The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-20
. CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS Some Interesting Observations of Chief Pawns in the Strug- gle For the Mastery of
 the. Republican
 Organization.
Organization.

l of the delegates-at-large, was pinninl on the medal which the New Yorl delegation weafs-a handsome gol( affair about the size of a half dollar | suspended by a ribbon from a bal l bearing the inscription "New York; l when somebody made a joking com. ment to the effect that they couldnt be real gold.
 "Do you remember" asked Merritt "l1ow the Connecticut delegation brought a lot of badges here foul years ago ornamented with wooden nutmegs? They were very popular so the supply was soon gone, and one of the delegates asked Senator Frank B. Brandegee what was to be done. "Get some more," said the Senator
 !" But there aren't any wooden nut megs in Chicago said the delegate,
 Well, go out and get some real
 ones," said Brandegee. '.The people
 will never know the difference"
 James G. Blaine is an. alternate from Rhode Island. He is for Pres ident Taft: and 1t may or may not have anything to do with the fact that Roosevelt opposed the nomina tion of the earlier James G. Blaine for the Presidency in 1884.
 Tickets to the Convention could cas- ily be sold for $100 apiece. and the price will. go higher than that by the middle Of the week. All sorts of pre- dictions are being made as to the spectacular events that will occur at are willing to, pay fancy prices to witness them Fred W. Upham, who raised the money to pay. the Conven- tion expenses, has been distributine the tickets on the basis of one for each $50 suhcribed; and he figures that licity has been given to the fact that tickets are hard to get; yet he re- ceived in his mail recently 8 letter which read as follows:
 "Inclesed find $4. for which pleass forward me four good platform seats" z. s.. 1" told Mr. Upham that he would try to get along with two.
 Mrs Livia Simpson Poffenbarger. wife of judge of the Supreme court of West Virginia. Is attending the CT. She is a newspaper publisher, and is regarded by many as the best poli- tician-man or woman-in her State. Representative James A. Hughes, tho only Republican Congressman from his State. is said 10 have declared that this woman was responsible for his election. Yet she is not a suffragist. She says on this score:
 American women do not want it. Every argument points toward it's be. ing right. but. if the woman doesn't can woman today has everything she asks for: and. If she really asked her me. she would get It."
 Tn regard to her object in attending the Convention. she says:
 "Stay on the Reservation--that's Convention, whoever he may be, and against bolting. come from a State that is unanimous for Roosevelt; but I believe in sticking to the Republi. can party. even if he is not nominat- ed."
 Walking through "Peacock Alley."1 the white marble corridor where 1e- sions of richly-gowned women have been counted among the preconvenion crowds. man suddenly said to his 
 a frightful thing 1t will be when we get universal suffrage for women and this complicated tangle of politics has to be still further complicated by the actual participation of women in it?"
 That women are not deficient in the adjectives of politics at least was be- ing proved at that very minute in the Illinois theatre, where the Chicago were holding a mass meet ing. After Clifford Pinchot had sounded a keynote, women speakers got up and said that the National Committee were thieves. and applied the word "short- sighted" and thick headed" to them.
 ''If there were more women dele- gates in the Convention.' asserted Florence Collins Porter, delegates from there would be mo possi- bility of the disgraceful scenes that probably will occur on the Conven- ton floor this week." James w. Wadsworth, IT,, chairman of the New York delegation, used to be first baseman of the Yale base ball team in his college days. He was in the lobby of the Congress Hotel last evening when Jack Green way came up. Greenway is the Har- yard athlete who became a Rough | Rider and was a particular pet of Col. l He lives in Arizona, and he was one of the delegates from that State unseated by the National Com 1 mittee.
 Greenway was perfectly furious over having been thrown out. Indeed. | his rage was comical. He told. in terms which would have done credit | to his chief what manner of outrage l he considered it. Wadsworth, who is famous for his good nature, is, of | course. for Taft, and he gave Green | way some playful jabs which made the ex-Rough Rider the more furious. l
 Just then Heffelfinger Of Minneapo-I is. the Yale football demi-god of | years ago, joined the party Heffel- finger saw how things stood and ob- served malicously that while he low sd T. R. he thought the contests had been decided exactly right. In the | neat of the argument Greenway and aeffelfinger began swinging their arms around in the air so dangerous.i y that the chairman of the New York delegation discreetly withdrew.
 A witticism which has been going It is the steam roller against the cash register.
 No delegation attracted more atten- ion than the Oklahoma one which ar lived carly Sunday afternoon under he leadership of Dynamite Ed" Per- ". Each member of the party woreI ! leather apron bearing a portrait of he Colonel, and some verses calcu- ated to inspire the reader with en- .husiasm for his candidacy. There vas banner with the inscription. We're boosting Teddy and the band played "Everybody's Doin' It. Per- y carried a suit case on the sides of which was painted "Dynamite-explo- 'ives." When somebody asked him what he expected to do with it he the right man.
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