Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-10

The attendance at the evening session Of the
Minneapolis convention was the largest that
has turned out since the convention began. For
half an hour before the opening time the ap-
proaches TO the convention hall for mile or
more were a mass Of moving men and women.
Only one line of run to the convention
hall. They were so jammed that they could
move only a: snails pace. Carriages carry
ing men of distinction and men who hope for
distinction were rafting on as if the Exposition
Hall were the scene of some great ball or recep-
ton Other carriages we're graced with the
presence Of women, many of them in splendid
attire. Houses along the vay were illuminated
with lanterns. and a monster arch made en-
tirely of -four barrels near the hall was adorned
with scores of electric lamps. the strong white
light looking weird and pale in the half glow of
the diving day.
Within the vast hall itself every seat, to the
topmost row in the gallery. was occupied. and
hundreds of people stood. The atmosphere
was choking. Not breath Of air stirring.
Men who conduct themselves on ordinary occa-
sions with an unimpeachable dignity swathed
their necks in handkerchiefs to catch up the
Precipitation. Some of them sat with coats
thrown wide open and crsvats loosened, and
had they dared they would have initiated the
example of few sveltering individuals in the
further gallery and tried TO be comfortable in
shirt sleeves.
The committee of arrangements did what
they could to mitigate the rigor5 of the warm
wave. and every one as be came in found a Jap
anese fan at his seat The fans were welcomed,
and worked too, while the band PLAYED the
"Star Spangled Banner" and Yankee Doodle. y
The thousands of fans were pitting the air like
the tapping Of wings of myriads and myriads
of flies.
II was nearly three-quarters of an hour after
the time set to begin that Maj Mckinley with
three taps Of the gsyel called the convention to
order. There was q momentsry cessation of the
swinging OF fans as Chauncey NJ Depew, in the
New York delegation, rose to a question of
privilege and said that there present in the
republican convention since the organization of
the party and who on this day celebrated the
eighty-third anniversary of his birth.
Mr. Depew said: 81 rise to a question of
privilege; not high privilege, but present privi
lege. We have present here among our number
one who has been a delegate to every national
convention of the republican party since its
organization; who has voted for every Presi-
dent of the United States for the last sixty
years, and who has served with distinction in
the cabinet; who is today eighty-three years Of
age. in full physical vigor.
While England claims so much for Mr..
Gladstone because he is eighty-two. America
claims more for Col Dick Thompson of In
diana. We hope he will round his century and
attend during the intervening period every con-
vention of the republican party"
storm of applause greeted the mention of
the name. and the storm broke out when mo-
ton of congratulation made and without
dissent was carried and an escort went down TO
the Indiana delegation to bring the venerable,
white-haired, pink-fsced old man forward.