The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-14

stage OF the proceedings, but not al
ways with success. The scene Gre
ated by Mrs. Carson Lake at Mime
apolis. in 1892. when she exploded In
behalf of Blaine was a success, which
Will long be remembered by those who
were present. The California lady,
with her pampas plumes, at the recent
st. Louis convention was q compare
tive failure, but the palm of all these
exhibitions justly belongs to the
woman in white known as Miss Muir
ray, the newspaper man from Nashua
10. In all the other cases L have wit
messed, the woman was the participant,
the addenda and encourager Of the APP
plause. but Miss Murray did it all.
she was the leader which produced the
whole thing and did it from the gal
lery, instead Of from the platform
where the other woman booms had
been worked. 1t was evidently purely
spontaneous, and shows that an i'm
promptu affair can be more successful
| than set up job. It looked during
the progress Of the event as though
there was not single man or woman
in that vast crowd of 20,O00 people, that
was not facing the girl and waving or
yelling encouragement to her. She was
the heroine Of the moment and the can
didacy Of Boies will be longer remem-
bered owing to that episode than be-
cause he favored Is to 1.
THE MANAGEMENT
/ In this connection want to very
heartily congratulate Tim Byrnes over
his success as sergeant-at-arms at St
Louis, as compared with Sergeant at
Arms Martin, at Chicago. The ar
rangements here were bad from start
to finish. Personally 1 have not the
1 slightest grievance. but in behalf OF
the general public, criticism is very
/ hn hr1iII
lie were coarse and brutal and at the
! entrances within the hail. the same.
| Within the hall there was no such
! thing as semblance of order, EXCEPT as
! the people themselves felt inclined to
! Keep still. Martin, the sergeant-at-
! arms, had fixed himself up a desk d.
rectly in front of the chairman's seat
and a couple of feet lower. He would
frequently stand in front Of the chair
man or speaker for five minutes at
a time waving his hands for order and
his speeches to the convention were
more numerous even than those of the
chair. itself, usually concluding with
the threat to clear the galleries. He
really became laughing stock of the
| convention. 1t is just to say that his
position was very difficult one, and
while he had larger building and a
larger crowd to handle than Mr.. Byrnes
did at st. Louis, the contrast was so
| great the order at ST. Louis main
tanned SO superior. that I am sure if he
had had our own Tim for his first lieu
tenant, great deal better if not per-
rect order would have been secured
STREET FAKIRS MINUS.
The absence of the street fakir with
campaign badge, political emblem
or device of some description, was very
| notable. There were a few of them.
but not many, while at st. Louis there
seemed to be nothing else but fakirs on
| the street. Perhaps it was the uncer-
talnty as to who would be the nominee
and the lack of prominence of any es-
pecial candidate, which led the badge
and emblem makers to go slow lest they
| overstocked themselves with worthless
| goods. They would have been safe in
preparing badges on the platform. but
| when 1T came to candidates it was
risky. At Mr.. Hanna's ST. Louis meet
ing it was entirely safe to do the Nc
Klnley act, and possibly Hanna himself
may have fioated badges on the market
to make up for some of the preliminary
| campaign expenses.
WHO INVENTED THE PLATFORM.
| There seems likely to be as much con-
tent1on over the authorship of the Chi
cago platform as there was over Gov.
Merrlam's at st. Louis. A great many
|
] nounced that they wrote it, and Col
Jones, of the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
| Is especially certain that he is the man.
Ihe fact is that no one man prepared
either platform. The important pIanks
were the subject of consultation and a
combination of views as to the lam
| guage used Besides, when YOU know
| what you want to write about, it is no
wonderful trick or display Of literary
| ability to be able to put the words to-
| gether to express what you mean. In
St Louis, the only contention was as
to inserting the word gold and it did
not require any great talent to con-
| struct plank in which the words
| existing gold standard" would fit
when that was agreed upon Here
there was no contention whatever. It
was determined from the start that a
| platform should be constructed declar--
| ing for the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver at ratio of 16 to L." and even
a man who knew great deal more
| than Col. Jones could have written the
! platform just as well, assuming that
ne is entitled to the glory he claims.
| Gov. Merriam's happening to be In the
| position of chairman of the sub-com-
mittee which reported the plank to the
| main committee, gave color to the
| claim that the document was his own
| production, while Col. Jones is out in
the. open. relying on main strength and
| awkwardness to prove that he is the
great am. Perhaps a time will come
! when all the claimants will be glad to
| deny the respective authorshfps, and
like Gen. German when he made a. Do
| litical speech at Shieldsville one night
and the next night at Mortified one
directly opposite in sentiment, and later
denied that he had ever been to
| Shieldsville in his life, these claimants
| will even go so far as to assert that
they never were in Chicago or st.
| Louis.
IN GENERAL.
/ 1t was really very fortunate that the
worlds fair was held in Chicago. The
! experience therein gained enabled the
railroad companies to handle this DEM
ocratic convention with ease, and con-
sidering 1t was an or mile trip to
the building, and the thousands of peo-
! pie who attended the protracted con-
| vention, with its evening sessions. il
/ is really wonderful with what ease the
multitude was transported
The enterprise of the evening news
papers particularly, was especially not
able. On Wednesday night when the
report Of the credentials committee
was adopted, there was only one call
of the roll, but when the convention
| adjourned, the crowd was met at the
dcorwith an extra Of the Chicago News
Containing the proceedings down to
thedcaIiT of Alabama, the first state on
roll and announcing the result or
course the result could have been pre-
pared In advance, for 1t was as well