The Washington times., 1912-07-03
DELEGATES, BUSTED, f,
LEAVE BALTIMORE
ON BORROWED CASH
Wires to Home Towns and
Loans From Congressman
Help Democrats.
BY THEODORE TILLER.

BY THEODORE TILLER.
BALTIMORE. July 3-There is in our
midst today the quick touch" Dele
gates and alternates who have gone
broke" are limping out of town with
the financial aide of fellow from the
old home. a kindly Congressman. or
maybe a national committeeman.
The telegraph wires have ticked off
many a sad story within the past
| twenty-four to forty-eight hours. No
body expected this convention to be a
continuous performance.
The average delegate grabbed a grip,
| threw in a couple OF shirts, a collar or
so. and took the village bus to the de-
pot. He bought round-trip ticket, an
nexed enough money to last in BaltI-
more about two days and then started
upon an eventful journey.
These Melancholy Days.
But a strange thing Is politics, and
| stranger are the ways OF William Jen-
| nings Bryan. The Commoner staged
great show in the Monumental City, and
after playing a weeks stand remained
over day or SO longer by request"
Meanwhile, the delegate had fallen upon
sad days.
He forsook the hotels with the nap
kins and finger bowls for a little place
around the corner where one waits up
| on himself. Now and then he slipped
In to the free lunch counter and bought
glass OF beer. laying a pathway to
| the free lunch between sips.
He took no more taxicab rides and
sometimes he frowned upon the street
! car.
The melancholy days had come and
/ n @ 4
got in politics.
] AS early as Saturday last many Of
! them began to send messages home
lot money and they argued with the
| Telegraph company when the counter
man didn't want to send 1t collect"
Handing 1t to AIternates.
Occasionally. a delegate sought to
thrust upon the shoulders OF his al
ternate the burden of debt and re-
sponsibility. Some times the al
ternate, who wanted to hear the sound
of his own voice casting a vote for
the next President" consented to
stay here and permit the delegate
and his elaborate credentials to go
home.
In the majority of instances, the al
ternate viewed the dominions of the
earth and decided a Pullman ticket,
cd "home." was preferable to a part
in the forty-sixth ballot.
broke" continued to send kilograms
to wife, daughter, the general mer-
chandise store. or anybody else back
in that dear country where there is
bubbles out of the hillsides instead
tumbler.
Most Of them have arranged for
n ha n Man
| on borrowed money. and when the
Democratic convention of 1915 is held
there will not be such scramble for
the empty honor of wearing a fam
ing badge and fiabby purse.
Two United States Senators. whose
names must be withheld for the good
of themselves and their constituencies
compared notes in the lobby of the
Belvedere.
John" said one, "a bunch OF these
folks from my State seem to be
TOO bad" SPARED the other. "why
don't you finance them?"
II have" whispered Senator No. /.
| i've loaned out about $3.50 In the past
two days"
80 have l." admitted Senator No. 2.
| They seem to think we've got a Gov
eminent job and ought to come across,
Let's go have something"
| And they sought a table in a cool
corner and sympathiZed with one
another as an imported waiter served
something to Danish convention cares.
]. Fred Kelly. the District of Column
bia politician and man about town, is
Irish. So is Charles r. Murphy, the
boss Of Tammany Hall. J. Fred is
rather pudgy and fiorid- faced, with eyes
that are blue and twinklng. SO is
Murphy. Mr.. Kelly stood in the hotel
lobby late this morning, commenting
upon the strange things that happen al
preached. He was celebrating and ex-
cusably so.
'Mish Murphy" he said. 81 JUS,
wancher TO know there's one man who
voted right all long. I'm from Tennes-
see. Shake I amt nobody much. you
know, but all same vote straish
Shaks! Ray for Clark"
Kelly shook hands with avidity. He
court the handclasp Of Murphy, bu,
: careful scrutiny developed that tn
celebrant wore the buttons and cam.
paign badges of all the candidates and
, didn't seem to know the difference
: Kelly took a ride in the elevator just
to see how much he resembled Boss
] Murphy.
/ Washington was also represented by
another Kelly, James F., OF the District
bar Forsaking for the time Black
stone, the lure of the writ of habeas
; corpus, and the mandate OF the man.
damus, James F. Kelly commngled with
: politicians of high and low estate
. James +. had as an assistant comminglcr
Col. Frank Morgan, and both of them
had the situation all "doped out" a
long time before 1t became a situation
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