Milford chronicle., 1912-07-19
AN INSIDE VIEW OF The DEMO
CRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

When the sob" reporter asked me tn
other afternoon wouldn't like to go wit
her to the Convention, muttering some
thing about just having had couple q
tickets given her, l Immediately stoppe,
writing nv fluff article for the Sunda,
paper, and jamming it into the top drawe
of my desk, answered in no uncertain
tones, "Sure."
Consequently, in record-breaking time
we put Oh our hats, powdered our noses
aud were up and away for Convention
Hail. (the Sob reporter has just in
formed me it isn't considered at all proper
to call it the Armory any more) and &C
we arrived there all right; that is we
reached the OUTSIDE OF the Hall with
out incident, but we hadn't been on the
premises very long before we became
quite apprehenslve about ever getting on
the inside, for this is what happened
Upon looking at our tickets after reach.
ing the Hall, we discovered they said
something about entrance &c" Nothing
daunted, we Immediately started out to
find entrance &c" Well, we wandered in
vain around and around the Ar-or er-
| Hall looking for the entrance cur tickets
demanded we find, and while we saw
/ 'H' and Il" and every other letter in the
alphabet, we still failed to discover &c"
| Finally, dazed and distracted, we gave
up the wild search, and had it not been
for a nice, cross. eyed policeman who had
evidently been watching our mad search
doubt would have been wandering around
that Hall to this very day. In fact, !
KNOW we would. However, the cross.
eyed policeman, who was really nice
enough to be anybOdy's cousin, upon
hearing OF our distress, gently guided our
footsteps through an alley and from thence
to the long-sought and beloved entrance
Once inside, we had no difficulty at all |
in locating our seats which were in sec.
ton "B' in the gallery. They proved to |
be splendid seats too, for one could look |
down on the Delegates and all THE |
GREAT ONES seated on the stage proper. |
People were pouring in through every |
door, an incessant, throbbing mass, and
the buzz and hum of the thousands of
voices could only be compared to an enor-
nous hive of bees at the time OF conquest
between the two queen bees.
just when the hum was growing loud
est and most insstent, Mr.. Ollie James,
who had been appointed Chairman of the
whole Convention, commenced TO pound
and hammer on table with his gavel as
no carpenter ever dared do to build q
house if he had, he would nave been ar
rested for disturbing the peace However,
Mr.. James continued to pound and ham
mer till body "couldn' hear their ears
Nobody seemed to pay much attention
TO either him or the noise however, so
several thousands of people found great Z
pleasure in walking around, while the !
other million or so contented themselves !
by Hopping fans and talking at the top of
heir voices ; it was only every now and I
hen in the rift of conversation and gen. :
sral noise that one caught snatches of !
Every Body's Dom IT, and "Fiddle 4
Up" from the band gallery.
And badges. Who didn't havea badge :
indeed, you were looked upon most 7
proudly and haughtily by others in that .
'ast mob did you not possess a badge.
)h, yes; to be sure both the "sob" re. r
,orter and | each had one on, but it is none \
+ your affairs just which one we wore Z
1t was very interesting and it was very
lot. White suits for the women predOmi- r
ated, while suspenders and collar bands I
lere very much III evidence where the
zen we're concerned. During the inter r
ais between the readings of the ballots. r
veryOne seemed to wilt, and what with
-rlngy hair, perspiring faces and limp te
hirt fronts, the whole vast audience pie- a
snted such spiritless, flabby scene, that r
was involuntariy reminded of Lizzie,
~ old rag doll, after a one time rescue -
ON watery grave.
Suddenly the gavel in the hands of Mr.. L
lmes again descended and after a mo
ents hesitation, he proceeded to read
le result OF the forty third ballot. I'm
ediately the flaccid figures in the chairs Fo
heightened up necks were crsned for. rl
ard and followed hands formed minia- il
re ear trumpets for more than one per G
n IN that hinge hall "Sh-Sh-" hissed 10
e crowd TO each other, while calls of
Down in front" were heard all over the
NJ. :
Tired and weary with the strain Of the
invention, and held at a severe tension
roughOnt by the close listed struggle of
ark and Wilson, the delegates and their
ends needed only a lighted match to
e them. The fOrty-third ballot con.
med the lighted match in the vote of
inois jumping from Clark to Wilson.
Instantly the convention was ahame
ie crowd jumped, as one man, to it's
It and stood on the chairs, waving any
ing they caught hold of first, yelling
d shrieking like mad. and stamping and
nmping on the floor till they sounded
orally like stampede of cattle.
People were mad half of them did not
ow what they were doing l, myself,
v several men throw perfectly good
aw and Panama hats down from the
lery into the pit of seething Humanity
Ow it was thrilling, to say the least,
j a scene never to be forgotten by one
% witnessed it. -
Wilson was a sure thing after that
ty.third ballot, though Clark hung on
the fOrty.sixth, when amid wild en-
isasm Wilson was formally declared -
and the Convention adjourned
the night session, when the Vice
sident was to be nominated
md so it was all over. The sob" re
ter and myself, sighng, slowly made