Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-06
Daughter of President and Husband
Go to the Denver Convention.
DEMOCRATS CHEER AT DEPOT
Travel in Special Car with Mr.. and
Mrs. Medill Mccormick.
WILL VISIT YELLOWSTONE PARK
'I Have No Ticket TO the Convention
and Don't Know where 1 win
Get One" Says Alice ROose-
welt LOnEwOrth.

Three cheers for Nick Longworth!"
Three cheers for Mrs. LonBworth!'
Three cheers for the president of the
United States!"
Three cheers for the next president Of
the United States"
All Of which were given with vengeance.
with the exclamation Bryan" ringing in
the last round
This is what Congressman Nicholas Long
worth, son-in-iaw of President Roosevelt.
bumped into when he got mixed up with
the Michigan delegates to the Denver con-
vention at Union station in Omaha yester-
day afternoon
After the democrats got through cheering
for him they called for a speech. to which
the congressman was compelled to respond
in a few words in which he told them that
he was for Brysn--for the nomination
just as much as you are"
Mr.. and Mrs. Bongworth spent an hour
in Omaha Sunday, enroute to the national
democratic convention in Denver, where
they are going as the guests Of Medill Nc
Cormick.
Bound for Yellowstone.
1--WE are really going to the Yellowstone
country for an outing" said Mr.. Long
worth. But we will stop in Denver for
the convention. l don't believe 1t will be a
very long stay, however It seems to me
the convention will be short-lookS as
though 1t was all fixed up.
but. of course, we are all interested in
| the Denver convention. No. l have not
got any tickets to any part Of the coDven-
ton hall, and I don't know where l will
get them, either"
Those in the party were Mr.. and Mrs.
| Longworth, Medil Mccormick, publisher OF
| the Chicago Tribune, and Mrs. Mccormick;
Miss Robinson of New York City, Tiffany
Blake, w. B. Conner, George Porter and
H. M Parker of Chicago. and Norman
Hapgood, editor of Golfers Weekly.
The party is travelling in the private car
! Constitution and arrived In Omaha on
| the Northwestern train at $40 The train
was delayed at the bridge, but when IL
pulled down under the transheds and word
was passed around among the hundreds OF
democrats at Union station that President
Roosevelts daughter was in the ''Consti-
tuition" the car was surrounded. The Mich
! igan delegation was the first to discover
the Longworth party, but before the dem.
ocrats learned that a greater attraction
than their delegation had arrived. Mrs.
Longworth had stroled with members of
the party almost the entire length OF the
! platform in the hope of getting little
fresh air, as the temperature was SO in the
! car.
Sure for Taft.
That there may be no mistake about heI
preference in the matter Mrs. Longworth
pinned a white ribbon on her shirt waist
bearing in large letters the word Taft"
The entire party left Omaha wearing the
Omaha buttons in Ak-Sar-Ben colorS
which were distributed by members Of the
democratic reception committee who ptnnce
them on every visitor at Union station
Mrs. Longworth wore a shirt waist OF
white and lavender, with a brown travel
ing skirt tan shoes and a chain of jewels
around her neck. Her hair was dressed
loosely at the back of her head and tie<
with a black ribbon.
Mrs. Mccormick, who was formerly Misl
Ruth Hanna, daughter OF the late Senator
Mark Hanna, was also hatless In . white
shirt waist and gray skirt. With other
members of the party the women walked
about the platform and visited with those
who greeted the party. Victor Rosewater.
editor of The Bee, met the party by invi-
tation at Union station and spent the hour
with It,