The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-25
nyetion Opens To-Day With Progressive Conservative Batl
CONVENTION .SLDEL,T GHTS

i ems. no. We Go not even permit
Sbands at the Sunday funerals in the
foreign quarters" gasped one of Bal
timore's finest from beneath the dinky
eight siXteenths of the Senator's col
duck that this city compcls her cops
30 wear.
Brass bands working a swcaty way
through the narrow corridors of the
Hotel Emerson Sunday night made Il
noise like regular convention, but
the hotel throngs had to be content
with all the excitement that can bc
got out OF the comminglcd roar of
shouts, three cheers and some tigers,
coming from upstairs headquarters,
and the combined chatter and Groom
OF laughter, tinkling glassware, clat-
ter of plates and silver and the ever
present talk. talk, talk and the shut
fins of white. black and tan shoes
along marble and mosaic floors now
not SO white as once they n.cre
Senator elect James X. Nardaman
stepped off regular train Of cars
and stands beneath IL black felt SOM
brero that is absolutely the only one
in the world fashioned along these
particular lines.
Long black looks conceal the rear
teight-siX1eenths OF the Senator's col
liar, and even hang over the aft seq
lment of the Vardaman white flannel
GOAT. White flannel trousers lead on
down to white shoes.
f, On the lapel of tho Senator's white
lcoat is an Elks badge of gold, out of
(which Jumps a big diamond. On the
senatorial soft shirt CLEANS a dia-
Emond stud which tugs at an oldfash-
tioned gold setting. The senator and
tho Hrnator1al scenery combine I"
make the most picturesque picture in
town.
III you're writing about folks"
isays a man at your elbow who sports
g u. -;
Eh's Panama, II am known up around
e1tockland. Me-, as character. I'm
tcalled by the homo folks Old Goose
}Grease Hurley, down here I'm sort of
ia free lance. SO far as l make 1t out,
lin sonle ways. In all othar ways I'm
Nor Champ Clark But back home
five been chairman OF tho state com
tmittee OF Maine. and anybody around
tRockland will tell you about the big
part played in the Yes and No cam
Paign on tho liquor question. Which
side was on? Come on and have a
drink. On the wagon Ell? Well. I'm
ION the other side. And the next time
,well win"
William G. McAdoo, the tunnel
f1outlder, looms tall and lank in II
squiet suit OF gray among the many
Gtartltng sartorial creations that fill
the Emmerson, the Belvedere and the
Motel sidewalks Gayest of all in the
crowds OF summary clothed visitors,
always excepting Colonel Bill Fair
unan. the ereactionary poet ana radical
delegate from PunNsutnwney. Pa.
stick out the younger set OF Harmon
Boomers.
Frank Earle Herring, who was the
star quarterback Of Chicago Uni
~ersity in bygone days. and aspircd TO
and won the office OF grand worthy
president of tho Eagles, and now at
tends to that job while not boo.ntn.;
Harmon is moderate conservative
in clothes. But his running mates of
this younger set disappear into an
elevator seemingly every hour on the
hour. to come forth some minutes
later In clothes a shade darker as the
hour for dinner coats gets near and
nearer But Boss Boomer Edward
Moore sticks to plain suit OF work
Ing clothes night and day
The man with the new live rubber
tread, who wedges his way along, is
Humphrey o'Sullivan and his own
heels. Mr.. O'Sullivan came 10 town
with a section OF the Massachusetts
Ehouters, who bears names like
O'Rourke. McGraw, Shaughnessey and
McT'gue. They are quartered in the
rectory of an Episcopal church.
The youthful lawyer. Michael Fran
els Doyle, and his fun portion of friz2y
plack hair, has just arrived on another
train OF cars. and is admitting around
the Hotel Belvedere that MIR Bryan
has asked him to act as personal Sec
rotary TO the Nebraska leader.
Up on the ninth floor of the hotel
Is the tall. somewhat lanlSy man of
middle age whose presence is tho nrst
/ fnt!maton to hundreds on hundreds
I OF visitors tnat WILLIAM Jennings
[ Bryan has ii: brother Charley Bryan.
! as the Older brother o. the Commoncr
ie called around the Nebraska head
l'Qusrters~ shocltingly disrcSards the
professional makeup of statcsmansh!p.
And he isn't lazy about mixing UP
| in lobby excitement and crowds either.
He wears n compromise hat OF black
felt above his short iron gray hair.
Eold-rimmed spectaclcs and -stubhy
iron gray mustache aud pepper ana
tsalt suit. but IL YOU hang around in
Nany small town and wait until the
noon dinner bell begins To clattcr in
sthe Mansion House in Main Street You
Twill see many OF the Charley Bryan
t1ype-leadinE hardware merchants.
Nall lawyers or prominent bank cashiers
.,-stick!ng their hats in the cubhy-
holes always placed just outside the
dining rooms near the toothplck table