The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21
CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS
Some Interesting Observations of Chief Fawns in the Strug gle For the Mastery of
 the Republican
 Organization.

| EAC E OI uAAO NA6Sg<1Ay OA t{ the Republican 11 I} Organization.
 The sale of Taft and Teddy souve-
 nirs having diedd own, the great
 army of street vendors has been load
 ed up with toys, of all sorts and tell
 the delegates to Take, em home to | the kids You buy anything from a
 rubber doll to a tin whistle;
 Those of the convention hall gal lery. who tired of the political gab-fest after two. days session, are eagerly sought out by the street ticket specu-
 lators. The cry is "I,ll buy your tic
 lands one of the cardboards, follow him around the corner and you'll hear Convention tickets for sale" And the price he gave is usually doubled.
 Bands playing for the T. R. side of the. political mess have been having great sport Kidding the Taft bands The latter stationed in front of Taft headquarters in the Congress Hotel, win strike up .'Everybody's Doin' It'' T. R. musicians will join in. Sounds Like Brotherly Love-but the T. R. men take great care to hit every note a little bit on the bias.
 tf The weak kneed- delegates havel found a place to sit down, the bench- es from the Congress Hotel Lobby have been placed in the subway that rilns under the auditorium. Here tho men smoke.
 Colonel Roosevelt, today, declared: l We'll lick 'em to death,'' when he read a letter written by V. A. yalkup. a cowboy of Apache. okla. to Ed F: 'sEd stand for Roosevelt and the right A6id the letter, ''as long as there are buttons on your clothes. If Roosevelt wins we will just simply tear the top off the hills here. Inl spite of. that damnably- thievins na- tional committee, Apache. is still on the mountain top."- o.s@ a>. ..e-. =
 ugh! What 2 jam: You know Il
 the disgusted vail, last night, of Mrs
 Chuancey M. Depew to her celebrated
 spouse as they squeezed through a
 hotel lobby from the elevator to the
 "Well, just look at my shirt, don't
 like them any better than you do.''
 Depew retorted laughingly pointing to
 a crumpled. shirt front. ,'My, my"
 he added, a moment later, I'm cer-
 model watch-an. old style one would
 be squashed in this mob.''
 It was a woman who brought the
 climax to Tuesdays demonstration
 around to Roosevelt and,. today, the
 thusiasm among the crowds along
 Michigan avenue by having a woman
 sing campaign songs She. is chic little ersonage with sweet but pow
 square when sung through mega
 phone. Occasionally. she varies the
 program by singing "Sflver Threads Among the Gold"-something that al-
 ways holds the older delegates. Al band helps out in accompaniments. E A hilarious night and morning suc- |sceeded the fierce tension Of yesterday |-the cup that cheered worked over time and Taftites shook hands over
 the cups with Rooseveltians of similar disposition. Not all who were still
 at it early today had spared the op- portunity but that self same spirit of |fraternation was in evidence. It was
 like the days of the early sixties when l
 the man of the north pacing sentry
 at nightfaH, swapped tobacco with his brother of the south across the way and next day resumed the pleas antries of war. ..r The temporary good fellowship. I today, was merefy g. relaxation. Each side told the other that they were "a good sort and would ultimately lis- ten to reagon, though neither. believed never had been a convention like this in national history. .
 There was just one crowd that found
 things too sloX n;ch rhe nlsehe aahed ca0 strong, last Monday. to add the weight of it's presence to Taftss support. To- day they had left for home. The Blaine club is used to having lots of attention paid to it. In the political situation, this year. no one spared much time to enthuse over the Blaine ites. The club couldn't even get into the convention as in former days. r. Progressive, is the nameN for the proposed new Roosevelt party sug- gested by William Allen White, of Kansas The Peoples Party would probably be more appropriate. but said White. Either the Progressive or National would be 4splendid names. Colonel Roosevelt suggested the latter in practicing his doctrine of new
 nationalism after his return from Afri-l Progressive, would be more appropri- ate" "votes for women read banner Haunted under Republican eyes at ev- cry turn. there being general suf- frage campaign during the conven- tion. A suffrage newspaper is also sold daily by women before the principal hotels and every afternoon in the suf- frage headquarters at the Fine Arts Building tea is served by the lead- ing suffrag gists to raise funds for the promotion of their campaign. 
 PARK AVENUE TEMPLE. The weekly services at the Temple 1 are held at o'clock Friday evening. and 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Rev. Dr. Maurice Thorner's subject this