St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-12
THEY RUSHED AWAY.
Confined. From -FiEst Page.


was oelear out the West hotel. Trey
would have pulled down every YeStige
OF decoration that was put up to the
honor and glory OF Harrison. Then
they would have had parades and fire
works and red fire and speeches and
footing of bands and drinks. None of
this came. The Blaine clubs all came
loaded with the parapheTnalla for max
ing demonstration. They had huge
boxes of the stuff. But the boxes
were never opened. Silently the mem
berS of the clubs found their trains,
loaded in the boxes. Signailsd the coll
ductor and moved out af town, silently
and sadly. A half dozen rockets were
sent up in honor of the triumph of the
Indiana man. and led fire was burned
on one or two obscure street corners.
Nothing more. Harrison did not have
enough men in the city to make re-
spectacle showing in demonstration.
The people of Minneapolis were not
with him, either, before or after the
nomination. A few uf them wore Hair
riSOn badges yesterday 10 show that
they had III feeling III the matter, but
it was all bluff.
Minneapolis took care of the crowd
easily. II was not very big crowd,
that is, not SO big as was expected, but
it answered. 1t is perhaps as well that
it was no larger. As it was, every one
WIS ratislied while, had the rush been
greater, there would have been a few
kickerS- Ii is safe TO say that not one
man will 90 away from Minneapolis
with anything but Kind words to say of
the city. The people were
All Well Fed,
and well housed without calling on the
beanery or Mr.. Lowry's street ears. The
men who estimated that the convention
would bring to Minneapolis $4,000 to
100000 strangers were away off the
mark. Tie number that came is va
riousEy estimated at 10000 to 80, 600. The
hotel men, who had as good facilities
for estimating as any one, are willing
to make affidavit that not more than
1900 people came TO Minneapolis.
Even that is big crowd. To the cas-
nal observer the number seemed greater
because most of the people were ma5Sed
around the West hotel and the Nic0llet,
and on NicOllet and Hennepin avent e.,
between Washington ami Sixth street.
But glance through the thrOngs
around the West hotel showed that the
people were not all strangers. Fully
third of them seemed to he Mime
apsIitans, who came out to see the fun.
But they were handled well. And
hat is what concerns Minneapolis.
Every man had room. If lie did not
it was his own fault. He could get his
meals without any difficulty if he had
the money to pay for them There were
plenty Of rooms and TO spare. The
West could have accommodated three
or four hundred more people. The
other hotels could hove taken more than
they did had they been put toit. The res
taurants were the only places that we've
crowded to death. As the GLOBE point
ed out before the convention, the feed
ing facilities would have been made
ouate had the rush been as great-aS was
anticipated. Many of the down town
restaurants were forced to close during
certain hours of the day OH account of
the crowds. The hungry visitors would
give them no time to prepare meals.
The Minneapolitans will be the only
kickers. 1t is almost certainty that
Minneapolis will pass national conven-
tiOns in the future. They bring adyer-
Using to the city, but little else. 1t IS
doubtful if, the advertising aside,
Minneapolis has value received for tax
ing care of the convention. The hotels
have
Not Made Much Money
out of it. When they have been put
into the condition they were before the
convention large hole will have been
made in the profits. They could have
reaped a profit had they advanced
prices, That they did not do. The
saloons made little money. There the
profits end. Scores of hOuSeholderS had
prepared for taking care of visitors as
Sured to them by the accommodations
committee, and had gone to considerable
expense that nothing might be lacking.
They were left without guests. That,
of course, could not be helped, but 1t
makes the losers feel sore.
The newspaper correspondents go
away with the kindIiest feelings for
Minneapolis. They received all that
they could have asked and more than
they expected. The convention hall,
where they had to do so much OF their
work, was admirably adapted to the
! purpose. Their seats were co nmOdiouS
and we'll arranged. Their quarters in
| the New York Life building
were excellent. They had every
! thing they might have had in a first
class hotel, and were away from the
noise and confusion and the eramped
| quarters inseparable from rooms in a.
hotel in convention time. They had
good sleeping rooms and plenty of room
for working. They were not at all
cramped. Several of them told GLOBE
man that they were better provided for
in the matter of quarters than they
would have been had the convention
| been held in their own cities.
Did any one ever hear of convention
| like it?' 1t will become historical, this
| Minneapolis convention. 1t was most
remarkable gathering. In the first
place, it developed into the bitterest
| fight ever known in the history of the
Republican party.
Blaine Men Blue.
Interested officeseekers and party
! organs may talk as they please about
everybody being for the nominee, but
the fact remains that the breach be-
tween the Blaine men ana the Harrison
men is wider than it ever was and
wider than a similar breach was ever
known to be. 1t can be seen in Mime
aDoliS. Yesterday good many
Republicans were wearing Harrison
badges on their breasts, men who
had been avOWed worShiperS
at the Blaine shrine. When asked
how they liked the nomination they
would point silently to the badge of
Harrison and silently shake their heads
in a way that meant more than the
loudest declaration. After the c0nven-
ton there was no one to shout for Har-
riSOn and begin demonstration OF Joy
except the Harrison delegates. The
Harrison force, through the voice
of "Rhody" Shiel, stirred up
the opponents of Harrison before
coming to Minneapolis. While
en- route. ShieI told the reporters in
Chicago that men who had forced nomi-
nations in their own states only to be
defeated could not come to the Mime
apOlis convention and dictate the nOmi-
nation. That was direct slap at Quay,
Foraker and Platt. They took it as
such, and did all in their power to down
the president. They were defeated in
Minneapolis. But be it known, these
three men are powerful IN their own
states. 1t is not very likely that they
will throw off their coats and work un-
remittingly for man they hate as they
do Harrison, for man who will do as
little tor them as Harrison will. Plat
will not distribute the patronage in
New York; Chauncey Depew will,