The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-19
FOR HILL TO TnB End.
New York's Delegates Have
No Second Choice.
THE GREAT BATTLE BEGUN
Iowa's Boomers Making
the Most Noise.


Hs Was In lsss-Ths Leaders looking
About for = Maa on WHOM They Can
Uuite In Case that They Can Convince
the Cleveland People that the ex.Presi.
dent Cannot be Elected n Nominated
The Cleveland Mea Open Three Head.
quarters - Ex.Seoretary whitney Says
They Have $50 Votes. s.d that They
VIII Stick to Their Candidate Until tho
Snow FNes-owens OF Kentucky Named
for Temporary Chairmau-Taik About
the Platform and the Candidates.
CHICAGO. Juno 18-The witches caldron OF
political strife is heaping UP to fulness as
every hour goes by. and soon It will be ready
for the fagots and the invocation dance In the
Convention hall Every incoming delegation
adds skin Of snake or head OF toad to the dew
lis broth. and by Monday the pot will contain
q mixture capable OF pleasing the palate Of any
sorcerer among the politicians.
Tho basis Of the broth-that is to soy. tho
beefstock that forms the basis Of every such
cattle produot-is in this case tho majority that
has been sent here for Cleveland; but so much
else Is being thrown in on top Of It that not
even ex-Secretary Fairchild can say to-day
that the stock has the same taste 1t had when
he brought It here.
The city is beginning to have little Of the
Convention aspect Great stuffed tigers were
put on view In the Leland Hotel. and the au-
ditorium badge vendors. nearly all selling
Grover Cleveland badges. appeared on the
pavements. A solitary band. heading q sad
looking lot Of white Indians from Colorado.
paraded the streets. and tho corridors Of the
Palmer House and the Grand Pacific Hotel be-
gan to hum with the noise OF dense masses Of
politicians. az a harvest field sings when the
reapers are at work.
Perhaps the queerest outcome Of the situa-
ton was the action Of the saloon keepers. who
began putting out pictures OF Cleveland and
Hill side by side In the grog shop windows.
These men want the custom Of the great
bands Of thirsty New Workers that have
come and are coming. and. not under
standing our Empire State politics. thought
the surest way to please US was to
show both candidates. Put side by side in
that way the pictures had the same effect as
portraits Of Cain and Abel would produce upon
the average mind.
Another ridiculous development Is the liter
airy bureau. thing peculiar to New
York and regularly descended from the
days OF Samuel J. Tilden. The Sage OF Grey
stone did some Of his most efficaclous work
with his literary bureau He knew how.
He appealed to tho intelligence and. the. am
billion. the interests and the weaknesses
OF Republicans and Democrats al Ike. with tho
written and printed matter that he made pub
lie. Ever since his day In every home cam.
paign and National Convention some wing or
other Of the Democrats has kept up his idea.
But the idea. as the farmers would say. has
run down to the emptyinGs"
Just as Barney Biglin sneered at Andrew D.
White US a man who monk eyed with the
n ! 4
monkeying with literature The nti-snappers
are the chief offenders. They literally turn
out yards and yards Of worthless interviews
and written chatter every day.
Some Of the reporters take 1t Off their hands.
and perhaps some newspapers publish it. but
1t Is hard to have to think 80 poorly OF journal
ism. The regular New York organization has
begun to do little OF the same work with the
same dismal results.
Not to depart from the subjects OF literature
and journalism. 1t is worth while Just here to
say that II the Chicago newspapers followed
Frederick Hudson's rule Of raising some one
thing to sensation on each day OF the year.
they would all lead their papers with accounts
OF the weather.
Every one knows that weather goes by whole
sale out here. We have It at retail in New
York. and 1t comes in Job lots at Buffalo and
Pittsburgh. but the only shipments to Chicago
come by train louds at a time.
Tornadoos. and thunder storms. fearful
rains. and sudden visitatons OF black darkness
during business hours are visitutions that
average twice a day. No New Yorker who has
not imperilled his life by visit to Chicago
can claim any knowledge OF the subject OF
weather. or conceive what Is going ON out here.
Every now and then the sky turns black. the
rain falls In torrents. the lightning flashes.
and the thunder roars. Bolts Of electricity
enter tho rooms in the hotels. tho atm os phere
is blndingly illuminated. tho trees rock. the
dust Gies. the people rush for the houses.
leaving the streets as bare as tho roads
to q deserted village. and tho very
roar OF battle nils tho air. There Is
no escape from tho terrors Of these storms.
Those who are at table In tho hotel dining
rooms or at fanced ease In the sleeping apart
ments. see the binding flashes. hear the deaf
ening roar. and feel. or fancy that they feel.
tho rocking and swaying OF the sky-
scraping edifces around them. Every day.
as an additional course at breakfast. they
road OF the deaths and mutations by tho pre-
vious days storms II the politicians should
nominate the junior Senator from Now York
next week the combination OF politicians and
weather might perhaps reach the expectations
OF that drunken Cleveland man who was at tho
Auuitorlum last hleht shouting that lie Was
"for Hill and hell"
Woman. lovely woman.is on deck again as at
Minneapolis. Tho woman reporter is hcrc-
she who elbows her way ong the mon whore
they are thickest. and whom nothing daunts.
The female typewrters are scattered wherever
there are political chieltains or newspaper cor
respondents. They are In the hotel Hobbies be-
aide their littlo tables. In the hotel bedrooms
everywhere they are seen. making q CHEEKY
chorus with their clicking keys
large proportion OF the leaders OF the party
are here. but the trouble IL that many OF the
delegations are either represented only partly
or not at all Until those vote carriers are all
here It will DO impossible to discuss the posi-
bilties OF the Convention with clearness or
confidence.
Calvin & Brice 10 on hand. active. laxative.
briGht-eyed. and nervous as ever Senator
German has come with that wonderful face
that betrays his emotions only on the side that
Is turned away from the man who talks to him.
Ex-Gov Campbell Of Ohio is present. but
says little. thinks u great deal. and hnpcs stil