Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-20
YELLED INTO FAME
HadIey Latest to Climb Into
Convention Favor.
MYSTERIOUS IN WORKINGS
Record of the Cheer as Maker of
History Is Unparalleled.
BEST AS AMBITION WRECKER
Rhinoceros in a Garden Party Could
Do No More Damage Than Ma
lures Freak, the Hurrah.
MYSTERIOUS IN WORKINGS.
!, BEST AS AMBITION WRECKER
BY GEORGE FITCH.


Copyright by the Associated Newspapers
CHICAGO. June 2O-At 8 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, when Herbert
Hadley, Governor OF Missouri. stepped
forward to do Jim Watson of Indiana
into French twist with few delft, cour-
teous words. the republican convention
was scene of almost pastoral quietness
ana Elihu Root had laid aside his gavel
with which he had been battering away
IKE oourneyman blacksmith all day and
was preparing to sit down for q moment
and partake Of a few uninterrupted
breaths Of air.
Inere was no sign OF trouble when Had
ley stepped forward. Yet forty-dve min
utes later. when the convention had STOP
pea cheering in all but few isolated and
wei Guaranteed spots, all length.
strength and height records for the DO
ltlcal Whoops since the Roosevelt yell Of
l9OS had been shattered
A convention yell Is ono Of the mys-
teries of nature. No one pretends to
understand 1t. No one has ever been
able to control It 1t breaks forth when
1t Is least expected and remains shy and
Silent when it is most fervently prayed
DO no more damage or upset no more
plans than the convention yell does with
the greatest ease in every national con-
vention.
Victims Written in History.
History is strewn with hopeful gentle
men who. with the best wishes Of every
one, have been mussed up by the deadly
convention all
dent has ridden to the nomination on a
gale Of secondhand convention atmos-
phere. James A. Garfield went to a re-
publican convention in 1888 determined to
nominate U. S. Grant for President A
convention Yell. which he himself unwit-
tlngly touched off, picked him up and
immortaliZed him.
Richard +. Bland went to Chicago in
la.b palpitaung with hope, and every
thing was progressing as smoothly as
could be desired, when a convention yell
split the democratic party and made
young MI. Bryan perpetual candidate.
Four years ago in the Chicago conven-
uon the program was laid out and nail
ed down with iron pegs. and yet while
Senator Lodge was endeavoring to touch
lightly on President Roosevelt and then
pass to sublimer themes a yell tore loose
and for hfty-five minutes the people who
had gathered to make new President
devoted themselves earnestly to yelling
IOr the QepartlHg one, TO the great en-
barraSsment of all concerned
Yesterdays yell may not manufacture
any Presidents or shunt history down on
an unexpected side track, but 1t illuStrat-
ed perfectly the perfect and joyous ire
sponsibility Of the untrammeled Ameri-
can whoop.
Efforts to Start It Had Failed.
For two days earnest efforts had been
made to start 1t in an appropriate place
flamboyant allusion to Roosevelt on
Tuesday, which usually is as effective as
throwing a lighted match in a powder
key produced two minutes of uproar.
Just before the Wednesday incident an
earnest young speaker, who got away
from the ground and awaited oratorically
for few minutes waited a Taft yell.
A thousand gentlemen leaped to their
feet and ripped all the stitching out of
their lungs. but that yell died in forty
five seconds 1t was quiet evident that
the convention had come to fight and not
to cheer Then just everybody had come
firmly to this conclusion, he, she ana
they climbed up the furniture and broke
loose.
That it was Hadley yell to start with
was perfectly apparent Hadley is far
and away the commanding figure of the
convention. His quietness is more pene-
trating and vociferous than Johnson's
devastating forefnger, and his long. clean.
grave lace anu liilil, StIdiShl H5uiO Ai1sS
commanded instant attention whenever
he has emerged from the coming tower
back to the speakers table. When ne
came out this time. after a season OF
variegated eloquence, in which dozen
speakers had failed the long-suffer1ng
air. and an English boo imported at
great expense and lavishly used on many
occasions. the long -pent-up desire to
stand UP and yell prevailed.
Hadley Smiles, Abashed.
1t was no bigger a cheer to start with
than many a man has gotten in the last
two days, but after 1t had risen about
forty feet and had become large and
round and lung filling, a few sections
back of the delegates wheeled into the
line together and boosted 1t asfew feet
more Nothing Is so contagious as a
cheer which is being boosted.
A dozen sections turned in and hoisted
away. and a cheer went up like Be-
lott aeroplane until 1t bumped against the
roof Even then il might have come