Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-15
CHICAGO OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

! mayor OF the convention burg, be-
lieves 1t pays to advertise.
All policemen in the city are wear
ing white armlets emblazoned with
this legend. Welcome, G. o. p, A. J.
Cermack, Mayor"
Within the next 80 hours Charles
G. Dawes may be called upon to make
a vital decision.
Here is story, authoritatively
vouched for to this observer which
! indicates how the wind may blow In
June, 1924. when the Republican con-
vention at Cleveland nominated Dawes
! for Vice President, after Frank O.
LoWden Of Illinois had refused to be
drafted. Gen. Dawes was sitting in the
ancestral home at Marietta, Ohio, with
a couple OF his brothers.
| They we're listening in on Cleveland
/ by radio. Soon there came over the
wave lengths the news that Dawes
would be given second place on the
! Coolidge ticket. One OF his brothers
spoke UP and asked. How about it,
Charley?"
The exact reply Is not available, but
it was to the effect that if the call
right to turn it down.
y
Senator Tess of Ohio, chairman of
the Republican National Committee.
who raped the convention to order
half an hour late yesterday. wes man
| ifestly perturbed by its refusal to be
punctual At any rate, he got things
started without prayer. which Bishop
Freeman Of Washington was all set to
deliver.
Proceedings were actually under way
10 or is minutes before Senator Fess
suddenly recalled that the divine bless
ing had not been asked.
Thereupon. Bishop Freeman's sono-
benefit of amplifiers, doomed through
the stadium.
What is wrong with this convention.
which opened in blaze of unparalleled
dullness, but will be a vastly different
kind of a show before this day is over,
is the absence Of stalwart old-timers. d.
The congressional set which ordi-
narily bestrides convention like the
Colossus Of Rhodes, Is almost totally
missing at Chicago.
It's hardly like a Republican pow
| WOW at all. with Senator's like Jim Wat
son, Bill Borah. George Moses and Ar
thur Capper not answering Present"
On the other hand. the cabinet set
has not for years been so conspicuously
represented.
The extreme vets are bitterly peeved
over that circumstance. They're talking
about Hoover's packed jury"
One of the dampest brethren thinks
the President should have done what
| Cal Coolidge did in 1924 and forbid
any member of his official household
to turn up at the Cleveland convention.
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| Alice Loneworth and former Repre-
sentative Ruth Hanna Mccormick
Simms are renewing their comradeship
at the convention The late Speaker
widow is easily the most popular woman
in Chicago.
Newspaper reporters, cameramen and
broadcasters have so far besieged
Princess Alice" in vain for interviews,
movietone pictures and radio talks.
| Mrs. Longworth lately was q whoop-
ing cough victim. but the Chicago
breezes seem entirely to have allayed
her bark.
| President William Green Of the
American Federation of Labor said at
a big convention trades union luncheon
| for Secretary of Labor Doak, amid
thunderous applause:
All of US have faith in the indus
tries of the country. We will pull
through. there is no doubt of that.
| am proud Of the record of labor during
the depression
Dry political Leaders were flabber.