Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-06

delegation is in the extreme southwes
corner.
Some of the visiting statesmen wer'
made rather uncomfortable by the follow
ing dispatch from New York: Numerous
complaints have been made to Mayor
Hewitt of the large number Of city officials
who are now absent from their posts-pre
sumably at the st. Louis Convention. The
Mayor, il is understood, has instituted In
quiries to discover officially the names o.
the officeholders who 80 absented them
selves. What his line of procedure will bt
when the required information shall be II
his possession has not been indicated
Among the absentees are Corporation
Counsel Bsekman, Public Works Commits
sioner Newton, Fire Commissioner Croker,
and a number OF justices and aldermen.
THE DAY
opened less auspicious than its predeces
sors, 30 far as the weather was concerned
For the first time in q week there were
heavy clouds in the sky, which brought
with them premonitions Of rain, and the
cool, bracing winds which came with the
earliest of the visitors had given way to O
close, oppressive, muggy atmosphere. From
behind the big black clouds the sun peeped
out ut eleven o'clock and illuminated the
convention hall with food Of light. Mean
while the boxes on either side Of the stage
had been filing MP with invited guests.
The majority of them were Of the gentler
sex, young, middle-aged and old, and
their brilliant toilets, many OF them
specially ordered from Worth's for the oc-
cssioD, lent a piquant and picturesque
effect to the scene.
The Minnesota delegation, at q meeting
held this morning, agreed to support as a
unit the nomination of Judge Thurman for
the Vice Presidency. Michael Doren was
chosen as the member of the National
Committee, and E. G. Stringer, Of Hast
ipgs, as the member of the Committee on
Resolutions.
There was no hurry on the part Of the
Delegates in assembling.
The Indianians were the first upon the
grounds. They came in struggling without
any attempt at show, and were in their
seats before the audience hsd time to give
them o cheer. Then there was lull,
broken by the Cleveland Democracy, Of
Buffalo. They marched in at the entrance
of the upper gallery with band Of forty
pieces and q blue silken banner at their
head, took off their hats in response to the
applause which came from the visitors sec
tion, trotted around the building, and then
took up their quarters in the balcony
directly above the chair.
At lao the Hendricks club, Of Indian
apolis, entered the gallery amid cheering
and waving of white hats on the floor.
The Hendricks banner was suspended
from the gallery next the Presidents
picture. The cheering on the Aoor was re-
newed at this, and the band played
Yankee Doodle"
Applause from the galleries gaeeted
SENATOR VOORHEES,
as he walked down the aisle.
The entrance of Chairman Barnum was
greeted with tremendous applause and
waving of handkerchiefs in the galleries
and on the floor.
The Colorado delegation came in with
out ostentation, closely followed by the
Texans and Marylanders. For the next
fifteen minutes the delegates came in rap
idly, but nevertheless at ~ O'Clock, when
the Convention should have been called to
order, there was big empty space in the
body OF the hall. The Missouri, Mime
sofa, Mississippi, New York and Illinois
DELE cations were the principal laggards,
but the latter was cordially received when
it came in, the enthusiasm even causing
the hard stern lines in Colonel Morrison q
face to relax.
Senator German slipped in unnoticed,
and 80 did Henry Watterson, Senator Vest,
ex-senator Davis, of West Virginia, and
other leading lights of the party, who in
past conventions have been singled out for
conspicuous attentions. No applause was
accorded to the New Workers, who entered
in single file and made their way through
a side corridor to their seats instead oi
marching down the center aisle. By 1920
the delegates had been seated. There were
many faces which were familiar in the Ma
tioual Convention Of 1884. but Daniel
Manning and John Kelly, now passed tC
the great majority, were missed from the
two ends of the front bench of the New
Yorkers. Tom Grady's absence was no
ticed.
Some one comes in and, passiug down
the stage, places an immense
BASKET OF RoSEs
on a stand at the right Of the chairman's
desk, as yet unoccupied, and the incident
provokes q cheer. A noticeable incident
of the demonstrations is the 1utter o
handkerchiefs and the waving Of fans by
the ladies who fill the double row of seats
arranged along the front of the two CALLER
les, which have been given up almost ex'
clusiyely to the fair sex, whose bright at
tire and pretty faces lend an additional 81
traction to the convention ensemble.
The visiting clubs with emblazoned ban
ners come in late, but as each well known
organization is recognized they are greeted
with cheers. The Tammany Hall braves
are among the first to appear, followed
closely by the New York County Democra.
cy and local st. Louis organization. The
Randall Club, with its gorgeous black and
gold banner and lei by Squire William
McMullin, the hero of seven National con-
ventions, marches in proudly and are
generously applauded.
The first of the great National Demo
cratic figures to appear among the delegates
is the tall form of the senior Senator from
Iudians-Daniel W. Voorhees-and he is
at once recognized and cheered to the echo.
The Cleveland Democracy of Buffalo, with
full brass band playing Dixie, marches
in to the gallery and creates something Of q
sensation, the convention bursting into
spplause and cheers, which continue until
the club has made the circuit Of the gal
lery and is seated. The clubs crimson
banner, with its conspicuous letters in
scribipg the Presidents name, becomes at
once one of the most conspicuous and
peculiar ornaments in the ball. Every
member of the club wears high hat and q
Cleveland badge.
While the Cleveland Club is thus en-
thusing the convention
HON. STEPHEN VI. WHITE,
of California, who is to be temporary chair
man of the convention, steps quietly into
his seat. Very few persons in the hall rec
ognize him. Mr.. White is man of strong
physique, stontly built and of medium
height, with o full brown beard. While
he is shaking hands with the California
delegation the Cleveland Clubs parade
comes to an end and the standard bearer
plants the Cleveland banner directly in
'front.' of the picture Of the Capitol in the
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