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Show COBB FilS FUS IN COMTIl'S CLOSE Pays Parting Respects to Some of the Ambitious Spellbinders. By IRVTN COBB. ' IIK'AKO, Juno in. Only once, an. I then for but, a few fleeting moment mo-ment h, was any danger threat (Mini to the harmonious whole of the T i f i j 1 t i -an convention. 'I'll in pril impended when Mr. Howard Baldridge (it" Nebrns-ka Nebrns-ka took the platform, actuated liy a desire de-sire that the convention thunld nominate nomi-nate for .Justin; Hughes s associate, former Senator Flmer Kurkett, lit1 he-lieving he-lieving that, with Mr. Hurkn the name nflixed to the masthead all the smoothfaced smooth-faced men west, of the Mississippi river riv-er would rally to the standard. In faet, Mr. Paldridge felt so sun; of sucn gratifying grat-ifying support for the combination of Hughes and Hurkctt that ho went fur-t fur-t her in emjdiatie metaphor t han auy p receding silver-tongued orator bad during Lliis el oqueuce -.burdened week. He said the party would be assured of a ' ' triumphant and whining victory," from whi'-h remark the, astute hearer might gather that he meant thd Ru-puldb'aris Ru-puldb'aris would nut lone, but. would be Mjei-essL'ul. A victory described as being be-ing of that nature nut just a plain, ordinary, victorious victory, but a victory vic-tory which is both winning and triumphant tri-umphant can mean nothing else. But thd delegates did not barken. The temper of the convention plainly was not that of the historic little boy who, believing that nobody loved him, morosely announced that he meant to go out in the garden and Hwallow one woolly one and one slick one. it put through its programme and came forth wi th a resultant alliance calculated strongly to appeal to the trailing arbutus ar-butus vote wheresoever found. From the jumble of impressions of the last session of the eonveution certain cer-tain pictures must ever stand out clear and distinct, in the mind of those who sat watching from the press benches. One lias but to close his eyes to see liov-twnor Willis, the otlicial minute-man minute-man for iho Kepubliean party and sometimes oftener than that rising in his place alongside the Ohio standard at intervals when nobody elso was rising, to make a few rem arks. If any person per-son believed (.J over nor Willis exhausted exhaust-ed his entire repertoire of flutc-like and melodious notes on yesterday when he u as nominating Senator Burton, that person was agreeably undeceived. For todav the governor, who looks a good deal as W. J". Bryan must have looked years ago, before Mr. Bryan began to moult, offered an absolutely new vocal novelty. Repeatedly he pronounced the name of his native state with nine distinct dis-tinct nud separate syllables in it aud tremolo effect in the latter sections. Should Governor Willis ever give up statecra ft as an avoeat ion he has in him the makings of a magnificent yode-ler. yode-ler. If he did thus well with a short word, such as Ohio, what could ho do with Mesopotamia? Then, too, in the months and years to come, the thoughts of the onlooker of today must inevitably dwell upon the painful spectacle of Iho Oregon delegation delega-tion explaining first through one spokesman spokes-man and then through another that owing ow-ing to the peculiar workings of the Oregon primary law, which permit anybody any-body who gets his name on the oflicial ballot to run for any office whatsoever, they now were under tho painful necessity ne-cessity of casting their vote for vice president for a .('hie ago gentleman named Webster a total stranger to them. Mr. Webster may not figure in the tabulated vote, but it will ., be long ere the Oregon delegates forget him. Any time he happens to be out, their way they would no doubt be glad to club together and do something f or him. Likewise, there was food for subsequent subse-quent reflection in watching certain members of the New York delegation when the nomination of Justice Hugh.es became assured. Nowhere was such magnificent self-control manifested as among a certain group of the New York members. Take Job ledges now. Mr. Hedges evidenced all the exuberant abandon of a handcuffed deaf mute. His associate, Governor Whitman, figuratively speaking, speak-ing, put on a pair of earmuffs and broke a bottle of embalming fluid on the prow of former Senator Chauncey Depew, to prove that the campaign was now formally for-mally launched. One distinguished New York City leader yelled so loudly and so clearly that his cries could plainly be heard nearly two feet away. Mind you, I don't wish to' intimate that these New York gentlemen were lacking in enthusiasm. Prom their conduct con-duct I gathered that they believed the candidacy of the justice would appeal to the reason of mankind rather than to the emotions, and they mean to set a dignified example to the rest of the world. Hardly had tho hall been emptied before be-fore the decorators began taking down the grand old flag, to which some pass-nig pass-nig reference had been made during the course of the deliberations, now concluded. con-cluded. However, it is believed that during the coming week the same flag will be seen and spoken of, from tinfe to time, at St. Louis. |