Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-25
HOUSTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

CONVENTION HALL. Houston. Tex,
June 25.--It Is a much gayer show the
Democrats are staging at Houston than
the Quaker meeting of the Repub-
licans at Kansas City, as q Texas wit
ness dubs It. Despite the heat. there
is exhilaration in the air. The conven-
ton hall Is sure to throb with II when
things get going on Tuesday. Perhaps
It's the greater romance of the South
west that surcharges the Democratic
convention with an atmosphere OF
brightness and breezineSs lamentanly
lacking in the Hooverized conclave.
The Mexican Spanish note is omni-
present Ten-gallon hats are encoun-
tered with frequency. THE Old Gray
Marc" Band, a really fine organization.
in cowboy kit from top to bottom. and
a woman soloist on horseback. Is the
official music-maker 1t parades the
streets and hotel Hobbies. playing how
Dry Am" and THE Sidewalks OF New
York" Palm Beach suits on men ana
the fiimsiest of sport frocks on women
fiji Houston with blaze of color slle-
gestive of the seashore. In the streets
the melting asphalt sinks beneath the
feet and the Texas sun beats down
mercilessly But atop the tall rice
Hotel hub OF the convention universe,
breezes blowing in from the Gull bring
a caressing GOODNESS such as the North
shore of Massachusetts, might envy
" *
"Jim" Reed has stolen leaf out OF
the slogan note book hitherto regarded
az the private property OF George
Washington One of the Missourian's
camnaign buttons surmounts cellu-
Ioid strean,er on which Is emblaZoned,
"Reed-First for His Country
one-eye Connolly, professional gate
crasher, is on the Houston lon. he
bummed his way from New Iork ana
landed a bed and meal ticket Ior tne
duration of the convention before he'd
heen in town two hours. Also One-eye
was thrown out of the ball park when
he tried to crash into the Houston
Shreveport game. When he found NM
self outside the breastworks, he said to
the burly Texas bluecoat VINO had the
honor of eiecting him, Say. Cap, I've
been thrown out OF a lot better PARKS
than this"
True 10 promise the AL Smith brigade
al Houston Is distinguished Tor what IL
known IN the East Side as refine
ment" The governors headquarters
are manned land womaned)
staff which might be In charge OF the
Institute of Politics at Williamstown M
stead of the fortunes OF Mammalian
idol Nobody there looks as II NED ever
heard of Tammany Hall. Inc aroma
is that of Park avenue. not Fourteenth
street When orders are 10 be given,
or decisions made, the Smith slogan II
To leave II 10 one of the two Georges
George n. Van Nance. the governor y
convention generalissimo, or George
Olvany, grand sachem OF Tammany
Hall. Two intellectuals supply the cui-
ture touch--James W. Gerard, former
Ambassador to Germany, and Repre-
sentative John r. Carew scholar OF the
Manhattan delegation In Congress ana
LII. b. prize man OF Columbia, 20
Franklin d. Roosevelt lends the aristo-
cratic note. ,.
THE Democratic vice presidential cam
didate of 1920 is stu unable TO wax
unassisted. apparently the lasting effect
OF the infantile paralysis which over"
took him six years ago.
He Is TO place Smith In nomination.
u y
Mai. George l.. Berry OF Tennessee
president Of the International Press
mems and Machinlats' Union, Is an uri-
blushine candidate for Vice President
A bunch of sweet singers, eight or ten
in number. periodically threads It's way
through the convention crowds and
suddenly bursts out with this. TO the
tune Whose lazy Is He"?'
Whose Berry Is hep He Is yours
and he Is mine.
We're shouting Berry, Mai, Berry.
all the time.
He's like YOU and he's like me,
regular fellow from Tennessee
We're shouting Berry. Maj, Berry,
all the time