The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07

Bland would get the nomination for the
Presidency. There would be good many
mbinations, and if it came to decisive
stage the supporters OF all the other can
didates in the field would com bine against
him. Mr.. Coleman added that Senator
White would have very good chance of
getting the nomination in such contin-
gency, but that the Senator would not al
low his name to be used.
The headquarters of the California dele
cation were open to-day as were also sew
eral cases of wine. a long table was
spread at one end of the handsomely
furnished parior and two smiling colored
men under the direction of Delegate T. T..
Lane served all corners with Shasta water,
Haut Sauterne, Zinfandel and Burgundy.
1t would be needless to say, if did not
prefer to say it, that the California head
quarters are the most popular in the city.
Colonel John P. Irish appeared at the del
cation headquarters with Iurid light in
his usually calm ultramarine eyes. He
remarked that he was going to make the
fur fly in certain unmentioneu quarters
and from my knowledge of the colonePs
ability both with pen and tongue l have
no doubt that real roasting cyclone will
I
amidships.
Outside of New York there appears to be
more energy concentrated in the Califor.
MIA delegation than in any other with
which ! have come in contact. Make q
composite picture OF NJ. F. Tarpey, Senator
! White, John P. Irish, Congressman Ma
guire and w. ". Foote and you have
about as stubborn and as pushing and as
| hard-pulling a tug g-of-war team as you
could find anywhere. The California dele
CATION on this occasion, by not being
| pledged to any particular candidate, may
be able to make itself heard to good ad-
vantage in its National council, for it
surely has the right kind of material.
The crowding stage of the convention
week was initiated to-day. 1t was diff
cult for person to make way against the
turbulent tide of humanity that ebbed
and flowed north and south on State street.
and that whirled and eddied and piled IN
a great delta of human dIiftwood in front
of the entrance 60 the Palmer House 1t
was almost as much as a mans pocket
! book was worth to throw himself in the
midst of this mass and be slowly pressed
inside, where he could see nothing but
tobacco smoke and hear nothing but noise.
Bands heading the arriving delegations
| during the day make it a point to blow
| their way in with their instruments
through this viscid, sluggish mass OF
political deprayity and taking their stand
in the middle of the lobby to play patri-
otto airs and drown the arguments of the
loud-voiced men wrangling over the finan-
cial question.
While l was in the midst of the suffocat.
ing crowd this afternoon the band was
playing the stirring strains of 1.-THE Red
White and Blue" During a pause in the
music man from Pike County, Missouri
shouted Give US Dixie" The band al
once struck up that soul-stirring air sc
reminiscent of the cotton fields, the moon.
lit river glimmering among the rushes and
the sound of the banjo and the song of the
happy darky in the good and the bad days
| of long ago.
In a little entresol, the balcony of which
| overlooks the clerks desk, are gathered a
crowd, mostly of women spectators, occu.
pants OF the hotel, who perspire and fill
their lungs with tobacco smoke and dust
for hours and hours at a stretch watching
the silver cranks wrangling on the floor
below and listening to the music of the
bands as they lead the delegates into the
! hall.
Tomorrow Governor Altgeld will show
the Democracy into the Coliseum corral
and will brand the letter "A' upon the
National Democracy if Chairman Hill
| gives him the least opportunity.
JOHN PAUL CosGRAyE