Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-08
ALL YELLING RECORDS SHATTERED;
OTHERS SAFE AT MOOSE CONVENTION
Three Minutes of Business and Three Hours of Shouting
Says Maxwell Sport Editor-Gives Recipe for Oratory
Runs Into Lardner and They Exchange Forecasts
BY ROBERT w. MAXWELL

ivBNiNG LEDGER.
cheering continued and the speaker had
time enough to write another speech or
go out and get some lunch
Then came the big parade. The Penn
sylvania delegation, seated near the stage
and headed by Bill Finn, of Pittsburgh,
marched behind a banner bearing Roose-
velts picture and under it," We gave Teddy
$4,000 In 1912" Other States fell in line,
climbed upon the stage and the perfectly
good opening address was indefinitely post
poned.
MUSICAL REINFORCEMENTS
After working under wraps for 30 min
utes, the delegates took off their coats and
started out for the record. They began to
weaken after an hour, but the band assisted
with patriotic airs until the danger point
was passed After 90 minutes of bedlam,
Mr.. Robins walked to the centre of the
stage and swatted the table Justify with
his gavel and the hurricane subsidized The
tired cheerers sank back in their seats.
proud Of their accomplishment, and rested
their swollen throats and hoarse voices
while listening to the remainder of the
opening address.
The Moosers and Moosettes delivered q
message to Messrs. Perkins Straus, Par
ker, Cortelyou Garfield and the other ring
masters in the show that they would not
stand for compromise candidate. 1t took
them ninety-two minutes to do It, but It
onstration, the Moosers will stand for one
of the following candidates.:
Theodore Roosevelt.
The Colonel
The Rough Rider.
T. r.
The man from oyster Bay.
over in the other convention things went
along with machine-like precision. A gen.
tleman named Harding, from Ohio made
the opening "get-together" address. and 1t
was received with as much enthusiasm as
a Fourth of July speech on Christmas Day.
The carefully selected delegates sat through
1t without even protesting
Despite tho rainy day the stands were
full, and soon after the session started n
sign bearing the letters IS r. o." was
placed on the outside. When we arrived
a bedraggled, dripping stranger was look
ing 1t over
GOOD OLD STEAM ROLLER
what does that sign mean?" he asked.
"Steam-roller operating" replied gentle
man wearing Roosevelt badge who also
had been denied admittance.
AS we said yesterday 1t is a difficult
thing to squeeze statement out of the
leading politicians here. We strolled
through the lobby of the Congress Hotel
before the conventions and ran into many
prominent persons, thing hard to avoid
II they were in the same room. None
would even comment on the chances of the
candidates, and we were about to give 1t
UP for a bad job when we crashed into
Ring Lardner, another sport writer, who
also was inflicted with temporary politics.
"who do you think will wln?" we asked.
81 don't like to say anything In public
what can be used against me-" replied
Lardner "but 1 think Jess Willard can
beat Hughes, Roosevelt, Fairbanks and the
rest of the gang with one hand tied behind
his back"
YOU KNOW ME-, BOB
"But Jess amt running for nothing" he
continued, 80 I will make my prediction
and you can use 1t in your paper. Then
you can tell me what you think and I'll put
1t in my paper because my paper don't care
what 1t prints, either. Now get this:
"I think Governor Hughes will be nom-
mated on the first or second ballot for this
reason. You remember year or ago.
when everybody was crazy about Mrs.
Castle and tried to look like her? Well. the
delegates are all trying to look like Gov
ernor Hughes now and IL they go a few
more days without any attention from a
barber-well. you see what I am getting
at"