The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-16
Hon. Handy, Failing to Find
Old Boys There, Breaks
Into Lamentations.
.BEARDLESS YOUTHS
ARE in CONTROL NOW
Political Gathering Without Any
Politicians, Colonel Sadly Re
marks Some Reflections
About Vice-Presidency and
Other Matters of
Some Moment.
by WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
fSneciaf Correspondent OF The Time

BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
Especial Correspondent OF The Times
Dispatch Copyright, loos).
HICAGo, ILL. Jrhe 15.-"The
| first best bet to-day on Vice
President. said Abner Handy,
| ~ in the Pompeian room of the
Annex, "is that It's up to New
4ork. I've been around good deal
and talked with the old boys, and
that's the only fact that there is IN
the convention to-day and that Will
not last when the dew hits IT.
"The only true thing" he added as
| he waved proudly for tho hoy, and
ordered a split Apollinaris; the only
| true thing about this convention IS
that nothing is true
No Politics In It.
AS he slipped the fuzzy water and re-
1 called his promise to Mrs. Handy be-
fore he left home, Abner added re-
| nectively. THE trouble with this con-
yenton is, there is no politics IN !.
There are no politicians here I've
Hooked at this man Hitchcock Moth
mo hut card index-that's all. there
ia to him. And I've looked over Noreys
he won't do: he's perfectly frank
baven,t heard him called liar since
| Tve been here. No man gets Tar III
nolitics until his enemies call MIN a
liar. =, teamed
across the mosaic on the tapie top,
.say-now honestly, why did your
naner c,1t the Hon. off in front OF my
name7 like it. Tell them to put II
In, 4 was around when the New YORK
deIeeation held meeting to-day; and
saw. thew don't know any more poll
,tcs than rabbit They decided to
do nothing. Imagine convention
1 where the New York delegation IS sueh
a four spot that they have 70 depaue
/ three days to decide whether they VIII
take vice-Presldent, and what's more
1 imar rine a convention where the mos'
sartoi,s Item OF interest is the nominee
for yice-President. And now the Ne"
FORK delegation is going to nave rs
nalm read to find out whether 1T VII
4 take IJ,lghes for yice-President. OF
rally around Jim Sherman, the people
choice. or commit hari-karl with I'm
Woodrocf." -
Mr.. Handy reflected for time. and
sighed:
aBut what else could you expect Of
a conve ention where people all paid
| their railroad fares?
/ "You reformcrs will get this country
sewed up in a sack so that there wont
be any politics any more They'll
j nominate the delegates by direct pri-
/ maries, instruct them by direct pri-
mares, vote by direct primaries on
| the chief planks Of the PLATFORM. ana
/ where will the palladium of our liber-
ties be then?"
4 Dominated by Young Men.
There is something In Abner
4 Handy's view Of ii. The alternate from
the Ninth Kansas District, has been
drifting around today looking for the
old familiar faces, and he finds they
! are not here. There aren't a dozen
| bronze buttons in all the lhrong,
! Young men with stiff straw hats and
boyIsh faces are dominating the crowd
What can you expect" asked the
colonel earnestly, as he drlftcd from
the Taft headquarters. out OF a gang
i like that2 No whispering, no one COM
ing out of the onsultation-room like
a man from dentists ottice-with his
teeth in his hands-a sadder and
wiser man. nothing but idle specula-
tion about the vlce-presidency.
"The most throbbing piece of Inform
u alton that came to me to-day Is that
!, Fairbanks will take the vice-pre siden-
| tial nomination, because he can't af-
;. ford to cancel all the meal tickets he
has issued on his establishment at
!, Washington. They say he will take
4 1t IL il comes In the right way-not
for the political honor, but for the so
cial advantages of the job. Great
:. Scott! That's what YOU reformers have
brought our politics to, and still you
are passing primary laws and anti
4 pass laws The colonel waved for the
waiter and sighed and shook his head
and said, "A promise is promise
when your wife issues the door keys
. | 1, I>ntt In rf
harpins," Then he resumed his
lamentations.
Breaking 1t Gently.
4 "Yes. and look at Iowa-up here with
la statement that IL you take Dollirer
flor Vice president. the State will elect
1.-TWO Democratic Senator's. In Iowa. mind
tyou--lowa--with Allison, the party
I nominee, and threatened with Demo-
|cratc landslide If Dolliver Is taken
off the lid! That's reform for you!
Say" he continued sadly, break that
news gently tony old friend clarkson
|of Iowa. When he hears that, he will
spread the mantle of his couch on the
floor and lie down and have a fit.
That's what's the matter with the al
lies, as you call them, but | call then
the defenders OF our American rights
The allies have lost their chips. lost
I their cards. lost their nerve and lost
their everlasting rights. ~
NO railroad passes, no favors TO,
their friends. no tickets to the con,
ventlon---'n nothing but leaves, the spiri,
grleres:' j saw some forlorn fellow:
!, solemnlS hay-footinE It down AIfchi,
gan Avenue this morning. They had 4
! band and Were in a procession. Was Il
|. funeral II was not. Was, it The
!, doomed man Walking, to the gallowS
\ with, a firm step after eating hearty
n breakfast OF bacon and eggs? Not a
all Was 1t a delegation Of flood sur,
!, ferers. or chain gans9 No but Il
I looked like the melancholla ward o
Ian asylum out for y mornings air,
Emg, and IL was the KpoS marching
Icmb.3
"They are here. The band is here
! They have to do something, so they
lfllt through theghotels like lost spir
4 Its, and recall the dear dead days wher
there was politics in this mans town
land a railroad attorney with q. hool