Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-04
SUNDAY IN CHICAGO.

cloudy but sultry. No breese stirred the
green leaves of the trees. Fans and hand.
kerchiefs were frequently used by the per-
spring multitude. The morning trains
were freighted with delegates. John j.
O'Brieu and party arrived late in the day.
There was no band Of music with them.
They struggled to the Leland Hotel in small
knots, gripsacks in hand. Jacob Hess, Ste
phen &. French, Edward S. Stokes and 9TH
ers came III on an earlier train. and there
| was an Immediate run on the Turkish baths.
| The Colorado delegation arrived soon after
ward, filed with Blaine enthusiasm. They
| formed III single column and marched to
| the Blaine headquarters, preceded by col
or bearer whose flag was surmounted by an
| immense stuffed eagle. The Arthur men
called it turkey buZzard and the Colorado
men has consequently been dubbed "the
turkey buzzard delegation" The Iowa and
Pacific coast delegates took a special train
| and went out to meet the delegation from
Maine with loud shouts and hurrahs for
Blaine.
| The hottest place in the city to-day was
the Grand Pacific Hotel The rotunda and
corridors were filed with perspiring poiti-
clans, all buttonholipg each other and talk
| ing like men on q quarterstretch. The
Blaine headquarters had been removed to
| one of the ordinary dining rooms of the ho'
| tel. Badges and newspapers containing ac-
counts of the life Of James G. Blaine were
thrust in the hands of every visitor Occa-
sionally surcharged orator mounted the
| tables and deluged the crowd with spread
eagle eoquence. One of these orators was
Mr. J. S. Jelly, of Dakota. He was John Z.
Enos classmate at Yale. When he was Pc
| rorating an anxious Arthur man asked him
| where he was from.
II am from The Territory of Dakota" he
replied.
''Yes, recognize you uow," the Arthur
man shouted. you are the big Indian
chief, Painted Wind"
Thir;y-six portraits of Blaine were hung
around tie room, all labelled "a man OF
mark"
''All tattoed men arc men Of mark, jim
mic Davis remarked, and was Immediately
conducted to the door.
From morning until night, and long after
the turning on of the electric lights. orators
spouted from the Blaine tables. Across the
street and fronting the hotel salvation
preacher was holding forth to a motley
crowd. A dozen young and old ladies SUR
rounded him and GlIed the air with the
| Sankey music. At times the words:
| am the child OF King,
| am the child of II King.
| Oh, glory to God
| l the child of Z King,
were heard above the voices of the Blaine
orators The preacher was collarless, but
he had all the fervor, and made more noise
than any OF Blaine's shouters After feel
ing prayer he dismissed his congregation
and entered the rotunda of the Grand Pacific.
There he stood all the afternoon distribnt-
inr pages Of the New Testament. Henry
Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Massachusetts,
delegation, received page from the Acts
of the Apostles. The words II am Jew"
were the FIRST that met his eye. He crum-
bled up the page and walked away. a
moment allerward one of the Massachusetts
delegation was asked whether the Edmunds
men would hold a caucus to-day.
"No Massachusetts delegate will enter a
caucus on Sunday" he said. "We arc all
religious men, and believe in keeping Gods
day holy" Within fifteen minutes he was
in0uiring the way to the field where great
base ball match was being played.-Cor. n.
| J. Times.