Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-30
Correspondence of The star.


- VEN natives Of Baltimore failed
to recognize the town during
the past week. She was like
woman whom a man sees
for the first time in ball dress
after having known her for years
So bedecked and festooned and a-shim-
mer with Jewels of light that, al
though her lineaments were the same
she appeared a stranger
And Monday will be like the day
after the ball. Already the various
candidate placards adjoining the outer
walls of the Emerson Hotel are show
ing signs of bedragglement and tho
white wings force is utterly unable to
keep clear the paper-strewn streets.
For that convention Is certainly en-
loving ITSELF it enjoys eating Da-
ranas and similar "peelable fruits
and throwing the skins on the pave
ment almost as much as 1t does Yelling
like mad up at the 9Th Regiment ar
mory. Indeed. the appetite of the con-
veutionists is one OF the most vivid I'M
pressions of the week. They were al
wavs hungry or always clamor1ng TO
be. fed and then clamoring at what
they had to pay to be fed.
of the great event. Most striking, from
a womans point of view, was the
unique and unprecedented prominence
given other women at this convention.
They ruled 1t inside and out. Gone
were the days of the modest gown ana
picture hat nodding encouras1ngly
from galleries and back seats women
occupied the favored places on me
delegates platforms; women had the
star" seats in the section reserved Tor
newspaper writers-and, not content
with being represented by active mem
beers of the force. even non-Journal-
istic wives OF newspaper writer's wore
badges and occupied such seats
Women entirely directed all the So
cial features of the convention.
The strictly male banquet langulshed
and died from want of attention.
Not only did the ladies insist on do
ing the entertaining, but they drew
sion from which they would have been
excluded. Probably never before was
there such a thoroughly Woman-r1 doeh
political gathering. And, from won
ans side it was beautiful and most de-
sirable and indicative. perhaps, that
American sisters won't have to go en-
masse to either Capitol or White
House in order to fs get the tine deuence For
he told a few reporters-maybe not
more than a hundred-the day ne ar
rived. that Mrs. Bryan didn't WISH MIN
to run for anything. and, well, he
Notwithstanding all the men
remarked that the "old fire. was gone
from his speech and wondered, but the
women understood. He knew Mrs.
Bryan didn't approve and that she was
watching him from the hall and he
must have felt like a kiddie at party.
knowing he would be spanked when ne
got home
Even In the crammed and damned hotel
Hobbies women were the center OF attrac-
ton Nobody who witnessed the numer-
our grand triumphs of Mrs. Norman T.
Mack from taxicab to Belvedere and from
Belyedere to taxicab will ever forget 1t
or them Her wonderfully elongated
seed pearl earrings. her high-heeled shoes
with very visible buckles, her white SILK
chantilly lace and immense picture hat are
still the talk of Baltimore They do that
sort of thing in the morning In New YORK,
you know. but not in old-fashioned Bal
timore. But, all the same, she made the
wives of lot of country delegates look
as II they had just come back from
hunting turkeys in a thunderstorm.
These Hobbies represented proof posi-
tive that two bodies can and do occupy
the same space at the same time, no mat
ter what old fogy scientists may. believe
on the subject. And they seethed ana
steamed and echoed and throbbed with
congested block of humanity, trying to
get itself heard and mop perspiration-
furrowed brows, and locate it's mail and
crawl into two elevators and pay out
money all at once.
Which recalls a firm impression created
Monday that the clerk at the Emerson
must be a republican. Why else did he
put the Champ Clark headquarters on the
fifteenth floor when there are only two
elevators going up that far and nearly
all the people in the world-remember this
is an impression-to go up in them? 1t
was the one point where woman was
worsted She could not face being sar-
dined into those shooting boxes as a
funny man called them In her hearing.
And amid all this turmoil were the
suave amond-horseshos1, utterly un-
hurried geniuses of the hotel desk. All
delegates looked alike to them. pros
pective President of these United States
and the voter who came in on an excur-
sion ticket were merely numbers by
WHICH their rooms could be located.
I'd at Convention Hall William Jen-
nings Bryan talked his listeners into a
fever OF enthusiasm and coined epigra,ns
and made all the other personalities feel
that they were make-bei.evers LEADERS
were in such awe of him he just about
say faded" But what did hotel clerk
care about that? He was busy, and when
a meek looking secretary walked up to
register a protest because he couldn't get
the August Ones mail, or his papers or
anything, the lofty warden OF the
inmates registered there replied. "Aw.
tell him he's lucky to get a room-he
came mighty near not getting itr And
IL seemed as II the marble columns Of the
lobby trembled.
Nobody needed a guide book to tell
where the delegates came from. By their
tooks shall ye know them might have
cen the slogan. for the spruce New
orhTt tho psctureequely, careless south
mar: the fs1t-hAtted westsrner: the pep
sr-And-salt suited provincial, tho gem
'iaman-6armar and gentemanly crook
we're an - clearly tagged by COSTUME
:cnsA ana hsA-oandsd for their favosits
SON
0uUD a03kafWs - Svssy oungeEtat
deosw11 a tn town wayls3d unsus
"eotng 0olk Win ''Votss Tor Women"
5uksunA -H9s, yuu pin this ON and wear
t. se00g0d Q wtAtelnen-frocked mom-
b0 a a. m0vsment whose political BE-
Iis1s Wus boldly st forth In q marshal
Of ysanoe ribbon running ffom left
shoU161 10 tight hip And although the
writer docs not believe in votes fol
womar % formidable was the order tina,
The button wa1 not only pinned meskly
on, 641 WON all day.
fno oAmA vigorous methods must have
been applied to business people. too, foz
t. II