The Detroit times., 1912-06-21
INTERESTING STORIES
GATHERED HERE AND
THERE At CONVENTION
"This is No Place to Yell for
Me; It's a G. o. p. Meeting"
Says Bryan
VENDORS PEBBLE TOYS
Sale of Political Souvenirs Hav-
ing Died Down They Take
Up New Line

CHICAGO, June 2l.-The sale OF
Taft and Teddy souvenirs having dled
down the great army of street ven
ders have been loaded up with toys
of all sorts, and common cry is
Take EN- home TO the kids" You
can buy anything from rubber ball
to tin whistle.
Those OF the convention hall gal
lery who tired of the political gabfest
after two days session are eagerly
sought out by the street ticket specu-
lators. The cry is IN buy your
ticket. I'll buy your ticket" and II he
lands one OF the cardboards. follow
him around the corner and you'll hear
Convention tickets for sale, and the
price he gave Is usually doubled.
Bands playing for the T. r. side OF
the political turmoil have been having
great sport kidding the Taft bands.
The latter. stationed in front OF the
Taft Headquarters in the Congress
hotel will strike up "Eyerybody's
DOM It. and just get nicely started
when the T. r. musicians will join In
sounds like brotherly love-but the
T. r. musicians take great care 10
hit every other note a little bit on
the bias.
They've put the ban on the Bear
Dance" the Turkey Trot' and various
other society dances in a great many
dance halls in Chicago. but this
hasn't prevented a number of lively
couples executing them on the side
walks opposite the Congress hotel 10
the ragtime tunes the campaign bands
execute.
The Maelstrom took on the appear
,ance OF real joyfulness when college
boys invaded the hotel lobbies They
gave the dental college YELL sang
songs and ripped through the crowds
carrying Teddy banners. Some OF
them were voters.
Reporter w. J. BRYAN was at the
Congress hotel getting news. AS he
walked through the lobby a man be-
gan TO whoop ii for the peerless lead
err Bryan scowled turned suddenly
and grabbed the enthusiast by the
shoulders. stop it," he roared. this
is no place to yell for me. Don't you
know this is a Republican conyen.
tion?"
The. weakened delegates have
found a place TO sit down, the benches
from the Congress hotel lobby have
been placed in the subway that runs
under Congress-st., into the Auditor
ium hotel Here the weary ones
spend most OF the day, reading the
papers.
Two members OF the Pas-A-Pas club,
an organization OF deaf mutes or
Chicago were in the Congress lobby.
A band was playing on one corner
while a quartet vas singing on the
other. Seems quiet here" spelled
one man on his fingers
AT that moment a yell went up for
Teddy. Hats were thrown toward the
ceiling and hands waved in the air.
The two silent ones saw the waving
hands. and smiles Of qualification
wreathed their faces That's some
thing like it," they agreed.
This seems just like old times.
said Col. Harry New. as he visited
the United Press box just before the
convention met. You know | cover
ed four of these AFFAIRS in my time,
the Indianan confessed. 1T was lot
more fun. too. than my present job.
II seemed good to look on from the
press box
William Allen White is the living
antithesis OF "Sockless Jerry" Simp-
son, his fellow Kansan. White is show
ing the City folks" that Kansans
oil he lot
sartorial fads Last night he attend.
ed a dinner. attired In dress suit
topped off with Panama hat.
"It's all the hat | brought with me,
so I had. to put on all the scenery
feet In a mirror e..
Col. Roosevelt today declared
We'll lick 'em to DEATH" when he
read a letter written by " A. Walk
up. a cowboy OF Apache. Okla, to Ed.
F. Herriff a delegate to the conven-
ton
ED stand for Roosevelt and the
right" said the letter. "as long as
there are buttons OH your clothes. II
Roosevelt wins we will jsut simply
tear the top off the hills hear. In
spite OF that damnable thieving ma
tional committee. Apache is still on
the mountain top
ugh. what jam: you know I don't
like crowds. Chauncey." was the dis
gusted wall last night of Mrs. Chaun-
cey NJ Depew to her spouse, as they
squeezed through hotel lobby from
the elevator to the dining room.