Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-09

CHICAGO June 9-Senator Reed Smoot,
who rushed into the limellght when ne was
HUSTLED up from the wings in his SAD
drooping mustache to read the report of the
Committee on Credentials, has a slightly
snubbed nose. His report is the one that
determines whether delegates shall sit down.
stand up or get out: and it's the one that
precipitated the free-for-all battle in l9l2.
II may have been misapprehenslon super
induced by disturbing 1912 memories or
possibly only habit, but the Senator braced
himself and kept his right hand on MS
pistol pocket all the time he reported
Both Chuncey M. Depew and Uncle Joe
Cannon, 80 and so, respectively or l62
years all told. demonstrated in their
speeches that age has not impaired thelr
lung power. Both of them can be heard
in the Coliseum as we'll as Chairman Hard
ing, a much younger and huskier man.
Senator Lodge to whom one of the keen.
est delights for years has been the eN'
cuson of newspaper men from the sessions
of the Resolutions Committee scowled
and growled and was quite peeved when ne
learned that some OF them hau slppeo Ia
this time. The middle name OF the SEN
ator's family for centuries has been Secrecy
Senator Borah who parts his hair and
delivery in the middle. uses out one
oratorIcal punctuation mark when he makes
a speech. He talks with his hahos III ms
noclets but occasionally he hauls a couple
of forefngers out of his trousers pocket
shakes them at the crowd and puts them
back again The Senator hasn't had hair-
cut for a long time and he looks nne'
When House officer Abrams, OF the
La Sale, wanted to clear corridor of
argunentative Hughes and Roosevelt
boomers, he distributed a few squirts of
ammonia surreptitiously about their edges
The Hughes delegate who got the nrst
whiff moved away with the remark that
the Roosevelt sentiment was getting too
strong for him and the rest of the crowd
followed quickly.
Mrs. Clifford Pinehot is striking figure
even among hundreds of women In the
midst of the mobs here
More than 1000 16.candlepower electric
bulbs are going full blast in the Coliseum
convention hall ceiling, even during the
midday sessions.
The vaulted interior OF the long, high
Coliseum looks like the undeside of
railroad eulvert, trimmed in white and YET
low cheeseeloth There are thousands and
thousands OF yards Of II,
Billy Brcekman. of Joliet, ILL.,. has at
last been identified as the wearer of the
felt hat which is so big that the rim of
1t began arriving is hours before Breck-
man got there,
Alice Roosevelt Longworth Is wearing
gowns of her own original blue almost ex-
clusively at the conventions
Rose-eolorsd raineoats are all the rage
among society women at the political jam
borees. Among those who are attend
ing the conventions in them are Mrs, John
Hays Hammond, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr., Mrs. Charles Yerkes, Miss Ruth Me-
Call, daughter of the Massachusetts, Cove
ernori Mrs. Warren G. Harding, Mrs.
Charles D. Hilles and Mrs William Alden
Smith.
An absent-minded society edltress, de-
scrlblng the gowns of we'll known women
at the Republican convention sessions quite
calmly stated that Mrs. Edward Hines
was dressed In purple flowers"
large quantity of Roosevelt. Hughes
Burton, Fairbanks and other enthusiasm
has had to walk around In the rain since
the police barred glea clubs and military
bands from the hotel Hobbies along Cam
dIdates Row.
Harding drapss himself in a fresh boiled
shirt and a different eolored tie several
times q day. Has partial 10 robins egg
blues and silver and old gold Symphonies
and when he strolls down the platform
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