Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-07-23
CONVENTION COMPARISONS.
Special Features and Notes of These Two
Great Political Events.

As the great metropolitan journals
devoted from thirty to fifty columns
daily to reports of the conventions
one cannot hope tn speak but briefly
and of but a few incidents i'm cover
ing both conventions i'm one article.
To best illustrate the grand scale up
on which eastern journals treated
these subjects it is but necessary to
cite that the Cincinnati Enquirerpaid
Ex-senator Ingalls, $1,000 to report
the st. Louis convention and gave
him six assistants, all under separate
salaries.
The visitors attending each event
were multitudinous, probably greater
at Chicago than at st. Louis. This
was undoubtedly owing to the fact
that the people had already nomi-
mated Mckinley and their representa-
tives but met to ratify the action,
while at Chicago it was everybody's
fight until Thursdays session, be-
sides Chicago is a larger city and
more centrally located.
st. Louis made the most of the
gathering, prices on almost every
thing being doubled or tripled. AT
! Chicago no advance i'm rates was
noted.
The auditorium at st. Louis ac-
commodated 1000 guests, while the
coliseum at Chicago seated 10000.
and each instance the hall was
packed. The Republican assembly
was much the more orderly; at no
time did it become necessary to
threaten to clear the galleries. while
at Chicago this threat became a
chestnut. The longest single session
was held at st. Louis, lasting from
the boy with the sandwiches and
water, the former at 10 cents and the
latter at 10 cents.
The nomination of Mckinley was
so generally admitted that the en-
thusiasm displayed was remarkable,
though more confined to the galleries
than that displayed when Bryan
was named at Chicago. The naming
of the latter was not Il surprise to
those who heard his speech on the
adoption of the platform and realized
that Boise and Bland We're killing
each other Off
Bryan's speech was eloquent, no
doubt, but when calmly considered
beyond the reach of the speaker /
, voice. can not fail to be pronounced
demagogic. His peroration was
brilliant and brought the convention
on it's feet.
The silver bolt at ST. Louis was
not only grand, it was tragic. Not
one in the audience but believed Mr.
q Teller sincere as he stood pleading
his cause with tears coursing dowr
his cheeks, and when Senator Can
, non shook hands with Foraker acros,
the speakers desk a pin could hav'
: been heard to fall. A moment later
e and as the twenty-one delegates
: passed out, some one i'm the CALLER,
started Goodbye My Lover, Good
bye and 10000 voices joined in. Bit.
a of Rally Round the Flag" and othe
y "tiC Shh6 ttho
was some time before quiet could b
D restored. Then all eyes We're upoI
lSenatOr Mantle. whose honest ant
K commanding features rivited atten
tion as he delivered the protest q
the silver men who did not walk out
1t was noble and won tremenduOu
Applause.
The situation of the silver men a
st. Louis and the gold men at Chica
! go was much the same. Neithe
e would be heard and both went dow
with cOlors flying.
n AS is usual at national conventions
e as well as nearly all other affairs i
= the world, there was "a woman Ii
+ the case" The Mckinley applaus
would have ceased at the end c
fifteen instead of twenty-five minute
Il but that Mrs. U. $. Grant mounte
the secretary's desk and led tn
lshouters on to another assault upo
the ear drum and roof of the hal
N But Miss Minnie Murray of lowe
n took the cake. plate and all. Whe
'Boise's name was placed In nomint