The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-13
WHEN HANNA SAYS THUMBS UP
THUMBS MUST GO UP-sITUATION
WHICH is CAUSING BITTERNESS
AT ST. LOUIS.
CROWD IS SLOW IN APPEARING
But the Hotel Keepers Propose to
Reap a Reward When the Poll
ticians do Arrive.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 12.-While
good deal Of noise Is being emitted
from st. Louis 1t is more due to the
fact that newspaper correspondents
are more numerous than people.
Speaking In a general way, there are
good many here, but no crowd. Perhaps
can better illustrate the crowd. or
lack Of crowd, by my own experience.
applied at hotel this afternoon for
accommodations and was given very
reasonable rates until and including
Sunday night. After Sunday night the
half times per day the rate given for
the intermediate period. Evidently
the hotel men realize that the crowd
has not yet arrived, but from their
schedule Of prices for next week they
live in hopes. The headquarters of the
Minnesota delegation are to be at par
lor 166, Southern hotel. but, as the cost
is $50 dollars per day, the headquar-
ters are not to be opened until Mon
day. am trying to arrange with Bob
Evans to open them Sunday so that
the delegation leaving tomorrow can
have a place to rendezvous, but, un-
less the delegation wires me $50 for the
extra day, I fear may not succeed.
/ have secured free from philan-
thropic St. Louis the use of cots and
expect to fill the Minnesota parlor with
them for the colored delegates, who are
now excluded from the hotels. Some
thing must be done or the entire Re-
publican party In the South will be
lost and it will be a great stroke for
Minnesota to save the country by CIV
ing the colored brother a place upon
which to rest his weary wool Bob
Evans and Mike Bowling are enthusi-
astic about it and SO am /, and be-
tween US we will save the G. o. P.
in spite Of the st. Louis incident. 1
am sure Pillsbury, Hunt, Hendrdck
and Thompson will be willing to sit
up several nights to save the colored
VOTE
No other national convention ever
had so many contests for seats; at
least not from SO many different states.
Whatever crowd is now here has been
brought thus early by those contests.
The statements Of the press that $50
Of the 1853 have been given to McKin-
ley is simply part and parcel of the
bulldozing methods 4of the Mckinley
machine. The recent cyclone did not
sweep away ST. Louis more mercilessly
than the McKinleyites are attempt
ing to wipe up the earth with their op-
ponents. 1t is the brutum fulmen in pol
itics, and may win, but cyclone
political reckoning will follow in it's
path. find what there is of anti-Mc-
Kinley sentiment very bitter, and the
to- ,.;d
rough shod over every man who will
not bow down and worship the Ohio
idol. In the case of those who support
him 1t is, Hanna says, thumbs up,
and up they come. Bob Evans, the
Minnesota member of the national
committee, was quite indignant when
I told him tonight that the committee
was bound to give ali the contested
seats to Mckinley. He said they had
only passed on rs cases and had just
given five of them to Reed, that most
of the contestants on both sides were
for Mckinley, and hence the decisions
would make no difference with Nc
Kinley's vote. Nevertheless there are
discontented murmurings from those
who dare mutter at all. l met to-
night H. Clay Evans, the erstwhile
governor-elect of Tennessee, who never
got his seat, and he admitted his pros
poets for the vice-presidency were
bright From Mckinley sources 1 hear
it is the plan to subdue Evans vice.
presidential bee by making him per-
manent chairman of the convention
and go East for the president,
possibly to MeAlpin, of New York. c..
porary chairman, and Bob Evans says
he was never told of it. I presume
there are several money planks in the
air, but the only ones have seen in
the short time since my arrival have
been the money planked at the bar.
I was thus enabled to indentify this
this gathering as Republican conven-
ton. III. p. HALL.