The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-13
Democratic Convention Tame
Affair After Big Chi. Fracas.
And st. Louis Paid 100000 in
Cash for 1t, Too.
TO LIvEN THINGS UP A BIT
Bruno Leasing Suggests Ham
Lewis Sing a Song.
Also w. j.. b. and Sullivan
Might Stage Boxing Bout.
(BY BRUNO LEssINGa

st. Louis, June ia feeling of
sadness crept over the city of St
Louis. It is closely akin to pain. 1t
| resembles sorrow only as shower
resem bleS rain. The City of ST. Louis
paid 100000 to bring the Democratic
national convention here. Well, it's
here. If there's any other city that
would like to take it off the hands OF
ST Louis it will find that the ST. Louis
promoters will accept any reasonable
offer over 1914.
After having recorded the fact that
the delegates are arriving and are
standing around all the hotel Hobbies
there is really nothing more for
writer to do. OF course, if the writer
happens to be reporting the conven-
ton for a paper in some small town
where everybody knows everybody
else, he can go into details which Will
that Bill Hoozis, the general delegate
from Sknade county, not only arrived,
but is looking we'll and says he is
feeling fine. I'm afraid, though, that
cosmopolitan readers wouldn't be
much interested in the fact that
Charlie Murphy is looking we'll
Charlie Murphy always looks well. L
had quite an interview with him this
morning.
How did you leave New York ?'
asked.
ION the Pennsylvania, he said.
Topics for Talk.
The principal topics of conversation
among the delegates are Teddy and
great throwdown, will the Germans
| capture Verdun, and how can fell
low kill time in st. Louis. Democratic
! politics are not discussed for the rea-
| son that there is nothing to talk about
| In a few days the vice presidency may
arouse some mild interest, but just at
! present no one is Interested in it ex-
cepting the gentlemen who would like
| to get the nomination.
| The situation is harmonious. A
clam on shelving beach at high noon
| is also harmonious. After the hum it
makes me sleepy to write about it.
| The citizens of St. Louis raised the
| 500, 600 by popular subscription and
everyone who Clipped in SIS or over
is going to get a ticket to the conven-
ton. They will hear the roll call. 1t
is a. wonderful sensation to listen to
the sixty-five names read off. Now
that think of it, the German singers
from the Metropolitan Opera company
are all here to sing Siegfreid. Why
not engage Madame Schumann-Heink
and Otto Goritz to sing the roll call /?
That would be worth listening to,
| Mere Suggestion.
If Wilson has any expectation of
getting votes in ST. Louis. he had
| better send word to the convention
managers to brace UP and do some
thing to give the people here their
! IlOHSN .WOTlu IL -lHey want 10 get
up a program that will make hit and
! give some standing to the convention
as a source of popular joy, I'm willing
to help out Here, for instance, is a
tentative suggestion.
Begin the proceedings with a song
by HON Lewis William McCombs and
Secretary McAdoo. They might sing
| Casey Jones with the request that all
the delegates join in the chorus.
you've got another papa on the Salt
Lake line." Then Tom Taggart ought
to recite Beautiful Snow after
which JoSephus Daniels would make a
sure hit by singing "a Life on the
Ocean Wave
William J. Bryan could then put on
the gloves with Roger Sullivan for a
friendly little four-round bout in or
der to give the. st. Louis promoters a
| chance to sell the moving picture
rights and get part of their money
back.
A little comedy reel might then be