St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-07
THE BOOM BOOMING.
Getting Ready For The High
Old Time at the Con-
vention City.
Tammany Arrives in Fine Shape
and is Accorded a Royal
Reception.
Cleveland Men Talking Confident and
Declaring They've Got 'em. 1t
Looks So.
The Globe Opens Minnesota Headquarters
and Joins Mr.. Shelly in the Festivities
Of the Occasion.
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, July g.
Brass bands to r.glt Of us;
Bass drums to LETT of us;
Bugled and hammered
Tramp, tramp the boys are marching,
Cheer up, comrades, they will come,
The little boys laughed to see the sport,
And Ben Buffers here with q spoon.
Don't mistake this for original poetry. It
isn't. It's medley, and it is appropriate
that it should be a medley, for that is what
find in Chicago to-day, There's Tammany
and the county Democracy from New York,
there's the Sam Randall club from Pennsyl-
vania and Henri (accent on the last syllable, }
Watterson from Kentucky, there's the Nc
Donald boom from Indiana, there's the Ben
Buffers r-greenback-labor r-and-all- -other-kind-of-
boom from everywhere, there's the Thurman
cloud from Ohio, as yet no bigger than a
mans hand, and the weather is cool besides.
Chicago is the champion convention city.
Though this is the season when the summer
sosice is supposed to be roaming about on
earth, getting people in a sufficiently warm
frame of mind to be reconciled to their
future state, the people of Chicago have done
us proud by ordering up cool weather. In
'76, at st. Louis, it was earlier in the season,
but it was so hot that ice cold mint xjuleps
would sizzle all the way down to your toes,
and if you put off your flesh and sat in your
bones you would be mad because you couldn It
find a cavity in your bones to put in
the mint julep. So it was
he'll any way. In Cincinnati in 80 it was
again earlier in the season and the torrid
torments of the doomed were dispensed to
the sweltering crowd who could only find re-
lief from the muddy whisky and water or
muddy water and whisky, q don't know
which,) by taking to the hill tops and drink
ing beer with the girls. Everybody took to
the hills except the Minnesota delegation.
They didn't. They simply paid ten cents to
be carried up there on the elevated cable
railroad.
The weather is much cooler and more aus
picious than it was wAep arrived five weeks
ago to-day to take charge of the Republican
gathering. There is a big crowd in town, but
scarcely so many as 1 found June 1st. This
was to be expected. The men who are com
ing here now have not gorged their pocket
books out of the treasury and they have to
go down into their own pockets for the du-
cats. When fellow can put his hand into
somebody else's pockets for expenses he can
afford to come early and stay late. But the
indications are that
''We're coming, father Abraham
and by tomorrow there will be more people
in Chicago, if prospects hold out, than at
any period of the Republican convention.
Though there is less crowd, there has been
more brass bands than on the June 1st Sun
day. That day was chiefly monopolized by
the darllies, who were booking customers for
their convention tickets, and street preachers
who were engaged in the hopelessly ridicu-
lous task of pointing out the road to heaven
to the utterly lost crowd who were about to
nominate Blaine.
The colored element is notably absent.
The only gorgeous darkey saw was Blaine
fellow, who was dressed to kill, and was
leaning up against the pillar of building
while a white boy BACKED his boots. He was
evidently a deputy postmaster or he would
not have been so lavish of his small change.
Perhaps, because they don't regard it ne
a dismal failure Of their street preaching,
June 1st, by having it followed by the nomi-
nation of Blaine, the Salvation army were
utterly invisible to-day. | went to their
haunts to see what kind of tack they would
take when the Democratic ship was sailing
to the windward, but was disappointed by
their absence. Either the Democratic party
must be already saved, or is regarded by the
street preachers as beyond hope of redemp-
ton, and not having been in Chicago long
enough to have cleared up the atmosphere, |
leave the intelligent reader of the GLOBE to
determine for himself. The fate of the Hon.
VIM. Patterson is shrouded in very much less
mystery than this problem.
THE HosTELRIEs. y
1t is somewhat peculiar that the two lead
ing hotels, the Palmer and Grand Pacific,
should be presided over by representatives of
the two great parties. Potter Palmer is an
ardent Democrat and John B. Drake, of the
Grand Pacific, an ardent Republican.
When the Republican national convention
was held the national committee, the leading
headquarters and the crowd concentrated at
the Grand Pacific. That hotel was practically
the abode of a bowling mob for week. Mr.
Palmer told me the second day of the conven-
ton that he had room for from four to six
hundred more, though there seemed to be a
pretty large crowd who came there to cut
their eye teeth, To-day, the Palmer
House is the Mecca, to which the steps of all
the leading politicians bend. The national
committee, all the wings of the New York
Democracy and all the leading delegations
from all the states, and the crowd are there
concentrated and the jam is immense. The
Grand Pacific is comparatively quiet, and
you can roam through the corridors with ease,
while when you come within a square of the
Palmer you encounter the crowd and enter
the hotel only with the greatest difficulty, and
by giving and taking sharp elbow punches.
Tonight the front OF the Palmer is en-
blazoned with twenty-five large electric
lights, and the side walk on both sides of the
street is thronged with a dense mass of peo-
pie, who gaze at the walls of the building as
though they expected the next Presi-
dent of the United States step out on bal
cony and invite them in to take drink.
But if he did they could not get in, for there
are too many inside already.
MINNESOTA HEADQUARTERS.
The Minnesota headquarters are at the
Palmer house, of course. So great state
and so great delegation could only be
ouartered at the greatest tavern. One of the
spacious writing rooms on the Office floor of
the Palmer has been secured for the head
quarters of the Minnesota delegation. 1t is
in marked contrast to the two small bed
rooms which formed the headquarters of the
plethoric Minnesota Office holders at the