The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-06-24
SOME INTERESTING
DEMOCRATS At ST.
Like a Ratification Meeting.
Wilson's denomination Set
tied on Months Ago-Del-
egateS Glad to Greet
Leader Murphy.

Louis were certain of from the
start. The Democratic convention is
more of a ratification meeting than
anything else. The result at Chicago
has been the popular subject at st.
Louis. If the Democratic national con-
yention possessed a press agent that
loved his art he would be hunting for
another job. Tody Hamilton would
shake his head over the situation, for
there is mighty little publicity meat in
sweet amity. National Committeeman
Marsh of Iowa put the case.
what we need he said, sis a rip
snorting, Touchdown fight, followed by
all around handshaking."
Flags and signs at headquarters tell
that st. Louis has a convention. The
New York state delegation has done its
best in this respect with its large head
quarters or the ground floor directly
opposite the national committees head
quarters in the jefferson. The delega.
tons name is flung across the whole
building, yet in spite of it some persons
were confused by a sign in quotation
marks directly beneath it, prominent
Democrats But closer inspection
an advertisement of a pamphlet on sale
near by.
Two doors away is the %famboyant
center of Roger Sullivan's vice presi-
Dental boom. Nearby is the head.
quarters of the Kentucky delegation.
The Kentuckians housed themselves
over a cafe.
Before the Coliseum was fitted up
for the convention the presence in one
of the streets near by of an efficient
looking steam roller was remarked on
by many wags.
Murphy Center Figure.
When Charles F. Murphy of Tam
many Hal arrived he was the central
figure in the Democratic convention
crowd. He arrived from French Lick
Springs, Ind, with Sheriff Alfred E.
Smith, Senator Robert f. Wagner and
Charley White.
He was surrounded soon after his ar
rival by a score of newspaper re-
porters from middle western cities and
asked for his opinion of things gener.
ally. He did not deviate from his Gus.
tomary silence.
Mr.. Murphy was sketched by q
dozen newspaper artists and was be-
seeched to let a f1ashlight be taken
He said he preferred to let some N
else get the publicity.
Mr.. Murphy did not spend much time
about the hotel lobby. He played gol1
at French Lick, and he looks much
more like an athlete than usual.
Sheriff Smith of New York also wal
a center of attraction. His reputation
had preceded him to the middle west
and many of the Democrats from the
west sought him out and introduced
themselves to him.
Senator Wagner also was busy meet
ing persons who said they were cage
to shake hands with the new Tam
many Observation-Disclosures. Murphy
Smith and Wagner.
Man Without a Candidate.
Robert Emmett Burke. delegate al
large from Illinois, is a man without a
candidate. Elected as a delegate on g
mo preference" platform, Mr.. Burke
is in a q%uandars because it was Ger
tain the name of President Wilson is
the only IN that will be placed before
the convention. Mr.. Burke declined tc
say whom he would vote for, but his
fellow delegates agree that his vote
would never be recorded.
Just in running up to the jefferson
from the Union station one is tolC
two or three times that one is Iookins
at the largest shoe manufacturing con
Germs in the United States. A tenta
tive poll discloses twenty-four brew
cries. Either of these things might be
true of Chicago If Chicago had though
of arranging it. But it takes a lons
walk to find twenty-four saloons, anG
that is where the difference begins.
Between the jefferson and the Coli
scum there are many old fashioned
residences, such as one sees in Rich
mond, and, though most of them have
had shop fronts built into them they
give an air which even the Coiiseum's
name cannot make reminiscent of Chi
cago. And while the streets in one
direction are numbered in the moder1
fashion the streets across are named
One of them is Locust street. st
Louis is linsey-woolsey of the old and
the new.
Hotels Are Busiest.
The pulse of a convention town must
be felt in the hotels. In st. Louis one
notices that more persons than usua.
are about, but they do not look more
interesting or more interested thar
usual. And there is something that
suggests that they have caught the
southern atmosphere of this southern
city. Even before so well appointed
a hotel as the Marquette chairs line
the sidewalk for Longing guests. Al
the Planters House Colonel Carve.
might still take his nightly three fin
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