El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-08
READY To CLIMB
ON BAND WAGON
By G. A. MARTIN.
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somebody differed from them II there
was no other way to get rid Of pent
up energy.
But there is. They do it with brass
bands and professions and rallies and
dinners and receptions Nearly every
state and in many cases various dele
cations from various states have
brass bands and they walk and walk
and walk and shout and shout and
shout for their candidates until they
are not able to fight If they vented
70. Kansas has the most unique band
here composed Of women and Ei='~
but there are scores and scores Of
bands.
soon Ready for Bandwagon-
BY the latter part Of the week these
marchers and sh0uters are going o
be so tired that they are going 10 be
tractable- That's why the managers
VIII get Information easily at that
time when they couldn't do il now
Every body viii be tired and ready to
90 home and a lot We be WiIlinE to
admit that they are all good men"
and it won't make so much difference
whether It is Sproul or Hughef or
Hoover or Wood or Lowden-
AS for patronage their state lead
ers viii have settled this pretty well
for them anyhow. While the en-
eral run Of delegates are doing their
parading and their shouting. you
don't see the B-rsums and the Nc
GregOrs and the real state leaders in
these professions They are meeting
with Frank Hitchcock. Col Palmer.
Henry Cabot Lodge. VIII H Hays and
the other leaders and laying the plans
for results when the delegates tire
themselves out and are ready to vote.
These leaders represent their small
er fry and the patronage situation is
taken care Of in this manner. so when
the leaders finally decide who is the
e. - a-.a- -
enthusiasm Of the first voting is
spent they wiz say 50 and the dele
gates viii fall in and II viii go with
a Whoop and they viii all adjourn
and 90 home TO tell the people about
the big part they played in naming
the Republican standard bearer
Same Way With Democrats.
Two weeks later the same thing
viii happen with the Democrats at
San Francisco.
In all of this the name Of Hiram
Johnson has been omitted purposely.
because Hiram is going to be omitted
by the convention, unless everybody
Is fooled he hasn't any more chance
OF getting the nomination than his
hacker, William Randolph Hearst
While there are bosses and leaders
here, they all admit there is no big
boss as in the past and Mark Sullivan,
editor OF Golfers calls the conven-
ton "a ship without a rudder' and
Louis SeIbolt Of the New York World.
says the old timers like Chauncey De-
pew don't know what to think about
the situation with nobody to rally
around as in the past when they took
orders from Elihu Root and Murray
Crane and others
Dirty Deal Against LOwden.
Dirty politics is being played
against LoWden. He refused to sane
tion mayor Bill Thompson Of Chica-
H.
German sympathizers for Illinois nat
iOnal Committeeman and Thompson s
Cook county delegation has adopted
resolutions ordering its representa-
tives to take up with the convention
the purchase Of delegates with money,
plainly an effort to kill Lowden be-
fore the convention If possible as a
matter Of spite Incidentally il is
calculated to hurt Wood II is not
able that one Chicago paper featur-
ing the Thompson fight on LOWden is
booming Sproul, Of Pennsylvania. as
the leading dark horse candidate"
The chicago Journal asserts that
New York and Pennsylvania viii be
sOlidly behind Sproul The Hearst
papers, opponents Of THOMPSON in the
past, are playing up" his fight on
Lowden in the interest Of johnson, Of
course.
More Fl Pasoans Arrive.
FL Paso delegation has been aug
mented by the arrival Of oscar ii.
Baum, an alternate from the 18th dis
trict, and n. c. frost, a spectator
II o. Bursum, New MexicO's nat
ional committeeman, has had Capt.
DimOn OF Gallup and Peter Hanley,
Of Albuquerque, former naval lieut.
enant named as assistant sergeants
at arms They are q part OF Gen.
James A. Ryan's force Of ex-service
men who viii see that the people
who occupy the 1900 seats in the
big coliseum have tickets.
Ten times that many people have
applied for admission
s. A Lindauer, a young man from
Deming. is active at Hoover head
quarters as secretary OF the Hoover
clubs of the United States. For sew
eral months he has been conducting
this work from Los Angeles.
Judge David J. Leahy Of Las Vegas,