Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
CONVENTION SIDELICHTS

GOV smith, 1t is argued, would surely
Democrats if he had a place on he
ticket. Furthermore, such a scIer-
non might tend to heal the br"Af
| made by the fight over the ku K!uZ
| Khan. Senator Copeland Of New York.
| senator Robinson of Arkansas and
Senator Glass of Virginia are among
| those talked Of also for the second
| place. OF course, the lightning may
yet strike any of the gentlemen. and
one Of them may be selected for
| President
OF the avowed candidates for the
| vice presidential nomination Mai
George l.. Berry, who has been in
dorsed by Samuel Gompers, president
OF the 4. +. Of l., and the heads of
los International unions affiliated ,
with the American Federatio Of
Labor. claims - have more than 400
yotes IN the first ballot for Vice
Representative william d. Upshaw
OF Georgia, shouting dry, is also
| another contender for this honor. His
friends insist that he should be given
| a place on the ticket a rebuke TO
the vets" and that Mr. Upshaw
| viii have the support Of William Jen
nings Bryan for the place.
Col. Bryan, by the way, is wearing
a smile that refuses to come off, now
that he is a great grandfather. Since
the convention opened his grand
daughter of Mrs. Reginald A. Owen,
formerly Ruth Bryan, gave birth TO
| d child.
When Col Bryan burst in upon the
press section with the happy announce
mcnt, he suggested that perhaps the
| correspondents might be looking for
some other kind Of news from him.
! This, however, was all he had 70 o:Ier,
he said. But he also told the following
! story:
when Abraham Lincoln became
President. officeseekers besicged ne
! haf
he got the chick en-poZ.
| - Send EN- all in now" Mr. Lincoln
! said. at last I've got something tneE
don't want
Robert N. La Toilette. r. was =
visitor at the Garden yesterday. bot
still was SAYING no.hIng Tor puo!ica-
ton about the possible carG dacy ~
| his father. Senator La Fcllettc. on
| a third party ticket.
Well said Buck" Bryant r The
sometimes golden and brings results
| ] remember an old fellow VINO came
! to a town in North Carolina and went
and sat down BY himself on 4 bercH
sat there. looking down . re
| ground. He sat there Tor hours
! People began to notice him F4t II
kept on saying nothing. Nobody knew
who he was but they began -
| be curious and several hundred gath
cred around BY and by. h got ID and
went into the station and ate SoTA
| lunch. Then he came baCE and So
down in the same place and Kept Oh
| staring at the ground The p@or.e go-
| SO worked up over him, that they
| finally appointed a committee 70 wa.-
on him. and ASH him what he vas
doing there and what he wanted.
! Then the old fellow looked u.
I've got fine lot Of ey,eg-zSSes
| to SELL he announced. ard pulled
them out Of his bag. In short
time he had sold SO worth 10 I1=
crowd and then he went On clt =
| town"
some kind Of an announcement
from Senator La Toilette i looked
forward To eagerly ny the Democrats
here. They are hoping that he viii
gle some sign Of approval on thar
candidate and PLATFORM or thu. z
he does not. he. VIII run on a ticket
which Will split up the Republican
party, as Roosevelt split il with tt
Bull Moose party in 1912, and gave
the Democrats d victory.
| A new suggestion for the Demo
cratic nomination. Owen = Young,
/ Company. who made remarkable
statement in regard 10 our foreign
relations before the committee On
resolutions. Mr.. Owen was associ-
| ated with Charles q. Dawes on the
so-called Dawes commission. which
worked out the proposed solution of
the German reparations tangle. He
lis a rank outsider. so to speak. and.
naturally, would not have any no
hucal enemies. it IS said. And what
a campaign he would be able 10
stage over the radio!
While the convention has balloted.
hour after hour, a number of the
delegations have just been waiting 10
some of the smaller delegations.
| They would like to he the delegation
which gave the votes TO make the
candidate sure of the necessary two
n irCS l.;
this category is the District of Col
| umbia delegation. which has voted
for many ballots for McAdoo, al
though many of its members are not
which has voted for former Senator
| salisbury, is another. and the dele
cation from the Philippines. which
has been casting three of six votes
for McAdoo and three for Smith with
great regularity, has played no
favorites either. When the proper
time comes, they will flop with all
| the enthusiasm such an occasion
demands.
Among the most interested visitors
| at the Democratic convention are the
Repu blicans. Among the latest ar
| rivals is Senator Spencer of Missouri,
who has not failed TO enjoy the row
| in the Missouri delegation between
the Reed and anti-Reed factions.
| Senator Spencer will have to make
| the race again for the Senate in his
state one Ody, ana these factlOnal
differences among the Democrats are
| not to be deSpiSed. Senator MedilI
Mccormick of Illinois, who attended
the Cleveland convention and pre-
dicted all kinds of dire happenings
to the Republican party-he himself
| failed Of denomination for the Senate
| is also here.
All one had to do yesterday was to
shut his eyes and it sounded Just like
home, if he happened to hail from
! Washington. D. G. Senator Tom
| the convention for a short time, and
his sonorous voice rolled out over the
| audience just as il does through the
| Senate chamber. Senator Hefin was
| clad in an immaculate palm beach
| suit. and looked every inch a senator.
| Dissatisfaction with the law en-
| forcement planks in both the Repuh-
! lican and Democratic platforms is ex-
| pressed in a statement issued today
by the united committee for dry plat
| forms, of which Clinton y. Howard,
| of Rochester ~ Y, is chairman.
| There is little choice between the
| enforcement resolution adopted by
| the Republican and Democratic con-
ventionS,' the statement said. Neither
| one is what we asked for or can be
| satisfactory to the prohibition con-
stituencies which the united commit
| tee represents. We advocated plank
| explicitly committing the next ad-
ministration to the maintenance and
enforcement of the eighteenth
| amendment"
| Mrs. Carroll Miller of Pittsburgh.
the Pennsylvania district delegate
] Democratic presidential nomination
| frny a PhnCnftC nf