St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-05
Minneapolis People Anxious
to Take Part in the Great
Convention.
Shouts for Blaine Met by
Counter Shouts for Lit
tie Benny.
General Lew Wallace Talks Of
Harrison at a HooSier
Reception.
Various State Delegations
Get Together and Talk
Over Prospects.


were comparatively quiet. Little groups
of delegates and larger groups OF news
paper correspondents were scattered
about discussing the situation. The
peaceful quiet that hung over the crowd
of that night was been dis
sipated last night by an army
of local shOuterS who made
the air ring with cries of blaine" and
Harrison" A struggling mob fills the
corridors of the West hotel. 1t is a
good-natured mob. If there is any acri-
monious feeling among the friends of
the chief candidates before the cOnven-
ton, it has not spread to the others.
Blaine badges here dominate in the
crowd, but they are the cheap little red
badges which Millionaire Eustls had
distributed to all corners. Agents of
the badge industry are going about the
corridor pinning the little red tokens on
every willing coat lapel. Sometimes
they are pinned over other badges, not
infreQuently over the Haunting cOlOrS OF
Gen. Alger. But very few of the peo-
pie who are urging and shouting them
selves hoarse are delegates or even Wis
iting strangers. Most of them are Min
neapolis people interested in the con-
yentiOn and anxious to have even
a vocal part In it. There is an
amused audience in the galleries alb
out the big hotel lobby and lining the
broad stairway that leads from the
lobby to the parlor floor above. Men
and women look down on the strug-
CLING crowd, surging backward and
forward with waving arms and inter-
mittent cries for the two great candi-
dates. At intervals some one
in the thick of the crowd
starts the cry of "Blaine" it
is taken up by a handred voices and a
Harrison, Harrison" There is no
i'll feeling. The shouters grin as they
shout, and, if they punch each other, it
is i'll good nature.
Indiana Reception.
The reception given by the Indiana
delegation distracted for time from
the crowd in the corridor. For more
than two hours in the evening con-
stant stream of visitors, nearly half of
them ladies, poured into one of the
dining rooms of the hotel, where the
reception was given. Senators HiScOck,
Sawyer and FELTON, received the guests
in company with Gen. Lew Wallace. of
Indiana. After the music had ceased
there were vOciferous calls Oh Gen..
Wallace for speech, and he responded
| as follows:
IL am not politician, l am candi-
date for 10 Office, | hold no place for
honor or trust. Therefore, cannot un-
| derStand why you want me to speak,
unless it is that represent HARRISON"
| In this Gen. Wallace was cheered over
and over. Gen. Wallace continued: eff
| | had a theme to choose l would not
| know a better one. l have known him
all his life, not distantly, not as a
| neighbor, but as his most intimate
friend. am here to testify of my own
! knowledge that he is eminentlytle man
most fitted to be elected president of
| president of the United States. He is
man in every sense of the word, an
honest man, conscientious man. One
of those few men capable OF
state (cheers), secretary of war.
secretary of navy, of the interior, and in
the absence of the supreme judges The
very best in the land. [Cheers.] Now,
! if you please, will you nominate Presi-
| dent Harrison? Loud cries of Yes
and cheers. l ask that first of the In.
dianans who are present. Then | will
ask you who are here from other states.
| VIII You Elect Him!
! loud cries of Yes and cheers.]
have no doubt of it. | have no doubt
in the first place, Of his nomination. and
| if lie is nominated he, having once before
been elected, will be reelected. 1t is
not every man who can be brave pres
ldent. When we find man who
| has been such what shall we
do with MIN? [Cries of Re
elect him. Shall we exalt his
| administration and turn him down
the right to be nominated to be
president if he can be elected, Mr..
Blaine has that right. There is some
doubt yet as to whether he is a candi
date, but if he should be a candi
date, that need not disturb any of
us because it will bring the
old competition, the old rivalry
i between a fair and honorable conven-
ton. If Mr.. Blaine should succeed. lei
us vote for him. [Cheers. If Cen
Harrison is nominated, let us vote fol
him. Renewed cheers AS between
the two men, have the right to ex
press my opinion, and it is that Gen
Harrison would be the nomination ol
this convention"
Senator Hiscock, ex-Congressman
| Ollly MdSOll. Vi SuitdSO, liz Ol"s
Evans, of Tennessee, and others, also
made ringing harrison speeches amid a
scene of great enthusiasm.
The Illinois Delegation
held sort of informal meeting tonight
| Only about fifteen of them were pres
| ent, and those were nearly ali Harrison
men. The expression of opinion was
| that Harrison would have thirty dele
| gates to about fourteen, and perhaps
less, for Blaine.
The Iowa delegation also got together.
1t is very much split up, and it is too
early too predict how it will vote.
The Indiana delegation gave a recep,
ton tonight in the parlors of the West
hotel to the friends of Harrison"
The parlors were thronged from Suntil
| IL O'Clock. and the utmost good feeling
and enthusiasm prevailed. Speeches
were made by Chauncey NJ. De
pew, Senators Hiscock, FELTON,
and Carey, Gen. Lew Wallace,
ex-Secretary of the Navy Thompson,
and II. Clay Evans, of Tennessee. The
speeches were received with applause
and cheers whenever reference to Har-
risOn and his administration was made.
A string band was stationed IN the cor
ridor, but the musically inclined found
the noise of the political diSputants on
the floor below serious drawback to
their enjoyment. "a,
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