Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-16
THE MORALITY PARTY.

~ Long Drawn-out Debauch 1T Min
neapolis = Capacity Of the Saloons
Ouadrupled = Sunday Law Disre-
garded--It Is No Longer whlsky and
Democracy = But Rye and Repub-
Iicanism.
The special correspondent Of the New
York Voice, under date of June 9th,
gives the following picture of the great
Bacchanalian carouse of the g. o. p. at
Minneapolis:
The Republican National convention,
which opens up tomorrow in this city,
promises to culminate in the most stu-
pendous carousal known in all the vol
luminous history of debauchery. The
248 $1,000. license saloons of this city
have made the most elaborate prepara-
tions for the reception OF the bibulous
statesmen that has ever been made for
any previous gathering of like character,
and no national brewers congress was
ever greeted by the grogshop keepers
of any city with greater cordiality
or more complete preparations. The
extra car loads of beer and liquors
that have poured into the city
during the past week are astonishing.
Most OF the saloons have put an
extra bar into their places of business
and doubled their forces of bartenders---
in some cases quadrupled. Every sa-
loon is decorated with flags, bunting and
lithograph pictures of the leading Re-
publican candidates for president.
Wandering bands of musicians are in
great demand. At the West hotel, the
headquarters of the national Republican
committee, the great, billiard room ad-
Joining the bar room has been cleared,
and the two rooms thrown together into
one stupendous saloon. Four enormous
bars, aggregating more than 200 feet in
| length, are fitted up, behind which are
piled 400 colored bottles and decanters,
and more than 1000 pieces of glassware.
| Thirty bartenders are required to sup
ply the thirsty mouths of the grand old
party, and the cash is received by eight
| large cash registers, which are kept
busily checking like 30 many typewrit-
| ere.
At the Nicollet, the headquarters OF
half a dozen delegations, the billiard
room was also thrown into the bar room
and three extra bars erected, but they
are not as large as at the headquarters
Eofthe national committee. Twelve bar
tenders and foar cash registers manage
the business. Nearly every saloon that
is centrally located has doubled its force
and doubled it's capacity.
Although the convention has not yet
convened, and thousands are yet to
arrive, the stupendous debauch has al
ready commenced. Although the Sum
day closing law is very strict here, and
is usually as we'll enforced as in other
cities of similar character, P. B. Wins
ton, the mayor, very magnanimously
permitted the saloons to run wide open
and in full blast for the accommodation
of the bibulous Republicans. All day
long ribald song and drunken shout
rivalled the church bell tones. Even
four delegates from Maine joined in the
E"whisky straights" at the West.
Today the carouses continued, the
sweat rolling off the foreheads of the
bartende,s in their efforts to keep up
with the clamorous demands of the dele
gates. The president of one of the New
York Republican clubs led in the de-
bauch al the Nicollet, singing maudlin
songs to the crowds, and shouting: 81
don't do this every day, boys" The
Cincinnati Glee club, composed :ol
young men, twenty strong, went singing
from saloon to saloon between drinks.