The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1912, Page 3

THE GEORGE ADE, UPA TREE, SEES ONLY DUST IN FOREGROUND, BUT STORM CLOUD 1S RISING a There’s a Lot of Lying Going On, the County Chairman Writes Home, but They All Lie Mighty Well. BY GEORGE ADE. (Copysght, 1012, by George Ade.) . Chicago, June 20, Vance Jimmison, Antioch, Ind: MY DEAR VANCE—After two days of {t the fighters are elowed upa little, but just as wrothy as ever. A lot of talk has to be uncorked before there can be a real show-down. When it does come, the talk is likely to be overturned and eome one will exit through a door or a window, You boys told me to come up here and climb @ tree and give you the real inside honest-to-goodness truth about the whole mix-up, I climb a (ree every day and all I can make is a lot of dust in the foreground. and @ storm cloud in the background, Even if I could get {nto the secret powpows now being pulled off in every bedroom in the Congress Ho tel, I don’t believe I would find any- thing except an assortment of wild claims and an epidemic of geese pim- ples. Also the latest thing in dark- horses. You can read to-morrow morning all about the big wrangle over the dele- Bates who are supposed to be sitting in stolen seats, They sat there for hours to-day and heard themselv called every variety of scoundrel. 1 more they were abused, the tighter they sat. If they remain until the big vote ts taken and the final action hinges on their balloting, {t looks to me from where I have been sitting in the gallery as !f several hundred in- ted boys of the new school will get their hind legs and refuse to stand for the verdict, They may not march out in any or- ganized bolt, but they will mutiny. They wit! declare themselves in a fren- zied chorus of defiance that will heard as far away as Hammond, Ind. (As there are any coupons left on his colored tickets. ‘Party explode into fragments and I think {t will be worth seeing and hearing, ACT LIKE “REGULARS,” BUT— Probably you know that all the rumpus to-day was over ninety-odd Taft men 6 right in front of the chairman acting like regular delegates, who are now sitt! whereas the Roose’ it men can prove to you that these intruders are yeggmen, Porch-climbers, doormat thieves, who ought to be wearing stripes and working on the public highways. One set of orators proved to-day that these miscreants had been given creden: | dy repudiated by the! Then another squad of | patriots with bronchial tubes made it very clear that these ninety were as the! tials by a sodden and depraved National Committee a rank and file of the Gurrand Old Republican Partee, driven snow and that nobody ever stole T. R. had no right to claim a single dele univers thing at any time and that probably ate from any remote corner of the It was just an overgrown county convention, only more disorderly, I am sure that some of them were lying, but I will say this for them, they Med mighty well. Every speaker on each side was trying to head off and throttle and circumvent the most appalling outrage ever visited upon the voters. My opinion {s that various experts have been directing some high-grade ex- periments in practical politics in order to save the party, They didn't consult the | party. They simply went ahead and saved ft, and now they are wearing medals. It is a well-known fact that when a beautiful young lady in a pink bathing! gait gets into deep water and a hero swims out to clasp her around the walat and bring her ashore and deliver her to the distracted relatives, the beautiful | young lady always splashes around and interferes with the success of the enterprise. That is what happened to some of the insurgents’ States. They didn’t want to be hauled up on the beach and delivered, but the regular U. 8. saver went | ahead and did his duty, and now he !s grieved to find out that the girl doesn't want to marry him. DON’T PICK PLUMS FOR THE ENEMY. One thing evident in regard to this tangle of contests. The Taft shouters tm the convention believe that the National Committee was justified in doing almost anything to head off the Colonel, and many an aMdavit will have to be waved in the air before they will vote to go into the street and bring in any of | the waiting contestants. The school of politics they attended never laid down any rules for picking plums and then handing them to the enemy. The up- heaval which I have ventured to predict may come when these ninety are about to be riveted down and made a fixture of the convention. It strikes me that a good many of the folks at home who are standing around telegraph offices or galloping across flelds to meet the R. F. D. man a: for a kind of information that you don't get in the papers. You read e ing about how many visitors sat in a quarter of a mile away, but you can’t Gather just what the Republicans are whispering among themselves as to the future of the party. I am going to give you a few impressions, This ts no different from any preceding Republican Convention. We have the ‘bands playing and the crowds circulating and the nolsy rigamarole being carried out on a grand scale down in the Coliseum, All the old forms are being observed, but we can’t get away from the blood curdling fact that about one-half of the delegates never will agree to anything that can be said or done by the other half, I suppose I have heard a hundred men remark: “1 wanted to come to this convention beoause I have a feeling that this ts the last one we are going to have." That sounds wild-eyed and reckless, but any one who thinks there won't be a division sooner or later {s cordially tnvited to take a pencil and a pad of paper and figure out a ticket and a platform that will be acceptable to 60 per cent. of those 1,078 assorted Republicans NO SUDDEN PEACE LIKELY TO END WAR, I can't tell you who's going to be nominated, because I don’t believe any one knows. But I am pretty sure of one thing: There tsn't going to be any sudden harmonious settlement of a ciy!l war that has been getting hotter and hotter every minute for the last three years. Each faction wants to settle the row by beating the other fellows to a pulp I have mingled with the standpatters and T have heard 1,000 red-hot ultimatums from the followers of Teddy, The only difference between the factions might be represented by the distance between the North Pole and the South Pole. No one predicts that that party !s going to curl up and die, for the trade- be That js what I am expecting and that ts why Mr, Hackler !s Koing to keep on golnz down to the convention hall as long I have never seen a political EVENING ING WORLD, T THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912. SAYS GEORGE ADE: “AN ASSORTMENT OF WILD CLAIMS AND GEESE PIMPLES” {_! CROWDS TRYING TO D ENTER CONVENTION HALL | DELEGATES ENTERING THE COLISEUM PHOTO RY UNOEIWOOD & UROEIIY COO “DONT LE DOWN AGAN, | BOLT, MARCH OUT OR SEZ THE HALL” TR ORDERS “As the Real and Lawful Majority of the Convention, Organize as Such,” the Colonel Declares in Speech. BY MARTIN GREEN. (Staff Correspondent of The Bvening World.) CHICAGO, June 20.—Col. Roosevelt practically read himself out of the Republican party at an early hour to-day. In an impassioned speech to a howling mob of his supporters in the Florentine Room of the Congerss Hotel, he advised the delegates committed to his sup- port to desert the regular convention and organize one of their own. The Colonel assured his followers that they were the real and legal majority | of the convention, He bade them refuse to accept any aotion of the convention predicated upon the votes of the delegates who, according to his claims, are im- properly part of the convention. The word bolt has an ugly sound to a politician. But the more radical of Roosevelt's followers are prepared to do anything the Colonel advises tn the! convention, from marching out to attempting to selze the hall by main force | and hold a convention of their own. Nevorthiess the Ro velt bolt will make political history in the United States | jit it comes, The qualification is put in because men who have known Roosevelt! for years do not believe he will actually bolt—that he will find a way to dodge! | at the last minute. | | Hadley of Missourl, Deneen of Illinois, Borah of Idaho and other big F velt leaders have detached themselves from the Roosevelt bolt, Their example will be followed by scores and scors of delegates. With the knowledge that he cannot carry all his strength into open revolt the Colonel is going to revolt any- | how, he says, and there are old and wise politicians in Chicago attending the convention who would give all they possess to understand his game Possibly the stampede to Hadley in the convention yeste y afternoon, had something to do with the Colonel's determination. Gov, Hadley is now the leading rk horse, He 1s not only {dolized by a big faction of the Repub-| Hean progressive following, but he ts respected by the standpat element ' Political ob vers declare that both Taft and Roosevelt have el Iminate od themselves. They fought each other out of the hattle Uke the famed Killkenny | cats. Therefore young Mr. Hadley looms large on the political horizon to-day, | Gates this morning and spotted perhaps twenty men out of the'l,078 who hook as | if they might have been present at Gettysburg. Seventy per cent. of tne who! outfit don't even remember the civil war, and many of these have no reverence for the fourteenth amendmnt because !t seems to have been put through for tho | especial beneft of Mr. Taft. ‘The State leader is apt to be some kid forty years old, wearing a short coat He never refers to Appomattox, but he is strong on the preferential primary. As for the band, away up in the gallery, it has been playing “The Oceana fas" and “The Chocolate Soldier," the latter having no reference whatever to the office-liofding class in the South, ‘The introduction of this new and bolsterous element of cobege hoya into! the party has distressed the old fellows, who still attach tmportance to the fact! that the Iepublican organization upheld the flag and struck off the shackles. AG. AR ‘an who sat near me this afternoon complained tha “ook Ike a Republican convention. He wanted to see the boys in blue It Is pretty hard for some of the patriarchs to adjust th tered conditions. The first article of thelr political faith ts to ke Democrat ir religion is party regularity, They are in a at this convention, but most of them are for Taft. I must say [ fool sorr them, They sincerely believe that the honored structure within which have dwelt so long {8 about to be set on fire by a ‘ot of crazy youngsters ing with torches T have your posteard asking my candid opinion as to the effect up to this time of the Colonel coming here and butting into the exercises. T. R. WAS AMPLY JUSTIFIED IN COMIN th play- Well, I think he would have cominanded more noise and enthusiasm in the | convention !f he had remained at Jonge range. It ts easter to work up een mental rapture over an {dea 1,000 miles away than it is to keep tab on a ma sitting In the next block with his ear to the phone, but in view of what th were getting ready to justifed mark 1s too valuable to be sacrificed. The property may have to go through saying, practica)| receivership. It will elther be reorganized or there will be a dixsolution of part, | Politician, bat tt Habe ar as he could without shattering nership. You know and I know that there 1s no more rity between tha |ABY traditions, The fe against him are horrified. His followers are une Time and aspirations of the progressives and the standpatters than there ta be. | 2aunted and refuse to apologize for him, and T can't seo that the non-combatants tween Indigo and veneitlan red. have anything to sav wate ever did It before and I guess no candidate On one side are the devoted wheelhorses and the remnant of the old guara,|°er Nad such @ cat and on the other side a new crop of bellizerents, who want to reconstruct tho| ‘The Way they howled for him to-day showed thit his rooters are not dise whole machine and start It to work on a brand-new set of policies. satisfied with him When I started going to national conventions the State leaders were griaziod On the way Into the hotel Jast night I got definite information that Taft, veterane of the civil war who invoked memories of Appomattox. The band would | Roorevelt, Hughes and Hadley will be put through day playing “Marching Marching ‘Througi open the exercises by encore it would give Through Geor Georgia.” ‘and then for an On the third or fourth day the delegates would nominate some man with a clean war record nt, Hayes, ¢ Id and McKinley had been soldiers, and Roosevelt adopted | a new war and can t h some military glamour just when !t would help mort, Blaine overle artial carter and got licked, ‘Taft had been off to Manila in 4 white s ng as War Governo®, and that fact didn’t lose him any votes. Dut the de who @ here this week are not around booetin Repo an party it pus down the rebellion, The only war tals ls about the war te come I checked over ihe rows of dels- | The Hadley boom {s so young at {ils writing that [ cannot di tt. Very few have been admitted to the room in which {t {* now being rubbed with cocoa butter, The Taft men say that the Roosevelt men are looking for a compromise candidate, and the R It men say the n are getting ready to flow to Hughes, and In the meantime a little bod nts Ketting together to frame 1p a platform, and they are welcome to (ie By the way, we have had two o grandest convention days and two of ention cays history of man, Tell the bors 1 be ime thing tan't ¢ Dw to dogenerate into # peace confor Ye JIM HACKLER, County Chairman, | wearily, A a EE although there are other dark horses in the fleld, notably Justice Hughes of New York and Senator Cummins of Iowa, who may spring Into the lead at| any moment. ‘The Colonel went berserker last night and early this morning. in the evening he received a message from Francis J floor manager in the Committee on Resolutions in session at Annex, that the steam roller was in operation Heney At 10 o'el the committee, which was organized just before the adjournment of the conven+ tion, had adopted by a vote of (hirty ‘Taft members to elghteel Roosevel: mem- bers, a motion to limit debate on the Roosevelt ocntests to five minutes for each contest and to vote on contests without any discussion in the mittee, Mr. Honey denounced this as a high-handed outrage, and the Conel agreed with him so heartily that he ordered the unprecedented step of a bolt from | the Credentials Committee, Th eighteen Roosevelt action delayed the hearing of t Learning his followers on the Credentials Committee of the committee marche out, and contests until this morning, had bolted, membe! meeting In the Florentine Room of the Congress Motel. ‘The meeting was held at 1 o'clock this morning, ‘The © mad, almost beside himself. The room wis jammed with his followers w A more rlotously enthusiastic meeting could not be imagined, occasionally demanding that the doors } cn port of his speech, which shows where ¢ : Now, gentlemen, 1 want to address myself to the delegates, though what | have to say will not hurt the others. Now, gentlen 1 am speaking to you as a man whom some of you have d honor to state that you wish to nominate as President, I went into this fight—this race four months ago—I made my ap- peal to the people. Most of my delegates were chosen by the voters where the fight was made before the people. You know I made my fight fairly and squarely, and put every issue straight before them, and I said then, and I think some of you may have heard me say It, that If the people decided against me, all right, I would have nothing to say, but if the people decided for me and the politicians tried to cheat me out of it, I would have a good deal to say. (Cheers) I wont before the people and I won. (Cheers.) Now the National Committee and a portion of the convention which !s made a majority only by the aid of delegates not elected at all, but chosen by the National Committee, are trying to cheat me out of the nomination. (Robbers.) They cannot do tt. (Cheers) They won't do it. (Cheers and cheers.) PM THROUGH,” SAYS COLONEL. As far as I concerned, I am through. ‘That does not make any difference, (Wild screams and yells of “We're with you.") But it is not me that they are cheating. They are cheating the people. ("You are right.") They are cheating the rank and file of the Republican party, and I wanted, nat to give you any advice, but to let you yourselves de elde what you ought to do, But I am going to give you my advice to-night. Gov. Deneen to-day Introduced a very moderate resolution, a resolution more moderate than I personally had wished to see In- troduced, but in which he merely asked tnat the four flagrant stolen States—the four Siates so flagrant that every man in the United States should know that they are stolen and should be branded—in other words, that the delegates from California, Washington, Texas and Arizona should not be permitted to vote on the question before the convention, and that the Stales which had been stolen bodily— Washingon, Arizona and Texas—should not put a representative on @ Committee on Credentials, That motion was voted down by bstantially the same vote that elected Mr. Root over Mr. McGov- ern, In each case the majority was a majority only because the votes of the fraudulently seated delegates were counted, Mr, Root beat Mr. McGovern only because he received “stolen goods”—seventy to eighty stolen votes, votes to which he was not entitled, Goy. Deneen’s resolution was beaten by the votes, the fraudulent votes, which in th olution were named, It was beaten iby the votes of Texas, Arizona, Washington and the two from California that were fraudulent, If those votes had been changed, if we had had honest votes Instead of dishonest votes from those States, the resolution would have been carried And to add Insult to injury the Committee on Credenti was appointed, organized by choosing it THREE DELEGATES CUT HIGH JINKS IN CONGRESS HOTE “I wee" |RINAL CLEARANCE SALE| Fait. soe “ ey All High Grade Suits in the House of Imported Linens, Other prices as tow as Of ne oa flow Vhipcords, Tatfetas and Serges. Mall Ordre Filled ends Delivered ©. O By haakat ed Sat ald Beep: AMEE MERE) “PN tues $50.00 to $125.00. Caller write for complete price lat ei ston et Pia tes GILLIES COFFE Pompeilan ep itea Suda ee aeOTy s two companions || 28 Afternoon Frocks, “{$ 30 Coats for Evening and] I$ | 1 Eo be Ae gE EE Co co, good natur h late models. Val Streets Wear. Yeu | eat terk Flosah Raney a Tel. se Oortinwsa manag Mt $60.00 to $95.00... +006 $50.00 to $110.00 | mipthd ’ 30 French nae 8 Imported tt i , ; Values mn ' Dresses, Values $125.00 Gowns, Values up to ¥ MMEIPN OOMISA'E LH ty gias.O0, ssc catteess’ $150.00 daar | names n u Mit . nes ! a So Hats, Imported French mid-summer models, thei thes INGS BRYAN, . WIM report the Chiengo Convention be Werld every lay, ea8 for po gther New York newspaper, ‘ ec SPORES PEO ND. ANB oni Heney, the Roosevelt | Coltseum reported that the their the Colonal wave orders to assemt¥e all Roosevelt delegates that could be reached for a 1 was fighting en he climbed on a table, ordered that all the doors be closed and began to speak. with the Colonel e 1s a verbatin re. | Values $20.00 to $30.00, 298 Fifth Ave., S. W. Cor. 31st St. MAT We aoe the National Coma! n who had talen part in the very thefts on which that Credentials Committee was supposed to pass. As far as I am concerned I am through. 1 hope that to-morrow, when you go back to the convention hall, | you will at once introduce a resolution to the effect that not one of those fraudulently seated delegates shall vote on any question in the | Credéhtiais Committee or in the convention on any question what- soever. (Cheers.) And now, wait and don’t lie down again! Don't allow them again to beat you by fraudnient votes. There is no use in voting to cut out the fraudulent votes and then being beaten by the fraudulent votes, and then saying you are sorry and you will go home. You stand then,~ take the position—I am not going to give you details—your own lead- era will settle that with you—but I hope you will then take the posl- ; tion that you docline longer to submit to having deimgates, fraud- ulently seated in the convention, allowed to sit as judges on their own cases and to vote upon the report of the Committee upon Credentials i | elther as a whole or in detail. I hope you will refuse longer to recog- nize a majority thus composed as having any title in law or in morals to be called a Republican National Convention. | ADVISES THEM TO CUT LOOSE. We have by fair means, appealing directly to the people, elected a clear majority of the delegates to the convention, and I hope that you will not permit our opponents, after having failed to beat us by fair means, to beat us by foul means and swindle you out of the victory that you won. And, more than that, friends, swindle the people out of the victory that they won. ‘Therefore, if you are voted down, I hope that you, the renl and law- ful majority of the convention, will organize as ih. And you will de it {f you have the courage and if you are loyal to your convictions, ! Now, let us find out whether or not the Republican party ts still the party of the plain people. Let us find out whetheF the Republican party Is the party of the people of the United States, or the party of the bosses and professional politicians, acting in the Interests of spe clal privilege. And I eay, gentlemen, you come here to seek my advice, and my advice is not to place any further confidence and do not permit yourselves to be commétted in any way, shape or fashion by any further association with those men as long as they keep con- trol only by a majority composed in essential part of fraudulently seated delegates who have not the slightest title to represent the rank and file of the Republican party or to alt !n a Republican conven- tion; and I hope you will not walt any longer and that you will make the Mild the first thing to-morrow moruing. WHAT HAPPENS The little things are frequently of the greatest IN CHICAGO FIGHT |Humorous Side of the Big Re-| publican Row Over Taft and Roosevelt. importance. It is the extreme care and attention we pay to the “seemingly” unimportant details in the making of Harris G s that has enabled us to develop the Largest Retail tical business in The orld. It is because of this magnie tude that we can furnish you with perfect fitting glasses for as little as $2.00 a pair and Guarantee them to give you complete satisfaction—or re- fund your money. ’ Wat Somnls | Gov, Hadley, floor manager for Col. | Roosevelt, and Jamen Watson of In- Alara, enacting a ike roll for Prestdent Taft, will be able to sit peacefully ve- ‘side each other in @ convention next week. Hoth are mombers of the Phi Kappa Pal fraternity which will hold « convention in Chicago then. of tho Mterary world a convention here and have “Highbrows” could hold few famous authors fail to ani a roll cail, George Ade, Edward P. Con- nolly, Arthur Brisbane, George Fiteh,| 64 East 28rd St., near Fourth Ave. Hugh Fullerton, Samuel Biytae, Wil-| 27 West 34th St., bet. Sth and 6th Aves. Jam Allen White and a host of prom!-| 64 West 125th St., near Lenox Ave. 442 Columbus Ave., 81st and 82nd Sts, be Nassau | St., near near John St. 009 Broad yay, near Willo’by, Bit rit 8) Fulton St. opp. A. & ra BLye 697 Broad St., near Hahne’s, Newaris ———$——— nent editors are covering the conven tion, Millionaires’ Row t# in a little baleony that hangs underneath the main gallery of the Coltseum. Millionaires Row practically xoll) for t, housing as doos Mra. Charles P. t, the richest woman tn Ohlo; Mra, n Dupon whose family In the powder business; Miss Maule Wotimore, daughter of the Rhode Island wealthy Senator; Mra. John Hays tHamn- mond, Wife of the $100,000 a year enx!-| neer of the Guggenheim syndicate, and Mrs, Chauncey M. Depew, T Col is to some alight ex Officials of the convention--Sergean's- At-Arms, messengers and other properly accredited employ to-day comm a to vald the bogus “national conventio headquarters" which have been opened by proprietors of voarding houses and lunehrooms along the aldo streets. Large posters announcing “branch of- ‘icew of the convention headquarters" have been manufactured by scores, It ile reading clerks of the conven- tion had had aught to say, Jonah K K aaole would not have been sent | here an a dei from Hawall, would have picked instead some man with a almple name like Schwelntunk- alterbraten. ‘They stumble all over Mr, Kalanianaole overy time they call his name. Delegates Jorge Silva and Mateo Fajardo of Porto Hico present simila> CARMEN will enhance that youthful lovel that nature gave you, end will mot ike an unsightly porate until you remove it, nor Hy Jose its fascinating sranvence, 5 Carmen {s entirely “different’’—pure and lesa, it beautifies and beneilis the: heals and softens irritated and lingual diMcuities, to say nothing of ekin = Snow - white - Now Delegate Henegino C. Hernandes of wwhanmnene, 96 Tierra Amarafila, N. M. “The christening of the new party | | will be an important part of the pro: | cedure in the bolt,” said Amos Pinchot [one of the Roosevelt leaders, “I favor | roa) bolt, a new party and # new deal |1 shall favor calling it the progressive party, Under such a name wo could | eniiat progressive Democrats as well as Republic | Sold in 5 ib. lots direct by the Importers and Roastcra —say- | ing you the middleman’ profit, U KEN COF ide 28% sone $5 edout we we can? theme are vibe