The Washington times., 1912-06-11

Hotel Pompeiian room, originated a
unique feature when he twisted an
orange peel in the shape Of rough
lemonade that went to a table where
several Taft boosters we're seated.
you can't go In there unless you're
a reporter" said the man on the door
at the Roosevelt headquarters. The
ivistor tried to explain, but was inter-
rupted BY an important-iookins man
why are you keeping Judge Kene-
saw Mountain Lands waiting?" he de-
manded.
here you are keeping him standing out
side because he's not a newspaper re-
porter" And the judge who fined the
Standard OIL Company S2s,0oo,0o0 walked
inside.
A big man whose physical and facial
appearance was strongly suggestive of
President Taft was talking loudly in
the hotel lobby:
|Id like to lay this on Colonel Roose-
heard him looked. From: his size and
appearance they thought It was a club
he had in his pocket, but when the con-
tents of the cavern was drawn out In
ner of the sub-Treasury. Everybody
laughed. ..
I'm not joking" roared the big man.
I'll put any amount from q to $4,000
on him." The big man was Major Dun
ply, of Topeka, Kans.
Governor Stubbs, of Kansas was
talking Of the seriousness of stealing
delegates"
Delegates or horses?" he said. ITS
as bad to steal one as the other"
RnnCaVNlt invnntad
steam roller and took all the delegates
he could In that way?'
Governor Stubbs was silent several
seconds. The he said: This is my first
convention"
"An Irishman picked it,
That's the never-failing exclamation
when a Republican convention delegate
enters the holy of holies where the ma
tional committee sits.
| BY "it' he means the color scheme.
Green walls, green mating, green furni-
ture, green palms and ferns are seen.
| and last, but by no means least, the
| green-bound lists of contests.
| All but the ceiling. That's orange.
That son of Erin must have come
tic comment made by one Irish dele
gate. The idea of picking green and
orange"
A new one has been uncovered about
Col. Edward Thayer, of Indianapolis,
assistant snergeant-at-arms at the coli.
scum. The colonel had a near adven-
ture with a ear-mountain lion, and,
take 1t from him, 1t was a thriller.
Colonel Ed has bungalow In Ari-
zona. He started for the woodhouse
one evening to get back log for his
fire. Here's the rest Of the story as he
tells it:
when / got to the shanty I started
to feel around for the lock on the thing
l put my hand on soms thing that was
alive. Every hair on my head stood
straight up, and ! don't know now wh!
Il thought Of mountain lions first
then panthers, wildcats, wolves, and, II
| fact everything I'm the wild West chased
itself through my mind I scuttled bacl
to the house without the log, ant
couldn't rest all night.
Next morning I went out to see wha
kind of tracks that monster had left
The tracks We're there. So was the mon
ster. 1t was an innocent little burr'
that had crowded close to the shed ou
of the rain"
A baby steam roller Is at work on tn
asphalt in front of the coliseum. Bu
the Taft men say they didn't even &c
inspiration from II.
Taft headquarters at the Congres
Hotel yesterday resolved itself into
baseball grandstand and the occupant
, devoted themselves to watching an In
n ternational contest on the lake front,
= team of Italians from the Gaul
Court district clashed with a pickle
= nine from the West Side. Numerou
bets flew back and forth between spec
s tators of the game and excitement ra
: high when the game neared an enc
a ~ oil hatQ WeT
h paid, Joseph Healing had amassed
s large stack of Taft buttons and en-
e blems. He says he can pick a WHINE
d in the national contest just as easily
he did in the ball game.
I The hat-in-the-ring button now wor
i, by Roosevelt adherents, has been adopt
: ed by Senator Joseph NJ Dixon, mana
4 ger of the Roosevelt campaign, as tn
o official Roosevelt emblem.
The inventor Of the button, Is. N
Jones, of Muskogee, Okla, has foilowe
Colonel Roosevelt through twenty-on
States selling the button. and Is sal
to be making a fortune at II.
Oscar Marshall, former partner Of th
e late "Bim, the Button Man" is plannin
Z to come to Chicago with a series
4 emblems which will be disposed OF
. | the Taft and Roosevelt camps.
u Thomas X. Niedringhaus, of Missouri
has a great antipathy for photograph
e ers in general and newspaper photot
It raphers in particular.
= mo, sir, 1 will not stand for m
d photograph" he said to group
It pleading photographers. PHOTOS al
e worse than sketches, and anyboo
g knows I don't want one Of them. what
II that? Been snapped while I was tall
ing to you? Say, let me out OF her
II You're too many for me-"
e The one and only genuine Alssl
q booster Is in town. He Is oliver Per
lie Hubbard. of the Territory, and he rae
lie ates Alaska praise wherever he goe
n n He says he has no ambitions to hu
~ or do anything else that will deple
te Alaska of her attractions, either +
lie the sportsman or the business man.
~ when a man gets up In the mornii
II and secs the tracks of dozens OF bea
Sc around his front yard he loses his d
eer sire to go bear hunting" said
ir Hubbard. I'VE have the greatest cou
try in the world in Alaska, and while
am here particularly as delegate i a
afraid I shall lose some of my intere
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