Evening star., 1924-06-25
wife WORKS HARD
FOR M'ADOO CAUSE
Charm and Personality of Former
Miss Wilson Prove Assets to
Her Husband.
DELEGATES O. z. ANNA CASE
Reluctant to Let Opera Star Quit
After Two Numbers.
DELEGATES O. Z. ANNA CASE
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

BY ROBERT T. SMALL.
NEW YORK, June 25.-Not only is
Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo at her
husbands side every time he make
public appearance, but in her own
quiet way the daughter of Woodrow
Wilson is doing all in her power to
further her husbands ambition to
follow her father in the White House.
Mrs. McAdoo presides graciously over
the McAdoo suite in the Vanderbilt
Hotel and constantly is receiving and
talking with delegates and other con-
vention visitors. Mrs. McAdoo is a
woman of charm and personality and
both are standing her in good stead
at this crisis in her husbands Vareer.
Mrs John W. Davis is the only other
wife of a presidential aspirant who
is taking a prominent part in con-
vention affairs Mrs. Davis was named
as a resident New Yorker on num-
Der of the womens convention COM
mittees and has been active in en-
tertaining the fair Democratic visit
orS.
And still the Republicans come.
Pretty soon there will be no room for
the unterrified democracy. The latest
G. o. p. arrival of prominence is
former Representative Philip Camp
bell of Kansas Mr. Campbell was
erful rules committee in the House
of Representatives. At the Cleveland
convention, which was so lambasted
by keynoter Harrison, Mr.. Campbell
was chief parliame entarian. he was
always at the front of the platform
read to parliament" but the con-
vention was so well organized that
no questions arose and the abllltles
of the we'll known Kansan were not
called into play.
The senatorial oligarchy" of which
former Gov. Cox used to complain IN
the last campaign is catching 1t hot
.oligarchy" had reached it's height in
1920 when it dictated the nomination
of Warren Harding and wrote the
party platform. 1t met its waterloo
at Cleveland. The Democrats can't
of the Republican senator's than were
said and thought at Cleveland by the
friends Of President Coolidge.
Pat Harrison presided with so much
pep and perSpicacity while acting
as temporary chairman that many or
the delegates wished he had been
selected for the permanent post Fat
put things through with a rush that
called forth smiles and cheers from
the perspiring delegates.
Madison Square Garden has glass
shines through it with all the vim
and vigor of mid-July rather than
late June. Hot houses have glass
roofs, so the reader may draw his
own conclusions as to the tempera,
things get to going right. The
Democrats always draw hot weather.
and, best of all, they love it. It didn't
take 'em ten minutes to "shuck" their
coats and make shirt-sleve affair
delegates were
spots of GOODNESS in their linen and
duck suits
Whoever selected Miss Anna Case
quick and appreciative vote of thanks
from the delegates and galleries.
Miss Case, who is a Metropolitan
star and sang sase Hymn ef
the Republic" with a dramatic fervor
which swept the convention or it's
feet. Her voice rang clear and mel
low above the chorus of 100000 voices
which Joined her at her beckoning:
and demanded that they be told
again. Miss Case not only has a
lovely voice, but is a lovely lady. and
the delegates were 1oath to let her go.
Tho convention band occasionally
gets its signals crossed. 1t had bet
ter watch it's step when the favor1te
son booms are being launched. Some
southerner or hard-head-
ed westerner may take a shot at 1t IL
it perpetrates the wrong tune. For
instance, when Senator Pat Harrison
of Mississippi was first introduced
the band ineptly played California.
Here I Come Pat @ had no IDEA OF
anybody. Later the band sent out a
by bursting into Dixie"
That helped some.
The sessions of a Democratic ma
tional convention always are late
in assembling. The delegates don't
seem to mind. 1t gives them an op-
portunity to go visiting on the moor
or to rally around their standards
and sing the state songs. About
to know is my Old Kentucky Home"
TN Dear Old Georgia" generally gets
a few volunteers from the outside.
but Iowa; Iowa: That's Where
the Tall Corn Grows" generally has
Wabash" are still remembered by
some Of the old-timers. but the modern
seems to have passed 1t by.
York is the fairest city in all the
land Mayor Hylan always makes one
exception. He puts Wall street on
the griddle and toasts it to a fare
He says Wall street is
narrow lane with a river at one end
and a graveyard at the other. In be-
tween, he opines, there is crowded
more wickedness, more corruption,
more special interest" more embat-
tied Doodle, than in any other quar-
ter of the world. Some folks who
have listened to the mayor are be-
ginning to believe he took Hollins
Of Atlanta seriously when
Hollins told him the Georgia dele
cation was first for McAdoo and Sec
ond for Hylan.
The Republican convention at
was like a stately society
in a severely draped drawing
room. The Madison Square Garden
show is like a picnic or a chowder
m rfx NTH the old "A Il dxiner and