Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-01
NELLIE bly, PICTURES
BIGCONVENT|ON AS A
HIVE OF HUMAN BEES

ican aspirant endeavored to come
upon the platform. He is reporting the
convention, He is showed gently but
firmly back
That must be jar The fckleness
of fate Had chance taken different
turn he would have been the object Of
the worlds attention, and now, just be-
cause Dame Fortune dealt a better
hand to Mr. Taft, poor LaFolette is
showed unknown and UNDECIDED down
the stairs.
Bob CHAMBERS Glasses.
Mrs Taft slips quietly out Of her
chair and the talkative lady who re-
mains behind suddenly loses her ami
nation and looks tired Creighton
Webb has just taken a seat in the front
balcony. He is pale and has a purple
shirtwaist which adds to his pallor.
Miss Glare Bryce, whose red hair is in
tensifed in here by the vividness of
| the blue gown is whispering to Bob
Chanler who has adopted black
trimmed glasses which rival the largest
ever worn by a proud Chinese man
DARN The gifted Bob evidently means
to see what's going on about him here
after. The resist of the roll was re-
peated. Some one said it was ~ac-
curate. Editor Mooney, of Memphis.
suggested to Melville Stone that it
would be a good thing to have an add
ing machine.
81 am an adding machine" replied
Mr. Stone.
Mooney meant figures, not popua-
ton, Melville" said another reporter
quickly.
Bryan. having fired his speech into
the convention and gotten rid of his
hatred for those who have more than
he has, has left the platform and gone
back to his hotel to dictate for the
newspaper men his story of how 1t oc-
Cured
Busy as a bird" said Editor Mooney.
who had followed his idol to his hotel.
1t is II. the bottle is no more the ia
vorite of babes and drunkards and cir
Gus bears
Everybody With Bottle.
Even when ! look | see men and
women draining bottles joyfuliy and
unabashed. 1t looks as if everybody in
the armoGy has bottle. have seen
some with two That makes at least
1000 bottles in this building. Imagine
the joys Of the gentlemen who use
sleigh bells in the summer | mean
the gentlemen who sing:
Amy rags, any clothes. any bottles
today, is the same old song in the same
old way
And then he says on the photograph
record in gruff, fierce tone. ANY
rags, lady?"
And the lady says in a high falsetto,
NO rags today and smokers.
They are working the can now in the
balcony where Bob Chandler sits. 1t
Is a small red can and it's taking the
place of loving cup. Each one drinks
from it in turn
And that in this microbe prosecuted
age And when even the common peo-
pie have sworn devotion to the sani-
tary individual paper cup.
Some one is throwing up balloons
labeled Clark. 1t may be sign but
they won't float and the majority burst.
Senator Luke Lea, of Nashville Tenn
the Youngest man in the United States
senate, came up while the Clark men
were bowling to talk to Editor Mooney.
Are you for woman SUFFRAGE" /
asked the handsome senator
Did YOU put it in the platform.
Mooney he asked
No, but it ought to be there, said
Mr. Mooney. Women could conduct a
Democratic convention better than the
men run this aggregation Of frenzied
delegates"
And do you and the senator believe
in woman's suffrage? ?" | asked
Yes do, and have believed in ii
for years" he said. IF we permit
women to work and force them into the
shops and factories. we should give
them all the political rights we have.
IF women could vote they would
command better wages and they would
not be Disseminated against as they
now are, Also any woman who pays
taxes should have a property right to
vote. Women should control their
separate estates entirely free OF hus-
bands Interference"
win you support woman suffrage in
your paper hereafter2'
"The paper ] serve Is a bigger insti-
tuition than am he said evasively.
Everything has been heard except the
"houn' dog Strange that even the
song is not heard during this demon
stration. As for the "houn." no one
seems TO know he is not here.
Nv Clark's daughter is on the plat
form. She waves dag. but quite as IL
she must. She does not look as If she
felt she could create much noise. shes
a pretty girl and dressed becomingly in
blue. Pity she has not more vim