Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-08-25
FROM THE PEOPLE
Chicago, H., Aug. 22d, ,sl9l6.

Chicago, ILL.,, aug GGu,sA0lV'
Editor of the Beacon:
This morning we moved into our
headquarters. Here tofore we had
been crowded into two rooms at the
Blackstone hotel We occupy the
sixth floor of the Karpon building
handsome twelve story office building
on Michigan avenue. The publicity
bureau has two rooms which front on
the lake. This gives US fine oreeze
and beautiful view.
Senator Walsh of Montana is at the
head of this, the western headquarters
He handles men and things so smooth
ly and easily that it reminds one OF the
line from one of Gilbert & Sullivan
operas" -"He does it so politely 1t is
music to the ear. Senator Hollis OF
New Hampshire, the first Democratic
senator from that state for fifty years,
has charge of the labor bureau. de IS
the author of the rural credits law,
and an able man. Congressman Scott
Ferris of Oklahoma, has charge OF the
organization bureau. He is about the
height and size of Ed Robbins, but not
quite so handsome. He asked me
about Brooke ke-said he had heard OF him
through his pro-German sympathies.
The publicity bureau is in charge OF
VIM. J. Cochran, Washington cores
pondent of the St. Louis Republic, and
very live wire. We have all the
states west of the Mississippi and some
few in the middle west and Tennessee
and Kentucky. MIR, Cochrane handles
the dailies and | the weeklies, includ-
the weekly editions of the big dallles.
You will get the matter send out
every week. 1t will be sent to some
thing over 1000 papers.
From this point everything looks
very hopeful for Wilson. If he makes
satisfactory settlement of the strike
situation, it will count tremendously In
his favor.
am constantly being reminded OF
various old friends of Noxubee. | was
reminded of Jim Horton the other
night at vaudeville show. Two ne
groes and q ramshackle Ford kept the
audience laughing halt an hour. They
finally found d ATuiprei. in TIE machine
which had eaten all the nuts. One OF
the negroes reminded me Of John
Holmes, who wears small thirteens
and "God knows oey hurt his feet. :"
His companion said "No wonder mig
ger you always got bad cold wild dem
big feet of yours, so much OF your
pusson is exposed to the cold groun.
l notice that they cheer Dixie up
here more than any other piece OF
music, just like they do down south. |
was surprised to find that at nearly
every performance they slam the Ger
mans a little and the audience mani
tests its approval. They cheer, at the
shows | have been TO-, Wilson more
than they do Hughes.
| saw Col. Sellers the other day He
blew in and took seat and waited
two hours to see Senator Walsh. He
sat near my desk ard overheard all
he was saying to another waiter. de
was Col. Mulberry, all right. He told
how he had stumped three western
states for Bryan and had carried them
all. He exhibited an envelope with a
line from Bryan on it, inviting him to
come into the railroad coach he was
riding in, ETC., etc. A minute later ne
was telling about breakfast food he
had invented containing 25 different
ingredients, the finest thing in the
world, and-these are his exact words
There's millions in it, II. M.