of or so it seemed, because nearly all of th wore college clothes and new straw hats, Where age, are tance and you cannot much blame him, As #000 gy } get a letter of introduction I will let you know wh | be nominated. MOST IMPORTANT COMMITTEES NAMED BY THE REPUBLICANS. ‘ ; CHICAGO, June 18.—Following are the members of the new National Committee and the Committee on Credential National Committee Committeemen, on Credentials, A B,D, Barker, — Alex, ©, Blroh, Arie —Halph If, Camera Hobt, #, Morriaon, Ark, Meyer Ydsener, Francis J. Heney, Aimov Guggenhetm, Thomas Hf, Devine, L, Toker, J. Henry Rorabeck, lemman Dupont! lnnind Mitchell, wary 4 Clnbb, Mf, B, MoFarlane, Henry 8, Jackson, Henry Bluin Jr, 1dsho~Joln W, Hart, , Kt, Clalr, M,—-Roy, 0, Wegt, RB, S-Commten. P, Goodrich, J. A, Hemenway, 4, A, Devitt, JIM Ma, May Mieh,~ ino, Mont,— Neb, Nev. HOTA DY~R TOR Aine —H, D, Maxon. On the second floor are the Taft headquarters and the Roose- Velt headquarters, and jtoom 1102, where the Colonel sat to-day and heard the ‘ank and file dropped in on him. They pushed into the building through an opening and shuffled around among mns and the bright lights and the tangled bunting, and then the frock coats and the Buffalo Bill sombreros of twenty years nin the presence of his own relative Impor- | HACKLER, County Chairman, Sn eee Jackson, =F ani iee Tense Tollerton, ©. M. Lanatram, ari “It. B, Howell HBS *F.W. Extabrook Fred W * Brode D, Wilting J. Hoya Avi Solomon Luna, Hugo Seaberg, "iI be elected GR, Matthy, ©. Priestly, fam Finn, Chaitiad, n eins nem Alt oora ir ste hi t: w. Noa m4 Oe Pe Ahackletont, 0 18 Roing to| = Friew's FURNITURE g JUNE 1 JconvenTon OPENS! \Police Guard Every Aisle and All Approaches to the ‘ Grice Convention. 4 (From an Evening World Staff Correspondent.) CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, June 18.—Persistent rumor to the effect that the Roosevelt managers had planned to open the convention with an exhiti- tion of anything’ from plain assault to murder in the first degree caused the earlp gathering outside the Coliseum of & crowd such as might be drawn by & fight for the heavyweight champion- and square faces predominated in the waiting thousandse—the sort of men who can smell trouble across Lake Michi- wan, ‘There were many women, too, but they were in the rear ranks, cirou- lating in and out of the crowds around the convention hall, where scores of big, capable looking young men, plainly detectives, Uned the curbs, besides bat- talions of policemen in uniform. There were from two to six uniformed police: men at every entrance to the hall. In- side the vast building, policemen with drawn clubs stood at the head of every alele. POLICE ORDERED TO HEAD OFF START OF TROUBLE, ‘The orders to all these hundreds of guardians of the peace, inside and out- side, were to jump on the firat ‘aon trying to start anything and subdue aaid starter by the most direct method. The ominous predominance of blue and brass served to adq flavor to the air of apprehension and expectancy, So many policemen seemed to forecast something in the way of trouble, Altogether, the outlook was pregnant with possibilities of police interference, and many cautious delegates and spectators ca: fully inspected their surroundings before taking thelr seats, with prospects of ducking quickly to safety should any- thing start in their direction. Reinforcing the policemen were equade of city firemen, burdened with authority to prevent avercrowding. 8ince the Iro- | quots Theatro disaster Chicago has been mighty careful in handling large crowds of people in places of public resort. ‘There was no standing in aisles in the filled the doors were closed. ROOSEVELT SHOUTERS, It was charged by the Roosevelt man- agers that the hall was to be packed {with shouters for Taft, and rumor had been busy with declarations that Roose- volt rushers would storm the doors and invade the Coliseum despite the Poltc | and Fire Departments, The declara [having been published in Chicago and the surrounding country, served to hold the great crowds outside the walls in the hope that the Invasion might become |@ fact at any minute, | doorkeepers and under particular instuctions to pass only [of the hall, Mistingulshed Wiillam Barnes Jr. New York had occasion to KO to | platfonm half an hour before the con- vention was scheduled to atart. stout sergeants-at-arms cause he did not wear tonal Committeemen the convention. A bys! Mr. Barnes from the clutches of the Vigilant guardians of the sacred plat- form, both of whom frankly admitted ot 1d him up be- e badge of Na- ago? A good liberal percentage of the delegates stood around cussing the Colonel | they had never heard of the New York | convince a doorkeper of the tapor While waiting for him, boss, They came from Indiana _ Hekeeaee 3) eh in at sil Reard one remark made over and over, however, It was this: “He's the] The decorations of the hail were | ici *naeded wy Williaa, tars 4 McCall Patterns ont n the world who could get uh tty simple and confined to the national | james W. Wadsworth, Pa wal Nome shook thelr heads sourly when they sald tt and others gurgled with| colors, There were no pictures in evi- |oulitlg wa ho took a seat which be and jhappiness, T heard one man say thit T. I. ts the Eva Tanguay of Amortcan| dence of the President or of former |ocoupied only @ ¢ minutes, leay ’ i polit nd soon after a boy from Oklahoma confided to me that Teddy alune| Presidents, iving or dead, but there circulate among the delegates McCall s Magazine could crank up the grand old party and throw It back into the high. were plenty of pictures of Roosevelt hands with delegates to 3 i T have never seen a finer exhibition of Democracy at the boliing point, We] concealed in places readily accessible. Introduced by his chief FOR JULY stood waiting, an Ea SaEee), mae ices Pelton n braced themselves in close ‘There wore two breaks in the red, are on sale at our ‘ f nb, Suddenly the crowd took w forward heave| White and blue bunting, One wae a (FAIRBANKS GETS THE FIRST PATTERN DEPARTMENT and fell apart, and the Colonel was projected through the opening like @ plgeon| purple satin drapery all the way around REAL APPLAUSE. ) from a trap, He landed twenty feet within the dead line and began shaking} box to the right of the siage which hace ete memes hands right and left. He had on a rumpled business suit and his hair tousled,|@d been reserved for the close he Gree feet ; | Stylish and Dainty Apparel for the but his teeth were exactly what you have seen in the lithograps. fonal and political friends of th SE les ent Pate Heme hot weather is shown in abundance; After I had bucked and scrambled my way out of this interesting riot I tried | f@mly. Many women richly gowned | \\way and former Representative James —also— to add up what I had observed, ocoupled seats in this box, the most 1, Watson of Indiana, Watson was many New Ideas for Summer Needlework, The only thing I can gamble on fs that the colored delegate 1s the king bee of | #fulgent sartorially being Mrs, Joh: noren night as Taft floor leader. this spectacular indoor carnival, He lives in a town that sounds like Waxhatehie, | !4¥s Hammond, She wore « gown th ent the place for the Indiana ALL McCALL PATTERNS When he is at home he walks in the middle of the street and carries his hat tn | US8t have cost several hundred dollars santion, stopping to shake. Rande Aro Bold at'lee ana lee hig and, The only time he mediates a vist to the polling place te when the|MR8. LONGWORTH GOT LION-|ii\' tester folsmed nim ai tne'way || H. M ACY & CO. cotton crop has failed and he wishes to comimit suicide, ES8'8 SHARE OF ATTENTION. the ‘tn the Indiana section Siath Floor. Yesterday morning ae the traln pulled into Evanavilie the morning sun broke| Alice Roomevelt. Long Tah ra made him take th through the window of the day coaches and tr, ad the Way teedinen thik ie Cae ee ee front the whole blamed works, No titled aristocrat or European songbird ever recelved | 9 yea eye and bareheaded, oocupled | erage Roosevelt had a hard time to | the grovelling attentions and splendid hospltalities that are being lavished upon) 9 ox With Ree husband an” was eas!iy Tring q weat, He got caught in the erowd the Afro-American in the blue sult and patent leather shoos, T saw a good many| “® Woman tn the halt w ttracted | between Idano and . ae nlie fosa Nai gcammaack eaudtert nost attention; in fact, she mor zed | As the seats on the main floor filled | the attention of the audience from the Entire Bed 7 ( | Oulfit $55.74) | CREX erg gt ATH figure YL JOHN J. FRIEL, ard Aye¢., 53rd #2 54th Streefg: aa though she were witnessing such @ if divided between duty to his bosom spectacle for r y READY FOR ROT place in the Ohto delegation being filled ‘ t ‘ ‘ advertising there was a surprisingly small show of ante-convention entiu- slasm. The big men of the party entered atrode to their seate without, main, arousin table was occupied by the Chairman four years ago when William Howard Taft was nominated, stands about « third of the way from the south end of the rectangular hall, on a dal: of it are the seats of the National Com- mittee and the space for the ore’ ship of the world. Men with thick necks |g, newspaper might be heard distinctly and ticked 18, 1912 ime she took her seat until the con- ention was called to order, She is a eteran attendant at national conven- fons, but she was as interested to-day the Ae for fret time lend, Taft, and love for his father-in- aw, was merely a looker-on, his usual by another, Considering the terrific preliminary epublican quietly and in the tipple of applause. An dea of the occasion may be gained from the hall the fact that ox-Senator Fairbanks of Tndiana got the diggest hand The Chairma: table, bearing a brass @ inscribed to inform all that the Back *work- and those who helped to finance the gatherin AT@ ARRANGED FOR FIVE HUNDRED NEWSPAPERMEN. At its side were grouped 600 seats for men, where every word ‘The #0 great that the police had to shove many of the delegates out of the alsles, of the State delegations were In constant consultation with thetr followers and there was a nervou sion In evidence seldom seen In @ Re- Publican National Convention, The South Dakota delegates came to There w Ap soon “I want thor said to Healy, coach, LET THE PEOPLE RULE. CALIFORNIA FOR ROOSEVELT BY 74,000, a wild Roosevelt men already in the! but {t lasted only a couple of seconds, the Sergeant-at-Arme saw the banner he sent a messenger to call Police Captain I the convention riding in an old Welle Fargo at pressed into service, CALIFORNIA BANNER 8TARTS TROUBLE. Soon after they entered, Callfornia's Gelegation came in with a big banner. It read: which had bee cheer from the ate, ly, banners taken out,” he ind T want you to in- struct your men that no more are to be permitted in the hal Healy demurred, thority. telling Stone that he aid not believe that he h ry “Why don’t you tmve one of your men put tt ow " aaked Stone. “Tam here merely to preserve order, wald Healy. “Wall, ¢ around the hafl, but that if this w done they would have to be rei “We cannot have banners hoisted on he floor,” declared Stone. —._ — TAFT AT BALL GAME WHILE CONVENTION FIGHT IS BOTresTS WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18.-¥hen the Republican Convention fight was hottest at Chicago this afternoon, Presi- dent Taft went to the bay gare The —— President was accompanied by Mra. ‘Taft, Vice President Sherman and Secre- tary Knox. President Taft had his emile with Bam and appeared in fine humor, acknowl edging with a chuckle the applause that gretted his appearance on the grounds. ‘All Washington Is baseball crasy over the sixteen successive victories scored on the road by the Wahington club, and thousands turned out to greet on thelr return home end root for @ win over the Athletics, their opponents to-day. The President, ike a true fan, Was soon absorbed in the game and appeared oblivious of the convention happenings or anything else, —— DENY SECRETARY MEYER WILL LEAVE THE CABINET. WASHINOTON, June 1.—ft wae-qms — phaticelly denied both at the White House and at the Navy Department te- Coliseum to-day. When the seats were RUMORS SPREAD OF “PACK” BY So fearful were the Chicago managers ‘of the convention of disorder that the rgeants-at-arms were | Persons wearing iadges to certain parts Tt eame to pass that the the Two an Speetal, § away to 90,000,000 Americans and many times more persons of other lands who awaited the message of the men at . In @ basement, In addition, epaper men have great, spa- tous rooms where a hundred telegraph operators or reporters may work for each association or paper, and adjoin- two hundred operators of the tele- graph compantes, attendea by five hundred messenger boys, will be ready to add to the news reports or convey other information abroad. High up on the wall, back of the nd, which fronts the chalt- hangs « broad blue shield on which are embroidered in gold th arms of the United States, Copies ef the first thirteen-starred flag of the na tion flank it, and above, below and around are hundreds of large silken em- blems of America. It hardly seemed possible that the hall, huge as It looked, could hold near+ ly 14,000 persons. Yet that ts only a few more than the total that the Col- iseum will hold as arranged for thin convention. Seats, platform, press benches, aisles, runways, &c., are figured to hold @ total of 13,770 persons, This total includes 11,270 in the body of tho hall, 1,990 on the platform, 150 sergeanta- at-arms, 600 policemen and 40 mesesen- gers, ushers and pages, A PEW ONLY RECOGNIZED THE TUNE. At 10.186 the band broke in with “My ! Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” A few persone Tecognized the tune and stood up with heads bared. To most of the people, a band 1 a band and a tune Je @ tune, | and they paid no attention to the mat- ter. A bit later, when after a Souna march tho band played “The Star Spangled Banner,” many more persons caught the air, and stood with due decorum until the band finished. A email striped tiger-cat, the Colle: eum'e “maaoot," scorned all the police rules and ran in and out among the legs of both the policemen and the shatrs with evident good-humored scorn day that Secretary of the Navy Meyer, who has gone to his at HactRea, Mass., has any intention of resigning ; from the Cabinet. Meyer te eufftetng from a mil@ stomach trouble and bas « gone to Maseachusetts to eecape the ° heat in Washington, it war 3 Capt. Healy then went over with a deputy sergeant-at-arms and the ban- ner was rotied up by the delegate who was carrying tt. Later Sergeant-at-Arms Stone relent- ed on his banner rule and said they could be brought in for a parade Real Hair Grower Found at Last! The Great English Discovery “Crystolis” Grows Hair in 30 Days. / $1000.00 Reward If We Cannot Prove Our Claims. Try It at pad Risk. Mail Coupon To-day. 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