The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-16
The "Old Man" Out in Full
Force and N any Other Prom
inent Representatives Of
Mckinleyism Ready
to Take a Hand.
Notes, Personals and Other In
terestlng News Concerning
the Convention HepreSen-
tatives.-Opera House
decorations, Music,
Etc.

There is in session to-day IN Sedalla
a state m citing. 1t is known as the
state republican league, and is COM
posed of delegates from almost every
county in the state 1t is repre-
sentative BODY tor The reason thai it
has been understood that the final
result of The meeting wouii, to a great
extent, control Federal patronage so
far as that party has The dlctum
And vet, the delegates come here
in a chaotic ,tate. Their is n" organ
ization. There il factional fight,
and very evenly dividei. As mat
ter of course there will b. decision
and cry of victory tom the one
side and low rcd feathers on the other.
And then? But to business
THE CoNvENTI'N.
Woods opera house, in which thu
convention met, WAS beautifully dee
GRATED for the occasion. Magnificent
national flags gracefully fe>tooned the
stage, whi'e smaller emblem, If the
n.ti nal colOrs were pro!uSely a tacaed
to the walls. Bunting and gay cplJrs
flashed freely on all slies aud every
thing had very patriotic and harmo-
nious appearance. Eleg mt lite-,ized
pictures OF graf rerub lean leaders of
the past and present times adorned
III a-e and walls
Grant and Lincoln occupied prom
iuent places ON eilh'r SIDE Of the
stage, while, most prominent Of all,
George Washington, drap-d grace
July with the Il RS and strip, 5. occu-
pied the center, Immediately over The
presidents stand, All 4 looked benign
ly down on the proceedings from his
elevated position. Logan, Blaine,
Garf ED, Harrison, Morton, Fremont
and Sherman We're among the Others
pio,orialiy represented. The comm t.
tee ON arrangements hal
done its work we'll Every.
thug that could be done for comfort
aud convenience had been done to the
taste OF the most fas idi us. The hall
was partially darkened and the gas
was turned on, making mellow and
sufficient ligh'. Chairs and tables ior
the officers and executive committee
were ON the stand. Press representa-
tives occupied the orchestra pit,
The Sedalia cornet band occupied a
box in the family circle Large pla
cards. bearing the number OF the III
gressional districts. designated the
location Of the delegates by congre.-
sional districts. the delegates from
each district sitting together for con
venience. The eighth, ninth rnd
tenth 1.-THE St. Louis d stricts,) were
the largest dcles atoms ani Occupied
the most space, they numbering about
one third or one fourth of the con
vention. They sat on the sou h side
of the room.
The convention was to have met al
10 o'clock, but Was SLOW about meet
ing. At 10 O'Clock the hall was
empty. About 1920 the delegates
began to saunier in. The ban then
came in and took its position, and
PLAYED - My Cruntry, I'll:
of Thee. The hall rapidly filled up
then with delegates end spectators
The band next played Marching
Through Georgia" which ELECTED
thundering applause. By II O'Clock
the honse Was p ,cked from pit to gal
lery. Delegates occupied the first
f,or, while spectators, many Of them
democrats OF 'his city, occu. led the
seats above. Several negro delegates
with silk hats male themselves con
spicuous and prominent.
After the delegates all got in, it WA
found to be so crowded that all of th,
st. Louis delegates could not get seats
Tne delegates from the seventh dis
trict then went on the stage
10 make additional room for ih,
the st. Louis delegates, who were
then all amply seated. The Eight
district delegates then went up to tn
south box in the family circle anC
everybody was made comfortable
After all w,re seated, the band agar
PLAYED the favorlte tune, Marching
Through, etc. which was greeted
with uproarious applasue, many dele
gates joining in singing the words o
the famous song, especially TIL
negroes. "R lily Around The Flag
Boys" and other g. o. p. airs wer
successfully discDursed, while every
thing was settling down tor business
One delegate timidly called 70