The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-06-26
]. HAMS WHISPERS
EXPEL DEEP GLOOM
Radiance Of Chin Foliage Dims
Famed Sunshine at Con-
. vention.
'BAD Boy REED ON JOB
Enjoys Little Chin-Chln With
Hiram -- Tammany Dele
gates Arrive on Scene.
'BAD Boy REED ON JOB

gates Arrive on Scene.
BIZ std5 Correspondent Of THH sUS ANp
NHw YoRK HERALD.
SAN Francisco, June 25.--The town
Ia coming TO life, There was even q
brass band playing whom guests at the
81. Francis came down TO breakfast
this morning. Lean, brown men, with
their heads together. were singing
"How-de do. Senator owen? How dc
you do? Is there anything that we can
do for your" They were the Oklahoma
delegation and they'll make Owen Presi-
dent II their votes can do II.
The Senator was in the lobby to meet
and greet them as Bill sulzer used 70
say, He Acknowledged their chorus with
courtly bow and with a statesman
like wave Of the hand, but did not say
whether the crowd formerly lod by
Alfalfa bill Murray could do anything
for him or not. A statesman never
answers any question In the hotel LOBBY
The delegations are rolling IN In great
waves and splashinR against tho thirty
or forty hotels to which they are as
signed,
Twenty trainloads OF them and their
friends, including the Tammany special
were ferried across this afternoon and
evening. Nevertheless only one brass
hand has been heard thus far and the
only donkey In sight who Is frankly
such is the burro on which school chill
dren ride out In Golden Gate Park. He
is being pushed down Market street to
meet as man. visitors as possible.
J, Ham Lends Color.
Over on the Oakland pier women are
pinnlng roses on the delegates as they
pass through the gate from tho train to
the ferry One Oakland woman pre-
sented herself with two baskets OF Amer
lean Beauties raised In her own garden
She had no trouble in getting rid OF
them and went home for more.
jim Ham Lewis is dlmming the cleo
trio lights down at the Palace Theatre
this very moment. He sleeps Mt the
Fairmont, up on tho top of the city, but
reports each morning at the st. Francis
and the Palace TO salute the rabble and
put the sunshine OF California to shame
He wore this morning gray morning
suit of the nue. of a rajah's pearl and a
featheFy gray felt hat turned over his
left ear and UP from his right! HIS was
tall collar A Scott tie with a single
pearl and patent leather shoes COM
pleted the perfect effect.
Hrt I'll nwaOtOtNG fNr N-lIl.
gar mention. Their aurora, whose flani-
ing plnlSness OF other years have set con-
ventions ablaze, are now the color OF
misty dawn. And they are self-parting
The correspondent made this discovery
this morning by visiting Senator Lewis
at the Paramount. He had horrid trip
from Chicago owing to slight indispo-
sition, attributed to overindulgence ir
an onion salad, and was rising late. In
fact, he was Just rising and was ervel'
oped in a slight bathrobe and an atmos-
pheFe OF good will
with no opportunity to slick up, his
whiskers marched evenly TO right and
left from a meridian as precise an a
carpenters rule and his hair foamed
up from his forehead in beautiful
massed plugs.
Plenty of Candidates.
Mr.. Lewis, as the world knows, was
once n reporter in San Francisco. II
got IS a week." he says, but wasn't
worth 81. wasn't any good and was
happily fired"
Until this moment II has been sus-
pected that he was the only candidate
for Vice President in the whole United
States But he has confessed to having
rivals.
Missouri had indorsed David r
Francis, he saio. Montana would pre-
sent Stewart; Idaho, ex-Gov. Hawley
and West Virginia, Cornwall, provided
John W. Davis did not attain the Presi-
Dental nomination.
Mr.. Lewis spoke most modestly Of the
Illinois drive for himself and yesterday
favorable action by the Democrats OF one
Of his old home States. Washington, but
said he had not asked human being "a
vote for him, and was not excited by the
prospects either way.
Bourke Cochran of New York ploughs
his way through the Palace. and old
timers remark his massive. snow crowned
head. fitting for an Irish king. and his
hig body and short legs They recall
how he bowled out Bryan in the silver
and gold fight OF 80. Everybody Is hop.
ing Cochran will make speech in the
convention. The talk that he may do II
in nominating AL Smith pleases the
crowd.
Albert s Burleson, boss patronage dis.
penser ard 4 recent advocate of moder.
ate wetness in the nation. squlds him.
self through the Palace lobby to an ele.
vator He has just come from his train
There is no rain In California from April
TO November, but he is carrying an um.
bFella.
Next comes man OF oxlike physical
strength, waving gray hair and friendly
eyes set in q face like n boulder. This
is a. Mitchell Palmer. who IL likely tC
have the greatest vote on the first bal
lot when he voting on Presidential nom
inatiOn begins. He gets the biggest
hand of the day.
Z. II. Moore and his Cox supporter:
listen to the cheering and muster a
knowing smile. With Palmer is Vance
Mccormick, former national chairman
end in the sos a great football man al
Yale.
The Dad Boy" Is There.
Between two pillars, leaning against
one Of them. stands n figure who may
prove to be the bad boy OF the conven.
tion II they try to push him too far
That is James A. Reed. United States
Senator from Missouri. whose right tC
q delegates seat is about to be deter
mined by the determiners. His straw
hat ls tilted forward and his hands are
in the pockets of his trousers. You tall
to him and find that instead OF breathing
Are and birthstone he is soft and gentle
spoken with an Ozark drawl.
He Is saying he did not see how q
delegate can be unseated when no riva
lays claim to the. place and that II they
fire him out his alternate VIII have tc
go, tco. for II the principal Is a cipher
wha' is an alternate? He gets a smile
out Of this.