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Show it ; r-1 : i "You Can. Drive the Mule to Watah, But You Can't Make Him Drink It," Says Cols i o By PAUL WILSON N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. SAN FRANCISCO, June 25. "You kin drive th' Democratic mulo to watah, suh, but you cannot make him drink it," remarked a tall delegate from somewhere In the south, with a figure like Daniel Boone, as ho drew forth a flat flask from his hip pocket. ' ; The Republicans thought that 1920 jwas going to bo a "yellow dog year," ,but the Champ Clark shouters from ' Missouri say it's going to be a "Houn' Dog Year.". A house divided against itself is that of John Weir Troy, editor and Demo- . cratlc ncstor of Juneau, Alaska. Troy has beep trying to herd the six Alaskan Alas-kan delegates Into the McAdoo camp, while Mrs. Troy Is using all her charm to lure them into the Cox corral. At tho last writing Mrs. Troy had one i more than friend husband. j Scores of delegates and their wives! are here leading the simple life just 1 like they did back homo, says Miss .Genevieve Reed, whoso job Is to house Atho 10,000 Visitors. "The most popular quarters are one-room-and-kitchenetts 'which cost $2.50 a day, compared to f$10 a day charged for hotel rooms ;at Chicago. This, combined with a j thrifty wife and the corner delicatessen, delicates-sen, makes an ideal home for the two j weeks. ( His name sounds liko a dance from his native country, but Jesse Uluihl Is a distinguished looking delegate from Hawaii. His daughter, Alice, Is hero with him as an "alternate" on hor way to Honolulu from a Texas boarding board-ing school. t One reason given for tho construction con-struction of a high fonco around the auditorium is that Wilson and company com-pany want to have tho "donk" under good control and bo. sure that it won't get unmanageable. This won't work' If they change It to a rooster. i. Some of the conservatives want to match Gov. Hobby of Texas against Gov. Coolidge for nomination of vlco-presidency. vlco-presidency. Hobby has declared martial mar-tial law in Galveston to break the longshoreman strike. Sightseeing by jllncy bus is a rare means of transportation to delegates. San Francisco Is ono of tho few cities where the jitney hasn't been outlawed. Tho fare is ten cents. Some .of the drivers are women. I M "We came out here for a change of climate," said the Ohio man shivering In a Palm Beach suit, who appeared the previous day sweating In a spring overcoat. "Well, we gel one every : day." ! Dr. Hornaday of tho Bronx Zoo had better not come to San Francisco for a while, for Gov. Thomas Rlggs of Alaskn, is after hla scalp, and Gov. Riggs is here. Tho tvvo haVe been making long distance faces at each other and calling names. Honaday says tho brown bear is a nice animal and shouldn't bo killed In Alaska. Gov. Riggs says tho "nice littlo brown bear" is a wicked marauding, good-for-nothing pest, and desorves extermination. exter-mination. Rlggs, ii fact, would like nothing better than to Introduce the Doctor to one of them. The acoustics of the big auditorium got a fino test wheu John McCormack, the Irish tenor, sang to a throng Just before the convention opened. The most popular onchore was, "T Hear You Calling Me," which shows that the audience must have been largely mad up of candidates. Henry W. pooley of San Juun, Porto Rico, wears h'la whiskers parted In the middle. "I feel proud to be mistaken for J. : Ham Lewis," said Dooley. "but I emphatically em-phatically deny I even look like Charles E. Hughes." ' 1 t . j 1 "Graft Probe On," is the first hcad-j lino screamer to shock the incoming Democrats. No. it Isn't a party scandal scan-dal but Sun Francisco periodic cleanup clean-up in the Hall of Justlco. |