Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-03
Harry Patton Talks Of the Con-
ventiOn.
Interesting Details About the Great
Affair.
Chicago Not What 1t Is Cracked up to
BE = Rapacity of the Ma
tives = Political
Gossip.

as follows
"Did l have a nice time? Well,
rather. You see, when fellow gets as
old as l am he doesn't go off on trips
without some definite object in view,
and by the measure of success that at
tends his efforts towards obtaining that
object is guaged his enjoyment. l went
to Washington to aid in the passage by
congress of bill for the relief of the
Mission Indians at Banning. Owing to
the lateness of the session, the alb
sence of members at the conventions
and the great multiplicity of bills clam
orous for passage, my task was diff
cult and we'll nigh hopeless one. How
ever, with the aid of kind providence,
l succeeded, and the deserved law was
duly enacted. What my bill was, and
how l passed it, you can get from the
leading weekly west of the Rockies,
published at Banning.
II got to Chicago sunday night, June
10th, and found the remainder of the
distinguished delegation already on
hand. They had headquarters at the
Auditorium hotel, where they had
opened up large and well-stocked ''jag
factory" The New York delegation and
Tammany hall also had quarters at
the Auditorium, but they were 80
far overshadowed by the Califor-
mans that their presence was not
felt. Our badges were of red. purple and
gold, about foot and half long, and
when the two running mates of the del
egation, 'Tom and jerry" pranced out
on the street wearing their badges,
bands played, horses ran off, street cars
stopped and it rained.
Taking the treatment of the conven-
tion visitors as criterion, I am sim
cerely sorry for those who feel it their
duty to do penance by visiting the
worlds fair. We were skinned from
start to finish, while the arrangements
for holding the convention were weird
and grotesque. The Lord also showed
his contempt for us by causing
it to rain all the time we
were in Chicago. The "bloody wug-
wum," as the Tammany fellows
called it was very much like great
tobacco drying establishment, without a
window in it and only pretense of a
roof 1t rained pretty nearly as hard
inside as out, and thousand umbrellas
were raised by delegates to protect them
selves from the streams of water pour
ing through the roof.
ut was Cleveland from the beginning,
and he won on the first ballot. The
greatest scene OF enthusiasm ever wit
messed in national convention followed
his nomination.
"Yes, the New Yorkers were disap-
pointed. They felt as if the mugwumps
of that state, after being defeated by the
organized Democracy in New York, had
appealed to the country and been sus-
tanned. But these fellows are Demo-
Gratis, and every one of them left
Chicago wearing Cleveland badge, and
they will work for his election.
"All eyes are now turned towards that
incompatible Democrat, David Bennett
Hill. Upon him rests the success of the
Democratic party. He is the most
loved man in New York, and he can
carry that state for Cleveland this year.
Will he do so? That he will, and he
will do it in such manner that when
election day is over every fair-minded
and true Democrat in the United States
will say, "Hill elected Cleveland presi-
dent" Let me predict right here that
in four years from now the Democracy
of the country at large will think just
as much of Hill as those true-hearted
fellows in New York do. During that
time he will make record in the senate
that will cause his name to be revered
throughout the length and breadth of
this land.
Eyes, the outlook for the ticket is re-
markably good, and it will be elected.
The platform is all the most rampant
tariff. reformer could wish, and on
that issue we must win. New
York, Indiana, New Jersey and
Michigan are the states to conjure by,
but we will also carry Massachusetts,.
The people of that state realize that free
raw material is necessary to the exist
ence OF their manufacturing industries,
and only through the Democratic party
can they getrelief.
"We have got the Republicans scared
to death about Illinois and they will put
good deal of their money and do lots
Of work in that state. Stevenson',s
name is a tower of strength
there. This is great gain to
us as it leaves the field clearer in
New York and Indiana. found Harri-
sons nomination very unpopular in the
east, and the deepest disappoint-
ment was felt at Baine's defeat.
Senator Hill told me that he
considered Harrison much weaker
man in New York than Blaine, and he
said New York would go Democratic
in any event. This was before the
Chicago convention.
Zone thing learned at the conven-
tion is that it is disgrace to hold office,
and the fellow who held position un-
der Cleveland is Pariah in the
eyes of the fellow who tried to
hold Office but didn't have long
enough reach. The animadversions OF
these individual Disappointments."
however, did not seem to affect Whit
ney, ex-secretary of the navy, Villas, ex-
secretary of the interior, or Russ Steph-
ems, ex-postmaster of Sacramento and
really as ex.register OF the United States
Land Office of Los Angeles, / was not pre-
vented from tossing the ready cap high
in the air and emitting yell or two for
Grover"
"I'm going out to Banning tomorrow
and stay there for two long mon hs
whooping up the only Herald OF Ban
ming. It's time / was getting home
when you take advantage of my absence
and the hot weather to steal the only
glacier have"
Natick House.
Among the many hotels in Los Ange-
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