Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-30

candidates, which were u feature at
Minneapolis, are repeated here. In the
corridor of the Palmer House there
have been from half dozen to dozen
hand.to-land conflicts. The corridor was
first used by the Boies men for the dis
play Of their pictures Of Boies. When
the Cleveland men opened hcad-quar-
tiers there they divided the right. That
was the beginning Of the war. At first
the Boies men tore down the Cleveland
pictures as fast as they were put up.
| The Cleveland men retaliated by tearing
down Boies pictures. Then the Hill
men stepped in. They had no head
quarters at the hotel and the proprietor
objected The rival shouters brought
pictures into the hotel fastened to UNI
brellas and sticks. Then came the con-
ilict. Each man tried to hold his
picture higher than the other,
and the friends of the men
with the pictures would reach and
try to tear down the pictures of the
opposing candidates. Il would be biff
bang for minute, and then the police
more plentiful than at Minneapolis,
would step in and stop and row. The
crowd in the hotel was all Cleveland
Tuesday afternoon. When some one
Struggled a picture of Hill into the
House and suspended it from the ro-
tunda balcony it was greeted with
Kisses mingled with faint attempt at
cheers. The Palmer management at
once sent three policemen aloft to tear
down the emblem. The officers were
met by individuals whose eloquence was
too much for the bluecoats. A hand. to.
hand encounter seemed imminent, when
q Clevelandite forced his way to the
balcony, and, amid wild cheers from
those beneath, settled the affair by pin
| ming the photograph OF Cleveland over
that of Hill. At the same time other
men took down all Boies' pictures
within reach and attached them to the
lower end of Cleyeland's picture.
THE CONVENTION wtGwAM.
The wigwam where the convention is
held is a mass of dirt and boards. In
consequence there is tremendous de-
mand for Peter Cooper rubber bags.
The people take them there TO sit on
| Notices wen sent out that no smoking
| would be allowed in the building and
| that matches must not be carried, for
| fear the place will get on fire and burn
| wigwams looks like one of the knicker-
booker Ice Company's storage ware
houses and is about as ilimsy. II is built
of yellow pine. Any one who has
smelled yellow pine after it has been
soaked with water will be glad that he
didn't come to the convention. The
odor resembles that of herring salad
after it has been standing three or four
days.
| FUNNY FACES AND COSTUMES.
In the crowds are some of the funniest
faces and costumes that ever escaped
from the pages of the comic wecklies
Enormous broad brimmed felt hats
jammed down ON the heads of men
from the south and west are often ac-
companicd by pointed chin whiskers,
eyebrows as shaggy as Tammany
moustaches, and suits of butternut or
rusty tweed that look as if they had
been cut out with a circular saw and
| put together by the local harness
makers. The women are very numerous
in the hotels that are the political head
| quarters. Many of them are altogether
lovely. They have caught the cunning
Chicago fashion of walking around with
toothpicks in their mouths whenever
their pretty mouths tire of chewing
gum. Whoever would criticise Il
buxom, happy western girl for little
thing like that would be capable of
vilifying his own grandmother. The
younger women are intensely interested
in politics, as can easily be seen by the
fact that they are collecting the badges
of the states and territories 10 make
them into crazy quilts, so that the
emblems may continue to represent the
same chaos and perplcxity that they
stand for to-day.
THE GREAT CROWDS.
Half dozen of the hotels are 50
crowded that it almost seems wonder
that they do not break through the thin
blanket of blue clay on which Chicago
was built and disappear like the fairy
palace in the transformation scene at
the end of every Christmas paniomime.
Heavy crash is laid over the carpets in
the upper Railways, and this covering
is MS thickly crustcd with dirt as the
Belgian blocks of Broadway on dry
summers day. Extra wooden STAIR
cases have been built alongside the
original marble steps 10 make it posi-
bic for the crowds to 20 to and fro. The
police, who are as thick as thieves at II
country fair, are SO polite and mild that
the New Workers bump up against them
and pinch them n little to make sure
they are not wax dummies from the
Eden Musee. The citizens who en-
force ten times the respect that the
police do are the hotel clerks and the
cabmen. The charge at Balaklaya was
a contemplate episode as compared
with the charges of the iehus and the
bOnifaces. Instead of doubling the
usual rates, as the Sun reported yester,
day, they have quintupled the regular
tariff, and it now costs 81 to speak to a
cabman and $50 TO get bed in Il
third-rato hotel. In view of this ii
would be interesting 70 calculate the
volume of the golden rain that is fall
ing upon the freak city Of the west.
THE DooR-KEEPER AND THE GOVERNOR.
The Mississippi delegation held a
meeting last night. The governor OF
the state is one Of the delegates. II
happened shat Mississippian who did
not know the governor was on duty at
tho door as scrgnant-at-arms. The
meeting was already in session when
the governor arrived. lie tapped OH
the door and said
"I.et Inc in, please"
"Secret," answered the green door
keeper.
"Lot me in, please again said the
governor.
"You can't come in. / tell you it's q
secret meeting"
Il am delegate answered the gov
crnor. 81 must come in"
"Well, you must not come in" re-
spouded the green doorkeeper, land