Evening star., 1936-06-23
p a staff Correspondent Of The Star.


PHILADELPHIA, June 23.-Cam-
paign songs have come in again with
''whoop" at this convention-most
of the State delegations have them.
New Jersey and Texas have sprung
lively new ones. The New Jersey dele
cation led by National Committeeman
Frank Hague and Representative Mary
T. Norton enhvened the headquarters
hotel with a luncheon attended by
nearly $50. A member of Paul White
mans Orchestra read the following
tribute to Roosevelt from the Veterans
League of New Jersey:
'Tis truly said OF God, indeed,
He finds the man to suit the need.
He Sdw our plight in '32,
When things looked black for me
and you,
And so he sent man to reign,
Tried in his cruc!ble OF pain,
A smiling mdn-one undfrdid
To face the crisis undismdyed;
A man wIo spoke in hon,ely terms,
And thought OF US as men-noi
rornls:
A man uho told the naughty teio
Just Uhdt they could, and could not
do;
A man wHo did not kno1O it all, ID
And neuer said he did at all,
But said, instead, Wen do our best
And then to God ledpe oil the rest
His best uas good-he kept his Uow
We trust him more than euer no1D.
There are five verses to the New
Jersey campaign song-"The Man N
the Street Is Wise TO You" to the
tune of Parley-Vouz. The final verse
sung Justify by the big luncheon throng
rang through the headquarters hotel
and brought the riot squad OF photog-
raphers:
Go on and yell, but you'll neUer sell
your ballyhoo,
For though you yell as loud as-,Den
it's bdllhoo.
With Landon in the driDer's seat,
The elephants cinch to beat.
Just match the famous Roosevelt smile
And the donkey t0ir by halt mile,
With all your blinkin' bdllyhoo.
This song was written by Thomas H
Gallaher of Orange. N. ].
John B. Colpoys, United States mar
shall in the District and a delegate
was distributing personally to natlona
leaders at the headquarters his owr
post cards as editor of the Trade
Unionist, second Oldest newspaper II
Washington. This carried a Johr
Eesr cartoon showing Hearst as a
herioc figure of the Simon Lesret
type, lash in hand, pulling a toy ele'
phant on wheels with Landon astride-
and admonishing. I'll guide you from
now on" Colpoys' title is He PICKED
i'm"
There are two Col Halseys working
hard at Convention Hall-Col. Edwir
A. Halsey, the sergeant at arms, WHIT
is secretary of the United States Sen
ate, and Col. Halsey, jr., his son, wht
commands the Washington High
School Cadet Corps and is his fathers
assistant at the convention.
Who is the odd man in the Virgins
delegation? An unofficial list of S:
names was approved at the State con-
vention, whereas the official list con-
tains only 54, and that is the number
of seats provided in the convention
It has not yet been decided who L
| the surplus delegate.
They are planning a big memoria
| breakfast tomorrow morning for VIII
liam Jennings Bryan at the Penn Ath'
letic Club. Josephus Daniels, Am
bassador to Mexico, who served in th'
same Wilson cabinet with Bryan, wher
the latter was Secretary of State ane
Daniels was Secretary of the Navy
is to preside. The speakers include
Secretary of State Hull, Secretary o.
Commerce Roper, Senators A. w
Barkley, "keynoter" of the conven'
ton; Morris Sheppard, Texas; james
E. Murray, Montana: William @. Nc
Adoo, California, who also was in tht
Wilson cabinet; Robert E. Wagner
New York, chairman of the Platform
Committee; Kenneth McKellar, Ten
nessee; ]. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois, and
Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma.
The Texas delegation. fianked by
cowboys with centennial" sombreros
made the welkin ring at the Garner
headquarters here last night, singing
"Sons of Texas" centennial song, ont
verse of which is:
Teras claims her honored birthrighf
Greatest gift OF ages past,
| Austin, Houston, linked with hist'ry
For all times their names DiH last.
Eper gEorying in the memory
San Pdcinto fought and Don,
For our glorious State OF TeTas
Ring the cheer OF all her sons.
The New York delegation. bigges