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THE BEE : OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, ' REAL HISTORY BEING MADE IN ROOM AT HOTEL Chicago End of Penrose Tele phone Busy Place Laugh at Idea .That Convention Has No Boss. if 1 i nil By WILLIAM G. SHEPPERD. Special Staff Corrpondnt, International N'ewi Sf rrtce. Chicago, June 9. I d rather spend my time these days in a certain lit tle room in the Cons?res hotel than in the big Col iseum, because in this - .room the real news is be ing made. Re porter aren't welcome there, but today I got in and spent half an hour within its walls, then I had to go because other visitprs politicians who are helping to make political William G. history wanted Shepperd. to talk with John T. King, who oc cupies the room. Here in this room are the ends of the telephone that lead to the bedside of Boies Penrose, Philadel phia.' Ask the man in this room whether Will Hays was right when he told the convention that it was ossed. I did, and they laughed loudlv and told me that Hays must have been only joking. On a little table beside King's bed is-a tele phone, not with an ordinary tele phone receiver, but with a head piece attached for long conversa tions. On the hook was hung a heavy lead weight. Between the bed of John Kins; in Chicago and the bed of Boies Penrose 800 miles -away these two mtn talked day and night about the latest conven tion news'. There wa. a wild scene in this room at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Wood managers came to King's suite and said to him, "We've got the news that Penrose is dead. How about it?" Penrose Denies He Is Dead. "I haven't heard it and I don't be lieve it," said King. He might have lifted the lead weight off the hook and been in communication with Penrose's bedside. If Penrose had been dead the bell that would have rung in Philadelphia would not have awakened him and if he hadn't been . dead it mieht have disturbed the slumbers of a sick man. So King didn't make the move. And the Wood men departed without any information. But early in the morning King did lift 7 the weight and Penrose , him self answered. "They say you are dead here in Chicago," said King. ' "I'm not dead," said Penrose. y"Who said I was?" . "Well, only a few say you are dead, but a lot of them say you are pretty sick, and they are all worry ing about you," said King. "Well, whos worrying aoout ?' asked. Penrose. iNarae m. . "Well, your brother, Spencer, for instance, said King. "He's always lorrying." said Penrose. "If it had not been that my other brother in Philadelphia was a doctor and told me to stay here at home I'd been in Chicago now. It wasn't medical advice he gave me. It was fraternal advice, and I still think he's all wrong." Telegraph Service. That was only one of the many conversations that have taken place over this wire. In another corner of the room and it is a .little room are two telegraphic instruments. When the sick man in Philadelphia doesn't feel like talking over the telephone, he can dictate messages which come to Chicago 'Morse. Part of the time while I wasin the room a husky telegraph operator was sitting at an instrument send ing off reports to Philadelphia. All of the Pennsylvania leaders who come to this room will tell you. if you are lucky enough to encounter them, because many of them don't believe in reporters and publicity, that Penrose can boss over the wire just as well as in Chicago. Indeed, King tells me that he thinks Pen rose is more powerful absent than present. And so, at least, I have seen some of the machinery of the party's masters at work. Do you doubt that a reporter looking for news would rather spend a week in this room than in the crowds at the convention? Vhat we will hear at the Coliseum " will be only faint echoes of vhat passes through, this modest little chamber. Fair Sex Early on Job at Opening of Convention Men Much Slower to Arrive Woman First Person to Be Seated in Delegate's Chair. All Colors of Rainbow Represented as Suffra V gists Make Debut Put House in Order for the Real Struggle. Fifty Seamen Missing As Gasoline Explodes Jn Hold of Sieamer Br The Aimclated Ptm. Kobe, Japan, June 8. Fifty Jap anese seamen were missing after an explosion of gasoline on the steam er Eiraku Maru toda. The explo sion shook the city like an earth quake and seriously damaged ship ping. The Eiraku Maru was destroyed ind fire spread to a score of gasoline-laden junks which drifted blaz ing out to sea, their crews shrieking ior help. Several large steamers had nar row escapes, including the Siberia Maru and the Tenyo Maru, which iteamed out of the harbor in time to evade the flames. The American iteamer Wytheville from New York aad one mast burned. One million ' gallons of gasoline originally shipped from America to Vladivostok for the Kolchak gov ernment has been returned here. One Killed; Many Hurt In an Explosion In Stereotype Room Toronto, June 9. One man was killed and several injured today by an explosion in a steam table in the eotvpm room of the Toronto Telegram. The plant was damaged considerably. The cause of the ex plosion is as yet undetermined. Lighting Fixture Burgess Gran flea Co. Adv, By NELLIE BLY, Written Expreuly for International Newi Henrice. (Copyright, 1920, by International Newi Service.) Chicago, June 9. The first day of the republican convention was bright and beau tiful and pleas- , antly. warm. The streets looked as if it were a universal holiday. Also as if everybody meant to spend it at the Coliseum. There wee more early wom en tjin there were early men. The first one to be seated in a delesate's chair was a woman. Nlli' The predominating color in the audience was green. The women delegates - who had previously ap peared in all colors of the rainbow selected bronze and blues and blacks for 'their debut. It did not improve their appearance and de tracted from the picturesqueness of the scene. One woman delegate wore a refreshing white dress and another a peach colored hat: Three men among the delegates appeared in tan silk suits; they were late. Some men wore soft collars and silk shirts; the majority wore the stiff collar. One' delegate, with a gray beard, made a regular Indian chief headdress, with a redL blue and green feather stuck in the band of his dusty derby hat. One wore a white collar and white dress suit, baptiste tie with a tan flannel shirt. Another wore a high silk hat, with a short check tail coat. Otherwise convention hall lacked originality and spice. No Politics Yet. It was no use to talk politics. There isn't any just yet. No more than there is a horse race until the starter finally drops his flag. Now we are just skirmishinR for place; sort of getting the house in order for the real tussle. If any one has the slightest conception of who is to be the candidate, that one hasn't been discovered. s , The hall looked as ''it always does, draped with uncountable American flags. The band, as usual, was suspended in its small, wooden nest just below the eaves. When it stopped playing a band composed of girls played on the outside. It must be a first class band, for the men are declaring that its leader is a man. ' The electric lights were burning, though it was bright and sunshiny. The hall was- splendidly ventilated. One was neither too hot nor too cold. The only flowers, with the excep tion of a half dozen boutonnieres, was a bunch of American beauty roses on the chairman's desk. On the chairman's platform were invited guests. There was no sign of equality; 90 per cent were men. Newspaper men and special writ ers 'occupied the next platform. They were, as usual, quiet, busy, ex traordinary efficient, and always well-behaved. . The entire audience for that mat ter was quiet. Perhaps it was a lull before the storm. Anyway, there didn't seem to be any pep in them. Smokes Barred. There was no smoking. Former Ambassador Herrick chewed gum. Colonel DuPont was wonderfully reliant in a handsome brown suit and yellowest of yellow silk shirts. He offered the first resolution. Mrs. Rasseen, a woman delegate from Minnesota, offered the second reso lution. She was modestly clad in blue, hat and gown, the latter cut square at the throat. She wasn't a bit fazed, though some rude mascu line voice from some other cart of 'the hall yelled boisterously "louder, louder. Senator Jimmy Wadsworth of New York came in at the tail end of the proceedings with a tiny resolu tion. He was able to finish it in peace. Evidently Miss Mary Garret Hay had already, departed. We adjourned early. The commit tees meant to work during themorn ing. The rest of the visitors and delegates were returning to the va rious headquarters and to the social affairsgiven in their honor. We actually played at politics to day. Perhaps tomorrow it' will be more exciting. Even a little more serious. Perhaps also by that time we may begin to guess. Coliseum, Chicago, June 9. Chauncey M. De Pew came in with a Grand Central station smile, say- Hng, "looks fine, doesn't it, boys?" People in the balconies have bino culars trying to count the hairs on the dome of Bryan, who sits with the newspaper fellows. Msyor J. Hampton Moore df Philadelphia arrived Monday to pre sent Chairman Will Hays the gavel which will be used at the Coliseum. It was hewn from a rafter of Inde- Coliseum Flashlights pendence hall and was presented to Mr. Moore by Wilford Jordan, cura tor of Independence hall. Lady with the sunburst red hat sitting in Arkansas chair, wears fur tight around her throat ind looks cool. Lady in balcony with a very low cut neck. "I would say that this is a dark horse convention." said George E. Brimmer of Rawlins, Wyo., delegate and attorney for National Commit teeman Pat Sullivan. Every morn ing at sunup Mr. Brimmer dons his spurs and chaps and canters through Lincoln park. To keep in trim, he says. The delegates haven't got the marching- habit yet, they saunter in like Indians. - , Longest whiskers here worn by gentleman sitting with the folks from Maryland. They make music with a giant phonograph. Crowd doesn't like it much. Here's mystery: Why did they move the South Dakota delegation G. 0. P. OLD GUARD IN BATTLE WITH YOUNG ELEMENT Lowden, Wood, Harding, Johnson, All Counted Out ( Older Heads Are In Control. Joseph B. Kealing, Old Time Boss of G. 0. P., Is On the Job at Chicago! By WILLIAM PHILLIPS SIMMS. International New Service, Staff Correspopdrnt. Chicago, 111., June 9.-The battle between the republican old guard K and the young guard of the party is on. After a beginning devoid of all chromatics, the second day of the G. O. P. convention brought with it the cofl'viction that within 36 hours the "crisis over nomination will be reached and the beginning of the end in sight. , The fight is over the control of the convention and not the least strange feature of the contest is that in the fight between the old guard leaders and the unbossed at the caucus, the latter do not know there is a fight. These, the members of the republican young guard, know thev are eneaeed in a passage at arms with skilled adversaries, but almost a friendly bout, let win who mav. The indications, are, however, that the old guard leaders, are out to win and that so far as they are con cerned the struggle bow engaged is one of life or death. Over the ques tion or the nominee, me oamy matched forces have come to grips, one trom tne determined, uaracu. the other smilingly unconscious ot what is ahead. Already the process of elimination lias set in. Four candidates, it is understood, have already been stricken from the list Sv the. blue oencil of the bid guard, and the hand is said to be poised, to strike off other names besides. Those said to have had their fate sealed for them, so far as the old line crowd are concerned, are: Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois; Maj. Gen. Leonard-Wood: Senator War ren G. Harding of Ohio, and Sen ator Hiram Johnson of California. The reasons cited for such elimi nations bv the old guard leaders, varied with the individual candidate. Governor Lowden, it is said, was one of the favorites of his party, and few hold him to blame for any misuse by others of the money he contributed to his own campaign. But those opposed to his selection do not' wish to give the democratic party any such a strangle hold on the republican nominee in the fight to come. General Wood, they argue, is in pretty much the- same position as Lowden so far as campaign ex Denditures are concerned. While in addition there is the other objection that he rode rough-shod over the eld line party organizations, con tested the states of favorite sons, hitting to the right or left regard less of the feelings of the recog nized leaders. Against ' Senator Harding two things are said to have counted: His comparative weakness in his home' state ofvOhio and his animosity to the late Theodore Roosevelt Some of the senator's writings against Roosevelt were used against him in the Ohio campaigft'and to this, per- hans more than to any other one I cause, many attribute Ohio's cool V.catment of him at tht polls. ljy; Many Persons Hurt In Two Wrecks; One In Chicago, One at St. Paul Chicago, June 9. Fourteen per sons were injured, one of them seri ously when an elevated train crashed into the rear of another last night. Three hundred passengers were on the trains. Most of the injured were cut by flying. glass.' Failure of the motorman of the rear traSn to see the train in front, which had Been halted by a fire in the motorman'is compartment, was given as the cause of the. accident. Mankato, Minn., June 9. Thirty persons were painfully injured when passenger train No. 7 on the Chi cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad left the rails near Perth, 15 miles south of here last night. The coaches rolled into the ditch. Movie Theater Owners to Oppose Producer-Exhibitor Cleveland, June 9. Motion pic ture theater owners of America are determined to oppose producers who enter the exhibiting field. This became known today, simultaneous ly with announcement that two op posing factions had joined what is known as the Sydney S. Cohen forces. Whether 19 men challenged yes terday because of their seemingly close relationship' with production will be admitted to the convention was to be decided loday. Seat Sale Falls Off New York, -June 9. A seat sale on the New York cotton exchange was sold today ft?r $20,000, a de crease of $2,500 from the lvt sale. Print It Beacon from the left to the right side this morning? "Left" sounds nonpartisan leaguish, maybe. Camera men Just like skeeters on the floor of the convention and lady delegates are getting the. punish ment: Politicians reading newspapers probably trying to find out what it's all about. Wood Likely to Get Pole In NominatingSpeeches Chicago, June 9. Gen. Wood probably will get the coveted "pole," or first place, in the nami- uating speeches, with Governor! Lowden second. t1" Alabama, the first state on the roll, has decided not to yield for T 1 , iiovernor iovacn s nomination, ia tional Committeeman Street an-f nounced. Arizona, the secend state! is trie ndly to Gen. ood and is pected to yield for the nominatinl address of. Governor Allen of JCnl sas. i he third state, Arkansas, ii scheduled to yield tor thf Lowder nomination by Representative dtnburg of Illinois. 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