River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-06-20
HEARD ON THE SKIRMISH LINE OF
THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

attending the conventions"
And the interviewed usually tries
to frame up some elaborate reply.
The question was duly put up to Mrs.
William E. Borab, wife of the senator
from Idaho, on her arrival. and right
off the bat she saidc
The first thing / mean to do Is 10
straighten up this room. l thought
I'd try to make it look as If woman
ever saw it. You never saw such
looking place as it was when | got
in. Papers-papers everywhere; and
books! I'm always afraid to move
one far, for If do Mr.. Borah can't
find it,
81 was in California and he tele-
graphed me to come 10 be with him.
Well, l haven't seen him but about
ten minutes. think he forgot / was
here. He went down to the barber
shop this morning and | went down
to meet him for breakfast. We came
together in Peacock alley, and don't
think he recognized me. l stepped
up to him and he looked at me as
much as to say, Where have l seen
her before?'"
Looking for Taft Money.
The corpulent man who looks like
Taft, talks Roosevelt and exhibits
money in peck measure lots is Major
Thomas Dunphy of Topeka. Kan.
He took his stand In the middle of
the Congress hotel lobby and began
offering to wager money on Roose-
velt's chances of nomination. He
wanted to bet any figure, from 81 up
to $4,000.
Major Dunphy isn't delegate to
the convention. He simply is a Roose-
welt advocate at large.
I'D like to bet this roll on Colonel
Roosevelt's chances of being nomi-
mated and elected" said the major,
exhibiting the interior of a pocket
that might have been section OF
subtreasury.
The interviewer suggested that he
might be prevailed upon to take lit
tie If the bet was broken up into car
fare lots.
"Say, this is no joking matter"
said the indignant Roosevelt man. Il
came all the way from Topeka to lay
small wager on the colonel and |
EN- going to find some hacker OF the
president with sand enough to take
it,
So he stumped away in high dud-
geon.
No Photos for NiedrInghaus.
Thomas X. Niedringhaus Of Mis-
souri, has a great antipathy for pho
tographers in general and newspaper
photographers in particular.
mo, sir, l will not stand for my
photograph" he said to group of
pleading photographers. PHOTOS are
worse than sketches and anybody
knows l don't want one of them.
What's that? Been snapped while /
was talking to you? Say, let me out
of here. You're too many for me-"
Thayer's Mountain Lion.
A new one has been uncovered
about Colonel Edward Thayer Of In
dianapolis, assistant sergeant-at-arms
at the Coliseum. The colonel had a
near adventure with a near mountain
lion, and, tGke 1t from him, it was a
thriller.
Colonel Ed" has bungalow In Ari.
iona. He started for the woodhouse
one evening to get back log for hia
fire. Here's the rest Of the story sas
he tells it:
when l got to the shanty started
to feel around for the lock on the
thing. I put my hand on something
that was alive. Every hair on my
head stood straight up and l don't
know now why didn't let loose a yell
that could be heard in Maine.
81 thought of mountain lions first
then panthers, wildcats. wolves and,
in fact, everything in the wild west
chased itself through my mind.
Next morning / went out to see
what kind of tracks that monster had
left The tracks were there. SO was
the monster 1t was an innocent lit
tie burro that had crowded close to
the shed out of the rain
Envies Chicago Policemen.
Il can't think of anything that /
would like to do more than to be a
policeman in Chicago" Mrs. Sarah
+. Bond of Oklahoma City, where she
has bene police matron, patrolman and
deputy sheriff and had a uniform, too,
made this wish from fund of expert
ence. She Is here to attend the Re-
publican national convention, though
not delegate. She fears that the pro-
posed suffrage plank will never be
nailed on the platform.
I'VE have to get suffrage" she In
sisted Its the first wedge sor re-
demption."
Mrs. Bond has been police matron
and deputy sheriff In Oklahoma City
three times. The first time was when
1t was a fierce young town.
Then they had ninety-three saloons,
and killed their man daily" she said
"The Republican party ought to
know" said Mrs. Bond, that the par
ty that gives women the votes Is the
coming party
Governor Stubs stumped.
Governor Stubs was remarking on
the serious nature of the crime OF dele
gate stealing
"Why. don't you know that It's as
| bad as stealing horses" said the gov
ernor.
"But don't you know that It was
Colonel Roosevelt who invented the
steamer roller?" asked the man adj
dressed. Don't you know that he took
all the delegates in sight that way?"
For a moment Governor Stubs
! seemed at a loss for an answer.