The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
WOMAN DID IT
Ebert Hubbard Writes of Con-
ventiOn Demonstration.
How One of Fair Sex Took
Charge of Convention.
CROWD WAS TIRED OUT
Audience Wanted Someone to
Start Something.
Seized the Opportunity and Di'
verified Hadley Enthusiasm.
nv Ebert Hubbard.)

chicago, June Z1.-W OIlidh has N'A 49,
played a big part in the worlds al
| fairs, biologically, socially, dramatlcaI-
ly, theologically, politically.
She has never been, however I'D
charge IF the electric controlled steam
roller, or it's predecessor, the royal jug
| gernaut. At the most and pest tAe
! fatiron and the hatpin are hers.
| Wednesday a woman was in charge
! of the Republican national convention
| For 80 minutes the invincible cold
| chilled steel composition of El1hu Root
was pOwerless.
Root is big enough to always give
| other people their own way-and at the
| last have his.
When the convention steed takes tbs
bit in his teeth, Root does not struS-
gle with him. He simply let's him go.
And when the psychological moment
comes he gives that bloom1n bronc a
yank first to the right and then to the
left, and the animal is under his con
troll
The convention got a-going on grav-
ity, and Root leaned back YEARLY, ad-
justed his badge and examined MS
mail.
This Joan of Arc business is no new
proposition to the Silver Gray Fox.
He saw all this in a former incarna-
ton, when he was Cardinal Richelieu
and before.
for this fair lady and declare that the
whole thing was spontaneous.
1t was about spontaneous as WerS
the speeches of the politicians, all OF
whom had their manuscripts with them.
1 am told by those who know that
ladies just turned % are never wholly
ingenious.
Woman wins her battles by subtle
psychology. She doesn't know how
and couldn't analyse or explain the
matter if called upon to do so. Feel
ings take possession of her.
And so here was our Cook county
corn-fed men at the strategic point ir
the vast hall.
Audience Was Tired Out.
The audience was tired out with ora
tory and near-oratory, harangue, talk
buster, invective and threats that
never made good.
For three hours we had stood this
thing. We wanted to get up and
stretch our legs. We wanted some
body to start something.
Hadley came on and finished his
speech. Hadley knows how to make
good finish. He was the one man
Wednesdays marathon who hit the
tape good and strong.
And the big drum was banged just
once.
cation stretched their lanky legs, ex-
cised their lungs and flung their
hands and hats on high.
1t was a Hadley demonstration,
sure and straight, until the fair daugh-
ter of Illinois in the gallery, waiting
the psychological moment, picked her
spontaneous picture of Teddy out of
the ether, waved it aloft and sent out
a shrill feminine shrek of Teddine--I
-Teddyistis. The California delegates.
full of the spirit af generosity, turned
their cry of "HadleyI Hadley! We
want Hadley!" into one old shout of
"Teddy! Teddy! We want Teddy"
And with their golden Teddy bear, |
in lieu of golden calf, held high
aloft, symbolizing "By this sign we
conquer" they marched straight in the |
direction of the gorgeous girl in the |
gallery who was still sending out her
wireless high G.
Wilbur Nesbitt says: "Bombazine !
and chiffon ever play big parts in the |
worlds drama" |
The Californians were led by a |
Lord & Thomas man of the Roosevelt |
publicity bureau.
But credentials were not scrutinized, |
and so the Calfornians filed up, cir
cled the fair amazon, led her forth /
down into the roman coliseum, where /
the ictors sat.
Around, backward and forward they