The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-30

stayed at home to take on another press agent. At last accounts his most prom inent competitor in this field, Mir Frank Vanderlip, also of New York, had him three down and was prepared to give him press agent a hole with every confidence in his ability to beat him. Moreover, MT. Vanderlip was a welcome guest at the republican convention in Chicago indeed, dame rumor has it that he was one of the favored group who sat up until three o'clock in the morn ing on the day of nomination of the ticket, unselfishly sacrificing his rest and his beauty sleep in order to help make up the delegates mind for them But in San Francisco, MT. Baruch by reason of his financial connections would publicly be summed almost as though he had yellow flag draped on him, and a board of health warning pinned to this chest.
 And yet he is commonly regarded as one standing so close to the adminis- tration that at times he practically stands on it. Even on dark night Hoke Smith and Jim Reed couldn't get into the White House without burglars tools but for him the latch string hangs over the outside. And yet with all that he would be about as popular out here as pest house.
 Such also is the estimation in which a rich customer is held among those of the proletariat who believe that MT. Bryan wears an alpaca coat so that when his wings sprout out they can burst right through the fabric with out damaging feather. Such is the curse of wealth. He who runs with Bradstreet and Dun about runs last with the great common people out here.
 WENT TO HEAR ORATORY
 Some persons of morbid tendencies went to the convention hall today to hear ora tory and to gaze again upon the picture in oils of President Wilson, which hangs behind the speakers platform. This like ness, which was loaned by the leading house, sign and portrait painter of Placer vile, this state, deserves more mention than the correspondent shave seen fit to give it.
 Monday when it was unveiled the dele gates cheered it for sixteen minutes, but an artist from Boston, sitting just in front of me, fell down and had an epi- leptic fit lasting even longer.
 There is something about the technique of the thing which reminds one of the late MT. Cyrus McCormick's great mas terpiece entitled Coasters Last Stand 7 while the color treatment is reminiscent of the best work of the man who used to stripe band wagon wheels for Ringing Brothers.
 As I say many went to hear the burn. ing words of the silver tongueS-some of the words burning freely and others wsa a delayed fuse-but I preferred to roam the floor and study the expressions upon the faces of the delegates from New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts as the conviction that the convention would either adopt a dry plank or ignore the prohibition issue altogether. became firmly fixed in their minds. In my mind eye could see a Tammany district leader returning next week to his once happy home on the teeming east side and meet ing a constituent who will say to him. Well Larry, did you dimmicrats vote to let me have a saucer of beer with me dinner? and the leader will say, No, Tim, but we came out very strongly on the subject of foreign relations"
 And in the same breath, will start call' ing for the police These be the halcyon days in the democratic household-if you only pronounce the first syllable of "halcyon" to rhmye with yell