Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-07
D. c. DELEGATES
GET DRY" D. K. IN
! WET CHICAGO
Beer and Liquor A-Plenty as
G. O. P. Hosts
Gather.
BY 6. GOULD LINCOLN.

III u. tot LID L1N(obN.
CHICAGO. June S-"Five beers
Give the man some beer. He bought
a dozen collars this morning"
A leather-lunged bartender howled
the. order, but his voice had the
sweetest ring the weary traveller
from the District of Columbia had
listened to in many a day With his
foot resting on the rail the District
man drained his first stein of real
beer since the nation went dry.
Beer Hns Real Kick.
Nation wide prohibition, Tush-
there's no such thing. unless you
place Chicago outside the boundary.
TWENTY-FIVE cents "a stein for beer
with a real kick in it. and seventy five
a throw for drink of liquor. Aud
this isn't the only place in Chicago
where it can he purchased or it
wouldn't have been possible TO get
within mile of it,
Another stranger who had heard
of this oasis was hurrying to 1t.
clash of fire bells, and the engine ana
truck dashed by.
''Just my luck" he groaned. The
place is going to burn down before
can get there.
Bay State Men Lost Drinks.
Perhaps had the Massachusetts del
convention known of the situation
here they would not have been so
downcast when federal revenue of
tcers boarded their train at Windsor,
which they were bringing to the
convention city. The Massachusetts
men wore a downcast and abashed
look when they arrived today
II hurt their pride TO admit that
delegates from staid old Massa-
oh taI toh y,-it ha
goods on There was one bright
spot. however-the revenue officers
han relented and returned some of
the whisky to its owners. And when
they heard there was more to be
found in Chicago. if you have the
price. they cheered Mp considerably.
The revenue officers seized suit
case full and several separate bottles
of liquor from the Bay state delegates
who were travelling on special train
from Boston TO Chicago.
Speaker GiIlett. who halls from
Springfield. Mass. reached Chicago
about the same time as his fellow
delegates and heard their hard luck
story. He came from Washington.
where he had been busy closing up
Congress.
Now. if / had been along TO lend
an atmosphere to the crowd. he sug-
gested, the revenue officers never
would have found the liquor
Bryan o. KS ID. c. Dry Men.
Frank ]. Hogan. District delegate to
the convention. brought word to Chi
cago that William Jennings Bryan
had congratulated the capital that two
prohibition delegates" had been
seated to represent the District of Co.
lumbia in the national convention.
4 have been receiving telephone
calls ever since Col Bryan made that
remark, said Mr.. Hogan.
One of the most famous singing or
CARNATIONS in the coentry. the Column
bus. Ohio. Glee Club. invaded the
Congress Hotel here tonight and gave
concert. They all wore large Hard
ing badges. If music were, all aSena-
tor Harding required to get him the
nomination the republicans. delegates
standing about the lobby OF the hotel
would have awarded him the pa I'm
without waiting for the convention.
voices. 1t has attended every repub-
lican national convention for years.
1t always has an Ohio candidate to
sing to and for, and some OF them
have landed.
Senator Harrison ON Hand.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi
hero of the District of Columbia school
investigation and a deep-dyed demo-
crat. is one of the latest arrivals at
here for several days, and watch the
antics of the G. o. P. elephant down at
the Coliseum and elsewhere.
It's too bad the House did not
agree to the item in the deficiency
bill carrying out the recommendations
of the Senate investigating committee
with regard to the public schools Of
Washington said Senator Harri-
son. But when we get back to Wash
ington next December we will surely
put them through
Another member of the school COM
mittee. Senator sCapper of Kansas.
drifted by and joined in Senator Har-
rison's regrets They both expressed
the hope that DR.. Van Schaick, presi-
dent of the board of education, would
the handwriting on the wall and
not undertake to run contrary to the
recommendations of the Senate COM
mittee.
Senator Capper was wearing a sun
flower, emblem of his state. Not a
real, live sunfiower, but made of
cloth All of the Kansans here are
wearing them, He Is not a delegate
himself but is here to keep his hand
on things, as is Senator Curtis also
of Kansas.
Lodge Sees No Stampede.
A glimpse of the Hobbies of the no.
tells here would indicate that nearly
all of the republican senators are
eran republican leader. Senator Hem
ry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts.
Senator Lodge is not inclined to be-
lieve that the convention will be
stampeded. notwithstanding all the
uncertainty and the noise here, the
senator remains quite calm.
He pooh poohed the idea that noise
would be so great here as to affect
the delegates, and harked back to the
DAYS of 1880. Those were the days.
he remarked. That convention was
the nearest to stampede that l have
ever seen in my political career and it
has been a long one
Senator Ball of Delaware, who is
chairman of the state delegation and
selected to serve as member OF the
convention committee on resolutions,
auieted the fears of some of the Wash
ingtonians here by saying that the Ball
rent law. though declared unconstitu-
tIonal by the District Court of Appeals.
will continue in effect until the Supreme
Court of the United States passes
upon it
TT will be before the court until next
winter, ] expect, and we will be back
in Congress in December and can take
some measure TO protect the people
against the rent profteers.' he said.
ID. c. Men Passing Through.
Charles Stevens. superintendent of the
house of detention in the District and
monarch of kailipolis. No. Is. Mystic
order of the Yelled Prophets of the En-
chanted Realm. and Edward Schmid
past grand monarch of the order, with
some fifty other members of the order
were in Chicago the greater part Of to-
day on their way to Kansas City to at
tend the annual Grand Lodge meeting
They were entertained here by Chicago
members of the order.
For the number of Hoover boosters