The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
CONTEMPORARIES

The Progressive convention always
shuts its mouth and listens when Vic
tor Murdoch starts to talk. His hair
is red and curly. So is everything he
says.
Approximately $3.50 worth of gum
was used up by the fourteen thousand
persons at the Republican convention
yesterday. At least thirteen thousand
of them were chewing it
Above one of the collapsible restau-
rants that dot the Coliseum balconies
is a sign advertising Ten Cent
Sanwiches and Logan Beary Juse."
At both the Coliseum and Audito-
rum, smoking is prohibited in four
teen languages and the doorways.
Hundreds of men and women in the
galleries farthest from the platform
at the Coliseum have devised a COM
bination megaphone and ear trumpet.
It's just a small brown cardboard
cone; an ideal hollerer and listener.
Nicholas Murray Butler, of New
York nominated Elihu Root in a close
reefed swallowtail coat and an I'M
trammeled vocabulary.
Mrs. Delegate Louise Lusk, of Mon
tana, appeared in a black pancake
hat, a blue waist with lace curtain
sleeves, a low neck and high enthusi-
asm-
NJ. B. Olbrich of Wisconsin, was the
only nominator appearing with
trainer to handle his water cooled
voice He just stood there and roared
and roared for La Toilette while his
runner-up stood aside, drenching his
bearings with glass after glass.
T. RS secretary, John McGrath, has
a crop of short, scared hair which
gives him the appearance of being in
a state of perpetual establishment
Henry Ford's boys from Michigan
got out of the trenches and onto the
Hughes band wagon after the first
ballot.
The best applauded seconding
speech of the night was when North
Dakota speaker surprised the tired
the nomination of Robert La Fol-
lette.'
A real live goat. labeled '"Teddy's'
proved too unneutral for the Congress
hotel management which at once put
down the lid on the fractional displays
in Peacock Alley.
Festooning the fringe of frilled and
furbelowed femininity-filling the far
flung galleries of the great, grey,
gloom garlanded Coliseum are such
society sisters as Miss Anne Morgan
Ozark skirt. white shirt waist, pearl
necklace); Mrs. Charles Tiffany Ozark
skirt, white shirt waist, pearl neck
lace); County Gizycka, and other well
known society women, likewise at
tired.
A sort of St. Patrick's day atmos-
phere is added to the grand old
party's conclave at the Coliseum by
the presence of Chief Healy's $50
made. but everybody knows they are
Murphy and Durfee and Burke. NC
Cool and O'Toole and McGuirk, Har-
rigan, Carrigan, Casey and Shane. Mil
hgan, MulliSan, Drake and Mccain,
Rafferty,, Lafferty. Doolan, McCaf-
other items must be hurried on to-
During the epidemic of Fairbanks
boomers on candidates row last night,
tered about that slightly intoxicated
Chicagoan wanted to know when they
started to lay the new gas main on
Michigan avenue.
The Republican convention got up
today feeling like it had been slept
with by wildcats.
Nomination day comes only once
every four years. but it is worse than
a general offensive while it lasts. And
the aftermath is worse than a
n6haigheadache."
1t is an awful strain on the Ameri-
can flag and the English language
Chairman Harding got up early to
smooth off his voice and disposition
with rat tail file.
The Republican national commit