St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26

convention. There are sixteen OF them, in
Guiding the grand parlor and balcony, which
will be hung with flags and Reed notices. The
Illinois delegation is also in the Southern, and
the Cook county crowd from Chicago have
secured seventeen rooms here for themselves.
Among the other headquarters will be those
J OF Ohio, Massachusetts,, California, Connect
cut, Michigan and the headquarters of the ma
tional Republican committee. The Southern
! has, perhaps, larger hotel lobby than any
other hotel in the country. Ten thousand peo-
pie could easily stand in it and gossip without
crowding and it will fairly hum next June.
MKINLEY'S BIG CROWD.
The friends of Mckinley are making the
most eXtravagant preparations ever made by
the followers of any candidate at a national
convention. They have rented quarters every
where, and are evidently preparing for an
army of enthusiastic boomers. In addition to
! the hotels they have taken for the convention
| the St. Louis exposition building, and have
| leased it outright for that time from cellar to
garret. This building covers nearly four
acres. 1t has over 800 900 square feet of floor
! space for exposition purposes-about seven
acres-and in addition has other room for Of
! fees and two big amusement halls. Its thea
! ter. which is in the building, will seat four
| thousand people, with standing room for 900
I
for 1,50O. Estimating that cot would occupy
thirty square feet of floor, there is room on the
floor set apart for exposition purposes alone
for individual cots for 1000 Mckinley men,
an army equal to that which Xenophon led in
his famous retreat. In addition to this, there
are the theaters and other parts of the build
ing which will probably give sleeping places
for five thousand more. Think of $1,000 Nc
Kinley shouters in one building aone, and you
get some idea of the preparations being made
for the man who seems to be the leading can
didate.
WILL HARRISON'S NAME BE SPRUNG?
The indications are that, though Harrison's
name will not be put forth on the first ballot.
his friends will keep his forces in line, and
will be ready to spring him on the convention
if there is any sign of a deadlock. Harrison's
headquarters were engaged at the Planters
before he withdrew his name. These have not
been given up, and the politicians of Indiana
are-like "Brer Rabbit in the Uncle Remus
stories-laying low and saying nothing A
leading Indiana delegate, who is as close,
perhaps, to President Harrison as any man
in the party, said to ME tonight: Suppose
there should be deadlock, and suppose New
York on one of the ballots should cast it's
vote for Harrison, Indiana would swing solid
ly into line, and the convention might nomi-
nate him with a rush"
Does he want it?' said l.
NO." was the reply. 81 think not but it
would be natural for his new wife to want
to go down into history as one of the ladies
of the White house. I know that both she
and Mary Mckee were anxious that he get
second nomination at Minneapolis.
"As for Harrison, he is, I>think, satisfied
with his present position. He has a conyen-,
lent law practice which enables him to take
such cases as he can try easily and which
give him big fees. If the law funds run low
he can write page for one of the popular
ladies' magazines, and get 81 600 for it.
And, then" the man continued, 'I think
Harrison is afraid Of a reelection. He is
afraid of stubbing his toe if he gets into
the White house again. What I mean is
this. he has left a good record and will go
down into history an able executor, but
the times have changed. The situation is
serious and there is danger of his losing
the good reputation he has made during his
first term by his administration of the sec.
ond. He knows this and is afraid
THE NEW ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis has been generally looked upon
very rich but very slow city. 1t has
always been noted for its substantial busi-
ness men, and today its average Of wealth,
per capita, is higher than that of many of
the cities of the United States. 1t has a
large number of milionaires, and its homes
are among the best of the Union Within
the past few years, however, st. Louis
seems to have taken tonic The blood Of
the citizens flows almost as fast as
that Of those of Chicago, and there is now
no more enterprising and pushing town. in
the United States. The st. Louis of today
is not only up to date, but it is a little
ahead. It's eyes are wide open, and it is
looking over the United States ready to
Crah bino and yry}Ii &bo{ v,sl
ter its condition. 1t has a board of trade,
number of clubs and associations that work
together for the city's interests and in ad-
dition to these, its leading men have united
in what is called THE Business Mems
League" This organization might be copied
with advantage, by other cities. Its sole
business is to push st. Louis to the front
and it is ever on the outlook for new things
for st. Louis. 1t has a number of working
committees and corps of salaried officials,
who devote all their time to advertising cor
responding and such other things as will
make the city known and bring new people
and business establishments to it. It has
as its secretary James Cox, bright newspa-
per man, who was formerly in the employ of
the Globe Democrat and who is a walking
encyclopaedia on all st. Louis matters He
is the author of beautiful book, called "St
Louis Through Camera, which will be
NiStilpu'eurp ny the tens OF thousands 10 the
visitors at the convention. Among the COM
mittees of the Business Mems League is one
called the convention committee This start
ed out at the first of the year to get all
OF the national conventions to meet at st.
Louis. 1t succeeded with the Republican,
the Populist and the bimetallic conventions
but failed as to the Democratic, through the
opposition of Senators Brice and German,
who did not like the treatment they re-
ceived from St. Louis at the time of the last
Democratic convention here.
WORKS THE RAILROADS.
This club of business men watches the rail-
roads more carefully, perhaps, than any other
board of trade in the United States. 1t has
man employed at a salary of S10 900 year
to devote his time tn ct in,act;ua+iner