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

10 De little behind time. Our delegation
will be here In the morning but they ought
to have been here to-day. Still, 1 suppose,
I ought not to find fault, for I know they are
so welded to attending divine service that
they could not tear themselves away from
home for an entire Sabbath, and SO COM
promised the matter by going to church in
the morning and taking the 2 p. m. train
from st. Paul, leaving the Sunday schools
and the evening sermons to fare as best
they could, Another thing in their favoris,
that chief contribution box is passed at the
morning service and they showed no dispo-
sition to dodge that, even though they may
think it best to dodge the tariff after they get
to Chicago. The tariff on religion, and the
political tariff, are two different things.
The first man encountered when I went
over to the Palmer this afternoon was VIM.
H. Shelly, of st. Paul and Washington. That
was bonanza for me, and I recalled some
quaint old saying about where ''two are
gathered together" and 1 proposed to Bill
that we do honor to it by opening the Mime
sofa headquarters. He was agreeable and so
We (that is L and shelly,) got a big -,
well, wont tell you arhat we got, but we
opened 'em in good style, so that they will
have familiar, homelike air, so to speak,
when the boys come in, in the morning. 1t
will be great help to them l am sure, to
have this first process so well attended to and
l shall be surprised if the gang do not ex-
tend vote of thanks in the morning, to l
and Shelly, for our thoughtfulness. Very
few would have thought of it excepting us.
TAMMANY ON DECK.
The event of the day was the arrival of the
Tammany train from New York. That event
was set down for p. M, and knowing John
Kelly would be lonesome without me 1 went
down on time to the Lake Shore
depot to meet him and his
braves. A bulletin announced that
the train would be delayed until 6:30. Twas
again on time and this time l had for society
the "Cook County Democratic club" headed
by brass band, the "Americus Club of
Philadelphia headed by a brass band,
and sthe "Samuel j. Randall "ass'n,"
three clubs wore white plug hats. with
gorgeous silk badges pinned on their coats
indicating their respective clubs, and each
man carried rattan cane at shoulder arms
style. In 1880 joined the Tammany crowd
at Cleveland and became one of 'em from
there to Cincinnati and 1 was a little curious
to contrast them then and now. In 1880
their cars bore these legends painted on cloth
the length of a car.
''Tammany hall special train.''
s'No Credit Mobilier."
''No Degolyer pavements.''
''We trust to the wisdom Of our Democratic
convention ~
The badge each member wore in 1880 read
in this wise:
'Tammany hall 1880. Unite and conquer.
We are unalterably opposed to Tildenism."
That trip from Cleveland to Cincinnati
was made on Sunday also, reaching Cincin-
natl about the same hour as here to-day I
gentlemanly and orderly crowd, but
withal a pretty hungry one, as we made no
halt for dinner, and l shall never forget
the expressions of disgust when we made
five minute halt at Dayton and found the
Sunday law enforced and ''all the other
places" except Jthe depot closed.
If they had not had have
kept the depot open at both ends for
the train to pass through that would probably
have been closed too. The people of Day
ton were also sad looking lot.
At 6 80 tonight the train came bowling
in with twenty-five sleeping cars bearing
John Kelly and 700 Tammany braves. The
in large letters,
''Tammany Hall delegation.'
There was no other sign or emblem on the
cars, and the badge worn simply read,
''1789. Tammany hall, New York dele
cation, Chicago, 1884"
There were several thousand people gathered
in and about the depot, partly out of curl
osity and partly to welcome Tammany. AS
the train pulled in the bands played their
loudest, and the arriving clubs and spectators
joined in lusty cheers.
I happened to take such position that
almost the first man 1 saw step from the train
was the famous John Kelly. I first saw the
political chieftain in st. Louis, in 1876, and
he looked, if anything, younger to-day than he
did then. The next and last time previous
to to-day, was at Cincinnati, and, though he
and his associates, who had contested for
cluded, he was invited to the platform to eel
ebrate the nomination of Gen. Hancock
That nomination was justly regarded
as Tammany triumph, as Kelly had favored
it, while the New York delegation who had
beaten Tammany in the contest for seats
had unanimously opposed it. l well remem
Der the CLEAN of satisfaction and triumph in
John Kelly's eyes as, arm-in-arm with the
late Augustus Schell, he marched up to the
platform, and nearly every delegation in the
convention, except from New York, arose in
their seats and swung their hats and cheered
like mad. The New York delegation kept
their seats in sullen silence and their coun-
tenances showed their supreme disgust at the
Grafton extended to their talented COM
petitor.
Kelly is a fine physical specimen of man
hood. He weighs about 225 pounds, is ex-
cellently proportioned. His beard is short
and stubby, and grizzly grey, and he wore a
suit to-day almost the same color of his
beard. The other Tammanyites wore the
proverbial white plug hat, but Kelly had on
soft, brown, high felt.
The escorting clubs already named, formed
in front, and Immediately behind the Tam
many band came Kelly, arm in arm with
Sidney p. Nichols, chairman of the Tam
many general committee, on the one side,
and Commissioner German, treasurer of the
society, on the other. The march from the
depot to the Palmer house was one continu-
Gus ovation to John Kelly.
The streets about the depot were so dense