The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-16
"REMINISCENCES OF
THE CONVENTION
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and other dangerous diseases But
sheets are frequently washed and
boiled. Germs that find lodgment
there are killed by the hot water. Nine
foot sheets are SO long that they have
to be turned far down over the covers
Now doctors say that this folding back
of the sheets furnishes a splendid pro-
lection from the tuberculosis and other
germs, tenacious of life, that house
themselves in the coverings.
But enough of Oklahoma. It was
in reality only one of the side shows,
apart from the big tent.
The Six Separate Sessions.
The convention held six separate
sessions before the platform was adopt
ed and the candidates for President
and Vice President nominated. Two
of these were evening sessions. One of
these night sessions was Wednesday.
The business was the report of the
Credentials Committee. 1t was full of
ginger, for be it remembered that prac-
tically all of the important business of
the Convention, apart from the nominal
ton of the Vice-President, was trans
acted deep in the night, long after the
mighty mountains were swathed in
darkness.
The night sessions were extremely
pretty and spectacular. Then, as al
ways when the Convention was In ses-
sion, the hall was thronged to its ca
pacity. Generally a goodly proportion
of the on-lookers in the galleries were
ladies and most of the ladies included
white shirtwaists in their becoming at
tire. So the great expanse of pretty
faces looked out from what seemed TO
be a setting of white, unbroken with
the gayer colors which one associates
with feminine raiment on public occa-
sions. The electric lights in great cir
cular clusters in the lofty ceiling were
Of a power that made the hall as bright
as day. The music of the Alamoosa
Cowboy band was generously inters-
persed in the proceedings.
The first night session, which as
stated, was to consider and adopt the
credentials of the convention, put all
in the great hall on the qui vive. A
great, old fashioned Democratic fight
was expected. On the whole it did
not materialiZe. Whatever difference
of opinion there may be about the
political principles and plans, associat-
ed with the convention, the Demo-
Gratis in their Denver Convention per-
sistently refused to live up to the old
| tradition of making fools of them
selves.
There were several ugly contests
| over the rights of delegates to seats
| in the convention. 1t was these thai
the Credentials Committee had to dea
with. They had steam roller of theii
| own, just as the Republicans had q
steam roller at Chicago. They rar
over the Honorable Patrick McCarren
of Brooklyn, refused to seat his con.
| testing delegates and seated the dele
gates who are under the domination OF
Boss Charlie Murphy, of Tammany
Hall. But they also ran over and
iattened out the gray haired Jim
Guffey. of Pennsylvania, by refusing
to seat the delegates he had secured
in the city of Philadelphia.
| 1t was claimed that these delegates
of Guffey's were elected by fraud, par
ticuiarly by collision and arrangement
with the Republican ring leaders II
the city Of Brotherly Love and mysteri
Gus municipal politics. But Col. Guffey
had served many years on the Nationa