Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-08
Sidelights On G. o. P.
Convention Delegates
By EDWARD NJ. THIERRY
n. Il A. Efnff Cnrresnnndenf

CHICAGO, June 8, = Convention
workers around the Coliseum shivered
under cool Lake. Michigan breezes
When they heard the weather fore
cast for convention week was cooler"
they demanded heat.
Don't need IT, said Charles r..
Hall, Coliseum manager, "a fine hot
air heating system, G.. o.. p. patent APP
piled for. will begin operating auto
.matically when the orators cut loose"
l.. w. Henley and Walter ]. Mala-
tesla are the most unpopular persons
in Chicago. The former is secretary
of the arrangements committee and
the latter is secretary OF the Chicago
convention committee.
They were nearly mobbed when
ticket distribution took place, Mala-
tesla had the worst time trying to
2.65S tickets-Chicago's allot-
.ment for those who contributed the
money for staging the big show
among 10000 applicants.
Il got $4,000 checks from people
who wanted to buy tickets" said
.Malatesta. 1T hurt like the dickens
to return all hat cash"
Ferd Peck. so and wealthy, built
the Congress Hotel a good many years
ago. Yesterday he called around
Okl fOG W OOu anu
like everybody else who penetrates in
to the labyrinth of corridors upstairs
lost.
II built the building, all right the
aged contractor complained, but III
be darned If l numbered the rooms!"
MI. and Mrs. Lillian Russell" have
ARRIVED to help pick the nominee. In
private life" the former is Alexander
II. Moore. Pittsburgh newspaper pub
Usher, and a Bull Mooser of the vim
,tage of 1912.
A taxi driver confded disgustedly
to a fare: Hell! This IS a dead town!
Why, there used TO be wine, women
and booze-just like heaven!"
Energetic workers for Samuel
Adams. self-confessed Vice-Presi-
candidate. are going around
.pigning badges on people and giving
them red apples from Adams Virginia
fruit farm. The gift is a sort of
Adams apple.
An extremely small man in a gray
suit lodged in and out among the legs
of delegates c|luttering up the Congress
Hotel lobby:
"A dwarf" asked a sightseer.
mo-" explained a bellhop. that's
one of those half-delegates from the
South"
Charles Washington Wilson, col
ored. has the only t~wo-gallon hat at
the convention. It's a bit rusty, but
he's proud OF the plug"
He comes from Tennessee and also
boasts a frock coat and a fancy vest,
literally sprinkled with gravy spots
and campaign buttons.
Mayor Thomson has ordered out
reserves of street sweepers to shine
up the asphalt in front of the Coli
scum.
Got to boost Chicago-impress
visitors-clean city" said Thomp-
son. Get streets clean enough for
EN- to eat off of it they want to-
Horrible shock for Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr. A d~oorkeeper at the
Coliseum didn't recognize him, even
when he showed his teeth, and re-
fused to let him in to attend contest
hearings. He didn't get in till Will
Hays dashed out n rescued him
Chairs for delegates in the Coli
scum are nailed together. No chance
of throwing them when things begin
to liven up.
More Vice Presidential timber is
in town. Colonel Henry A.. Ander-
son, Of Richmond Va. is willing to
go to the mat with Samuel Adams
for the job. Governor X. Livingston
Beeckman, of Rhode Island, also has
a boom.
Eager siehtseeTs are Offering as
much as 500 for n convention ticket
for sale, though, even at that
figure.
An anonymous sOngster has pro-
duced q campaign song. Copies Will
be distributed in the Coliseum.
Here's the chorus:
It's a long. long trail that's winding
Far from that Full Dinner Pail
In the days when men believed in
no such word as fail"
It's a long time We've been waiting
The hour of triumph to see
And well march into the White House
With our Glorious G o.. L.
The G.. O.. p. circus Is going to be
shown in the movies. Camera men
will grind every time there's some
excitement. They began when the
Coliseum was turned over to the
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