St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-06
THESE BE STRAWS.
How They Wave in and Around
the West Hotel.

the West Hotel.
The remark of Delegate Blackjack
that nearly all of the Blaine badges are
worn by the local Blaineites might have
been true, uttered any time before yes
terday. 1t was not true yesterday. The
clubs began to arrive then. and most all
of them are Blaine organizations. With
their bands and cheers and badges they
were able to make the city look very
BIainesque. The Denver gang started
it by coming into town at O'Clock yes
terday morning and waking up every
body in the West with their drumbeatS
and cheers for Blaine. Other clubs
kept it up all day.
1t may be said that the Pennsylvani-
ans started the Blaine ball a-rUlling in
the afternoon. They marched into the
West exchange bearing alOft portraits
of Blame Skewered on canes and UNI
brellas. They cheered for Blaine until
they were hoarSe and then began to
sing. The song was all about Blaine
and what great man he is. 1t was
sung to the particular devillsh air of
TIA, ra, ra, oOm-de-Ay." A fat man
with Harrisonian proclivities tried to
stem the tide by hunting up Harrison
picture, holding it aloft and calling for
cheers for Harrison. The portrait was
torn from his hand and trampled upon,
only to be snatched up again by him in
true Barbara Fritchie style and shaken
. in the faces of the opposing element.
The earnestneSs and devotion of the fat
man in the bowling Blaine mob was
truly pathetic.
When the California delegation
marched through the West waving their
pfunes and yelling for Blaine they be-
came so wrought up that they caught
up one of their number and carried him
on their shoulders to show to everybody
that they were enthusiastic. The Har-
rison crowd, not to be Outdone, picked
up one of their men and elevated him
to where he could wave a Harrison hat
as an Offset against the Blaine plume.
The plume shook itself Saucily in the
fetid atmosphere. and the Harrison hat
tumbled into the dirt. seemingly OF its
own accord. Was it an omen?
The Blaine forces evidently believe
i'm the efficacy of the placard. The West
hotel, in every spot where to post pla-
card is not vandalism, is decorated with
a portrait showing the Maine man as
rine. healthy old gentleman i'll Prince
Albert suit. HarriSOn'S portrait is seen
nowhere except in the Indiana head
quarters, and then i'll numbers few.
The HooSiers claim nearly every state,
either in whole or in part. that has
headquarters at the West. But the
Harrison face does not appear there.
Every state headquarters in the West,
with the exception of Indiana and
Michigan, is decorated with Blaine
portraits in profuSiOn. Even New
+ York. which was claimed for Har-
I rison by handsome MIR. O'Brien, who,
! by the way, has become an indefinite
/ Quantity within the last couple OF days.
I; has the Blaine features on its walls.
/. Michigan lben have put up one Or two
( likenesses of Gen. Alger, but that is all.
/ Charles A. Dana took such an excru-
! ciating crimp in that noble warrior that
/ he Is never mentioned for president
/ now except with smile. Colorado has
i a large oil painting of Blaine guarding
/ the door of the headquarters.
/ AS one by one the roses fade, so do
the Harrison hats that adorned the
! heads of the Hooslers ON their arrival
/ disappear from the lobby of the West.
/ The white sugarloaf was everywhere
! epuple of DAYS ago. 1t has gone, prOba-
lbly never to return. The last rose of
ishmmer was never more lonely in her
ioid age that the Harrison sugar-loaf hat
in the Heterogeneous crowd at the
West.
1t is funny to talk with the members
of the various delegations as they ar
rive in Minneapolis, and then to watch
the actious of the members. They are
for Harrison, almost always, when they
get into the city. They say, that is, that
most of them will vote for Harrison. In
a couple of hours, after having removed
the traces of travel, they may be seen
wandering towards the center of the
Blaine movement, slyly, as if ashamed,
and slipping unostentatiously into the
band wagon.