Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-05

The most fun l have these days IS
watching Mrs y. J Mahoney In the
convention hall. She's very pretty
girl OF French type. She sits not In the
galleries with the distin guished visitors.
or up IN the organ loft with the aristo-
cratic lady politicians. nor even on the
door with the delegates Her seat rs In
the press stand Few folks notice her.
but she Is more entertaining to me than
all the hubbub Of the convention.
Mrs. Mahoney Is Gov Cox 8 daughter
and from her seat ia the press stand
during the endless ballotlng she has
seen the whtehouse beckon and beckon,
each time more earnestly with every re-
peated ballot,
II you can think Of any higher stakes
that gamblers have ever played for than
the whitehouse, you know more about
gambling than most people and ] want
TO put It down right here that this
young lady with this tremendous stake
in view Is one OF the coolest gamblers
have ever seen.
Even the old timers at Monte Carlo.
hardened to the vagaries Of fate, did not
seem TO me quite as cool MS this young
lady from Ohio, who during two days
has seen the whitehouse advance and
then retire. only to advance and retire
again.
she SITS next TO AlIo. A'AFlu LII iNA+0f
wife OF a washington correspondent, and
between them they kept track Of the
Cor votes. watched her several times
while the han went mad with shouts or
her fathers name. She did not join
the demonstration. She did not even
rise in her seat like most OF the other
reporters to look at the scene.
When she did arise during the hubbub
It was to leave the hail and 30 out
into the restaurant TO take a bottle OF
milk and ham sandwich.
Cox's DAUGHTER
BELIEVES IN GUM.
On the 10th. nth and 18th ballots
Saturday, when her fathers score was
climbing and then falling, some one in
the press stand offered her a package
Of gum. She Immediately put this, With
vigor. to its intended purpose. 1t was
relief to see her doing something, even
If It was chewing gum.
Beyond any doubt, pent up in her
womans mind was a perfect storm of
emotion. Of hopes and fears and pride
and doubt, and her only way Of venting
these In anything approaching a seemly
fashion was in innocent gum chewing.
man, under similar circumstances,
her father in Ohio for instance, or Wood
row Wilson in the whtehouse, or WI
liam c. AIcAdoo in New York-would
have been pacing the floor or igurative-
Iy swapping his fingers and crying, at
least to his friends:
Come on you 72S votes, come on you
72s."
But not Mrs. Mahoney. She only
calmly chewed her gum and kept score.
met here In the hallway during one
Of the demonstrations and tried to dis
cover whether concealed excitement could
be brought out. It could not. This
Buckeye girl had herself so well in hand
that she broke all traditions in regard
to the emotions of women.
Have you ever kept such close tally
on your father before?" a Outstanding
reporter asked her.
NO" she said, II went to the demo
cratic convention at Baltimore and kept
track of Champ Clarks vote. My ia
theirs name wasn't mentioned there, but
think was more excited then than
I am now"
"You don't seem at all excited now"
I suggested.
~ don't let myself get excited. This
is too big a thing to get excited about"
do you keep your father Informed
about what's going on?" friend asked
her.
HER FATHER rs
NEWSPAPER MAN.
"Oh yes, / send him a telegram every
day, but he's a newspaper man, you
know He has a newspaper IN Dayton
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