The San Francisco call., 1896-06-16

A. Hale, Harvey Lindley, Frank H. Short,
delegates
The alternates who came are George
Stone, D. E. knight, Frank D. Ryan, E.
G. VOORHEES,, a. S. Mangrum F. P. Flint,
w. H. McKettrick and Frank Miller.
Charles K. McClatchy of the Sacramento
Bee apd E. H. Hamilton, the writer, came
also. The absent delegates are T. J. Fields
and H. II. Sinclair.
The absent alternates are James A..
Louttit, J. NJ. Gleaves, E. B. Holt, Janes
T. Land, William Ash, A. j. Buckles, D..
K. McMullen, John L.. Roster and w. H.
Barnes.
Mr.. Louttit vas represented by Justice
Garoutte of the Supreme Court, Senator
Gleaves by Nathan Cole Jr., and Mr.. Laird
by Thomas Flint Jr.
The delegation had a pleasant trip on
the way out. so pleasant indeed that some
of the members did not sleep more than
sixteen hours out of the ninety nine con-
sumed in the journey
To-day the finishing touches were put
on the street decorations, and st. Louis
smiles in ribbons and flags.
the sidewalks SO thick are masses of
people coming in from the outer edge
OF town, ten or twelve miles away, in the
streetcars to watch the clubs march and to
hear the bands play. There are at least a
dozen takers on every block along the line
of Broadway offering badges for sale.
Nearly all of these are for Mckinley.
Everything seems to be Mckinley before
the convention meets. There are McKin-
ley walking sticks with the head OF the
Ohio man done in American tin on the
handle, and Mckinley hats and Mckinley
buttons and Mckinley newspapers for
sale very cheap.
The hotels are crowded to suffocation,
and the requirements of the pure-air law,
if there be any such law in st. Louis, are
being fagrantly disregarded. Four cots
in one small room will give some idea of
the situation in the frst-class hotels, but
Notwithstanding the discomfort the
charges are as high as though there were
four rooms to each cot.
Out in the cheap iodging.houses which
were glad to get 25 and 30 cents per night
for room, with samples from Noah's Ark
thrown in, have placed in each room as
So per night for each person.
The overcrowding has played havoc with
the Southern ard the Planters Hotel
Before the mob came they were elegantly
| furnished.
| The warm ar circulating through their
spacious lobbies was at least pure and
breathable. If one does not pay too much
attention to the columns and the heroic
size bronze figures of the savage North.
men guarding the grand staircase he
might easily believe himself to be in a
crowded cellar in San Francisco's China.
town.
The sight is obscured and the eyes irri-
tated with dust and tobacco smoke. Black
dust lies half an inch deep on the can.
vassed floor with tobacco expectorations,
stumps of cigars and other foul litter.
In the crowded lobbles the air is sc
! thick and poisoned that it feels like re
freshing plunge into the Mississippi tc
step out upon the sidewalk into the full
| influence of this hammam bath climate.
| The effect of this unnatural environ
ment is very trying upon delegates anc
others who have been here for severa
days. They have stood in the lobbies
! until anu . CLOCK III IDe uOTu
ing wagging their jaws and emit
ting therefrom articulate sounds, the
monotony being varied now and then by
shout of "hoorah for Mckinley p until {
! person really begins to grow very weary O.
/ so much Mckinley. It's Mckinley fol
breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, and Nc
Kinley for supper at 2 o'clock in the morn
| ing.
Even then you are not rid of Mckinley
for he goes TO bed with you and wakes yol
in the morning before you have had you
beauty sleep, to go out and wag your chiI
for him. have heard so much of the gen
tleman. with whom 1 have not th
honor of being acquainted, that | fel
really refreshed this afternoon when
strolled into the New York headquarter
after the caucus and saw delegates put
ting on Morton button badges. Fo
similar reason / was well pleased
to behold the enthusiasm of tn,
Maine contingent for Thomas B
Reed when they put an immense
oil portrait of him on the balcony of tn,
Southern, and at night blazed the letter.
of his name in incandescent lights. Also
1 am pleased when / catch glimpse of
badge bearing the strong intellectual pro
file of Mr.. Allison.
Senator Lexow OF New York i