St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
THE CONVENTION.
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| There is altogether too much harmony at
this convention. The weather is so cool that
men don't get excited and the blood flows
tranquil in their veins. The fun at nation
al convention consists in having row, and
the state of New York has had monopoly
of the whole business and apparently there
will by nothing left for the convention to
fight about when 1t gets or
ganized. Even the tariff question
is not likely to make much of disturbance,
and the election will be so nearly settled by
this convention that there will be no fun
| left for the campaign. Why shouldn't I be
mad under such circumstances: Every
newspaper man ought to Be mad and / am
mad myself.
| If New York couldn't agree then Ben.
Butler would come in as disturbing ele-
ment.
II New York couldn't agree, then McDon
aid would come in as a disturbing element.
If New York couldn't agree, then Bayard
and his Dover speech would come in as a
disturbing element.
| If New York couldn't agree then Thurman
would come in as a disturbing element. But
New York not only could agree, but it has
agreed and that ends it.
The die is evidently cast and the name of
| the cast, or die, as the case may be, is Cleve-
land. The New York delegates caucused
this forenoon and at first blush scored AZ
votes for Cleveland out of ~. Flower re-
received 81 and Bayard 4. A vote was then
taken on the question of casting the whole
vote of the state for Cleveland, and it
was voted so to % to make it
unanimous. An adjournment until p. m,
was taken and at that meeting it was voted
| 81 to II to cast the vote solid for Cleveland.
John Kelly had been declaring all day that
he would 90 into the convention and demand
that the two-thirds rule be enforced in the
New York state delegation as well as in the
national convention. AS he can now mus
ter only II out of ~ votes / should Judge
that he ought to be sufficiently amused on
his two-thirds point.
Tonight John Kelly talks very bitterly
| His rooms at the Palmer have been con-
stantly thronged and the crush to see the
Tammany chieftian is positively terrific. If
man tries to get in he wishes he hadn't, and
if he gets in when he tries to get out he is
sorry he succeeded in the first place. His
standing speech of the evening to his visitors
was: II will not lift my hand to elect Gov.
Cleveland. Tammany will not bolt but we
do not propose to sacrifice our organization.
I know we cannot carry our people to
| Cleveland. He has fought the laboring men,
| he has fought me, he has fought
my friends, he has fought my religion, and
1 will do nothing to aid his election
"Could Flower carry New Yorker was
asked him.
''FIower is out of the race was the re-
ply.
''Who could carry New York?''
81 will not speak only of what I know"
he said ''Bavard could carry New York
county, know, and beyond that it would be
mere guess work.
The Minnesota delegation will call on
Kelly at O'Clock in the morning in a body.
! Perhaps after he hears from our folks he will
think better of it, and then again
perhaps he won't. [ am going to
join the gang myself, and may conclude
to make speech at him. At least l am
''taking the matter under advisement,' as
we say in the supreme court when the law
yers have muddled us up so that we don't
know whether we are on foot or horseback.
Possibly if he knew what was impending he
would surrender, like David Crockett's coon,
to avoid the speech. The more / think
about it the more 1 am inclined to give him
an intimation of what may happen, just to
see what the effect is.
''wHIsKY STRAIGHT VS.. STRAIGHT WHISKY.
Perhaps it is the cold weather or perhaps
it is the lack of funds, or perhaps it is the
predominence of the moral element, which
renders the bar rooms very much less fire.
quented than they were in the month of June
by the ''grand old party" | don't wish to
be too specific, but leave the reader to Judge
which one of the perhaps is nearest cor
rect. hfter ALL ] have always been very
much at loss to determine the difference
between the Democrats and the Republicans
on the whisky question; at least the supposed
difference in favor of the temperate qualities
of the Republicans. 1t is true that the De-
mocracy has constantly opposed sumptuary
| legislation, but it is not true that the Demo
! Gratis are any greater consumers Of the ardent
fluid than are the distinguished members OF
the ''grand old party" There is no reason
why they should be. The ''grand old party'''
sprang chiefly from the ashes of the Wing
party. The advent of the Wing party into
power in 1910 was through a singing and
drinking campaign. 1t has gone into his
tory as the ''Tippaeanoe and Tyler too hard
cider campaign. log cabin with coon
| skin nailed to the door and barrel of hard
| cider on tap inside was the basis of that
campaign. We hear a great deal about
''bar'ls'' in the present campaign, but they
do not contain hard cider. Indeed, hard
cider is as intoxicating beverage as Ken
! lucky whisky, so much so. that il has sub
| stantially gone out of date since 1910, and
| people who wish to get drunk do not
attempt any temperance disguise by
calling their stimulant ''cider,' but indulge
| openly in the ''clear quill.'' Harrison was
elected more by hard cider than by any other
one element. Perhaps his sudden death,
so soon after his inauguration, was a judy
ment sent upon the party in behalf Of the
| temperance cause. / throw that out as a
| pointer for Bro. Satterlee to use in his next
| temperance address. At all events, it is a
well established philosophic principle that
| child drawing nourishment from its moth
! er's breast, drinks in the elements which
the mother possesses and an Incorporate
mother frequently produces an Incorporate
child. As the grand old party" sprang
! chiefly from the relics Of the Wing party, it
! Is natural TO presume that the characters
tics of the parent would be reproduced in the
offspring. Hence the assumption of yir
tue on the temperance question, ON the part
| of the Republicans is like many other sham