The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-14
POLICEMEN TO KEEP
CONVENTION IN ORDER
Sergcants-at.Arms Mostly Men
Who Want a Chance to
Get Inside.
REAL STRONG ARM MEN
Col. stone Taking No Chances
Of Enthusiasm Running
Into a Riot.
REAL STRONG ARM MEN

| CHICAGO. June I3--They are going to
have peace on the convention floor even
! ii they have to fight for il
William +. Stone. otherwise Col. Bill
Stone of Baltimore. sergeant, at arms. was
working overtime to-day making up the
list Of glded peace prcservers known "a
assistant scrgcants at arms. while down
in the Harrison street police station Capt
y. -. O'Brien was making up a list of
Chcago's strong arm squad jus, in case
the assistant sergeants at arms should
get lost in the shuflle.
OF course nobody expects an assistant
sergeant at arms to do much more than
look dignifed and keep his badge on
straight Most Of them are prominen,
party workers or givers. which amount :
TO the same thing, and the picking is done
from list Of recommendation made out
by Fred W. Cpham. chairman Of the
Chicago convention committee; Cong gress-
man l.owden and the various national
committeeman.
But all the same Col Stone and Chief
Assistant Sergeant at Arms Col. Edwin
=. Thayer intend that there shall he some
men on their list who can do more in a
pinch than look pretty and who won t
care one little bit whether a disturber
is "A Taft or a Roosevelt shouter or a bad
man from the La Fol,otte or Cummins
ranks.
No one could tell just how many citi-
zen peace officers there will be- Four
years ago something like 500 were enough
for the job Of keeping the aisles clea-
IL &c a,l hat ,l.~.. l..
as many as SOO.
Anyway. Col. Stone has been swamped
with applications from committeeman
whose friends are willing to stand up all
through the convention for the sake of
getting the chance to soc it and above
all TO be dolled up in the badges and have
commission" to show when they tell
the folks at home how they KEEP, order
during the Taft Roosevelt riot in 1872
All sorts Of men want the job. There
will b ministers. doctors, lawyers. bank
ers. brokers and business men of all sorts
, and precinct captains and their workers
who have made good with somebody in
authority.
L. G. Hechinger Of East Orange, y. J :.
who is serving for the fourth time as chief
. clerk to the sergeant at arms, and his
stan Of assistants have been wearing out a
battery Of typewriters sending not ifica
tions to the successful applicants and
telling them To be on the job next Mon.
day. when they will be sworn in Every
day after that they will report 10 Col
= Stone when they go on and of duty and
| they will march in line into the Conven-
ton hail quite like police detail going on,
i on III" night shift
This is the third tim. that Col. Stone
In,41 lt. ,nf ssun al T,,,-
have heen bosses Of the reaCcmaker squad
and they have a reputation To keep M
So. as has been said. although most of the
. sergeants AT arms Will get the badge
. and commission because they are some
e body in the RepuhllCIn poitical world
, there will be "A few real scrapperS scat =
-. tered about the Coliseum. men who can
= speak softly and who carry n punch.
Nobody around Cot. Stone Office viii
admit. however, that any real trouble oi
the floor is expected
The delegates Will take 1t out in noiSs
, mostly. no matter how scrappv some c
! them NAV fee l." was Col. Thayer's proph
: leCv.
:, Er. even noise if il is big enough and i
= KEEP up longenough may seriously >mpeG'
| the conventions work, and Il Jocks nov
, as though the racket n a football game
, with half minute 10 play. the hrm. team
, "A touchdown behind and the ball in il
:, possession on tho two yard line, would II
p silence cOmpar"i to what will be hcart
when tn. convent ion gets to hurt ing some
=, bodv's feelings.
: The Roosevelt campa gners have sen
=, for every Roosevelt rOoter in he count +,
q TO hurry on here. the Taft managers ar,
> summoning the cheer leaders and tn
leather lunged -houters Of La Toilette ant
e Cummins will have big cheering sect iol
. from their States.
4 Chief Clerk Hechinger says that If
q real trouble arrives and there il any
e bouncing to be done the police will hav,
- the job and down in Chicago's Tender
~ loin police station they are getting read,
, y. for Just that. The superintendent ol
police has put Capt. O'Rrien in charg.
OF 80 uniformed cops and 30 pfancloth..
h men. most of whom have been doing
- strike duty and would welcome a mis-
e behaving convention as change
The convention squad will hc scattered
70 about the Coliseum so as to command
Il every strategic point and about hall
II their number will he stationed at th'
~ entrances and exits to fores,all an,
. att empt to rush the hall
70 1t will be the particular job Of tn
w detectives to look out for pickpockels 5
" number OF them have been place.
under Col Stones orders and have hecl
on duty at the Coliseum since las, Frida
without seeing even delegate stolen
. There Is also Il special detail Of datec
tives at the Roosevelt headquarters il
Congress- Hotel They were sent ther
!. when Chief of Detectives Halpin got wor
II from Chief Fasig Of Terre Haute. Ind
e that supposed lunatic from there wa
:. on his way TO take charge OF the Coionel''