St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-09
FIRST FIGHT.
CoMti,t,sed from First Paoe.

| ments men of mark came into sight, and
many warrior, SCARED in old-tme battle,
marched into the vision of the crowd.
Some of them deserve special notice.
Richard D. Hubbard, of Texas, was made
temporary chairman, and inaugurated him
self with speech full of sense, vitality and
pathos. He is rough diamond of little
more than medium, height He is very cor
pulent, but not to an extent which perme-
ates him with that stolidity, which is so often
characteristic of heavy weights. His chest is
full, his arms short and spudgy;" his ges-
ture full length, and his voice deep, far
reaching bass. His long beard sowed with
gray gives him an aspect of dignity and wis
dom. His head is round, covered with a
crop of gray hair, which shook as he swung
his head with grand ''Leoniie strength"
He is not graceful, but he is strong,
rugged, messiah, and full OF
rude magnetism that
seizes the bearer and holds him as the load
in great rough waves which are irresistible and
yet which in all their roughness are irride-
scent above their edges with the hue of pas
sion and pathos AMI touched all over with a
graceful and a delicate beauty. He is the
orator for a great crisis, for an occasion
when rude strength is to be involved, for
times when great masses are to be set in
motion. He is a leviathan in his figure, in
his great voice and in the storms of passion
which he stirs up along his course.
Another figure which attracted some at
tention was that of Senator Grady, of New
York, and sub-chief among the Sachems
OF the Tammany lodges and the bosom
friend of John Kelly. He has the broad
shoulders, the deep powerful chest, the
muscular neck, the firm hips and thighs of
prize fighter, or Roman gladiator. His
head is round and covered with
dark brown hair. His broad square jaw is
smoothly shaven, his eyes deep set and
glowing and his entire appearance are sug-
gestiYe of strength tenacity and perseverance,
with physique too heavy for running away
from a foe, but asserting in every line and
detail that once in position it would remain
rooted as a rock. AS speaker he is i'm
pressiye, but in no sense graceful or pleasing.
His voice is not rich in volume, but intense.
1t rolls out in a long, drawling monotone,
and seems to be rather permeated with a
fierce menace that with the flavor of desire
to conciliate. He appears at little distance
the impersonation of logged sullcnness,
something stern, immovable, rigid as the
foot hills of mountain and as
impermeable as granite. He was defeated
in his initial endeavor, although he fought
long and well, and when the battle was over
there rested on his features the same sullen
determination which characterized them
when the battle began.
While the initial movements were in pro-
gress figure was seen which, like the white
plume of Navarro, was ever in the thickest
of the conflict. 1t was that of John r. Eel
lows, of New York, who faced the onslaught
of the Tammany braves almost single
handed and who was characterized by his
dexterous use of his keen weapon and
the genial smile which always
played over his lips. He is tall, with
smooth face and lip, broad forehead, just
bald enough to increase its height, and gray
hair swept back from face to brow. Erect,
graceful in figure, he was in every essential
respect the counterpart of the surly Grady,
by the side of whom he appears as little,
graceful slender greyhound in the presence
of heavy jawed mastiff. The audience listen
ed when he spoke, listened because his clear
voice reached out without hoarseness or
tremor, listened because his
gestures were graceful, his arguments
clear and convincing and his oratory silvery
and full of charm
And the redoubted, able John Kelly, what
of him? The world knows him not as made
by God, but as Mast and Puck have created
him. All are familiar with the bull dog jaw,
the square-cut mouth, the cunning eyes, the
firm and sneering lips, the retreating brow
and microscopic cranial development as
signed him in the genesis of these twin
creatures of the monstrous and impossible.
John Kelly rises to his feet and the audience
sees man OF medium size,
with small round head,
3ly clipped white beard, a smiling ex-
preston lighting up his lip, and genial
G ow Illuminating his face. He speaks with
a low, firm voice. There is nothing in his
tone, expression, gesture or glance of the
eye that is blatant rufiianly or brutal. Mild
ly he discards what has brought him to his
feet and then sits down as calmly as if he
were no more than an unweaned infant
There are some others who caught the eye
of the public. Mr.. Cochrane, of New York.
was one who attracted the attention of the
spectators. He has a singular countenance,
as one full of melancholy. He is oriental in
style, with upper eyelids that drop down
when he is in thought, and then suddenly
open, as if in wonder, unwilling large dark
eyes, full of blaze of light. He has
a dark sort of pallor, like
filmy veil of black, spread
over the white feature of a marble statue
He has black moustache, raven cluster of
hair and white lower teeth, which CLEAN be-
meath the ebon ornament of his upper lip.
He speaks easily and well. He throws his
head far back when he faces the audience,
and he fills the air with rounded and grace
full gestures. He is Knight who splintered
his lance in the interests of Tammanv, and
although he slew no enemy he filed the au-
dience with admiration of his graces and
dexterity.
The famous mayor of Chicago, Carter
Harrison, who always speaks of others as
''hoss' and who wishes to be governor of
Illinois If he cannot be vice president and
who is willing TO again be mayor of Chicago
in case he cannot be either of the others,
mounts chair and faces the
chairman. He is full bearded, gray as to
tint, with full moon of round nakedness
on the top of his head. He is impressive
and earnest, and does not perpetrate single
bit of humor, evidently thinking the present
moment when vice presidencies are at stake,
too precious to be wasted in empty, albeit
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