The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-08
CONvENTIONALITIES

| Chicago, June S-Official pariia-
| mentarian William S. Bennett of the
Republican convention, New Yorker,
| has a fine job. He and his Stenog
raphers worked far into the early
hours of Wednesday morning and far
into the hours of this morning, type
writing everything the chairman of
the convention had to say and the re-
I plies of the delegates he was to say
it to. Then during the proceedings
Bennett stands at the chairman $
elbow and prompts him on what to
say, points out the delegates he is to
recognize and checks up on all of
them with his copy of the proceedings
to see that they all say the right thing.
Meantime the weary stenographers
are busily dashing all the proceedings
down in shorthand just as if they had
not written it on the typewriter not a
dozen hours before.
When assistant Republican secre-
tary, Col. LATE Gleason, of New York,
came to the name of the Hawaiian
delegate in the list he was baWling at
the convention. he baked at j. K
E<alanianaole, suffered, muttered 81.
X. Spahghetti'' and passed quickly to
Mr.. Collins.
Sixteen tickets to every session of
the Republican convention were Of
Immediately after the chilly opening
session of the convention yesterday. A
commission of $40 was offered by the
holder to anyone who would dispose
of them for him. National convention
tickets ordinarily sell as high as $3.50,
$500 and $500 set of four.
In the hurry of the conventions
opening session Chairman Harding
went away and left the band blowing
its lungs out. 1t might have played
all night and still been at it when the
convention opened this morning if
Professor We'll hadn't sent a frantic
call for permission to quit and been
granted the same by an obliging news
paper reporter standing by.
Fred Strekman, publicity man for
the Democratic national committee,
has arrived to get some first hand i'm
pressions on the Progressive and Re-
publican situations.
Jumbo Junior is not a suffragist.
He marched in the parade but he is
not suffragist. He kept his trainer
busy from one end of Michigan ave-
| nue. to the other with hay hook see
| ing that he did not tear the Votes for
Women banner off his sides.
More than one doughty explorer in
| the very early hours of today failed to
survive the combination of blind al
| leys and blind jags in the Congress
hotel corridors.
What seems to be the sentiment ?''
asked one inQuisitive delegate of an
other today. Sentiment? '' rasped the
jostled and weary other one, there's
no sentiment whatever about this af-
fair
fresh key of buttermilk was
| tapped at Fairbanks headquarters to-
day.
| Hundreds of women went wild at
the Progressive conventions first ses-
sion when President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor made
his plea for a child labor and eight
hour day law and votes for women
i The women stamped and yelled, waved
umbrellas and would not be quieted
until they had whooped themselves
out.
Dancing girls in the cabare.s are
| aiding T. r. with a campaign song.
New Mexico has the biggest per
centage of United States senators and
the biggest percentage of millionaires
In its membership of six are two SEN
ators, Thomas B. Catron and Albert
E. Fall, both miIlionaires
c. E. Newland of Indianapolis has
had thrust upon him the distinction of
/ being the most bedecorated man in
town. From the coat collar to the tail
he is a mass of carnations. Roosevelt
Root Fairbanks and other buttons.
| I'm NEUTRAL he says
William Allen White. of '.Empory"
Kansas. is boasting of a recent loss of
forty pounds in weight. He did it by
| refraining from corn cake salt rising
bread and potatoes.
Chester Rowell. Progressive dele
gate from California, spends his time
when in deep thought tearing out in
tricate and artistic designs in copy
paper. After having completed a num-
Der of these he gravely presents them
to nearby delegates for approval.
Mrs. Doctor Burton. of Seattle. pres
ident of the woman's Roosevelt club
formed in the United States, who
| started the second lap in the big T. r