The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1912, Page 3

; HARMONIOUS AS WILDCATS, SAYS GEORGE ADE OF ACTORS IN ThE BIG CHICAGO SHOW Characteristic Impressions of the Convention Written to the Home ’ Folks by the County Chairman. BY GEORGE ADE. (Copyright, 1012, by George Ade.) ' Chicago, June 18, To Vance Jimmison, at Antioch, Ind. MY DEAR VANCE—We have had one spasm and we are stil) sparring and talking through our teeth. Mighty few of the expected things happened. The big ruction is simply postponed. As I sit here this eve: ” ning, with my finger on the pulse of the fever etricken patient, I make the count to be at least 145 per min- ute, T’ve sifted this much out of the horrible situation. It is the biggest and deepest and most dangerous quarrel that ever started in the party. It can’t be patched up. The two factions are just as han monious this evening as @ nest of wildcats. Anybody who sat above them in the arena today and watched them snarl and bark and claw at one another will tell you fi that there isn't going to be any comprom{ Somebody is going to the hospital in the ambulance, and about the same time there will be a divorce or a violent separation with due notice in the papers that so and so pad left somebody else, bed and board, and is not to be regarded as a member of the family. Nearly every Republican Conven- tion in my time has developed a good ‘spirited scrap, the kind needed to pro- mote circulation at the beginning of a campaign. The Grant fight and the Blaine fight and the Free silver tussle are pleasant memories, Delegates went home in June hopping mad, vowing that they would never come back to the reservation. Along about August i the bands would begin to play “Rally Around the Flag.” Democratic orators would get busy and begin to roast the party of Lincoln and Grant, and by Sept. 15 at least 98 per cent. of the regulars would be up at headquarters asking for an issue of guns and cartridges, REAL WAR OF A CRIMSON VARIETY. A good many of the old-timers are sitting around to-night professing to hope that by some miraculous waving of the olive branch Francis Heney| and Bill Barnes will be rooming together next October, while Kansas will be taking instructions from Murray Crane. I can't see it. I have heard con-| ventions. that made more noise, but there was a note of good old 1861-67 hatred in the outcries to-day that signified real war of a crimson variety. You’ will read all about {t in the morning, but you can’t possibly get any {dea of what a dandy spectacle {t was. The main floor was a bear pit part of the| time, but the galleries were one stupendous fancy dress garden party all the time. Imagine the biggest bowl in the world filled with flowers, trimmed around the edges with silk flags and sprinkled with sunshine, and you will have some idea of the Coliseum as st looked this afternoon, If the Republican party 1s going to dle thts week, as per various announce ments, !t would surely be la{d out in @ most ornate casket and the music will be firat class. We swarmed out there expecting to find the galleries loaded with urlous fanatics who were going to bullyrag the poor delegates and turn the Proceedings into a riot. Instead of that we found thousands of women rigged up lke butterfiles with the men scattered among them and simply awed into behaving themselves. We went out looking for a massacre and found ourselves | at a Maude Adams matinee. That was how it lodked at the getaw: After a time we had a run for our money. As resident of a pivotal State, 1| found myself in a gallery seat just above Mr. Longworth and Alice and Jess! than one hundred feet from William Jennings, who was huddled up with the| per youngsters, grinning ike @ cat and apparently having the time of | oung life, It was great. There I sat, an humble wire-puller from the ta grass, feasting my eyes on all the thirty-third degree politicians of the largest machine that ever went up the I felt lke a member of the grammar school team sitting on the bleachers and watching Ty Cobb, AS A VAUDEVILLE SHOW, GOOD IN SPOTS. Golng to a convention 1s hard work. You are cramped on a hard board for weary hours at a stretoh with total strangers resting thelr elbows on your float- ing ribs, but all the time you are keyed up by the hope that some one with a national reputation will start eomething that you can go home and talk about all next winter. Furthermore, it's @ good deal of a privilege to sit there watching Nick and Alice eat sandwiches out of @ paper sack, while Bryan is sharpening | his pencil, George Perkins ts looking at his finger nails and a venerable Senator | of the United St js up on the scaffold shaking his fist at the shrieking dele- gates from IIlino! ‘As a vaudeville show ft was good in spots, A few headliners and some more that will never again appear on any stage. They were mighty punk, but at a} time like this the many must euffer in order that @ few four-flushers may have| @ brief taste of glory. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 _ FLOOR A BEAR PIT, GALLERIES A FANCY DRESS PAR RTY, SAYS GEORGE AD Mrs. Alice Longworth on Her Way From Convention Hall in Chicago note by Underwood & Underwood, (ares ALICE LONGWORTH & made the other fellows raving mad simply by glaring at them, which proves that he has a real instinct for politics even if he can’t talk, Heney of San Fran- cisco was a star feature of the nolse fest. He wore a bob-talled coat and a linen vest and had three badges and shook his fist against the sound wa: COCHEMS THROBS LIKE A GAS ENGINE. Cochems, trom Wisconsin, is a husky footballer with @ penetrating voice, and when he talks he throbs like a gas engine. Senator Bradley of Kentucky looks like P. T. Barnum. Did you ever eo @ ecrappy old man stand on a pedestal and quarrel madly with several hundred shrieking Comanches? It was well worth seeing. We never did hear Victor Rosowater. We didn't even see him. But out of all the pantomime, and the whoops and howls and fragments of rhetoric, we finally got it settled up in our section of the gallery that everything had been over- ruled, and that Elihu Root of New York and Gov. McGovern of Wisconsin had been nominated for Temporary Chairman, Then followed the longest roll call in the history of the world, and you know the rest. Mr, Root won in spite of the fact that he fs from New York. Years ago I adopted a rule that has proved to be fairly safe. I find out what the New York delegation s predicting and then I copper the predictio: I eee the well dressed dignitaries of the Empirs ~tate come eping into town supremely confldgnt that they are going to superintend all the proceedings, At the end of the week they start home with nothing to show except a lot of black and blue marks. They failed to nominate Seward in 1860 after having an ap- parent cinch, and from that day to this they haven't put across @ Republican candidate. Roosevelt was drafted from New York by the Middle West and Far West, Just ae Cleveland was named in 1892 in spite of tho fact that his own State was howling against him, WHY THEY ALL TAKE A FALL OUT OF NEW YORK. New York 1s so big and important and has so many votes and looms up #0 big in all tabulations, that the delegates simply can't help feeling a little cocky and supertor, They have to lean over when they talk to the boys from Nebraska and Montana, Consequently, about the first order of business at @ convention after getting committees appointed {s to frame up @ eure fire plan for rolling New York around in the dust, If the Colonel should be nominated this week with the whole New York dele- gation plugging against ‘him, he will simply repeat history. It's human nature. The country kid with the gingham ghirt and the trouRers freely ventilated tn the rear has got no eartiily use for the city cousin with the golden curls and knicker- bockers. very four years| COLONEL'S ATTACK ON ROOT, WITH NEW BOLT THREAT, DIVIDES HIS OWN CAMP Perkins, Borah.and Others Object to Angry Speech to Delegates as “Go- ing Too Far” and Tryto Suppress It—Pleases the More Radical. BY LINDSAY DENISON, Stall Correspondent of The Mvening World. CHICAGO, JUNE 19, ROOSEVELT HEADQUARTERS, CON- GRESS HOTEL.—The speech which was delivered to the Roosevelt delegates late last night by Theodore Roosevelt was made public this morning. The meeting was secret. Some of Mr. Roosevelt's supporters, notably George W. Perkins, it is understood, and to a certain extent Senator Borah, objected to the angry and sneering attack of the Colonel on his former friend and cher- ished adviser, Elihu Root. Others thought he went too strongly into the realm of threat when he said in closing: “Full opportunity will be given to the honestly elected delegates of this convention to purge the roll of the delegates dishonestly placed there by the action of the National Committee, but if they fail to avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded them, the action of the convention is binding on no honest man.” 7 Mr. Roosevelt gave definite orders that the speech should be given to the press and went to bed. Hours later, after many evasions by the opponents of the utterance, it was given out. It was a stormy night about the Roosevelt headquarters. Certain radi- cals stormed in on Mr. Roosevelt and said they thought yesterday's resist- ance to the constituted majority had been tame. They wanteg him to go be- fore the executive meeting of Roosevelt delegates and fix his followers for a stand up, slam bang, knock down fight on the floor of the Coliseum to-day, Alexander Moore of Pittsburgh went at this argument with biazin, clenched fists, Others, it wanted T, R. to make a pussy-footed ean ephag ouhld palais deed raiioter oped which put Mr. Root in a@ position false to himself. Meanwhile there was a taft rally go- ing on in Grant Park between the lake shore and the hotel. Bombs were burst- ing, thousands were cheering, bands were smashing out the monotonor round of Convention tunes. All the 000 people attractea by the excitement of the scene tried to get into the Con- gress hotel for a glimpse of real oon- vention activity. A surprisingly large number of them did. THREW BAND OUT TO CLEAR A PATH FOR T. R. Most df them went up to “get a look at Teddy.” The police could not them, A fool from the Llinols dete tlon ordered @ band into the press and, after half an hour, succeeded in wedg- ing the musicians to the very centre of the crowd. The band played, and the stairs choked sol!d. Nobody covld move either way for @ while. Patiently and with remarkable pa- tlence the police moved away at the| edges of the mass until danger of a panic was averted. Then the band was painstakingly taken out, man by man, and thrown down the back stairs, After this a path as wide as a man's shoul- ders was made by fairly pawing the crowd apart by main force, Through this. path the Colone’ walked rapidly from his own door to the door of the room where the delegates were assem- bied. ‘Mis face was white, his features were set, His eyes were not searching the faces about him; they looked straight before him. People howled in his ears, appland- 04, tried to paw him over. He paid not the slightest attention, =e strode down the hall, up the steps of the meeting room, stopped with raised hand the cheers which met him and launched into his attack of Senator Root as # knowing bene- fictary of fraud and theft, and then absolved all Republicans from any allegiance to the acts of this Con. vention so long as the present roll departure of his corps of aides and ad- visers for the conventio where most of them wore delegates or alternates or proxies, he spoke with no one save members of his family or one or two close friends and attendants, KEPT IN TOUCH WITH BATTLE THROUGH PHONE. For most of the afternoon he sat ina comfortable chatr near a telephone which was ona direct hne to the Con- vention Hall. Now and then, when the door of his office opened, his volce could bo heard giving swift and short mes- sages which wero so simple that it seemed never necessary for him to ex- plain them, Outside, in Grant Park, @ conscte tious band employed by the Roosevelt National Committee, and having no as- Hgnment to go to the Coliseum, gath- ered under the Colonel's window and tried to entertain him with one or an- other of the convention classics, “Everybody's Doing It," “A Hot Time 1n the Old Time,” “Hall, Hall the Gang's ‘Auld Lang Syne.” If he even so much as acknowledged the con- sideration of the mustotans by appearing at the window nobody knew It, A fow hundred {dlers gathered about the band whenever a tune started and watched for him, then drifted apart when the blaring and the boom- ing stopped. Several hundred perso tore the door of T. R. gathered be- 21 WEST 34th STREET| Our Great Paradise Sale For balance of this week only. Genuine Birds of Paradise, York says that T. R. and the Progressive programme are going to be Times are changing. Not one of the performers wore of them looked more like real human beings than politicians, All of the speeches were made on an exposed plateau nding out from the big platform, Every| time a@ pale orator moved out to assume a splendid Isolation and lft his poor) Attle voice in a passionate demand for justice and fair play, one of the reporters Uptoed out behind him and grabbed tho silvery utterances as they fell, crouched Dehind the spellbinder Uke an assassin, You people at home will get a lot of this Valuable talk that never came to us in the galleries, As I sald before, tt all started out lke an afternoon reception. When the band played ‘The Star Spangled Banner hundreds of women foined in with their tim{d little sopranos. Then Father Callahan, a tall, good-looking young| priest, led in the Lord's Prayer and the delegates bowed their heads and mum- bled it with him, not even omitting the part about forgiving those who ein against us. By this time the proceedings suggested @ class meeting, and the Press Gallery seemed a little restless and disappointed. “AFTERNOON TEA’? SESSION ENDED RIGHT THERE. ‘Then Mr. Hadtey arose and demanded the expulsion of the black sheep, and the fneurgents sounded the battle cry, and the subsequent proceedings don't have any of the earmarks of an afternoon tea or a prayer meeting. Hadley 18 @ good-looking fellow of a calm ministerial type. He started tho Gelegates to talking back. Gov. Fort of New Jersey nagged them a little more, ‘The Governor looks like a prosperous broker, He was terribly in earnest, but his Intentions were stronger than his voice, We saw @ puggy little man, with silvery hair and mustache, come out and atir up the animals to a discord of yelps and protests and @ promising assortment of personal insults, Some one said it was Sereno Payne of New York. The Taft men gave Jim Wataon from our State the first wild outburst of old- fashioned nols Jim had on a brown cutaway end his hair was thrown back, He wagged his head and waved his arms and pleaded for regularity. By this time the celebrities began to come thick and fast. Job Hedges of New York 1s a btock underelzed man, with @ fine Eastern twang. He 1s a good josher and a rea) comedian, Johnson of California! We had been awaiting to see him. He 1 @ block of a an with a smooth face and @ aquare jaw, and he was spoiling for battle. ‘They yowled at him and he fought back and everything wes so delirious and notsy that we began to feel that the convention would be @ success. He wanted to throw out tthe seventy ringers who were sitting out in front defying him, ai did Mr. Finn of Pittsburgh. We expected Flinn to be lari OOd QyOCDPATIDE PMS DO M.S Bea Silvery. ersy Peregn with apectaces. He Prince Albert. Many } Beaides it would be ante the scrap heap. Maybe so, but !f Mr, Barnes wants to make sure he Rad better come out for the Colonel early to-morrow morning. If I were Senator Dixon I would get out a bogus circular calling on all the delegates to rally around mpire State, home of weath and wisdom and social superiority, and hon the vulgar pretender, Such appeal would grind the soul Weat of Buffalo and probably disinte t following. much cleaner politics than some that have been put across the peerless E put the final ktbos! of every delegate Ke. yee Iving out in the dry belt will be Interested to know that the per capita consumption of red liquor at conventions is steadily decreasing, 1 | wreed to the conclusion that tt 18 no longer fashionable for patriots ap nee? Lefore starting in to eave the country, T have seen several militons | : Get ple since yesterday morning and have apotted perhaps a dozen unmistak- cre ieee, most of them fool boys from the country who have nothing to do with the real preeedings. When the first big Rep! fifty-two years ago, the New ¥ House the night before the ball onan | pagne, and before they came to Linco | you boys the routine news, I am merely ublican Convention was held just across the street ork crowd had @ big love feust at the old ‘Tremont oting began. They uncorked 200 hotties of chara- nominated. I'm not trying to tell passing you a few observations of @ man sitting on what ts left of a fe nce, | One of the amazing features of this Very Finest People hurrah week {s that no one has found time to talk about our beloved Prest- | dent up at Washington. Tho stand patters are so darned busy—and Roose- velting—that they have neglected their pro-Tafting, The windjammers in the lobbies and on the street corners either curse Teddy in black phrases or shout! | him aloud as the archangel of political! righteousness, If I were Mr, Taft I would be pleased. 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