Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-01
pERSH|NG FAVORED
+ FOR SECOND PLACE
Some Delegates Figure DEM
ocrats Need Service Man
as Dawes "Antidote."
GENERAL NOT CONSULTED
Room Visiting" Popular as Rum
Sleuths Pursue Drive on
Offenders.
BY ROBERT It. SMALL.

NEW YORK, July liver since
they came to New York some of the
delegates to the Democratic national
convention have commended that n
service man" should be put on the
hatlonal ticket as an offset to hell
and Maria"-Dawes of hte Republi-
cans.
Today these same delegates
thought they had solved the problem,
Their idea is to draft no less a per-
son than Gen. John ]. Pershing for
Vice President. They are endeavor-
ing to bring other delegates to the
same view, and say they are meet
ing with gratifying success.
General Pershing was Gen. Dawes
commanding officer in France, and he
was seriously considered four years
ago for definite political honors.
To the objection that Gen. Pershing
is not a Democrat his proponents at
the convention here say that neither
is he a Republican. He has never
voted either ticket. Having been in
the Army all hE; life, he has never
mixed in politics-not national pol
ltics, anyhow.
The Pershing boomers believe the
Democrats would make a ten-strike
by. placing aim on the tail of the
ticket. They say he was appointed
forces in tine world war by Dem
ocratic Pr sident. and that his great
military b onors came to him under a
Democrat administration:
So far. as can be learned, no one at
the cow antion has consulted the gen
eral ats out his incipient BOOM AS
before Stated, their idea is to draft
him. and inasmuch as the A. r. r;
comm lander believes in the dra1t,
the delegates argue that he could not
con Sstently decline the nomination
If + were rendered to him.
There have been fewer soldier
Indidates" for office after the world
far than in any other war Perl shin %
iooomers say that after the revolu-
,tionary war Gen. Washington was
called to office. After the Mexican
war Gen. Andrew Jackson was called
to Office. After the civil war it was
Grant. After the Spanish-American
war Roosevelt was called to the
vice presidency, later succeeding to
the presidency. The Repuplcahs
have chosen a service man for sec
ond place, so the Democratic COLLINS
are likely to get Black Jack PERISH
ing if he does not watch out
Now that night sessions have be-
come the regular order of the con-
yention. tn. delegates and their wives
have solved the problem Of what to
do with their metropolitan evenings.
AS a matter of fact, there has not
been much difficulty on that score
from the very beginning. During the
local committee on entertainment
had provided dinners and receptions
and dances for most every night ana
violently protested against the holo-
ing of night sessions during that
The theaters have not had much of
an appeal to the delegates. This was
partly due to what the visitors re-
garded as Outrageous" prices at the
box Offices There was no increase In
the prices anywhere. The managers
had all agreed to that. But when 1t
was announced as q great "conces-
SIGN" to the DEMOCRATIC hosts that
they could go o. to . the o1,e was
flop" to use the parlance of the thea
ter. Rather than go to the theater,
the delegates have preferred to stand
around the hotel Hobbies and gossip
They always do that at conventions
anyhow. Old convention towns like
Chicago never make any special pro-
visions for the delegates. They know
they Will go their own ways. mere
has been much room visiting" here,
lust as there was in Cleveland. for
the official rum hounds from Wash
-ington have succeeded, by never
ceasng raids, in drying up what may
be called the convention zone of New
York fairly well. AS a matter of
fact, the prohibition enforcement
people are pinning roses on them
selves every day. They feel they
have done good job: They even
caused the arrest of Chicago alder
man who had some hard stuff in his
suitcase. The federal judge let him
off with a $40 fine, but it was a great
moral victory for the Haynes brigade
just the same.
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