The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN ARE BETTER LOOKING. THAN AT CHICAGO
Cobb Warns Brethren to Get Ready for President Who Buttons Down
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By IRWIN S. CoBB

San Francisco, June 26.- Special. Ut might as well be confessed now as later San Francisco as a national convention site has fallen down. Utterly and completely has she fallen down.
 When we arrived Friday afternoon the city outwardly considered. seemed organized and prepared to put over the first national convention after the ap- proved fashion set by cities in the east, where national conventions have been held before. Brass bands were blaring, marching clubs were march, ing. Candidates, like rabbits. were multiplying rapidly MT. W. G. McAdoo, the Finnigan of the democratic party, was all in the same breath off again, on gain. gone again.
 Mr. Bryan has just dealt a severe for Owens. The Oklahoma senator wore upon his mobile face the same look which must have been worn by a me- dieval noblema in the old days when Lucrecia Borgia sent him deep dish of poison pie with her mpliments, and distressed members of the Okla homa delegation were going about saying to one another:
 Say, what secret grudge did Bryan have against our man anyhow? Here he comes and indorses him, just when Owens chances for the nomination were beginning to look healthy"
 NATIVE SONS IN FORM
 The reception committee was on the job, with the genial smile, the cordial handshake and the customary kind word for the California climate. A native son, in speaking of his climate, begins by referring to it as peerless. " and after that he gets really coropii mentary.
 The acoustics of the convention hall had been tuned up to a point where 1t was reliably reported that. man sit ting in the rear of the building would be able distinctly to hear the presiding officers arteries hardening up on the platform. The justly celebrated San Francisco fog appeared to have gone
 
 stated. San Francisco by all the sur face indications seemed ready to run off a regular national convention in accordance with all the regular na- tionat convention. ethics. as so often exemplified in Chicago. St. Louis and other large centers of population on the other side of the Rockies from here.
 SHORTCOMING CONSPICUOUS
 But Fuller investigation discloses the lamentable fact that. possibly because of lack of experience in the matter or possibly because of some common tenn . peramental shortcomng among them the people of San Francisco have not the faintest conception of the orthodox mode of treatment of visitors to na- tionai convention. The hotels have not and have made merely reasonable ad- vances in the tariffs for lodgings The restaurants actually are rendering de cent service and giving decent food al decent rates. Cab fares are being main tained at the standard figures. Just as though no convention impended Citi- zens perservingly insist on being con siderate to the strangers In their ig- norance of the eastern code they even go so far as to make courteous answers to casual questions.
 After twenty-four hours painstaking in. Iauiry and careful observation I am sore Ily disappointed to be compelled to report , that I have been unable to obtain evi- dence of gle authentic case of goug-
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