St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-10

like the veterans of hundred de-
feats, who know what trouble
is, and who are not disposed to be very full
of jollity on the eve of another contest. They
look as stern asCromwell's crop-eared cohorts
and just as serious, and all the time have an
appearance of being willing to fight. Hence
their presence is of soemnity like unto
that of Praise God Barebones. Even Carter
Harrison, whose reputation as a humorist is
impressed on two continents, did not ven
ture the smallest suggestion of hilarity when
he mounted the rostrum to second the nomi
nation of Cleveland. He was as funeral as a
judge tolling the death sentence of
prisoner. Is this absence of levity presage
of defeat. or is it the solemnity of the Isreal-
ties when they came out of Egypt after
bondage of generations! 1t is possible that
the Democracy looked back over the presi-
dental battlefelds of the last twenty-four
years and regarded ominously the approach
ing November. In all that time they won
but single fight, and in that one the enemy
held the ground and gathered all the spoils of
the battle. So used are they defeat that pos
sibly there are many of them who regard
another as in the order of things, and hence
there is nothing to hurrah over.
When the names of Blaine and that of Ar
thur were brought out in the late Republican
convention there was seventeen m inutes of
yelling given to the one and some fifteen to
the other When the name of Cleveland was
brought out to-day it was a lively timepiece
that ticked off five minutes during the con-
tinuance of the uproar. 1t does not follow
that Blaine has as much the greater hold on
the populace as the number of minutes dur
ing which the spectators and delegates
yelled themselves hoarse over the
mention, is greater than the number which
was devoted to Cleveland. If this be the fact,
the Democrats may as well drop the cam
paign at this point and save the expense of a
fight and the subsequent funeral. But it
may be that this silence means depth, for
1.-The shadows murmur when the deeps are
dumb" 1t may mean that the Democrats
are in the deadest of earnest, and that they
are marching to battle with a determination
so pervading that there is no room for any
other thing. They may think that it will
have no effect on the sober sense of the
country to have thousand outsiders to yell
over their proceedings, and the less clamor
there is and the more work, the more likely
will they be to gain in the outcome.
One would hardly believe it, but so low is
the yelling enthusiasm of the crowd that
even when gentleman with curious cock
eye and a rotundity of form that gave him
the appearance of turtle reared up on hind
fippers walked into the convention at mo-
ment expressly selected to afford him oppor-
tunity for being seen there was was not so
much cheering as one could put ON the point
of a needle. 1t was very fiat affair for the
late governor of Massachusetts.
He had evidently prepared very
carefully for his entrance so
as to time it when there was nothing before
the convention, and everybody in his seat so
that he could be seen by all the people. He
came in at just the precise time he had
counted on and he was seen from one end of
saw, but he did not conquer. There was
little gauntlet Of cheers as he came forward,
and that was all. So. much for Ben Butler.
The ignoble tizzle of this great Butler boom
in the Democratic convention was the fitting
place for its occurrence. The Demo
Gratis, II in earnest as to what they
see, are in the field for
the purpose of destroying humbugs, obliter-
ating shams and purifying the political field
from the ravages of vermin. The failure to
receive Butler was his squelching in the
Democratic granary. and he must now hunt
his feed in other directions. He staid a few
minutes, looked about him with those mar
vellously constructed eyes, and then went
out. If nature had not very effectively got
ten the start of him in giving him hang
dog appearance, he would certainly have
been in the mood to wear one when he left
the convention without so much as a SYM
pathetic goodbye being waited him by the
hard-hearted Democrats.
The course of prayer which the.convention
is undergoing daily, ought to have bene-
fetal effect on the fall elections. No pains
are being spared in this direction to secure
allies from all possible quarters. Yesterday
the case was explained and assistance i'm
plored by representative of Methodism, and
to-day, the ambassador of the convention
was DR.. MacLareD, an Episcopal Bishop. To-
morrow, it is expected the negotiations will
be continued by Catholic monseigneur, and
as he stands high it is expected that he may
secure important results. 1t may be just
possible that the Democrats, in order to
achieve victory will have to secure Provi-
dence as an ally or else they
will have to be trife more united than they
have been in the last few campaigns in
which they have been engaged. Bishop Mac
Laren is an official in high STAN ding in this
vicinity, and there are hopes on the part of
the Democrats that he may accomplish some
thing. He wears spectacles, is bald almost
to his shirt collar, and benevolent looking
old gentleman. The enly fault found with
him is that he read his petition from book,
which has led many Democrats not well
posted in such matters to fancy that VIII at he
said was not expressly gotten up for this
special occasion. Much, however, is hoped
for when Monseigneur Capel shall take the
Democratic case in hand.
Seated here and there among the delegates
was now and then notable face, the prop
erty of notable man. Among those that
drew the regards of strangers was the patri-
archal head of Elihu B. Washburne, for SO
long time the American minister to France.
He has most kindly face, over which are
scattered little wrinkles, which seem the
lurking place of benevolent purposes. His
hair is long and white, giving him rare
and venerable appearance. His open face
is not disguised by a beard, SO that the
or fictitious harshness given to his
expression. One cannot but admire
this splendid old man, who
is now being bent earthwards by his load of
wears. A Republican, he vet has the respect