Evening star., 1924-06-28
viii Go Back to California
With Empty Pockets if New
York Governor Wins.
BETS NOW FOUR TO ONE
Edward N. Hurley Prominently
Mentioned for Vice Presidential
Nomination.
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.
Copyright. 1923. by The Star.)

"Oflo war, WHen lSHtlnS was nedNy
on the western front, an official artil-
lery report would read something like
this:
I'VE heavily shelled the enemy's
works in the vicinity of Lens, and
some attention was paid to Clery
Woods"
SO it is here at the Democratic
convention. The presidential trenches
are being heavily shelled. but a few
of the leaders are paying some at
tention" to the vice presidency.
And underneath the surface a good
deal of activity is going on. About
the most prominent of the vice presi-
Dental suspects" on the ground is
Edward N. Hurley of Chicago, war
time chairman of the United States
Shipping Board and at present a
member of the international debt
funding commission under appoint
ment by President Coolidge Mr..
Hurley is said to be the unanimous
choice OF the Illinois Democracy for
second place on the ticket, for it is
believed he would be an effective foil
for He'll and Maria Dawes, especially
in labor circles. For, despite his pres
ent great wealth, Mr.. Hurley still
holds his card of active membership
in the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
Holds Strike Record.
Furthermore, Ed Hurley holds the
long-distance strike record. He went
on strike with the engineers in 1888
and has not gone back to work yet
An inventor of MACHINE tools him
self and head of several large cor
porationS which bear his name, Mr..
Hurley brought invaluable expert
ence to the war cabinet at Washing
ton and his work there won him high
praise. Theodore Burton of Ohio,
temporary chairman of the Republi-
can national convention, and also a
mission with Mr.. Hurley, is here to
sail with the latter for Europe early
in July on official business.
If Al Smith should by any chance
be the nominee of the Democratic na-
tional convention the McAdoo cohorts
from California will not only go
home heartbroken a the fate of their
idol, but they will cross the hot sands
OF the western deserts dead, fat
broke.
Picked Up Bets.
When the McAdoo men arrived in
New York they were amazed to hear
that the friends of Gov. Smith were
willing to bet 81 to 81 that he would
be the nominee of the convention
The CallfornianS were unab BILE to fig
ure 1T out that way at all, and to
them 1t occurred that the easiest way
In the world to get rich quick was to
take up all the Smith money in sight
They asked themselves why any one
should go to California looking for
sold When so much of it was to be
picked up in the betting places of
Wall street.
Immediately some of the Califor-
ma oelegates raised pool of $4,000
and ofered to bet it against $25, 900
that Smith would not be the nominee.
They could not get the money placed
at those odds, but finally they did
get some brokers in the street" to
put up 100000, so the bet stands
S5o,0oO to $4,000 against Smith.
Since that time the McAdoo support
ers have been betting against Smith
in lots running from $1,000 to $4,000,
and are still trying to get more on.
The New York papers say the Smith
people are still willing to lay to 5
on their favorite but the McAdoo
people say they are being compelled
now to put up 81 to win 81 of the
they believe it TO be easy money. and
say the Wall street smart guys"
are nothing but "boobs' after all
Gatckeepers Cleared.
Some one has solved the gate
crashing" during the big Al Smith
demonstrations on Thursday. The
They did not let any one in without
a ticket" But the tickets happened
to be cigar store coupons. The reg
ular tickets to the convention do not
look unlike the prize coupons dis
tributed all over the country. There
fore, a wse-cracking son of New
York conceived the idea Of arming q
flock of gate crashers with the cigar
store credentials. They went big.
The gatekeepers cashed them all in.
There is deep suspicion, however.
that they knew exactly what they
were doing.
All of the delegates to the present
convention have about reached the
conclusion that in the future some
sort of limit must be placed on nomi-
mating and seconding Speeches-not
time limit, for that supposedly has
been done, but numerical limit.
Retrcated Under Fire.
The camers back was broken when
five different delegates from the SOW
ereign state of Pennsylvania arose
one after the other to second five diff
ferent presidential candidates. Three
of the Pennsylvanians were women.
McAdoo, Underwood. Smith and
Ritchie had been seconded when the
hfth Pennsylvania took the speak
ers stand. The crowd would not
stand for him, and although he plead
ed to be heard, no one knows yet just
whom he intended to second" for he
retreated under fire without men
tioning any names.
The consensus of opinion seems to
be that in the future state should
have the right either to propose one
candidate or to second one, and no
more.
Delegates who sweltered through
four days of nominating oratory on
the presidency are worried as to what
may happen in connection with the
vice presidency. Any guy who at
tempts to occupy more than two min
utes in suggesting a nominee had
better look out.
During the parade for Gov. Silzer of
New Jersey one of the enthusiastic
shouted to the. other delegates
through a megaphone:
Don't you know band wagon
when you see one?" -.
Did you say beer wagon?' de-
manded a hard boiled man in the
Texas crowd, for Jersey is known in
the southland by the threat of former
Gov. Edwards to make it ''as wet as
the Atlantic ocean"
The rules against selling soft
drinks. near beer. peanuts and chew
ing gum on the floor of the conven-
tion have been suspended during the
long hot spell and the long hot ses-
sions. Ice cream and sandwiches
at first that the venders hawking
their wares would disturb the dele
gates. But there has been so much
noise and confusion on the floor from
the very beginning that the pop mer-
chants cannot be heard above the din.
A coroners jury composed entirely
of women recently returned a verdict
of murder against a London woman
who had entered a suicide pact with
. man.
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