Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-21
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CHICAGO, June 1S.-Chicago's storm
center was switched overnight from
the Congress hotel on Michigan avenue
to the gray-walled coliseum on Wabash
avenue. From now on the hotel viii
cease being a combination madhOuse.
college campus. battle ground and hui
man maelstrom and will resume its
normal functions of providing sleeping
accommodations and refreshments to
guests within its portals.
At s o'clock Monday morning there
stood outside the coliseum and extend
ing in a serpentine effect for a block
and a half down the street a line of
waiting men that for tenacity of pur-
pose and unwearied effort made the or
binary gallery line outside the Metro
politan opera house on Aida" night
look fretful and FESTIVE. At noon the
line was still there, only it had grown
considerably. The line was composed
of your Office boy. neighbor. janitor and
the man who lives in the fiat upstairs
and they all wanted positions as ser
geants-at-arms at the Republican ma
tional convention The fact was that
the ergeants-at-arms had been care
fully picked and passed upon by
Messrs. Thayer and Stone, but the ap-
plicants didn't know that. They didn't
even know what sergenat-at-arms
was, but it sounded military, and, any
way, it got guy into the big show,
didn't it? And getting into the big
show these days is a feat requiring
finesse pull and power.
No hungry bread line waiting for
it's midnight roll and hot coffee ever
moved up one with more eagerness.
Lined up on the other side of the rope
on the sidewalk were $50 picked police,
and they weren't picked from Chicago's
famous beauty squad either. They were
chosen for their cool-headedness, good
judgment, courtesy and strength, quail
ties which they will need in large guam
titles from now until the close of the
convention. The requirements made
upon the sergeants-at-arms are still
more Chesterfieldian.
CAMPAIGN WELLS.
For the first time in the history of
politics the college yell found its way
into a campaign and California, which
has been starting things ever since it
marched into Chicago a hundred strong.
was the state that started it. There
would be nothing remarkable about that
if it didn't illustrate something. Men
who manipulate college yells are usual
ly young men. These Californians who
started the yell were very young and
very Rooseveltish. They marched. In
dian fashion, through the Florentine
room, down the stairs, into the lobby,
and to the street. This was their yell,
in defiance of the steam rollerites:
Fight 'em, fight em, fight EN-
rah, rah, rah. Californian"
1t doesn't look impressive, but IT
sounds rather thrilling with the proper
scenery, and a strong bass effect
One more day of activity and tension
such as has pervaded headquarters since
Friday and something must surely have
snapped. The seething excitement
of it has infected women as veal as men,
and they were more than ever in evil
dence where things were likely to be
liveliest.
Mrs Roosevelt, over at the Blackstone
hotel set an everlasting example. While
her husband was the center Of the boil
ing brew she was calmly knitting in
her hotel apartments Knitting. with
regular knitting needles and all the rest
of 1t, and she looked as placid and COM
posed as though she was sitting on the
veranda at Oyster Bay waiting for the
folks to come home TO supper.
In all the maze of doubt and con-
lecture and uncertainty, one thing stands
out in the convention with a clear and
unmistakable sureness. That is that
the dressiest parties at this political
soiree have been the colored delegates
from the south. Ordinary unnoticed in
dividuals like Colonel Roosevelt went
about in a SLOUGH hat and work clothes
Chauncey Depew, who won such repu-
tation for sartorial effects, and who
didn't consider himself clothed with de-
cency unless a gardenia graced his but
tonhole. smiled and bowed Under a
woolly velour hat, in the middle of June
Spick and spanness was noticeably
lacking in the governors and senators,
but not in the ranks of the colored dele
gates. Where the air caught the CLEAN