The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-21
THE STORY OF THE DAY.
Effort to Concentrate the Opposition Against
the Cleveland Combination.

Effort TO Concentrate the Opposition Against
the Cleveland Combination.
CHICAGO. June 20 If every one Of the 9O2
delegates to tho Democratic Convention was
accompanied by 9O2 friends. wives. and chill
dren. there would be no such crowds as now
block the streets and tho hotel passages
Half /. dozen of the hotels are SO crowded that
It almost seems q wonder that they do not
break through the thin blanket OF blue clay on
which Chicago Is built and disappear
like the fairy palace In the transforma-
ton scene Mt the end OF every Christ
mas pantOmime Heavy crash is laid over
the carpets in the upper Railways. and this
covering Is rs thickly crustcd with dirt as the
Belgian blocks of Broadway on dry summers
day. Extra wooden staircases have been built
alongside the original marble steps to make
1t possible for the crowds to go to and fro
Tho police. who are az thick as thieves ut
country fair. are so polite and mild that the
New Workers bump UP against them and pinch
them n little to mako sure they nre not
wax dummies from the Eden Museo. Tho citi-
zens who enforce ten times the respect that tho
police do are the hotel clerks and the cabmen
The charge at Baiakiava was contemplate
episode as compared with the charges Of the
jehus and tho honfaces. Instead Of doubling
the usual rites as THE SUN reported yesterday
thoy have Quintupled the regular tariff. and it
now costs 81 to speak to q cabman and $50 to
get bod in third-rate hotel In view of this
1t would be interesting to calculate tho Volume
of the golden rain that Is falling upon the freak
city of the West.
This afternoon $500 Tammany men. and
almost as many men from Brooklyn
and Buffalo. took part In q great parade.
At the present rate at which beverages
are quoted. it costs them every time
they crook their elbows. $3.50 for a
round Of beer. and $4,000 to go to
bed il they sleep four In room like the girls
at Vassar College. 1t may have been this
frghtfulta tax on sleep that led most of them to
stay up all last night. but 1t is understood
that they spent more than II they had turned
in, because the Farkhursts and young sun
beams of tho city took them around to SEQ
how much moro there IL to SEQ In a young and
bounding Western town than is dreamed Of In
the stagnant capitals OF the etfete Fast.
In the crowds are some OF tho funniest faces
and costumes that over escaped from the
pages Of the comic weeklies. Enormous
broad brimmed felt hats jammed down on tho
hends VI men from the South and West arc
often accompanied by pointed chin whiskcrs
eyebrows as shaggy as Tammany moustaches
and suits OF butternut or rusty tweed that
look as II they had teou cat out with a
circular saw and put together by tho
local harness makers me women urD
very numerous in tho hotels that arc tho
political headquarters. Many of them are
altogether lovely They have caught the cum
ming Chicago fashion Of walking around with
toothpicks in their mouths Whenever their
pretty mouths tire OF chewing gum. Whoever
would criticise u buxom. happy Western girl
for little thing like that would be capable
OF yiliiying his own grandmother. The
younger women are intensely interested In
politics. as can easily he seen by the fact that
they are collecting the badges Of the States
and Territories to make them into crazy
quilts. 50 that the emblems may continue to
represent the same chaos aud perpeXity that
they stand for to-day.
The Mrs, Cleveland badge Is much worn by
the married women. who look with grave dis
APPROVAL on those hOrrid delegates who are
bedecked with those white silk badges which
yell out in black type. Are you Cleveland
man or are you u Democrat" 81 am Demo-
cat" The Iowa people have brought lot OF
! hazy and vague portraits OF Boies on card
| board and silk that make tho recent Re-
! publican look az shadowy and ghost