The Washington herald., 1912-06-20

persuasion. just ask Col Pete" You'll
tnd out and learn II. too, in the vigorous
and variegated English for which the
colonel is famous.
Col. Roosevelt was receiving the news
paper men and was handing them large
bunches OF information about the state
OF the progressive movement and the
condition Of the Taft table OF delegates
In the midst Of II the colonel espied
Edward r. Clark. Washington corre-
spondent for the Chicago Evening Post.
He forgot all about politics.
Hello. Clark, want 10 talk to you
about birds"
Clark is one Of the authorities Of the
land on the lore Of birds, and many
a pleasant hour he and the colonel have
put in talking about them. On this
particular occasion. while the heat Of
the political battle ragged around him.
he took Clark OF in one corner and
held solemn converse with him on the
solemn question Of why the house wren
had left Oyster Bay and kindred topics
We'll" remarked one man who heard
1.-THE story, 'I'n bet there's one bird he
didn't talk about"
What was that?'
The dove OF peace"
Who are the best politicians here?'
was asked OF Ormsby McHarg. former
assistant secretary, or the Department
OF Commerce and Labor. and in charge
OF the contests on the Roosevelt side
Mr.. McHarg. he it known. is no slouch
OF a politician himself
There are just two OF them here that
I always take my hat OF to-" said Nc
Harg One is Roosevelt and the others
William L. Ward"
4 newspaper man was walking down
Michigan Avenue from the direction Of
the Coliseum before the convention
opened. He met a friend.
Say" said the newspaper man. cant
YOU come along with me TO the hotel "
I'm afraid Of being held up"
Held up? Why "
We'll, I've got fve press tickets in
my pocket. I'm taking them to the men
entitled to them. II anybody suspects
it I'll be waylaid and my remains
thrown into the lake before I can ar
rive at my destination"
Parties in gay attire. with servants in
tow carrying lunch baskets. formed
procession from the big hotels 10 the
Coliseum during the noon hour. which
resembled picnic crowd starting OF for
a day in the woods.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr
Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins Smith, the Misses
WibOrg, Lafayette Gleason. all OF New
York, and Mrs. William 2. Borah. OF
Idaho, were among those who carried
their lunches to the Coliseum.
Samuel Gompers, president. and John
b. Lennon, treasurer Of the American
T-,larafgrH nF I h,-
last night and began formulation of
plsnks they will submit for insertion in
the Republican platform.
An embryonic sufrragette may have
keen cured OF her desire to vote by an
unpleasant experience she met with last
night. Goaded on by her friends to make
n political speech, she stood on her chair,
cEly to lose her balance and tumble into
the fountain in the Pompeiian room of
the Congress. The sudden plunge wrecked
her train OF thought, and what she might
have said will never be known.
Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here" and
the Yale "Boola'' song are being done to
death by the dozen or more bands that
are constantly parading from one hotel
to another in the interest OF the candi-
dates.
Kermit Roosevelt is an assistant ser
gsant-at-arms in the convention. Be
yond wearing a badge he is not required
TO do any assisting. In fact, the aisle
to which Kermit was assigned was so
crowded to-day with seTgeant-at-arms
that the police ordered half Uf them out
The former Presidents son finally took
a seat on the floor
Bob and Bill La Toilette, the fourteen
and sixteen-year-old sons Of the Wiscon-
sin candidate, are booming their father
by distributing red La Toilette hatbands
TO everybody who is willing to wear
them.
The no smoking rule is vigorously
enforced, and is causing nervous spasms
to a large part Of the convention dele
gates. Dry smokes are the resource
OF Bill Finn, Gov. Johnson. Col. New,
Big Steve Stevenson, and others. Finn
uses the same cigar during an entire
session, carefully tucking II in his pocket
during the outbursts against the steam
roller.
The Roosevelt general headquarters are
on the second floor OF the Congress Hotel.
Just above the main entrance. Because
there is always music there and more
noise among the Rooseveltites than over