The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12

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grunt.ng silver DICK much big chez
They tell a funny story % mossbsc *
/ delegate from Idaro. VINO declared yesler-
I cav tnat this convention 4ll every Gem
I oeralle convention no BE- n1-- hereafter
/ should denOunce nor only Grover CleFe-
. lard, but Queen Victoria, says The NeW
I York Tribuue's special
4 bysrauder became Interested and in
/ terJected an inquiry as 90 why queen VIC
7 toria should be included.
! shes a very Oh womn." be said. and
a very respectable woman, and has raised
/ sle done 70 deserve The condemnation q
J a 4enocratic convention
/ ale the represan-ltlFe Or the money
I power. eNclaime1 che indignant ce.ez gate
/ from Idaho. land I have heard lots Of
things about her"
The magnificent whiskers OF the Hon.
/ W asn hesing saved him yesterday posi-
7 ply from death. says the suns special
/ he was IN the crush ~ the door OF the
convention hall. He was attacked by a
[ Policeman with a club The policeman
/ was big and husky He hauled on and
I made a side sWlpe az he Hon Wash The
cruz struck the Whiskers. II u had nit
/ the head OF the Hon Wash his brains
I would probably have been dashed out,
/ put as II was the club was impaed and
~ SIMPLY twisting his head the Hon
| WASH wrenched the club from the hands
| or me brutal cop.
Each particular whisker IN the side Of
! the beard OF the Hon. Wash that had
/ been hit went clear through the stout oak
/ OF the club. For while IL was feared
! that the blow would be more disastrous
! than II would have been If the Hon. Wash
! had MS brain thumped and smashed, for
/ there seemed but one way 20 get the club
! AFTER Two hours work, however. the club
/ was whitte out. and the whiskers were
found to be uninjureI
| They are t.lti,~ . 800 -.--,. b.-o 90
/ day on Senator FNl and the ladies'. says
! the Philadelphia Records correspondence.
! Two altogether charming young women
! on bicycles We're just returning from
| the senator was crossing the street or
/ root lie did not see hem tin they We're
/ WITHIN ten feet OF him. and they Were
/ going as rapidly as the law. generously
! Interpreted, allows. lie was about TO take
! another Of his "hesh reducers." as he
/ calls his bicycle lodges. and was max
ing momentary calculation TO deter
/ mine whether he should cut a dash TO
! starDoard or port, or spring into the air
! and let them go under him, when, TO his
immense amazement, they veered grace
| fully to the west and went behind him,
! with plenty of room to spare. With
! look or surprise and qualification the
senator continued his walk
! A few blocks along he met a newspaper
| correspondent whom he knew chatting
| with the two young women. The corre-
! spondent spoke TO the senator and in
/ troduced him. The senator recognized
/ them, and on learning that thew were
! interested in the convention. promptly
/ gave them two tickets 10 the distinguish
ed guests stand, as a token of his ap-
/ probation of the fact that ne had been
/ within ten feet of a bicycle in full charge
! and did not have to dodge"
Inc ladies were Miss Amy Busby
and Miss Margaret Gordon, a niece Of
Gen. chinese Gordon. They visited the
convention.
i would rather go fishing than fool
| around democratic conventions and I am
/ pretty not democrat, too" said Col VIII
| liam Green Sterrett as he crushed some
! fragrant green weeds in the bottom of a
| lumber, according TO the Chicago Tines
herald. I took a vacation recently" con-
/ tlnued the colonel. who is a popular Wash
/ ington correspondent, land went down TO
! Galveston l had an insane idea that nv
4 especial mission was TO catch a tarpon
/ Well. ! failed TO land any but settled a
! great constitutional question which should
/ be or interest In these days when the mo-
| tocycle promises to become a factor in
! transportation. I went"
/ What in thunder has tarpon fishing 70
! do with motocycles?" asked DELEGATE
Frank P. Morgan OF Washington CITY
Wait and / will tell you,' said Col
] Sterrett. Il went about eight miles along
| the coast from Galveston missed the la st
| train back and started to walk home on
the railroad track. About FIVE miles from
galveston | ran across section gang
| sampled some bait I had left, and it made
me prime favorite with them They rig
! ged up seat on top the hand car and
/ pumped me back TO town. About a mile
from the main thoroughfare we came to
a tavern, and stopped an hour for refresh
| ments, all of which / paid for When we
| arrived In town the foreman asked me
| what hotel ] was stopping a T. I told him
stay where We are said the sturdy
| Irishman, and we'll pump the old ma
| chine right up to the hotel
And that was what they did. They pull
ed the hand car off the track and headed
| It up the main street of Galveston This
was about o'clock at night. A policeman
stopped us. | warned him to stand one
| side' informed him that as an American
/ cltzen 1 should maintain my rights; that
l was on my private conveyance: that II
| was four-wheeled horseess carriage and
| that | was not to be trifed with He was
abashed a this display of my knowledge
OF the constitutional rights of an American
citizen, and apologized We turned a cor
ner, and gracefully made a landing at the
| hotel front babe my friends good night.
| dismounted amid the applause of all pres
ent, and the hand car was soon speeding
| back to the tracks. In this way establish
/ ed the right in Texas of a motocycle to use
! public streets, and founded a precedent
OF vast value to coming generations"
The music was the best part of the en-
tertainment, says the Chicago Record.
/ The selections were lively. and sometime s
| peculiarly appropriate, as. for example
after George Fred Williams, the pretty
| eX-mugwump of Boston, had made a can
/ ltal speech, from his point of view. and
had fairly captured the convention bv
| his graceful manners and well-phrased
| sentences, the band played. Hes a
! Daisy He's Darling" Then, after the
| Nebraskan goldbugs had been kicked out
| of the convention and the silvercrats of
| that state had been seated, when the
| big blue banner of the w J. Bryan club
OF Omaha had been placed against a girder
| behind the chairman, and the vast audi
ence was shouting for the ex-boy orator
/ OF the Platte, the tune was: I'm Look
| ing for the Bully of the Town"
! The southern men We're never too busy
or too much absorbed to jump upon their
| chairs and swing their hats when Dixie
| was played, and that was often: but the
| northern delegates and spectators receiv-
| ed their patriotic airs with Indifference
! The Chicago crook has gone into politics
! with renewed enthusiasm, and the police
| have 10 keep sharp watch to prevent dele
/ gates from being ieeced even in the hotel
| lobbies. says the Chicago Tribune
"Flipsy, pick-pocket of some reputa-
! ton was caught yesterday in the midst
Of crowd of silver men in the Palmer