The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-24
SIDELIGHTS OF
 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

Baltimore policemen are not too rigidly bound down by custom. Most of them go about with coats half but toned, displaying wide expanses of
 moist shirt bosoms. When they get
 tired standinE, tend & they sit ,sgs dcw1; 2. - ,n posibility to find an officer with his helmet on the back of his head and his hands ilf, his pockets, severely obs served a Now York delegate~to the fat policeman in front of the Emerson Hotel
 wen now. said the policemen with interest. 'sthat must be dickens of a place, now. afn't it?''
 Five former governors of Missouri
 are on the scene. They are l.. V. Ste phens, W. J. Stone. David F. Francis. Joseph ". Folk and Alexander M. Dockery.
 Two factions of the Oklahoma dele gAtion, one for Wilson and the other Politics wasn't mentioned on the whole trip" said one of the delegates. We were afraid to talk on the sub ject because to do so would likely lead to trouble We just kidded one an-
 other to pass the time"
 A train of II tPullmans brought in the Missouri delegation and other
 friends of Champ Clark. The cars were 1avishly decorated and the train was christened the --Houn' Dog Spe-
 ctal." From the lapels of the coats of the delegates hung glazed badges bear ing Clark's portrait and large as sauc- CTS. = A four story Colonial mansion if serving as the headquarters of the Ohio delegation. Precious old maho- gany furniture adOrns the rooms and the walls are hallowed by paintings of the Montagues, the Gordons and other famous Maryland families. Davis. 30. or more years of age. is here as a delegate at large from West Virginia. He was candidate for vice. e-president on the Parker ticket in 1904 "I'm going for Judge Parker svention, he said. ssof codrse, r win 6upport him after running with him. r Headquarters of the Indiana dele- gates are in one of the best parlors in an expensive hotel. Tom Taggart has also rented an adjoining roof gar den.
 Some folks are going to get more Turkish Baths. this week than they ever had before in their lives
  the convAntion city is in a big Turk ish bath place. For some odd reason the proprietor hasn't increased his rates for rooms and there was a big rush of judicious persons Sunday to undergo series of seven baths with in real beds that go with them. 'sBet weigh 125 when I get through" said fat patron who wad- dled in Sunday night.
 The Democratic progressives are
 breathing out no fire and talk of Cat
 ling guns such as filled the Chicago
 hotel Hobbies, last week. Baltimore
 would have been 2 grand place for
 They would not have found two
 for each of their warlike delegates.
 In fact, if Baltimore turned her
 whole police force into Convention
 all there would only. be two-thirds of
 a policeman per delegate. The force
 here numbers only little over 700
 men. Some of them have had g 13 1
 hour detail daily here of late. They'll
 be glad to bid the delegates goodbye. The house party's the thing. All the first families of Maryland are givins columns announce they will leave for Newport and Bar Harbor.
 The society side of the convention occupies several columns in the morn ing and afternoon Baltimore papers. Southern hospitality which took it's root in slave days, still flourishes. 
 The beef trust and other barons of Chicago did nothing to match the law ish entertainments which Baltimore is to bestow this week.
 The social set at Washington is talk ing,a hand. John R. McLeans have
 leased the Williams Mansion on Mon ument street. Chief among the house guests are MT. and Mrs MAX Long,
 worth. It was at Friendship the Mo-
 Leans home in the environs of Wash ington, that Princess Alice" spent
 her honeymoon Edward Bea1e Mo Lean and his wife. parents to the "Hundred Million Dollar Baby" will
 assist in entertaining the McLeans
 house party.
 Kermit Roosevelt is to be a part of the social doinss. He's the guest of
 John Rush Street, at Haylor. Md.
 Congressman James M. Cox, who was recently nominated by the Dem- ocrats for governor of Ohio, has att
 taohed himself to the Harmon head quarters. Cox started life as a print CTS devil. became reporter and now owns newspapers at Springfield and
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