St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-05
Ispecial Telegram to the Globe. |

CHICAGO, June 4.-''Here we are again.
as Mr.. Merryman says in the circus, doing
up the .'grand old party'' for the benefit of
the public. There seems to be greater
crowd in the city to-day than heretofore, the
ranks of the faithful being swelled by those
who desire to be Sin at the death.'' Long
before II n. M, the hour for the meeting of
the convention, people gathered by the thou
sand on the sidewalk and in the street front
ing the general entrance of the Exposition
building and the policemen had difficult
task in keeping the street clear for
the passage of teams. Probably not one
half of the crowd had tickets of admission,
but they seemed to derive some comfort
from inspecting the outside bricks of the
building, and comparing them with the
bricks that they usually wear in their hats
later in the day. The entrance set apart for
delegates and newspaper men was not so
thronged, because there were not so many of
'em as there are of the hari polloi, butthev make
up in gigantic proportion of intellect for what
they lack numerically. In fact the num-
Der of newspaper men is greater than l wish
it was, for the Bungletown Bugle and
Flap Jack Reporter monopolze altogether
too much room in the department set apart
for the press, to make work in the convention
convenient or pleasant. Still, as newspapers
make the statesmen of the country, they are
an important factor. In fact, what's the use
of being a statesman without the newspapers
to tell about it. l might add that the bulk
of statesmen" rely upon the elastic con-
science of newspaper men in swearing that
they are statesmen when they are only fifth
rate ward politicians. The GLOBE don't dc
that kind of business, however,
for in Minnesota we are SO
fortunate that all our public men are actual
states men. a nd we don't have to lie about il
as other less favored localities do. Still We
would lie on tn is subject if it was necessary
to keep our end up, and it must not for q
moment be supposed that 1 am rejecting
upon the capacity of Minnesota newspaper
men to become second George Washingtons
by telling a good Round Robin lie. In fact
think they could give George full hand
and beat him at his own game. But fear
am depressing in the cause of truth and self
defense.
THE PRAYER.
There were two or three notable things in
the morning session of the convention. The
prayer offered by Rev. j. H. Burroughs, was
not quite such a boomer for the 'sgrand old
party'' as that of the Rev. Bristol's Yesterday,
but like the eggs which one of our fellow citi,
zens recommends as ''fair eggs'' it was fair
Probably the Rev. Bristol hasn't got back since
be took his yesterdays effort up to see what
effect it had and the Rev. Burroughs did MOI
want to be too previous until he wa.
further advised. The convention was again
daft as to what it all meant and less mum
ber arose during its delivery than yesterday
The Blaine men appeared to all keep thel
seats, apparently not wishing to make
another show of their strength at this stag
of the game.
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.
l scarcely thought when l recounted il
yesterdays GLOBE the memorable scene il
the convention of 1880, when Gen. Gar
field came to the rescue of the about-to-be
expelled West Virginia delegates, that m
prophetic soul was covering portion of to
days proceedings. But so it proved. Sool