Evening star., 1924-06-28

| NEW YORK, June 2S.-The great
Democratic handicap. political classic
| of the present decade. will be run of
with luck-during the next three
days. Sixteen starters go to the
post. regularly entered and weighted.
| There may be added starters. Fa-
vorites are McAdoo and Smith. A
dark horse is likely to land the
money.
These Democrats always are start
| ing something new.
| Now they are going to put the first
woman in nomination-by either OF
| the major parties-for the vice presi :
dency. Not seriously, of course. but
| just to give the women whirl.
Should she go across, by any chance,
there would indeed be a campaign.
| Mrs Leroy Springs OF South Carolina.
one Of the picturesque and most
decorative figures OF the convention,
once ice is broken for the women.
But suppose for a moment that Mrs.
Springs were elected and should pre-
side over the Senate as President OF
that body. / ask you. could Tom
Hefiin of Alabama be expected not to
ask for recognition of the chair at
least three times every day? One
thing might be accomplished. how
ever absenteeism proba bly, would
diminish with Mrs. Springs in the
chair.
Out at Cleveland convention former
Senator du Pont Of Delaware, a MEM
Der of the rules committee. raised
strenuous objection to the appoint
ment of woman members OF the Re
publican national committee with full
voting power. He made the sugges-
ton that perhaps the women, to be
logical, would ask that woman
President and a woman Vice PreSi-
dent be elected along with men for
those offices. But here the women are
putting forward a candidate all by
herself.
One record, at least, has been shat
tered by the Democratic national con-
vention now in session. The conven-
ton is going into it's fifth day with
out a ballot having been cast for the
presidential nominee. Old-timers
who have attended national conven-
tions of both parties for many years
do not recall such an occurrence.
But if the convention has been
short on ballots. it has been long on
conversation. For four days the dele
gates have listened with varying de-
grees of patience to speeches and
more speeches. OF all the nominat-
ing speeches, none was listened TO
with more respectful attention and
real interest than the speech propos-
ing the name of John w. Davis of
West Virginia, made by Judge John
H. Holt, and the seconding speech,
made by Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown,
one-time idol of Washington theater-
really wanted to hear something
about this dark horse" the man
who didn't run when somebody
called attention to the fact that he
had among his clients the house of
Morgan, but announced that he
thought an attorney was entitled to
have such clients as he desired, or
who desired him. Mrs. Browns speech
was delivered with telling effect. and
she received real and spontaneous
applause.
But if there was a plethora of
speeches in the convention. it was
nothing compared to the volumn of
talk which kept the platform COM
mittee busy for three days. The
committee turned itself into a debat
ing society.
j. Ham Lewis, former senator from
Illinois, he of the bushy whiskers, is
attending the convention, his whisk
erS a little paler than Of yore, but
bushy as ever.
w. T. Fitzgerald Of Boston. a dele
gate to the convention. met Senator
Lewis in the corridor of the Waldorf
today and reminded the senator of An
incident that occurred when Fitzger-
aid was chairman of the Democratic
city committee of Boston during the
campaign twenty years ago to elect
William A. CASTOR Governor of Mas.
sachusetts. In those days, as now.
whiskers. One young woman rushed
up to Mr.. Fitzgerald. demanding all
introduction to Senator Lewis.
I've been told that his whiskers
are bushy enough to use for a pow
der puff" said the damsel. not no
ticing that Senator Lewis was stand
ing behind her.
MY dear young lady, I would be
charmed to have my whiskers used
as a powder puff on your lovely face"
as he stepped forward. while the
young woman blushed in confusion.
The value of the kfddies in any
picture was emphasized by Bennett
Clark, son of the late Champ Clark,
defeated for the presidential nomina-
tfon in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson, who
is row attending this convention. Up
on the stage, during the demonstra-
tion for Gov. AL Smith. stood three
boy was typical New York newsie,
just such one as Gov Smith was
himself early in his career. Col.
Clark said that he felt a lump come
into his throat as he watched the
youngsters waving Smith banners and
told himself he was a fool. But as
he looked around he found the same
feeling for the kiddies had touched
others, and one big man actually had
tears in his eyes.
Yankee Dood- Ar" is the title of
the latest Smith campaign song to
make its appearance here. 1t is sung
to the tune Of Yankee Doodle" and
goes as follows:
We'll send Al Smith to Wash
lngton to govern this great nation.
The fact remains AL has the brains
TO meet the situation. Course
Yankee Dood Al is our pal, Yankee
Dood-Al stands for AL Yankee
nood-Al President for nineteen
twenty-four."
Every one is helpful to the dele
gates at this convention. Now one
of the telegraph companies has put
out printed pamphlet containing
thirty-one well phrased congratu-
latory messages to be sent to the
successful candidates for the presi-
Dental and the wire presideptjoI