The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-18

Chicago, June H.
Of all the sad words
OF tongue or pen
The saddest are these:
I'll bet II would have been dickens
of a good fight If Roosevelt had kept
His hands Of.
The convention is worse than frosty
in its feeling for Roosevelt and consid.
erably deader in respect to enjoyment
Of its task than Mr.. Rameses III. III his
glass case in The Metropolitan. Every
attempt to inject ginger into the Roose-
welt program or to extort even the
smallest esthusasm for il has result,
cd in signal failure. Even Job Hedges
has stopped trying 10 fbe funny, and
when things come to--tflat pass there's
nothing to do but give up and pack
your things and take your ticket down
TO the station for the agent 10 see that
you are the same man who came ont
on it.
This Gay Convention Life.
Life on the lake front these days il
al gay and exciting as ii was back in
the little town upstate years ago when
the band played on Friday nights and
there was possibility that something
might happen some day If father would
only let you stay UP late enough. lii
the morning the delegates get up and
in the evening they 90 TO bed again.
Now That the convention has begun
there is something to kill time with be-
tween breakfast and dinner, but there
Is no more real excitement in the big
hotels on the lake front than there Is
in session Of the National association
Of Underwriters
Once in while there u a parade,
Always there II band concert. And
whatever Illusions there may be about
the attractiveness Of band concert
are eifectually dispelled BY the forty
four rapetitions of Dixie BY hafass-
cd ard dissipated cornetist Uncle Joe
Cannon has abandoned hope; so has
Senator Knox There are two bands
within mailing distance, which. IN tho
opinion of persons qualified to Judge.
explains fully the profane remarks of
gentleman from New York as to
what @this beats"
A Sceptical Crowd.
Yesterday afternoon man WIS hit
by trolley car On Wabash avenue
only block away from the Auditorium
Nobody went out to see him or 60 ask
who he was and how much he was
hurt, as they would IN New York, but
mot because they were not interested
but simply because they couldn't be-
lieve that a thing like that could hap.
pen in this town.
Once Id a while somebody starts
report that there il real wrangIe IL
the Louisiana delegation OF that some
body has declared that two Taft dele
gates are going to break their instruc
tons and vote for Fairbanks, and then
everybody gets DIP hopefully and troops
ever To the Annex They walk around
there for a little while with the rest
Of the crowd that is walking around
and then troop back to the Auditorium
again. and that Il all there u To II.
The White House Control
The truth is that. with the exception
Of some delegates srho hope and great
many who fear that there may ba
stampede for Roosevelt, few believe
that the convention viii do anything
but Jam through the regular cut.and
dried slate Of the president, as the M
ti0nal committee followed his orders
and seated the Taft delegates. Every
time there il the slightest prospect that
the delegates may have a chance to de.
eide something for themselves nlyasc
comes over the direct wire from Wash
ington that settles the thing ont 81
hand. The time has passed when there
was even any pretence that the presi
dent was not directing every detail Of