The Portland daily press., 1896-07-25
PECULIAR POPS"
Some Humors of the Bewhiskered Dele
gates at st. Louis.

gates at st. Louis.
| ST. Louis, July, 24.-It is not stretch
| ing the tact to say that one OF the best
dressed women in ST. Louis today was
Mrs Mary Ellen Lease, the Joan of Arc
of the Populist convention. Mrs. Lease
confded to q reporter that she wears a
nsw gown here every tine she comes
out. She is bit vain, but perhaps few
women are so vain as to give their con-
fdenGe TO gentlemen of the press to the
extent that Mrs. Lease gives hers. For
instance she said to reporter today:
| "Young man my waist measure is SO.
My bust measure is 36, and want to say
that this is the perfection of woman
hood. "
The reporter did not ask for any fur
| Their measurements though Mrs. Lease
appeared willing to continue the discus
sion of the subject. One of the peculi-
arities of the Joan Of Arc is a vein which
starts at her left temple and runs down
the side of her neck and face. 1t is not
the vein either that is popularity, but
the way this vein acts when she beoo mes
intensely interested or excited about
anything. When she starts to sp eak this
vein is not noticeable, but as she gets
warmed up to her work it begins to swell
and in short time it stands out like q
whipoord from the roots of her hair
way down to her neck Some of her male
friends were discussing the popularity
of the action of this vein today and
one said:
es it?''
| comp said another, "that's easy
enough, That is the vein that goes to
the wheel department"
To show the respect that the mossback
delegates to the Incubator Convention
have for their permanent chair man, Will
liam Z. ST. John, little dialogue may
be quoted. 1t was between two dele
| gates, one being in his stocking feet and
the other fully dressed.
"Tbat man. said the fully dressed
man, gave up an SIS, 600 g year place to
be free silver man. The man who
bad his shoes off dropped his jaw and
gazsd in open mounted establishment for
a moment, then he gasped:
"Eighteen thousand dollars O year.
Gosh, when he they going to take him to
the asylum.
The Populist convention opened yes
terday at just sixteen minutes to one.
l"Cyclone" Davis happened to look at
the clock as the preacher was saying his
prayer and he. became very much excited.
ClaDping his neighbor on the back he
exclaimed:
'Ye gods the fates are with US. Will
you look at that now: sixteen to one the
hands OF the clock point"
Billy Bryan, the Boy Orator of the
Platte, has fired heap of "cruoifxion"
into the campaign SO far. Everywhere
you go in ST. Louis you see either sign,
No crown of thorns, no CROSS of gold, !"
or cartoon Of some kind with the word
"crucify" on it.
At the Populist convention banner
was trotted out bearing picture OF Herr
Most and Mckinley end this inscription,
"The Modern Herod and PLATE unite
to cruelty the common people," About
a third OF the convention delegates rush
around crying "Crucify Cruelty I"
When they haven't got anything better
to say they howl up and down every
where:
'Cruoify the goldbug Cruelty himp
Their idea of cructfxtion is jabbing
him through with pitohfork La TILL
man.
The women delegates to the oonven-
tion are kicking because the hotels have
made rule that women shall have liber.
ty only in the ladies' parlors. The ladies'
parlors as rule are small and stuffy.
Miss Helen Hartlett Mitchell, the Hon.
Sockless Simpsons pet poet, was enooun-
tered by q reporter at the Laclede today.
She said:
"Four times they told me to 90 back
to como out They said to me. "Why
are you not oontent?What do you want?''
and / replied, why I want to see the
men," On. it is SO different in Kansas
They treat us out there JUST as If we
were somebody. Here they don't know
how to treat a lady" and she was almost
on the point of shedding tears.
One Pop its missing. His name is
Nicholson, and he comes from Shreve-
port, Me He left the Lindell hotel at
noon yesterday and he hasn't been heard
of since. The police were asked to look
| for him oday.
The Incubator convention has had a
mighty hard time getting any body to
pray for it and at last accounts 1T is still
marching around without prayers. 1t
has hired a minister each day, but at the
opening Uf each session it is announced
that 1.-THE Rev. MIR. So-and-So, who was
requested TO open this session with pray
er has been suddenly called ont of town.
/ hope that we are all in sufficiently
prayerful condition. % This announce
ment each time has been greeted with
considerable applause.
. . The Populist newspaper out here de-
scribes the condition of mind of the
Populists thus:
Isn't this show ours? Course it is. !"
"Well why in Halifax do we have to
buy tickets?" 81 don't know" oval,
neither do IL Its a gosh burned
shame" "That's what it isl
The trick Of the crooks at Chicago in
gathering q crowd and haranging for
free silver and then picking pockets is
being repeated hero. A well known local
crook operated last night in the Iindell.
So far as is known he didn't get any
| thing but he stirred up the crowd. He
was the hottest free silver advocate that
| could be found in the city of st. Louis,
and he had big crowd around him when
| the police arrived and threw him, out.
The Incubator convention has a curios-
ity in the person of woman sergeant. at