Evening star., 1936-06-09
Sidelights
Part of the Glitter and
Noise Caught at the
G. @. P. Conclave.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

ator Dan Hastings, who just resigned |
the Craftsmanship of the Republican |
Senatorial Committee, left for WASH
ington on the eve of the opening of
the Republican National Convention !
to get back to his senatorial duties
on the tax bill.
A caucus was held yesterday of the |
Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Iowa delegates on the propo-
sition to support Senator Steiwer, the |
keynote speaker, for President. This |
is one of the late developments in
the stop Landon" campaign.
Charles E. Carroll, mayor of La
coma, N. H., created a furore in the
lobby of the Statler Hotel yesterday.
Vociferously he declared Col. Knox
will win the nomination on the third
ballot and that he will have 260 votes
on the first ballot. He is an ardent
Townsendite and asserted that the
party has to get something in the
platform commencing Townsend for
the work he has done"
At a gathering of the Illinois delega-
tion in the Cleveland Hotel last night,
former Representative Fred Britten
of Illinois proposed a resolution chal-
lenging Postmaster General Farley,
the Democratic campaign manager to
run for Governor of New York. He
laid on thick, extolling Farley as the
most astute politician in many years.
He asserted that If Farley runs, he
and Roosevelt will be wiped of the
political map by a more than 250, 900
majority"
Representative j. Hamilton Fish OF
New York, who toured the country
as a candidate for the presidency, and
who is considered to be an outstanding
candidate for Vice President, Is busy
in the hotel lobbieS sounding out SEN
timent.
Aubrey Hawkins, an unpretentious
citizen from Richmond, Va, who is
an alternate in the Virginia delega-
ton. is one of those fellows who keeps
his ear close to the ground and gen.
orally knows pretty well what is
going on.
Former Representative Bascom
Slemp of West Virginia, one time
White House secretary, has gone back
TO his home in Big Gap, Va. He has
reported to the National Committee
=;
in rounding up the colored vote. He
suddenly left town when Bernarr
McFadden came to the convention.
There is a report that Mac and Slemp
have had serious differnece of opin-
ion over financial matters.
I is reported that Representative
John w. Martin. to be majority floor
leader for Gov. Landon, may resign
to become leader of a national move
ment.
Lehr Fess. pariiamentarian Of the
House under Speakers Gillett and
Longworth-19l9 to l927-has arrived
to be assistant to John @. Tilson. of
Connecticut as parliamentarian of
the convention. Tilson was formerly
house leader. Fess is the son of
Senator Simeon D. Fess. and is
resident of Toledo, Ohio. He was
parliamentarian in the conventions
of 1920, 1924 and 1892. One of the
first contests requiring the Tilson-Fess
services is on the Wisconsin delegation,
which elected three delegates when
entitled to only two. The State COM
mitteeman indorSed them all-becauSe
it had been the cuStom-entirely for
getting that the last convention has
passed specific rule that in the event
that credentials for more than the
number Of delegates should be re-
ceived by the committee, a contest
would be deemed to exist and for
the purposes of the temporary roll.
the committee should decide which
of the delegates are entitled to the
seats. The National Committee
recommended that there should be
placed on the temporary roll the
two receiving the highest number of
votes. The Washington delegation
is planning to go before the Creden-
tials Committee and seek to have
the rule suspended. and the three
delegates be seated with two-third
vote each.
Former Senators Atlee Pomerene of
Ohio and George Moses of New
Hampshire were conspicuous in the
hotel lobbies yesterday. Moses was
kidded for his faux pas of several
years ago about the sons of the wild
jackaSs." ...
Gilbert Nettleton. former secretary
to Representative Martin B. Madden
of Illinois while he was chairman of
the House Appropriations Committee.
and now a vice president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was watching
the convention maneuvers yesterday
from the sidelines.
Mrs. Murray Boocock, National
committeewoman from Virginia, of
Keswick, Albemarle County, enter
tained the Virginia delegates yesterday.