The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-26
WINE WITH
WOMEN
LURE
One McAdoo Delegation Broken
and individuals Shaken by
~WiIes, Is Claim
BY WILLIAM HARD.

By WILLIAM HARD.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
New York, June 26.-The 'vote
vamps" Of New York are certainly
on their job. At any rate, that Is
what the McAdoo managers say and
feel dreadfulIy bad and terribly re.
sentful as they say it. @
Good fellows with bottles and
lovely ladies with AL Smith badges
these are the political factors
which the McAdoo managers feel
are their really powerful antago.
nists in New York. -
Six out Of twelve delegates in q
McAdoo instructed Western 'delega
ton were promised to Smith last
night after a party in which the
Westerners were introduced to all
the delegates Of little old New York
life-old meaning -Volstead.
The delegation must vote for Nc.
Adoo on the opening ballots. It
had intended to be against Smith
from beginning to end of the whole
convention. Yet now, in company
with a certain other Western dele.
cation, having gone to a few New
York parties, night after night,
since its arrival, It begins to think
that Smith stands for making life
pleasant in the United States.
Menaced by Hospitality.
McAdoo managers believe and
claim that New York hospitality is
their greatest menace
Outwardly and formally they de-
nounce most especially the alleged
uf1fairness to them and the alleged
hostility against them of the New
York newspapers.
Inwardly and intimately they feel
and say that their greatest danger
In New York is not New York
hostility but New York hospitality.
New York has provided special
entertainment committee for each
visiting delegation in the conven-
ton. This committee in each case
takes the delegation out and gives
It a good time.
It gives it a New York good
time. in certain instances it, takes
II, out to Long Island to splendid
country houses. In other instances
1t takes it to New York restaurants
where Mr.. Wayne D. Wheeler Of the
anti-saloon league is not known, or
else is too well known to be- adj
n1ftted. ~
The entertainment committees
are for AL Smith ia the great
majority of cases. Certainly at any
rate they are almost always for AL
Smith IN comparison with being
tor William Gibbs McAdoo.
They prove to the Western dele
cations that people can be for. Al
Smith and at the same time be
very charming people. r.
Weaned From McAdOO.
They undoubtedly and admittedly
have already weaned various West
ern delegates away from their un.
alleged devotion to McAdoo.
ladies and liquor'-that is the
explanation which the McAdoo man
ayers sometimes bitterly give of it.
In some cases, on the other hand,
the McAdoo delegates prove OBJ.
durate to all Eastern blandish-
ments. A lady on one of the New
York entertainment committees for
one of the Southern delegations,
which happns to be a McAdoo dele
cation, remarked today:
I'VE have been just as nice to
them as possible. but not one of
tnem has come over yet"
Contrarywlse a certain number
nave already come over or have
given signs Of being able to come
over If and when the break from
McAdoo occurs.
There is no doubt that dry McAdoo
delegates from certain Southern and
western States are every night go.
ing to parties which are far from
dry and which are permeated with
Al: Smith enthusiasm among the
hosts.
The hosts are simply doing their
natural New YORK best to be nice
TO visitors. The McAdoo managers
regard 1t all as INSCRIPTIONS delib-
crate debauchery Of their delegates,
Enjoying Change. !,
There is no doubt that it Is hav-
ing a certain effect. It Is conyinc.
ing a certain number of McAdoo del
egates that Al Smith and New York
are agreeable incidents in their lives.
At home they perhaps are dry by
principle and also in practice. Here
they are enjoying a change Of prin-
ciple or, at any rate, a change of
practice and begin to be appreciative
not only of their hosts but of the
candidate whom their hosts love and
admire.
AL Smith has nothing in the .world
to do with the entertainment which
New York is offering to its home.
dry and travel-wet visitors. Yet
that entertainment is bending Ger.
tain number Of visitors, with votes
in this convention, toward AL Smith.
These entertainers thereupon be-
come in the eyes Of the McAdoo
managers the very last word in the
line Of being INSCRIPTIONS and de-
signing "vote vamps."
High issues Of state may occupy
the minds Of the editorial commenta-
tors on this convention. The in.
slant practical issue of 1t for the
McAdoo managers here is thu
charming gentlemen and the charm.
ing ladies who with the surprising
supplies of the liquids supposedly
outlawed by Mr.. Volstead seemed
destined to great historic fame as
the 1924 vote vamps" Of New York.
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