New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-11
DELEGATES, IN A MERRY MOOD,
FIND MANY LAUGH PRODUCERS

Bv Telegraph 10 lUe llluuHc'l
Rochester, April 1o-Job Hedges furhlsheo
the best laugh-producer of the convention
when he artfuly turned aside Controller
Prendergasts words on the matter OF me
political patent medicine man" mentioned
by Or. Nicholas Murray Butler. The con-
troIler had expressed his surprise and griet
that such a term should be applied TO
Theodore Roosevelt by the chairman OF
Republican State Convention.
THE patent medicine man referred 10
was Or. woodrow Wilson" Mr.. Hedges
explained. with a gleeful grin and with
evident authority for the statement Inc
delegates howled with Joy.
A man with a long fur-collared overcodt
and a campaign hat, wearing glasses ana
displaying flamboyantly dental sniile'
walked into the Hotel Seneca last mgnt
and registered in bold and flowing style
as Theodore Roosevelt
Give me Room PIP" he demanded ana
the resulting laugh from those near nY
brought almost every one in the croWnea
lobby ND TO see tho signature and ENJOY
the joke
Room PIP was Tammany headquarters 81
the Democratic state Convention OF 1911
II was from, that room that Charles r.
Murphy handled the situation. and the s!o-
gan ~ Room PIP" as the seat OF power
over the Democratic delegates Ct 1910 was
first raised as a campaign war cry by Colo
mel Roosevelt. Room PIP during this Re
publican convention has been occupied ~
a salssr,sn for a wholesale millinery house
The delegates discovered close copy OF
the famous old Amen Corner Of the o'd
Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, IN an
! odd corner Of the Seneca last night. An
ornamental staircase, az its junction with
the north wall Of the lobby. makes a cor
ner which is taken UP with two big leather
| settees placed az a right angle. timothy
! 7 woodruff known at this convention as
| Comeback Tim" made the discovery
and was so tlckled over II that he rounded
I'D a lot Of friends to occupy the seats
while they sang a few songs. told rev
stories. and talked over the old days when
the late Senator Platt was the oracle OF the
original Amen Corner" Moses NJ NC
| Kee. leader OF the 2lst Assembly DISTRICT
Frank Bowers, Representative Calder eX-
| Sheriff John Shea and a man Of Rochester
who concealed his name but who looked
enough like Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler 10
fool a lot Of people were among those who
/ sat in"
| The little black skullcap which william
NJ Twins always wears was very much in
evidence. II bobbed UP and around at each
session Of the convention, and II was equal
" prominent at the sessions OF the al
important committee on resolutions. Up
state delegates and townsfolk thought II
was some sight" and Hiram II. hdger-
ton. the Mayor Of Rochester, was heard 70
remark that 1T looked good 10 him.
William L. Ward, of Westchester, occu-
pied an aisle seat in the third row from
the front at both sessions Of the conven-
ton. He was squarely in front or the
chairman's seat on the platform and about
as close to II as any delegate In the hall
The Westchester leader didn't say woro
at Yesterdays session, and all through to-
davis session he maintained the same re
tiring air. though his pleased smiles radl-
ated all around when Controller Prender-
CAST took the platform for his speech OF
protest. When the proceedings were
drawing 10 a close. however, Mr.. WARD
began TO brighten up. and after the rou-
tine resolutions required by law had been
disposed of-such matters as resolving
that "the eagle over the ballot box should
be the Republican embem-Mr. Ward un-
bent sufficiently to rise and offer the mo-
ton that we do now adjourn"
You have heard the motion made By
Mr. Barnes. of Albany" said Or. Butler
What is your pleasure?" and Mr. Ward
ioined heartily in the laugh that followed
The reports that reached here last might
of Colonel Roosevelt's success In Illinois
brought blessing TO Controller Prender-
CAST. His room had not been up TO that
time anything like mecca for the poll
ticians. but il speedily became So Within
a half hour after the dispatches from Chi
cago began to circulate through the hotel
Iloobies Mr.. Prendergast had TO get up sc
many times 10 let in politicians that he
left the door open and let them walk in
And they did.