The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-06-29

Those negroes were among the
amusing features OF the hotel Hobbies,
for they were forever getting into
acrimonious dispute with one another
Don't you try to tell me nothin,"
said big colored Indianian TO one
from Southern state. you darkies
from down there are on the market as
soon as you get here. every time"
"Is that so?" was the sharp re-
sponse. We'll, you tell me when did
Indiana ever send a colored dele
gate?"
Lots OF times"
But when, asts your"
Lots of times. tells you"
But, l asts you, when?"
And so 1t would go on interminably.
Wednesday night was the liveliest
in the hotels, for the boosters were out
in all their glory and as yet uncurbed.
In the Congress a swarm OF cowboy
hated Sherman shouters took pos
session OF the lobby and at intervals
the T. r. paraders would undertake to
march through them. carrying large
Teddy" signs. Every such attempt
was the signal for a near riot. and
those signs were soon smashed by
umbrellahandle blows.
Then the Sherman boys produced a
baby elephant and a goat labeled
"Teddys." The little pachyderm was
ss once banished to the baggage room.
where its trunk was checked and its
manager ordered half ton OF hay
from the Pompeiian room. AS for the
goat, II was run out in a hurry, and
the hotel management issued an edict
that no more live stock should be
brought into the place. So thereafter
the crowds were content to go mill
ing" about the various rooms, here
watching movies of Roosevelt parades.
there listening to speakers tell of
the virtues Of Burton or Fairbanks,
and elsewhere collecting badges and
buttons. For the Lords sake take
them" the boosters would urge.
They won't be worth a darn next
week" Which was necessarily true
of all but one variety, then unknown.
Black Mark for Chicago.
Mention has been made above Of
|
credit must be given II for doing much
to entertain the delegates and other
convention visitors. In addition to big
locks of free automobiles, there were
many and varied forms of entertain
ment. parades Of firemen, fireworks,
and the like, so far as the wretched
weather permitted, and on Thursday
night there were dances in dozen of
the leading hotels to which all were
invited. So far, so good. But big
black mark must be placed against the
mayor and his political friends for the
outrage Of Friday afternoon. At that
time, Just as things were getting in
teresting, an immense swarm of ward
hselers and political henchmen swept
down on the Coliseum, armed with
green tickets or sergeant at arms
badges. and so thronged the building
that the police and firemen finally
closed all the doors. The doorkeepers
were given orders to honor no tickets
whatever, and hundreds OF newspaper
correspondents and men and women
, who had paid as high as $3.50 for ad'
mission tickets were rudely thrust
, aside. The order came when a greSt
many we're outside the hall for lunch
and they were unable to get back to
, their seats.
To make a bad matter worse, while
, holders OF proper credentials argued
: and battled with the police IN vain
shouting their indignation and trying
futilely TO send word to Sergeant at
| Arms Stone, the ward workers were
slipping in by the hundred, entering
/ through the emergency hospital door
where Doctor Robertson, the city
, health commissioner, and his aids
, were stationed.
Mayor Thompson appeared at the
Coliseum shortly after the doors were
} closed.
who ordered the doors barred? p
J | he was asked.
r Sergeant at Arms Stone" he re
. piled.
How does the fire department fig
J ure in this outrage?" the inquirer
| asked.
> "Mr. Stone asked for protection. He
, said there were 5000 too many people
J in the building already"
/ What do you know about the greer
3 tickets?"
4 The mayor walked away.
. From a casual inspection OF the
E crowds in the building Friday 4
I seemed that there must be thousands
) OF men wearing the badges OF ser
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