The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-03
ONE DELEGATE INSULTED
TALKED TOO MUCH GOLD FOR TAG
CARTS POLICEMAN.
Mayor Finally Called HaIt-Conven-
ton Tickets offered for Sale by
Spectators at $40 Each.

papers fell into the idea of "sizing up the
convention by the crowd, and it's conclusion
to do so. made in advance of the coming
of the crowds, was carried out after the
arrival of the crowds with the precon-
ceived idea that it would be a small affair
worked out, in spite of the fact that from
it's own standard of measurement it must
be n big affair.
If numbers of people in attendance is a
fair measurement of the Importance of the
convention it will have to be admitted that
the gold-standard Democratic convention
has taken very powerful place in the pol
itics of the Nation. The movement is now
only a few weeks old, and yet nearly every
State in the Union is represented by
full delegation, and thousands of visitors
are in the city, drawn here by their intense
interest. not in the nomination of any par
ticular individual for office, but in the prin-
cipe underlying the movement for which
they have seen fit to allow themselves to
be called traitors to their party by the
Popocrats.
There are many reasons why 1t might be
expected that a. convention of this KIND
would not attract the immense crowds gen
orally to be seen at national conventions of
the great political parties. The spirit which
draws the men together here is not unlike
that which brought the few hundred men
together at Pittsburg short time ago
They met for the purpose of going through
the form of nominating ticket and decIar-
ing platform for the sole purpose and
with the sole idea in view of keeping alive
a principle which they hold dearer than the
election of any individual. The delegates
to the Indianapolis sound-money conven-
ton do not hope to put out ticket which
will be elected They have no such expec
tation. They do not even expect to carry
a single Stata in the Union, though the,
hope that one or two may give them the
electoral vote.
With no hope of apparent success there
is not in such gathering any incentive for
the large crowd which is general IN hand
at the two old party NATIONAL co1 entions
There is nothing in this con ye.it ion to at
tract the office seeker, nor =. - attract
the man who expects 10 De a,i assist.
ant sDittoon cleaner in he lite -ouse
barn if his favorite receiv the re alma
ton and is elected. There; IS little to prompt
men to organize big clubs and pay the ex-
penses of a thousand men to go to the con-
vention city with no other object than to
wear the emblem of favorite candidate
for office and yell themselves hoarse for
any Interior motive to prompt man to at
tend this convention. Every delegate has
to pay his expenses to and from and dur
ing the convention; every visitor has the
same privilege.
And yet, in face of all this, the crowd is
here. Every State in the Union, with the
exception of four, is represented by full
delegations The four which are not repre-
sented are so thoroughly in the control of
the silver-mine owners that it would not be
expected that men in those States, no mat
ter how much they might be in sympathy
With the movement, should come out in
opposition to an ism supported by the men
who control everything in those States
The Territories are also represented and
even far-on Alaska has one man here to
raise his voice and cast his ballot to repre-
sent the sound-money Democrats of tbs
Arctic regions. And there is a representa-
tive here from the State where Senator
Teller and other silver-mine milIionaires
have most of the people in their power.
But as to the crowds. Some idea of the
number of people in the city brought here
by the sound-money convention can be OBJ
tanned by visit to the hotels At the
Bates House there quartered 375 to 400
people, who are here either as delegates to
the convention, alternate delegates or who
were attracted here because they are
sound-money Democrats and are deeply
enough interested in the movement to at
tend the convention. At the Grand there
are about the same number of visitors.
The Denison House is accommodating 500
guests in the house, and has made arrange
ments with persons owning rooms in the
vicinity to accommodate several hundred
r1onr lIov.
ing about two hundred delegates and vfsi-
tors, all told. This includes only the hotels.
The lodging houses all over the downtown
district have all their rooms engaged while
every furnished room within a radius of
seven or eight squares of the monument is
occupied. Indiana has at least l 900 repre-
sentatives of the sound-money cause here.
There several clubs attending as or
CARNATIONS, which are not housed at the
hotels. The largest of these is the Chicago
Sound-money Democratic Marching Club
There are 400 members here, and they are
sleeping in the sleeping cars which brought
them to the city, and are taking their
meals, some at the hotels and some at res
taurants. The crowds at the hotels do not
represent one-fifth of those who are in the
city.
Not since the National Encampment of tbs
Grand Army of the Republic, which began
three years ago to-day. have the hotels OF
this city been so crowded as they are al
present. The Denison House is filed tc
oYerflowing. The management found il
necessary to rent three hundred beds from
local dealers, and these have been crowded
into the rooms of the hotel three or -four
deep. One of the parlors has a dozen beds
in it, and folding beds and touches are oc.
cupied at night in other parlors USED
through the day for delegation headquar.
ters. At breakfast yesterday morning over
seven hundred guests were served, while
over thousand crowded into the big din.
ing hal and banquet room from 1880 tc
nearly O'Clock. The corps of sevent five
walters were sorely taxed to attend to the
wants CT the guests, although everything
moved along smoothly, and the delegate.
from all parts of the Nation accepted the
situation gracefully and without complaint
From 2 until o'clock there was a big IAN
about the dning-room DOORS and once Oh
twice Ii was necessary for the doors to be
closed, as the two men who stood waitine
were unable to punch the tickets as rapid
is as they were presented S. Z. Bonneville
whose eduanamity and good nature canno