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MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1920
McClure, of Georgia, Third Party Man, Turns Up As Wood Delegate
CHARLIE BARRETT, FRISCO
DELEGATE, IN CHICAGO TOO
‘Our Fools Tell Truth, Wood Men Lie,” Is Wail of
Lowden Supporters at G.
O. P. Convention
BY EDWARD M. THIERRY
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 7—Party labels
do not stick as well as they used to.
A booster for the Committee of
48’s third party idea, browsing along
Presidential alley was horrified to
find that Charles Wylie McClure, of
Atlanta, a strong third party expon
ent at the Forty-Eighters’ St. Louis
conference last December, has turned
up in Chicago heading—a Wood del
egation.
Troubles keep piling up for Repub
lican National Committeemen.
They're being run ragged these
days. Contesting delegates talk them
to death in the “Supreme Court’’
room down at the Coliseum, and af
ter hours in hotel lobbies.
Indignant women are planning to
picket the convention as a final prod
to put over a suffrage ratification
plank.
Irish patriots are demanding recog
nition- —and drys are buttonholing
committeemen demanding a bone-dry
plank.
And now a delegation of 10 horny
handed farmers have arrived to tell
their agricultural troubles to the com
mittee.
Charlie Barrett a Democrat by pol
itics, (Georgia delegate-at-large to
San Francisco) and a farmer by occu
pation, is at the head of the farmer
delegation. He’s at the head of -the 1
movement of organized farmers in
the South and he plans to tell the G.
0. P. committee that if the big po
litical parties don’t do something to
help the farmers we’ll all be scratch
ing vainly for food one of these days.
* • »
Profane disgust, rather than down
heartedness, consume Lowden sup
porters over the $2,500-a-delegate
revelation of the pre-convention slush
fund probe.
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souri mess?” complained a Lowden
boosters. “Everybody's spending mon
ey.”
“Hell! the trouble is—the Wood
fellows are plain liars and we’ve got
a lot of blankety-blank fools who are
telling the truth!”
♦ ♦ ♦
Will Hays, G. O. P. national chair
man, is as good a pie eater as he is
a politician.
“Hays won the long distance pie
eating championship at the 1916 con
vention lunch counter” said Charles
R. Hall, G. 0. P. dispenser of pie,
coffee and sandwiches at the Colise
um.
• • *
The unopposed vice-presidential
candidate, Samuel Adams, has invent
ed a scheme for' cutting down the
high cost of getting nominated.
Adams has more ancestors and rel
atives than any man alive, it’s said.
His favorite campaign literature
shows his smiling countenance en
tirely surrounded by fine old wood
cuts of famous Adamses of the hoary
past.
Instead of circularizing voters at
General Wood’s estimate of five cents
per copy, he just makes a deal with
the hotel news agents—and has his
ancestral circular delivered at every
delegate’s door as a sort of pictorial
supplement to the morning paper.
Virgil Hinshaw, national chairman
of the Prohibition party, went scout
ing in Presidential Alley leading his
own personally groomed Republican
dark horse—Senator Capper. He
didn’t find any nourishment—not
even a watering trough.
• * *
Women and song—everything that
i used to make a lively party except the
wine—helped to make Hiram John
son’s entry into Chicago spectacular.
Marching rooters, spurred on by
a couple of bands, put some jazz into
this “John Brown’s Body” tune:
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“Now, relax, Miss Vittum,” advised Miss McMein. preparing to sketch General Wood’s chief
over the women’s division at the Chicago convention.
Miss Harriet Vittum sighed. “I know how to work,” she half smiled, "and I fancy that means I
must know how to relax too, or I couldn't cover the ground 1 am covering for our candidate here in
town.
“What do I think women need to learn in politics?” She straightened up, “They need to learn to
be good sports. They must learn to march their men up the hill and march them down again with good
grace if the top of the hill turns out to be a disadvantageous position.
“They must cultivate a sense of humor, too, to make the return down easier on all concerned, the
men not excluded. A sense of humor is a good foundation for getting on in public life.”
Miss Vittum first bolted into politics with the Bull Moosers in 1912,- returned more quietly four
years later to direct the western women for the Hughes campaign and is now on her third political lap.
Having first been a nurse before becoming as she is now head of the Northwestern University settlement,
her political appreciations are colored by her experience in social service.
“If the municipality, the state and the nation really did their jobs, there wouldn't be any need
for social service in the country,” said Miss Vittum. ‘ ‘lt’s because none of them really do their jobs that
I’m interested in politics.”
The Democratic managers are very
very sick
Since Hiram made his argument and
Borah threw a brick;
They tried to put it over, but they
couldn’t turn the trick—
His cause goes marching on!
* • •
Photographers got a picture of Will
Hays, Republican chieftain, shaking
hands with Homer Cummings, Demo
cratic national committee chairman.
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P. big top for a free peek.
Enterprising camera men are on
the look-out for a friendlv embrace
scene between General Wood and Hi
ram Johnson.
* * *
Ex-Presidents’ sons are gathering
rapidly. Teddy Junior beat young
Robert Taft by one day. Old-timers
who look upon regular Republicanism
as a sacrament, looked on in horror
as William Howard Taft’s son breez-
ed up and down Presidential Alley
booming Hoover.
* ♦ *
If there’s any big stick business at
■ the 1920 convention it will be done
by Brig.-Gen. James A. Ryan and Ed
win P. Thayer. Ryan is chief door
; keeper and Thayer is chief sergeant
: i at-arms.
; One will guard the doors. The
i other will keep order —if he can.
The 108 doughboy door-keepers
• Wood? He’s from Philadelphia and
won’t be in uniforms. But they’ll have
their scrapping clothes on. Wages are
$lO a day, enough to make them deaf
to political blandishments. Ryan also |
has 400 ushers under his command.
Thayer has 2.000 assistant ser-1
geants-at-arms. They’ll try to help
the chairman’s gavel mean something.
No seats for these tireless heroes. ,
Ever hear of Edward Randolph
his name was the only one on the
Pennsylvania primary ballot for pres
ident.
“I m trying to find somebody who
will make my nominating speech,”
said Wood, pausing in a mad canvass
of delegate rooms in loop hotels.
♦ • •
Thirsty delegates are not all sip
ping raspberry sodas and ginger ale.
Not those who know their way
around.
• • •
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tions on convention bottle booze:
Friendly whiskey, one pint, $7.50
Bellhop whiskey, one pint $lO to
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“Friendly” whiskey is the kind you
get by having a friend who knows
somebody who knows somebody else
who knows where to buy it at bargain
rates. It’s cheaper, but scarcer.
“Bellhop” whiskey isn’t as good.
It’s sold largely to strangers. Just
ring the bell and ask the bellhop, and
if he happens to be the right kind of
a bellhop he’ll get the stuff. Prices
depend on what the middleman has to
pay. They figure on 100 per cent com
mission.
Oh, yes, it can be had in large
quantites, too —anything up to 1,000
cases.
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around the Congress Hotel lobby that
he had been approached by an agent
of a booze ring who claimed to have
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• • •
A penitentiary warden and two real
sheriffs—not the movie kind, but the
real goods—are in Chicago whooping
things up foyJohnson.
“No, we sfln’t going to shoot up
the convention,’’ said Sheriff Mike
Sheehan, “but me and Sheriff Bob
Veale came all the way from Califor
nia to help put Hiram over—if we
have to organize a nosse to chase opt
the coyotes who don’t see things like
we do.”
* * *
The old G. 0. P. dope kettle got
all stirred up and dripped over the
edges when Colonel Theodore Roose
velt, Jr., blew into town.
Delegates started at him and re
porters trailed him as he dashed in
and out of Wood, Johnson and Low
den campaign headquarters and final
ly cornered Chairman Will Hays for
a friendly chat.
“Sompin’s up sure!’’ breathed a
delegate excitedly.
“Maybe Teddy Junior's going to
be a dark horse. Gosh! with a name
like that. Roosevelt for President!
He’ll sweep the convention.”
The tip spread. Everybody was
talking about it. Enthusiasm grew.
And then some unimaginative sta
tistical wizard came along and spoiled
everything. The bubble burst—
“ Shucks!” said the kill-joy, “the
boy's only 33! Don’t you birds know
a man’s gotta be 35 to be Presi
dent?’’
“I don’t know whether the Senate
will investigate me or not,’’ said a
woman voter, “but I’m going to vote
for Hiram and Pll accept a poppy,
and a nice, big orange with thank.”