Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-21
USE OF PLAIN TERMS
Republican Convention De-
scribed in Pink English.
VIEWED FROM THE RINGSIOE
Ohio Giant and Oyster Bay Bone
breaker in Combat.
sPARRING FOR AN OPENING
Situation Regarded as Logical Out
come of Convention System.
Expense, 100000 a Day.
sPARRING FOR AN OPENING
BY GEORGE FITCH.

Copyright. 1872, by the Associated Newspapers T,
CHICAGO. June 21.-Laying aside all
sclentihc terms and coming right down
TO plain pink extra English. the Republic
can convention situation seems to be this:
Bill Taft, the Ohio giant and Teddy
Roosevelt. the Oyster Bay bonebreaker,
are circling slowly around the mat with
their heads on each other S shoulders
milling for each other and looking for an
opening. The former has won two dog
! falls and the latter has claimed that the
referee tripped him in each case. The
| crowd is yelling for Roosevelt and is dar-
ing the officials to come outside minute.
oyster Bay man claims that unless the
strange hold is barred he will walk out
| of the ring. This the Ohio Giant would
be very glad to have him do. but for the
fact that he is afraid the Oyster Bay
man would take the stakes as he went
out, and that the audience would pro-
tect him.
/ This is not using due and appropriate
dignity i'm discussing two such eminent
men, but dignity is awfMly hard to find
in this campaign. There hasn't been
real case Of dignity at Congress Hotel Tor
two weeks and the Coliseum is entirely
free from it.
committee will have terrible time scrap
ing up enough of this obsolete stun to
dissolve the tobacco and Nitrol out OF the
platform. For twenty-four mortal hours
this convention has stood still While the
credentials committee has been tossing
coins and picking daisy petals and cutting
cards from the deck trying to make up
it's mind whether to sustain all the con-
test decisions of the national committee
or to hand back enough delegates to Mr..
70 he Vim int n y n
coma while the convention iattens him
out.
Problem Confronts Committee.
If the credentials committee could de-
eide just how many delegates it cared to
put back safely the job could be finished
up in a hurry. But it can't. and SO it
has toiled all day while 1876 delegates,
an equal number of alternates. a train
load of contesting delegates, a large
band, 800 policemen. 1890 honorary Off
Gals and several thousand camp follow
ers and visitors have been waiting on
them
This simply demonstrates once more the
supreme chuck medicines of the CONVEX
ton system. 1t is an Eiffel Tower of
folly and is run with less sense than is
required to operate Spr.nkling cart sue
cessfuly. 1t costs. including hotel hills
and laundry. 100000 a day to run re-
publican national convention.
The waste OF this S1Ga.UtW day is es-
pecially irritating from another stand
point Although it is not suspected at
present by more than a few. Vice Presi-
dent is to be nominated when the big
show is over. He will be nominated with
the usual haste and infornlality. While
the janitors are busy shoveling the man
eled atmosphere out of the convention hall
al the close OF the final presidential bal
lot Brother Barnes will exclaim as he is
putting on his coat: Here. we've for
gotten to nominate "A Vice President" and
Chairman Root lie wraps up his splin-
tered gavel. will say: That's So come
back, YOU fellows. the equivalent of
these words in cutaway-coat language.
Then the convention will sit W ca rily down
and try to think up good man for the