The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-19
CONVENTION SIOELIGHTS Some Interesting Observations of Chief Pawns in the StruG- gle For the Mastery of
 .the Republican
 Organization.

$lc F or Iu0 MaSCery O1 { .the Republican
 Organization.
 
 Kermit Roosevelt is an assistant sergeant-at-arms at the convention. Beyond wearing badge he is not re- quired to do any assisting. In fact. the aisle in which Kermit assigned himself was so crowded, today, with constructive sergeants that the police ordered half of them our.f The ex- presidents son finally took 8 seat on the floor.
 Bob and Bill LaFollette,s the IA and l6 year old sons of the Wisconsin candidate, are booming their father by distributing red LaFolIette hat bands to everybody who Is willing to wear them.
 Patrick Holloran. of Edison; Wash, "elected'' Senator Root as temporary chairman, his being the 540th vote cast for the New Yorker-the last vote Root needed to cinch his Job.
 Prisoners of war literally are the bandsmen in the coliseum, caged 100 feet in the air. They play until the convention convenes and then sit idle until the adjournment
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 When Victor Rosewater. chairman of the national committee, presented his gavel to Senator Root, temporary chairman, the diminuttve engineer of the steamroller retired permanently from active duty. He is busted from the committee by R. B. Howell, of Omaha. and takes a back seat as a bystander during the remainder of the convention.
 A "No Smoking sign' is vigorously observed and causing nervous spasms throughout large part of the session: sDry' smokes are the resource of "Boss" Flinn. Governor Johnson. Col. New. Big Steve" Stevenson and oth- CTS. F1inn uses the same cigar during an entire session, carefully tuching it in his pocket during outbursts against the steamroller. A
 Senator Root made his keynote speech to the accompaniment of whisking broom yielded by janitors in the galleries. The white wings be- gan cleaning out immediately after august efforts of the distinguished New Yorker.
 The Roosevelt general headquarters are on the second floor of the Con- gross Hotel just above the main en-
 
 sic there and more noise among the Rooseveltites than over among the Taft outfit, the crowds seem to drift over to the strenuous ones camp Stairs and elevators are congested to the suffocating point.
 Today, the hotel management de- cided to make visitors to the Roose- welt headquarters walk. up the stairs. He gave orders to the elevator con- ductors not to take passengers to the second floor. The wise ones in the 3rd floor and walked down a flight.
 Noise-making apparatus among del- egates is conspicuous by it's absence at this convention: A few of them appeared, today. with megaphones but there wasn't horn or whistle to be seen anywhere.
 A colored delegate from South Caro- lima, today, Is nursing a throat with 2 real raspy feeling. 1estsrdaX e the the perfect imitation of a Mississippi steamboat whistle. He and his friends were so elated with this dis covery that the man with the voice worked overtime. He didn't today.
 Mrs William Borah, wife of the Idaho Senator. did not remain in the coliseum any longer than she could help after Roots election was an- nounced Pulling her hat back to the middle of her head from the side. she said.
 "Isn't it too bad. But it doesn't mean that Taft has the nomination by any means.''
 It was not a picnic party that start ed out from the downtown hotels. %H>s ANpA&x hM ansA yxyfft ha q kets were carrying lunch to the coli scum for the wives of the delegatesI and prominent visiting politicians who went to the convention hall to re- main all day.
 the big hotels last night. Mrs. Ar thur Meeker, wife of the Chicago pack CT, entertained the ambassador for Germany, Count Won Bernstorf, one of the convention's distinguished guests.
 It was night of wild hilarity. last night, for thousands on both sides. the Roosevelt supporters profeseine certainty of victories in nominating the national ticket and the Taftites flushed with their success in electine Root.
 The widest scene of all was enact ed in the Pempeiian room of the Con- gress Hotel where yell followed up- on yell in various parts of the gay throng at the tables and brought the assemblage to it's feet time and again with false alarm that Roosevelt or some other celebrity had hove in sight.
 Gayeet of all was party of mixed Taft and Roosevelt adherents who at table near the foun- tain. Finally a dare was sprung with the women's laugh backing it up and one of the men, waving aloft Taft banner and shouting a laughing defi- ance to the others, sprang into the beautiful POmpeiian fountain in the center of the room. Heed1ess of the water that spla6hed and sprinkled over and about him, he scrambled up I and planted the flag in the squirting crest of the fountain. There was a C1aaS a the fOn of the fountain