The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-19
TO A LOCAL EYE
Crowd at Chicago Convention Handled Better Than at
 Yale Football Game.
C. H. CLARK IS SATISFIED
Senator Crane Trying to Save Him. self by Gathering Up
 Wreckage.
stan Correspondence of JournaI-couricr

stan Correspondence of JOurnnI-COurier.
 Colosseum, Chicago, June l6.-The national republican convention Is as- sembled and has been in active opera ton for forty minutes, and while Tenn porary Chairman Burrows Is working through his set speech 1t will be good economy of time to give you some impressions. for nobody Is very much interested In the remarks of the chair man--even those who can hear him, of whom l am not one Ills mention of the name Roosevelt called out a good roar which lasted less than q minute and did not give any premonition of a stampede later. My neighbor on the left Is a raw specimen from far back in the interior who assures me that he would give $5.000 of his own money to have Roosevelt nominated but will be satis- fled with Taft, and that probably typi- fes the condition of the Roosevelt boomers generally.
 ones first general impression of the convention Is of admiration for the perfection of its mechanism.
 Everything is in complete order. You have set of five tickets each good for one day, each of Its own color, with coupons for two sesslons-entrance section, row and seat specified and the crowd Is handled with more ease and qulckness than a football crowd at New Haven The Red Cross has an emergency hospital of imposing dimen- sIons and equipment with doctor, as- slstants and an ambulance for each oi the dozen or more sections of the hall stan of more than thirty in all--and 1t is not likely that they will have a single call today for their services. This Is due largely to the weather conditions which have been superb since Saturday and with no sign of anging-brilliant sunshine and cold lake wind which drives every talnt of smoke from this great smoke factory back across the prairie, preserves your linen immacu- late for many hours and makes brisk exercise a delight. It is Chicago at It's best and hardly to be recognized as the dngy city that l groped about In two years ago.
 The Taft system seems to be work ling as smoothly as the machinery for handling the crowds at the Colosseum The allies apparently gave up yester' day the idea of dying in the last ditcf and signified their willingness to lei the committee on credentials settle tho contested cases in accordance with the recommendation of the lower court.
 If so, that committee will probably convene at four and sit until their worl | is finished so that the only cause for delay In approaching the nomination should be over the injunction plank Of the platform.
 It is a bitter pill for man SO mas terful and resourceful as Senator Crane to swallow, but he Is too good a cam paigner 10 make wry faces over 1t, ant already he is on the lookout for means to put his opponents under obligation to him wherever he can in order tC save something out of the wreck anc | fix up the best deal he can.
 He had very effective plan of cam paign-the contests in the southern states discrediting the fairness ant | honesty of tho regular organization and the spacious plea for uninstructet delegates at the north-and 1t ought t have worked out the desired result O undermining Taft's strength, excep for It's weakness in the spot where thu politician Is usually weak-the failure to reckon with the force of publi opinion, the inability to understan, that the people believe in Taft ant want him as their candidate.
 He ought to have learned somethln, from his experience in trying to per suade Taft personally to compromis with Foraker and his flat refusal t' dicker for the nomination, but appar ently he did not,
 On my way to the Colosseum half al hour before the opening hour met Ed itor and Delegate Clark of Hartfor' strolling in the opposite direction seem ingly absorbed in reflection and ob livious of the hurly burly about him.
 do not know whether he retraced hi steps and attended the opening exer cises, but I took 1t to indicate that h felt a serene confidence in the reliabil ity of the Connecticut delegation.