The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-18

VIII White Of the EmporSa Gazette
sends the following gossip from ST
Louis about the convention:
We are all jays here in St Louis to-
day. There is no especial reason why
We should be here-we know il; we are
trying TO pretend that there Is some
reason. So We all wander up and down
the streets, in and cut OF hotels. wear
ing badges and looking tired and tagged
out. II gives me great pleasure 10 cay
that Emporia's Ike Lambert Is the only
man at the Kansas headquarters who
does not look like a jay. He doesn't
wear a badge and ne doesn't SIT around
and wait for some one TO come up and
talk with him They say he has met
Manley, and that next to Leland he Is
the best known man IN the Kansas dele
CATION. I put this IN here because Ike
was sat on by the Lycn county conven-
ion, and 1t may please the sirters 10
know how FRUSTRATED the site is
ingalls, doesn't mix with the Kansas
delegat ton. He treats Kansas, away
from home, Ike poor kin That Is why
you don't hear any cheering for ingalls,
a the Hurst ingalls, should pattern
after Mr.. Burton. who shakes hands
with everyone. Perhaps. however. II
he snubs Kansas. good Kansas will love
ingalls, harder than ever-that Is human
nature.
1T has been very quiet day. Eugene
Ware says that this is silent conven-
ton He knows. He has been 20 all OF
them. There are no bands marching
no crowds yelling. no banners. no moth
ing. II is like Topeka at a 7. p. s. c.
E. convention. Everyone is very stupid.
The Kansas fellows are lost, they aren't
in IL. No one pays any attention TO
Kansas. A man from New York stuck
his head in the Kansas headquarters
and inquired If Clayton was in. The
fellow said no. The New Yorker was
sure ne was. Finally the crowd ex-
planned that this was the Kansas dele
cation. Hell" said the stranger, with
a look Of disgust. Il was looking for Ar
kansas"
Kansas is the scruff OF the earth. No
one cares what she thinks. Her states
men can't get their pictures in the
papers, though Alabama and Utah
make the rifle. The Kansas visitors
wear 4 sunfower badge. Once the sun
flower was the mark OF respect. Today
il seems to be the joke. You can see ST.
Louis people pointing at the sunfower
and tIttering. A negro from Florida
had good laugh at Kansas when a
delegate passed today
1T is a bit difficult 10 imagine that
this great crowd Of jays is making his
tory. Yet that is the truth. Tomorrow
event viii shape the next half century's
destiny OF the republic and these
heavy footed unshaven, lost and foIlorn
jays are going 10 do il. Maybe the
signers Of the declaration OF independ-
euce wore badges and looked as though
their cOrns hurt them. Maybe they did
not France up TO the table so sprightly
as the picture in the school house rep
reSents them.
Plat and Hanna, and the other
bosses have not SO much 10 do with tnis
thing as the papers say. The fixers get
populations because they know wha-
has happened before anyone else and
they declare that they made II happen.
The truth is that the jays did Il.
Il have been around town all day en-
quiring for that $4,000. 900 that is said
10 be in the ST. Louis banks TO prevent
a silver plank in the platform. I have
talked 10 reporters and politicians from
all over the country. but have not
been able 10 find a line To a single penny
CT Il. / thought that a couple or three
thousand in subsidy would help out
this summer, and II II was going
wanted a piece OF il. Even Ike. who has
talked 10 Plat. sHd who is q silver man.
told me in confidence that he believed
there IS nothing IN the story. Ike would /
know about IL If anyone knows.
st Louis stinks. There is a peculiar /
sour smell about the place that goes
through everything. II IS the smell you /
find IN hotels after they have been run |
ming for a number OF years. II IS a (
cooking smell, and II makes the head 4
ache. Ed Howe. who has been across 1
the ocean. says - is like the smell that 7
comes from the steamer kitchen when I
you are sea sick.
Il have been IN town all day and have /
not heard a word nor seen a thing 20 /
remind me that 81. Louis had a cyclone. |
They seem 70 have forgotten all about 7
Z. That Is the most wonderful thing I I
have yet observed. This IL a mighty /
Big town. In Emporia we wouldn't get /
done talking Of a cyclone for years. 1
There IS . murder case as big as the 1
HalkUp case every day and the town
Doesn't take sides over it