The evening world., 1912-07-03

mon. why could not they be proved 20
the great mass OF the people? Tho
great mass OF the people wanted n pro-
CresSlve candidate
M'coMBs PICKS ABLE AIDS FOR
WORK.
Here was n progressive candidate who
could not 5e caught taking. The Will
son boom was ON Its way. Nothing
that Col. Wattcrson or Col. Harvey or
Senator James Smith of New Jersey
could say had anything to do with the
fact that the thousands and tens and
hundreds OF thousands. who had an
idea. but no new man to voice Il. were
clamorlng for Wilson.
Then came the convention. Nc.
Combs had never bossed convention.
But he Is "a scholar. lie "boned II OUT
as he would have said when he was
working as a student under Prof. Will
son of Princeton. lie went out and by
the charm OF his personality attracted
good teachers into the Wilson circle.
lie got the clear-minded Senator O'Gor-
man. lie got the brilliant Senator Gore
OF Oklahoma, who can see more with
his blind eyes than many men can see
with high powered telescopes: he got
Culberson and Burleson and Tom Ball
of Texas. who needed a new issue OF
righteousness TO help out n temperance
campaign. which was about TO weaken
through sense OF humor. because It
was urged by 4 man who openly
avowed he did not believe In private
temperance at all.
McCombs got J. Mitchell Palmer,
member OF Congress, with ringing voice
and compelling eye. born master OF
public meetings. whether they be OF
schoolboys or OF Kansas delegates. He
got COL. John T. McGraw. the National
Committeeman from West Virginia. a
statesman OF the old school. who has a
gentlemans notions OF the proper ap-
proach and address and actions OF n
Vlrginian or West Virginian, OF any
other sort OF a Southern gentleman. and
had his following among the old lead
ers who had never made the acquaint-
ances OF big business.
lie got Willard SALISBURY Of Della
ware. quiet but quick moving man.
with mind which moves no fast that
men with their backs turned toward
him move about to face him before he
reaches them. and look guilty and say
they didn't mean to do what he thought
at all. lie got tho quiet. unobtrusive
Joe Davies, who never seems to be any
where except In the midst Of a group
where argument Is getting NO hot that
II IL apt to become "A quarrel. and who
always turns II from n quarrel into a
Handwriting fest.
AND ne WAS At HELM EVERY
MINUTE.
The weary but hawkeyed McCombs
has been sitting on the platform Of the
Baltimore Convention for week,
watching the faces. sensing the feelings
OF the people In that great hall. What
| he has been doing when the convention
was not In session he alone knows, but
an Evening World reporter who talked
with him In his apartments on the sew
| enteenth floor OF the Hotel Emerson
| yesterday observed that he had teie
phones In every room OF his suite. Not
one telephone to n table. but two and
three on every available table. They
told n silent tale In themselves.
| In the convention he was a wonder.
There was tumult In the Oklahoma
delegation. Instantly Nccomhs .,y.
nailed to the young son OF the blind
senator from Oklahoma. and father and
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eyer 4, u.. IN ,urr ,h. .a,an,. .. -, :.
for Wilson
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s' wv" une ."""p o'arA ia"a'o,
oi 'he Missouri deiesation SAID when
they saw Mr.. MoCombs make his palm