Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-10

Chicago, juno 10.--The delegates
soon viii be told who TO vote for on the
first ballot. This first ballot will be for
warming-up purposes only. aud after
that will come the real struggle.
It is safe to hook the family jewels
and mortgage the bushcl Of potatoes to
Iinake sure thing bet that somebody
will be nominated That part Of it is
easy. The difficult and in trickit stunt
| is to guess the names of five gents who
are likely to be imposed upor.
No matter what the committees do
about the League of Nations. the Mex
| lean question:. the high cost of living or
prohibition. the real purpose Of this
| vacation Is TO select u standard bearer
for the 1920 Derby. All of the other
stunts are trivial and can bc classified
ms sidelights. True. a lot of manual
! labor has been expended for some rca
son or other and the result has been
published, but only as reading matter
next to n display advertisement How
over, these subjects will be taken up
later.
As the balloting is soon to begin. we
again must step forward with some ex-
| elusive inside dope on the candidate
After interviewing tho principal per
sons connected with the G. q. =. we
have learned that some gent wearing
whiskers will win by chin.
Latest Historical Data
Ring W.. Lardnef n close student Of
politics. who has been n keen observer
here for week or less. gavc out the
following interview this morning:
There have been twenty.siy presi +.
dents Of the United States and Wood .
row Wilson. OF this number the fol .
lowing had whskers:
John Quincy Adams. Van Burcn.
Taylor. Grant, Lincoln. Garfield Chcs d.
ter Arthur and Harrison in the order
named. According TO the figures. only
eight Of the entire list of Presidents had
whiScrs. and if the law of averages is
to be considered there should be a real
set of whiskers in the Presidents chair
this year. ] therefore predict the nom
ination of Charles Evans Hughes, of
New York and Washington, for the
above reasons and the form chart.
"Martie Van Buren and Chester Ar
thur did not have what could be called
healthy hirsute fncial adornment. They
wore things called dundrearics. which
hung on the check bones like two flying
squirrels. Hughes is not wearing alfalfa
like that and would draw a solid whis
kcrcd vote.
Mr.. Lardner neglected to state that
n Mr.. Carranza wore a flowing beard
and no longer is president of Mexico.
But there are other booms beside this
one The name of Philandcr G.. Knox
has bobbcd up again. but tho Pcnnsyl-
vania senator has not boon considered
seriously as yet He might bc inserted
in tho picture tomorrow, but YOU never
can tell.
Governor Sproul was running strong
Monday. lost ground Tuesday, picked
up a little yesterday and today is back
again in the old stride. This is because
the delegates now know who he is. The
| Governor has been n mystery here. His
name was pronounced in n dozen differ
ont ways and ono newspaper printed his
picture under the heading This is f.,
J, SprOul. tho dark horse Today
they are calling him William. which
shows tho value of getting acquainted.
The other candidates arc resting
easy. 1t is believed that Hiram .Iolu-
sons boom has been fractured in six
different places. and his campaign sur
gcons have given up all hope. Lowdon
too. is on the rocks, so Wood is the only
member Of the big three who has a
chance, and he has as much Of show
rs the Philics without Bancroft.
An cxubcrant delegate from Euston,
Pa. made an interesting speech last
night, which might moan something or
it might NOT. 1--WE have a great boss. y
he said. Tells US what to do ard
everything like that. We will vote
solidly for Sproul on the first ballot and
then switch to Knox"
We don't know who he was referring
to as the great Dass,' but we know
| who Knox is