St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
From a Staff Correspondent.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I

the torrents OF human beings that. pour
| through the channels of the streets are not
| as seething hot as they would be were Chica-
go to furnish the visitors with few hours Of
its Characteristic summer heat The expo
sition building, in case of a warm day, will
be cauldron, in which the Democracy Will
stew with fiercer heat than that of a butchers
kettle. What kind Of a stew would all these
Democrats make? We will probably see be-
fore the convention shall be finished.
There may be few more coming, but If
so it will be question of difficulty, as
to what viii be done with
them. All of the streets near
the principal hotels are jammed, as if there
were an endless circus in procession. Within
many Of the caravansaries locomotion is next
to impossible. The headquarters Of every
delegation is a center, to and from which
flow two opposite currents, most of whom are
mere curiosity seekers. The street cars are
full to the brim, the hacks, gurneys han
SONS and all the other vehicles are packed
like sardine boxes. 1t is herculean task to
get into an eating house, and more of alabor
to get a seat afterwards. The barber shops
have an interminable string OF ''neXts, and
one who wishes to get into the dining rooms
of the hotels is carried along as with an in
undation or an avalanche.
The Democracy has come ont in force. All
its relatives have come along, and the rest of the
world is here as a spectator It is well be-
haved gathering too. But little resort is had
to vinous or alcoholic stimulation. The most
of the delegates feel sufficiently enspirited by
the prospects of the situation, and the others
find in the great city, its magnificent drives
and handsome streets, enough to keep them
from suffering dependency.
1t is very uneven crowd in style and APP
pearances. There are dudes from Massa-
chusetts, fat-footed natives from Missouri,
lank, bilious specimens from Indiana, per-
meated With a flavor of quinino, long-haired
swarthy southerners, Butterruts from Kan
sas and blue jeans from Kentucky. They
may differ in appearances but they are one
in sentiment-the determination to unite on
anybody who can beat Blaine.
The only exception to this is the Butler
element. This is made up of enthusiastics
who believe in Butler as tine wool-crowned
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listen to any argument. 1t is all a matter Of
faith, and they are firm in the conviction
and its assertion that all that is needed to
defeat Blaine, overthrow the Republican
party, revolutionize the country and bring
the millennium, is to nominate Butler Is
the cholera coming? Elect Butler and that
will prevent it. Is there rot among the
Sheep depression in commerce, rottenness
in public affairs, dishonesty in business, and
inundaton of grasshoppers feared? Elect
Butler and all will be prevented. No one
ever saw so huge a superstructure reared on
so slender foundation. 1t resembles q
pyramid standing on its head.
The sight about the doors of the rooms of
the Fort Fisher hero, Butler, is a curious
one, the public will not be apt to think that
between the people and this lover of the
masses there would be anything in the ma.
ture of an obstruction. One loves to fancy
the doors wide open, and the populace filing
the room and meeting the cock.
eyed god OF reform as one
brother meets another. But moi
so, in fact, two stern policemen guard the
entrance, and it is more difficult for one to
reach the great commoner than for sus-
pected dynamiter to get an audience with the
Russian czar. There is much profanity
among the gents who have come here from
distance to lay their offerings on the Butlerian
shrine. They start up the stairs with the ex-
pressed purpose to see sold Ben" as they
affectonately term him, and in an hour or
so they come back abiding to him as that
''cock-eyed old aristoerat," with probably an
unhandsome allusion to a possible canine
ancestry.
The portraits Of all the candidates are on
exhibition everywhere. So far as looks are
concerned, in Autographs, Bayard has the
best of it and if the question were to be de-
cided by the appearance of the portraits,
Bayard would go in by a very handsome ia
jority. Cleveland looks like a large Drained
man but trile stupid, which is the fault
probably of the artist. Buffers picture is
side view, and barring the fact that the slit
for his eye runs up and down in place Of
crosswise, as is the case with the average
man, he has the appearance Of a bald-headed
admirably calculated to deceive the
dignifieI, placid, and has no expression
which seems TO indicate his views on the
presidency or any other matter Thurman
is full bearded, and has all the appearance Of
q well preserved gentleman Of some other
generation. Hoadly has benlgnant aspect
as If his election would lead him to invoke
blessing on his supporters, or 10 do some
thing characterized by the very highest quail
tiles Of beneyoence. In fine, as rule, the
portraits Of the candidates are prepossessing,
and are calculated 10 induce the spectator to
vote for the last one he happens TO look at.
The exposition building has been admira-
bly, arranged TO care for the crowd and none
at all for considerable portion of the press.
About one-third of the scribes will have TO sit
where they can see only about half the audi
ence, where they will be literally at the feet
Of the speakers who mount the rostrum to
crate, and will have an opportunity to inspect
the speaker as man standing at the foot Of
pole gazes at its top. But what they can't
see when in the convention is nothing TO
the problem as to what will be done with the
thousands Of gentlemen who are
here in the interests OF the grea
/ palladium OF American freedom. The
crowd Of newspaper men that has surged all
day about the door Of the room in which
press tickets were being given out was az
dense and as turbulent as a mob getting out
Of theatre On fire. All the newspapers and
good many more we're there. The Bualg-
torn Dinner Horn wanted three seats. The
editor Of the Seni-1Konttly E,ssilqjs would be
satisfied with no less than two Of the best in
the hands Of the committee. The Stump
Fuller Weekly the Gross Roads Ezpositer, the