Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-08
GOLDEN STATE
PRACTICALLY IS
WHOLE CIRCUS
CALIFORNIA CAPTURES DEN
YER AND CONVENTION
THEODORE BELL NOW IN FIGHT
FOR SECOND PLACE
More Than One Hundred and Fifty
Delegates Are Already Pledged
to the Temporary
Chairman
BY FRANK THOMPSON sEARIGHr

BY FRANK THOMPSON SEARIGHT
Special to The Herald.
DENVER, July 7.-There wasn't
much of anything to the big Demo-
cratic national convention today but
California. California won brave fight
against flood and bad railroad trackagc
from Lincoln to Denver; California
marched into the auditorium arrayed
in the nattiest, coolest, whitest duck
hats ever worn along with the other
things that people have to wear; Cali
fornia arose and cheered their leader,
Temporary Chairman Bell, in way
that inspired other cheerers to greater
efforts; California caused the every
ten-minute extras of the Denver news
papers, and California topped it all off
by entertaining notables in California
headquarters in true California style.
No, that isn't quite all of it, nor half
all of it, nor even beginning, if the
Importance of a day may be considered
in the probabilities of the remainder
of the week, for the fact is that the
situation at midnight shows Theodore
A. Bell with 150 to 100 delegates pledged
to support him for the vice presidential
nomination and his strength growing
every minute, all of it from start to
present unsolicited and modestly re-
ceived as news by the California man
WHO set the great convention wild.
California seemed to know that she
was going to have enough leisure to
take things easy and early in the day
she held little joke feast at general
headquarters to the delegation in
Hotel Law.
A meeting was called for some mys-
terious purpose. 1t developed that
eight cases of wines-principally good
wines of champagne variety--had dis
appeared. AS 1t had been brought part
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crowd, Santa Clara was interested in
solving the mystery. Sill of Alameda
said 1T didn't really matter, the best
thing to do would be to buy some more
of it in Denver and make good. Bow
den of Santa Clara had few things to
say about it, and Milton X. Young of
Los Angeles came along with bunch
of Southern California humor to the
effect that he knew the wine couldn't
have been stolen, since he had seen
certain brethren going early and often
to the buffet, and he started to mem
tion them, but no names shall be given
here, suffice to say that Isadore Dock
weller and Mattison B. Jones protested
vigorously against further speech.
Finally Capps of San Diego said there
had been four barrels of San Diego
beer aboard the train when they
started, and that although two of them
had been intended for Denver no beer
remained when they reached here. He
had a faint vague suspicion that some-
thing like that might have happened
to the missing wine. So the committee
they went to the trouble of appointing
one-was instructed to buy some more
Santa Clara wine, and the meeting
closed.
Tonight, from to midnight and
after, great crowds thronged the Cali
fornia headquarters, and California's
triumph of the day was complete with
the appearance of Bell and his happy,
though brief speech to the visitors.