The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-07-22
A NATIONAL
CONVENTION
Is a Mighty Interesting Place For
The Study Of Man.
The HeraId's Staff Correspondent
Writes OF the Personnel OF
the Big st. Louis
Convention.

the great gatnerlnR III 81. LOUIS 10 a.
intensely interesting occasion. 10
begin to describe it even in part is
Difficult. problem, for one could go to
either one of the big hotels and secure
enough material to write about for
month. And when it is said that every
big hotel here is packed and damned
with politicians from every part OF the
globe. almost at least. from all the
American possessions. one can under
stand how hard it is to even in
general way write up the convention.
ASH write-ln the writing loom OF
the Jefferson Hotel-which is the center
of the political crater, for here are the
Headquarters of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, and of almost one
third the states of the UniOn-the most
interesting, yet disgusting scene is
taking place in the lobby below. 1t is
damned to suffocation with an insane
mob of Hearst howleIs, who are shout
ing themselves hoarse for the New
York editor. There must be tive
hundred in the bunch, and they ale
making Rome howl. There are spielers
in different parts of the LOBBY, ana
they are all busy-extolling the vlr-
tues of their leader to rabble that
applauds them wildly. What does IL
mean? Nothing but money. Inc
Hearst barrel is getting in It's woEk.
And while it amounts TO nothing, ana
will amount to nothing, 1T makes
noise. They are not delegates-the
Hearst shouters below. They are NOT
leading men flom anywhere Ihty
are simply hired howIeis. They have
been fed. and ale paying fol what they
eot. at is SAID that Hearst is spending
$500 a day at the Jefferson, enter
tanning those whom ne thinks are MS
friends He has one of the largest
rooms on the lobby floor filled with
the choicest of California fruits OF all
kinds by the carload, and drinks OF all
kinds are freely served. OF course,
he gets rid of it, but it will do him
no good. There is just as much chance
| for Hearst to win the nomination as
there is for the Sultan of Sulu. IL
| il difficult to see how anyone can
have any respect tor the Hearst candl
dacy, after seeing things here for the
past four days.
Down at the Planters Hotel-the
headouarters of Judge ParkeI-qulte
different scene presents Itself. Inc
lobby and corridors are full OF people
but it is a dignified, fine looking booy
of men-quiet in contrast to the rag
TAG and bob tail that is shouting for
the coin down at the Jefferson no
Parker headquarters are nanglhcently
fitted up, and judging by comparison
at other hostelries they must cost a
/ princely sum. l suppose sou Gay
! would not miss 1T far. a
| AT the Southern the principal at
traction is the Tammany headquarters.
| There is the biggest Tammany de!ega,
/ tion here that ever attended natlonai
convention. 1t required six special
trains to bling them. They are an IN
terestine lot, too. All jolly fellows, :
and sports. They spend most OF their
time in the bars of the hotel-for theIe
are two bars; one having been ntteu
nm Az a temporary structure right In
the mann LOBBY of the ground floor py
the management especially for the
Tammany braves, it being thought that
the ordinary bar would be overtaXeo'
r. seems TO have been a wise precau-
tion, Tammany has been Indignant
ever since the distribution OF tlcketS
Tuesday night, for hardly a hundreo
If the /. 500 braves who came all the
wav from New York got tickets into the
convention. Leader Murphy charged
that If was trick of August Bel
mont TO keep them from getting LICK
etc for feal they might stampede the
convention by starting yeils 1ol
another man than Parker. And IN
deed. It was Tammany who started
that Cleveland demonstration the nrs'
dav But of this later on. 1t is me
looking body of men, the Iammany
body Of men-the Tammany braves,
and among them ale men OF grea
narts There are Lewis Nixon
Thomas f. Grady, Bourke Cochran
Tim Sullivan, Former Mayor Var
Wick COMPTROLLER Circuit, and
Great number of others. And ther'
are BIRD s. Coler, Cnas. A. lowne
Senator Pat MacCarIen, and last pu'
not least. Martin W. Littleton, P1esl
dent of the Borough OF BROOKLYN lor
meIly of Tennessee, protheI Vi 'e 100
Iittleton. of Winchester, whom In
Republicans have put up as their l9o
sacrifice. l believe | have never me
more delightful, aftable gentieIhal
than this young Tennessean VINO !
) making his way to such hlgn piao
, in Americas greatest city. his man
: nerS are the most pOllShop eHu =
7 and he wins you instantly. he ma
. fine physique Favors good deal ~
s wavward brother down in tennessee
Init has more classic features and NOR
personal magnetism. He is vot
petter, and ii you will stick pin mel
and mark prediction. there al
higher honors waiting for his shouio
ers' Littleton has been selected .
New York to nominate Judg
Parker, and they say there's haie
" a more eloquent speaker !
the whole state than ne y
y I met HIM down at the st. NlcI
= olss this afternoon with his proene
y Jesse, who is here to hear his brotner
6 nominating speech. Jesse was an inte
IS ested guest at the Convention today a.
o he pronounced it' 3 great ConvenTiol
'e How he ever got 10 do know. I ..s
y were striking looking pair--those Nv
20 Iittletons, there were scarcely sV
finer looking men in st. Louis, AS
watched them walking down the sire
together l thought OF what curio'
ansmoly Of politics 1t was that took "
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