Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-17
MUCH GOSSIP IN CONVENTION
CITY CONCERNING AGGRESSIVE
ROOSEVELT SUPPORTER.
CAMPAIGN MANAGERS
IN BIG GAME OF BLUFF
Col. Cecil Lyon Extracting Large
Quantities Of Fun From Ante Con.
vsntion skirmishins = Takes His
Fling at Murray crans-"Rst"
ciarkson Working For cummins.
fBy a staff correspondent

by Staff Correspondent
Chicago, June IA certain stockily
built and aggressive looking parsonage
who is seen about the Hobbies wearing
big Panama hat is showing symp-
toms Of getting into rather enviable
relations with the presidency. This
parsonage is Senator William E. Borah,
Of Idaho. So far as the present situa-
ton is concerned, IL the third man
movement become formidable, there Is
likely to be plenty Of favorable mention
Of Borah tho there is much more talk
OF Cummins and Hughes than of him.
But Borah is making favorable i'm
preston, as he does most everywhere
for that matter. And stranger things
have happened. leaving this year out OF
consideration, than that four years.
hence the able senator from Idaho will
loom up as one Of the foremost Of the
presidential possibilities. The point Is
that folks are talking about Borah as
being Of presidential size.
Keep your eye on Borah' Is re-
mark one can hear frequently repeated
about the places where the politicians
congregate.
"ra hate &c 81. IN poker game with
joe Dixon or Boies Penrose," re-
reputation for having a reasonable I'M
Outstanding of the American pastime.
''Why?"
Well I've been talking with both
of them every day for the last week.
wv IL h hYiv
ming over with confidence and say
ing there's just nothing to it, that
Roosevelt has cinch. When talk to
Penrose he tells me he's absolutely
satisfied, that Taft has the votes and
the other fellows can't get 'em. Some
body's doing most magnificent line
Of bluffing. I'll tell you better week
from now who has been doing 1t.
Sometimes think both OF them are.
But at least one OF them is putting up
a series Of bluffs that would be worth
big money II it could be applied to
jackpots."
Col Cecil Lyon is probably extract
ing more amusement out of this con-
vention than anybody else. That's say
ing a good deal. When the colonel
came to town the other day. he was in
terviewed by reporter for the social
list daily here. True to his progressive
impulses, the colonel came out strong
for human rights and for those things
that represent the cause OF the COM
mon people. This interview was spread
over most of page l in the same days
paper. Since then, he has been inter-
viewed almost every day and has got
large amount Of valuable space at the
top Of column next to reading matter.
In all these utterances, the colonel
had much to say about the rights Of
the people and all that sort Of thing.
The interviews finally got on the
nerves Of Senator Murray Crane. who
took the Texan aside the other after
noon up at the Coliseum and said:
Cecil Of course. don't object to
you getting yourself interviewed but
you're going too far; you're melting
folks to riot"
Murray" quoth the colonel, pulling
his sombrero low down over his right
eye and fitting his cigaret some degrees
higher. I'm strong for the public. Now
what's going to happen II you boys
keep on handing US gold bricks on
these contests is this: There'll be big
cencourse Of folks out on the lake front
some of these nights. And all you fell
lows will be dragged out there. You'll
be put UP on one lamp post, Stevenson
Of Colorado an onother and Boies PEN
rose will be suspended between you. AS
for me, I'll be there with long stick
and sponge and apply the vinegar to
your wounds. It'll be painful but it'll
be great day for us common folks"
, And say" said the redoubtable colo
mel later as he told the story, do you
know Murray acted as IL he really half
believed It."
Oar Reese, Of Minnesota, one Of the
old war horses. got off the train and
lugged his grip into his hotel the other
morning. The newspaper men hove
nigh and asked him what about it.
Don't know" said he. I'm not here
as politician. I'm just here as a tax
payer"
| Few Of the men seen about the
hotels know more about the political
game than RET" Clarkson, now of
, New York formerly Of Des Moines.
General GARRISON arrived here the
other afternoon and at once took off
his coat and went to work for Cum
Minis AS an old Iowan, the general is
strong for the notion Of giving the
presidency to the Hawkeye state. Since
tie days when Ret" was in his hey
ldey, a generation Of younger politicians
has grown up. Still, there are host.
of the old veterans who were in the
gene when he was.
RET has forgotten more polite.
than a lot Of these people here ever
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