New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-07
CONVENTION SIDE LIGHTS.
ND BLAND THE VICTIM OF A BASE PIC
TORIAL LIBEL.

&c REPRESENTED AS WEARING A CRAvAT-
-yr CORRIDOR oRAroR-MR EcKELs FINDS
Az APT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FRED
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FELIX McLosKEY
fpr TEL coRAPH TO THE rRIBuNE.l
rvcaro July 6.-Taking in every headquarters IN
..un four Bland enthusiasts from the Kansas City
Did Club we're heard during the day in the fol-
lowing yell:
Who are We? Who are we'
were Of the Bland Club OF X. c.
Were hot stuff that's no blum;
Vc,e for silver and you'll all have stuff
The four were so enthusiastic and yelled so Justify
,ha; II created great deal Of amusement, and
were followed from pace TO place
BANDS friends think there is a traitor in the
INN The picture Of Silver Dick Is the ground
- sseir suspicion. The picture is plastered over
svsrv cbtanab.e space and !, attracts much atten-
,,oc Roswell P Flower. who used to serve in Con-
sses with Bland looked al ore OF the pictures TINS
.,r-ns Then he rubbed his eyes and looked
.ra,n Why" he said to a friend. that's labelled
Rand but 1t isn't he. The man IN that picture
wears necktie" The quiP Is going the ronnds:
SSdiclle hurts worse than anything else. II Is too
kte have new pictures made Wou.a not 90
BANDS friends have examined MS phorogrRns, Sa
there is a traitor In the camp.
Fanny Bland who arrived here this morning from
Lebanon Mo-. is looked upon a. the Missouri mas
-, she vs.ted the Missouri headquarters at the
Palmer House this morning in company with Mrs
James Bradshaw. and was received with chesrs
Miss Rand is delicate girl. dressed IN pink She
wore an American iag pinned above the s. L9nis
Rland Srother Of Silver DICK who was sharns
q the With sh, Ba Hel sa s1u he
and ne believed his brother. whom ne looks ike.
would overcome all opposition and receive the NOM
inatfoH.
Since got here" said Ex-Governor Flower Of
New-York as he paid his bill to-day. Il have
learned al about gold dollar and all about silver
dollar What want now is to have somepody tei
me how TO make any kind OF dollar and keep H.
The Convention orator Is not delegate or an
alternate or anything. but just orator. He may
b. found In the Palmer House. because he Is always
sure Of drawing crowd. No one seems 10 Kno"
just how an orator gets under way he mas 10
have some provocat ton before he begins MS speech
Perhaps he overhears two men talking and ntrudes
hi. own views or else he begins talking in the air
People begin 70 gather around him. and he selects
the smallest and most timd man he can fnd ano
taks to him He waves ms IS aT bnsd and Occasion
sv VII" ri.e. n" 10 his tpoas The larger the crowd
around him the more earnest ne ,e Whsther se
favors IS 10 or neverendng go.o ian So ,be
one ssow wants bushes to get H2 cVss
SscE and form and through I all the orator k 'a iSs
s.one on the outskirts of the crowd No can
answer that question; There are always Two , 81
iTrse e Thats the siu That's right and
on No sooner does one orator suosloe tnan ano'ne'
begins The performance is continuous
Somebody asked Don Dickinson this morning why
Mr. Cleveland didn't come 10 Chicago ana iehu
hand "a the sound-money fighters Mr.. Dickinson
replied that possibly Mr. Cleveland looked upon lne
Ta,oo ~
Hghf az an old Dutch captain looked upon h.mse d
There tremendous storm a, b sea sat Teaiing
~ IN the cabin. passenger went 20 MN an ma
ia hin h shin was d FSqs ca a1"N Won ma NM
Cd salt replied without lifting his eyes I'm and h'i
az in six weeks anyway
Sylvester Pennoyer of Oregon. is advertising him
- a +h. hotels for some reason or other. The
remover picture IL the most striking one or the o''
r,ard Bo.es Matthews and Pattison have plain
ykoesses on their bills but Pennoyer has ADOPTED
rsher dramatic pose. His body IS turned party
sray and ne is represented as looking over MS iet
s5ouder as II ne had started 10 go away, and then
h-a-ing some one whisper about gold STANDARD mao
holied back and said. What's that? me oregon
delegation has a large stock Of the remover plcl,,
r-as and also the small cards giving the good
ror.s Of Pennoycr and calling attention 70 the fact
osgo1 e deleea,es said tina. Pennoyer was a candi
cate FOR the Presidential nomnaton s.s
And We have no second choice. ne aodeu'
"r. Is interesting 20 note" said William H Skaggs.
q Southern man. 'fhow the Southern leaders nave
taken possession OF the Populist arms and ammuni-
ton The most striking Illustration is seen in the
representation from Alabama Whether because II
Is first in alpha betical order because OF the prom
f,en-e Of rs representative Il matters not Alabama
t. frs, In the steering committee OF tho silver
forces The member from that State Is the president
o. and dictates the policy of one OF the leading morn
ing papers in Alabama. This paper is Democratic OF
ths bipartisan type. and Populists and Repuon-
cans have little consideration before its readers Ala
bams Is the first State ho.d election this year.
The Democratic candidate for Governor took up the
ras, cry Tor flnS5 Iw1 yTS es3 wb T5 de-
clared for sound money and indorsed C.eve.ana. ne
& me NE ioke va on free so9eg had to eo
through the Republican or Populist party. ms
year he captured the machine ana secured the nO
agslns, the Populst nominee, who IS aso on free
silver Platform The organ Of the Demonrauc nom
o. the steering committee. II this steering commit
Tee succeeds in driving the Populsis OF the We6 mo
Nsn in the South The death of the Popu,ists in the
South means the birth Of many Republicans IN the
came section"
Controller Eckels found reading the Bible this
morning He said this Convention reminded him Of
The Cave Of Aduurn. Turning 10 the first book OF
Samuel. Chapter XXI. he read as follows: David
therefore departed thence and escaped TO the Cave
o; Adu.am: and when his brethren and all his
fathers house heard Il they went down thither to
rim. And every that n distress, ana every
oAe that In debt, and every one mat was as
contented. gathered themselves unto him.
They say that he chews tobacco" said an ex-
cited Bland partisan 10 small, stumpy man with
r~t whiskers What II he does?''
dozen Of the Palmer House lodgers
gathered around 20 hear the argument.
Hes got Eight TO chew tobacco. II ne wants
TO- said the small man.
Yes. and they make fun Of him because he's
t.r,ner"
the small man.
He is a poor man. and so am ~
Here too"
When ne gets in there he'll turn tina; blamed Wall
Street crowd upside down"
That's what he ought 10 do
There chance for argument between
tHtn MAJ arLt he nurd