The sun., 1908-06-13
TAFT'S BOOM ON FLOOR NO. 1S
HAS NO HEADQUARTERS BUf
THOSE Ar THE WHITE HOUSE.
Uncle Joe Cannon's Boom Housed In Par
loF That 10 Bedecked a. for q wedding
With Palms and Rubber Plants-Fair-
banks People Are still Exuding Hope

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CHICAGO, June I2.-There are six full
fedged Presidential boons all nicely quar-
tered here now. On Sunday when the
La Toilette boom arrives from Wisconsin
there will be seven, all prepared TO receive
delegates and treat them nicely no matter
what the outlook.
All day long to-day they have been polish
ing up the quarters of the different booms
and getting ready for the delegates that
will begin to pour in here tomorrow.
From the custodians OF each boom, IL
you step in to inquire how things are going
you will get not strong words OF cheer but
some hope. The flags and the pictures
are all there staring you in the face. There
is doorkeeper to bow you in and bow you
out, and when you get through visiting the
sixth and last boom you find yourself al
most believing that this convention is going
to see fine, free for all, stand up fight no
matter what they tell you down in the cor
ridors
The booms officially registered here
banks, Foraker, Knox and Hughes.
band Of official boomers goes with each,
caretakers, doorkeepers, button sowers
respectable crowd. They are all ready
TO welcome the delegates, pour out ice
water for them, pin buttons on them and
work over them just as though there was
not any Washington machine in existence.
That's what the official boomers are here
for and if any one thinks it all fran cd up
and says What's the user let him come
here, examine a boom for himself, talk
to the chief boomer, or his typewriter if
he's out, and he'll think different.
Gosh durn it ALL" said Western dele
gate who had visited the six booms and
got officially stamped by each 80 that his
Breast shone with buttons, Il believe
there's a go en- TO be something like scrap
here after all to tell the boys about at home.
While there are conferences among the
managers of the booms opposed to the
Taft boom nevertheless preparations are
to tackle the incoming delegates in the
interest of each candidate. For instance
the Fairbanks boomers met this afternoon
at their headquarters at the Annex and ap-
pointed a committee OF five to plan and
supervise one Of the greatest missionary
movements of modern times. lhis com
mittee is TO organize all the Indiana dele
gates arriving tomorrow as missionaries
and send them forth to visit every delega-
ton and plead the cause of the lofty man
nominate Fairbanks, is among those due
to arrive tomorrow.
I'VE still have hope" said Joseph Healing,
one of the Fairbanks managers. Its
just a hope, to be sure but were gong
TO tackle evey delegate and show them that
Mr. Fairbanks ia the man who ought to get
this nomination. There are e. good many
Taft delegates whove dropped In here and
told us that they don't quite like the way
things are going. We're going TO carry
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mittee on credentials, and after that TO the
, convention II necessary, and plead Tor falr
play. Indiana is for Fairbanks and we're
going to stand by him.
When they hea rd how busy the Fairbanks
boomers were the Knox men thought that
they might get busy tomorrow along the
| same line too. The Knox headquarters
are also in the Annex. They have had
| fine photograph OF the Pennsylvania Sen,
ator enlarged TO life size and these enlarged
photogra phs have come in for great deal
| Of admiration. Tomorrow they are going
to hang out a bigger picture yet OF MI
| Knox on the Fine Arts Building in Michigan
avenue, all fixed up with electric lights, and
it has been arranged for the three marching
clubs that are coming here from Pttsburg
and Philadelphia to get under that picture
and make the biggest kind Of a noise.
While the Knox and Fairbanks boomers
were pretty busy to-day and emitting
large quantities Of hope, things were
at the Auditorium. The Cannon boomers
have taken big parlor on the second
| floor in addition to several smaller rooms.
In fact you could stow all the booms away
nicely in the area devoted to Uncle Joe.
Perhaps it was the size OF the rooms that
made the Cannon boom look a little lone
some -,
This afternoon they produced big oil
painting Of Uncle Joe. evidently made in
haste and portraying him rs the most youth,
lno r.lI
and without wrinkle on his homely face.
cred the aoor with rugs and then things
looked little more cheerful Later in
the day they ordered up some nice palms
and rubber plants. OF course this is all
hero tomorrow.
To-day the place looked for all the world
like a house parlor all fixed up for we'd
ding The Cannon men say they have two
vote for Uncle Joe, but they were extremely
shy when asked for estimates OF the
strength Of their boom to-day. They
were awfully glad to show you that parlor
| though. ~
! away in one room near the top OF the Great
Northern Hotel. r. H. Stevenson, the
official caretaker left the Foraker boom
with assistants most OF the day, but he
declared that OTdkeT WOulU DC III tllt ilSnL
to the bitter end. There aren't any flags.
buttons or much enthusiasm on view up
where the Foraker boom is staying just now.
| but there are two Ohio delegates for Foraker.
and they say that Charlie Taft would give
the Chicago baseball team for them. 80 that
il is really worth while keeping the boom
oficially registered just to get even.
Curious persons arriving in town to-day
, I, intent on asoertaining just what real Pres
idential boom looks like in its official quar-
ters and with all the trimmings had hard
time locating the Taft boom. strange as
that may seem. In directory Of the booms
that has been published IL was put down as
being at the Annex. Persons who looked
around for 10 at tL, Annex could not find it
on any of the floors devoted to suoh pur-
poses, but they were finally directed TO a
room on the thirteenth floor. This proved
to be the room of Mr.. Hitchcock. but even
he was not visible for those who had made
this climb.
"Mr. Taft has no regular headquarters,
and Mr.. Hitchcock is at the Coliseum was
what the visitors got from the man who
opened the door He failed to add that the
Taft boom is being managed from the
White House. That shows the difference In
booms.
IMAM Enp RRTAN