The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-06-17

were appointed and the convention
mas adjourned over until tomorrow.
The news of the cenyention You
have had, and you know lot more
about who will be the next president
of the United States as you read this,
than / do as ! write 1t. So in trying
to find something to write about for
delivery by mali, must pass over the
important phases of the convention
and seek the sidelights.
This is the first national convention
ever attended | nave seen man.
large crowds, but l think this is the
largest crowd | ever saw under one
roof. About $1,000 people have seats
cor are standing up. That is a good
sized bunch to have in one room.
When they all cheer at the same time
they make quite a noise.
You may wonder how any speaker
can talk loud enough to be heard by
shis vast audience. 1t must be about
the distance of a Canon City block
Yrom the speaker to the back of the
hall. Yet most everybody in the hall
could hear the speaker distinctly.
This is made possible by an arrange
-ment of dictaphones. These carry
the voice up above and out through
series of megaphone-like contrap-
.fions. At a great distance one can
hear distinctly, but the voice sas me-
hear distinctly. but the voice has me-
chanical felephone-like sound. You
see a man standing there. You can
see his gestures. but can hardly see
his lips move. Yet like voices from
the air comes to you the speech that
is being made. In the nearby seats
you do not get this telephone effect as
it goes over your head.
"A lot Of people in the audience carry
opera glasses. and some have large.
old-fashioned field glasses with which
they study those at the speakers
table and look the crowd over
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Forty thousand people are said to
rDe in Chicago to minele with the pol |
iticians. for most of them can not get |
into 'fhe convention Two hundred |
are here from Colorado Getting tick |
cts for 10000 people for seating ca |
pacity of $4,000 is hard job 1t |
cant be done. So many Repub leans |
nave to be satisfied with milling
around with the crowds in the hotel
lobbies. The hotel lobbies are full
sto overfiowing At the Congress ho-
tel, where the headquarters of several
candidates and several large state del
egations are located. the largest crowd
congregates. A constant stream of
people flows in at one door and out
at another. A line is formed of peo-
pie going up stairs and another COM
ing down. line moves down one
side of the broad corridor and another
comes back on the other side
Stand here at the side for a little
while. and If you know anybody in
the United States who is in Chicago
1his week. you will probably see him
pass. I have seen hundred folks !
know coming from nearly every state
in the Union. Most ali the Repub-
lican congressman are here and many
newspaper men l happen to know.
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)" Many prominent people have found
IL difficult to get tickets to the con-
vention So they apply for Jobs. /
asked about man who was the Re
publican candidate for governor in his |
state last election. and | found that
was a tally clerk at the secretary's |
Se4k Tnerr are many tally clerks: |,
hundreds or ushers and over 1000 as
sistant serseants-of-arms. probably |
1,500
IN assistant serseant-at-rams gets
A distinguished-loo document mat |
hooks like a marriage license certity-
ing his appointment. fine snowy
badge. but he gets no ticket. He can
get in. but he can't sit down. He
has no duties to perform but to keep
ouf of the way There are so many OF
shem that they crowd the aisles.
After Mr. Lodge got we'll under way
with his speech. SQUAD of policemen
came in and drove the assistant ser
geant t-arms all back to the rear
was up in the gallery, and | thougnt II
a funny show TO see dozen police
men drive 1500 serseant-atarms
a,o,,n5 I;i,a n hunch of cattle. II