The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
CONVENTION SIDELIGH1s Some Interesting Observations of Chief Pawns in the Strug- gle For the Mastery of
 the Republican
 Organization.

Chicago, June 12-It is not true that Senator Murray Crane of Massachus-
 etts wears rubber heeled and rubber
 soled shoes. Tn the national commit
 tee hearings he wears a pair of Kicks that actually have row Of big nails
 in lem. The reason he gets about 50
 noiselessly is that he knows how to
 walk properly. Every time he takes
 step the ball of his foot hits the
 floor first In addition, Senator Crane
 Is very thin and could not make much
 noise if he tried.
 Say fellows, I'd rather hunt ducks
 than eat" said Committeeman Harry S. New, of Indiana, to a group of his fellow members. Give me a good
 gun, a safe boat and have the birds
 plentiful and I won't ask for any thing else in the world"
 New spends at least a couple of
 months each year hunting ducks up
 north. He used to own a newspaper
 office in Indianapolis but since he sold
 that he has plenty of time and also plenty of money with which to enjoy life.
 Cecil Lyon, national committeeman
 from Texas, dotes on carnations and
 1t is seldom that he appears in pulp
 lie without one in his buttonhole. Ly-
 on is something of dude, too. He
 wears white neckties and fancy vests on workdays. Senator Nathan B. Scott, member of the national committee from West Virginia, is just back from Russia. While he was away he got word that a man who worked in one of his glass factories at Wheeling for more than 25 years, was running for assessor The Senator sent him a. check for campaign expenses but on his arrival in Chicago hadn't heard whether "Hanky'', the mans name, had won or lost. When told. that ''Hanky'' had been elected, the Senator expanded with delight. That's the best news yet,'' he said.
 Charles H. Campbell, of Indiana, Roosevelt leader, who tried to oust former Congressman Jim Watson. Taft leader, as delegateat-large from the Hoosier state, was for many years Watson's right hand man. They are still the best of friends. Chicago women who want to vote are getting out a 16-page pamphlet called the Patriot, which will be distributed among delegates and vis- itors. It appeals to the delegates to put female suffrage plank in the platform and in addition gives g. lot OI TcdSOuS WHY WOIIiSu ofiOuiu udV0 the ballot.
 Mrs. Herbert Berri, of Brooklyn, who is here with her husband to at tend the convention, was asked if she favored ''votes for Women,' and this is how she answered the question: ''The trouble with the women of this country is that they don't care.'' Among the women who are coming to the convention are Mrs. Bass, wife of the New Hampshire governor, Mrs.
 Glasscock, wife of the present Cover
 nor of West Virginia, Mrs. Nicholas |Gongworth, daughter of Colonel Roose-
 welt, and Mrs. John Hays Hammond.
 One of the gentlemen, who mix
 drinks for the patrons of the Con-
 gress Hotel Pompeian room, originated
 a new feature when he twisted an
 orange peel in the shape of a rough
 rider hat and put it into glass of
 lemonade that went to table where
 several Taft boosters wore sitting.
 "You can't go in there unless you're
 a reporter" said the man on the door at the Roosevelt headquarters. The visitor tried to explain but he was in- corrupted by an important looking
 man who said, Why are you keeping Judge Kenaesaw Mountain Landis