New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-04
SEEN AND HEARD IN CHICAGO
ODD FEATURES OF A REMARKABLE PO-
LITICAL SITUATION
TILI.MAN IN HIS GIORY-vEST BRINGS HIS VOICE
TO TOWN-A STRIKING CONTRAST WITH
THE ST. LOUIS COMMEMORATIVE
AFFABLE sTRANGER-A MORAL
FOR "GOLDBtGS."
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Chicago July S-senator Tillman Is supremely
happy The notorlety for which he IS striving daily
has to him in Chicago with little or no effort
His headquarters the Sherman House are crowded
to suffocaton by admirers and worshippers or ms
pitchfork philosophy to whom he necessarily pours
the Of his peculiar rhetoric. He receives
his rural visitors lying with muddy boots on a bed
that once must have been tolcrably clean HIS hair
in It's wild disorder is picture OF his mind Coat and
wastcoat are flung in corner OF the room 10 keep
company with cigar sumps. The air is redo.ent with
stale tobacco and the fumes Of alcohol. There IL
everywhere a studied disregard OF the cDnvontonaN
ties OF life designed to impress the caller. 1t works
TO charm and II seems almost 10 impress the hero
OF # all with It's genuinencss. He has paye1 the
game long he has ncary succeeded in making aim
believe he Is the man OF the people"
Hungry bellies and hard times conditions when
kill argument and refuse to be satisfied with
theories he cxclams and then he half closes mis-
eye watch the effect upon his listeners After
white the spell is once upon him, and he
says: THE farmers daily growing poorer. am
one OF them. and know. Unless some RELIEF Is
offered they will become desperate They VII be
compelled join the revolutionary element OF the
cities. and within twenty-five years we WI! nave
rapine and devastation in comparison 10 when me
it, can it," The farmers who sit about the bel
rSl. over ana puneh,Hg awH pD"S na H 10 se his
they were a couple o. ,!nDusS v iHue ha1 enourS
OF them They have iinInced all the money int9
the masses slow poison. They have given them
blow before the eyes this time They nave sainsel
saint lie scarcey stops to take breath while Ms
audience is gaping in silent wonder az the great man
The few have stolen the labor of the millions ne
ees On she 20 Outrage They are crying out against
combinations and the suspicious dealing, IN ngh
Where Justice should sit have had my finger on the
Pulse Of the Isope Inc yS 5arp raaaag and
learning and the rue OF the arsi9crat y a, an ~
on ne is grents opy T hs rft e whac at Chicago
Among the prominent arrivals to-day Is scna-
tor George G; Vest. He comes from Long Branch'
where he has been in training for the task of nom
mating Richard Parks Bland for the Presidency
Vest Is generally suspected of having lost his grip
IN Missouri and to be doomed 70 political retifg
and II will be no fault Of his If the Convention does
not rise IKE one m ma aHa FGfed Scres Of the
people Vest one Of his colleagues IN the senate
remarked is the biggest man sting aTw a s sa
EQUALS ue in the Senate Before larger body. ike
National Convention he is handicapped by thin
heard In his younger days they say when he was was
Wont gt to the dances in Pets County MOI as ri the
scest beau the floor In me ss nFgn ,sct fcs
the hee,-and-tov polka everybody VINO eiaI viai
accident policies got of he MGR d5ne one even
durel had forgotten his name me Staii i.nS
talking In group Of which the Sedala man vas
a member she nudgcd her partner ana askci N an
underone: What Is his odd name RINK or
something | wear to my hear, ne answereel.
.Inst then Mr.. Vest came up, AMI win sweet m
ncrcnce the bonneville beauty turned TO MIN ana
| said: on Mr. Suspender DO they dance the sara
toga IAncers IN SedaliaT
This Convention offers striking contrast to that
recently held In :, Louis. There the nominee was
certain and the platfcrni-to the uninit:ated. al
leas,-was in doubt Here the platform is certain
| and the nomination is yet open 10 anybody in the
| race Nor was there n similar situation al
Ea,i,,a c,,nvcrfion before No candidate II. tho
Psf exccp. Mr.. Bland has more IMAM MS own sac
behind him and even he has only three DELEGATIONS
instructed pledged The number 81 datk horSe5
| passes al precedent, and. for all that the world
knows two-hirds of the deegates have n3t ysi de,
| clde,l whom they VIII support. Sodp'ls was
asked to-day who would receive the votes OK the
New-York and New England delegations lie ~
profane man. and he answered laconcaliy. Banked
II know" vi, o,,,a do,.
gates ever start for Convention before WITHOUT
knowing whom they going 10 vote for?
| ''Ty,ey never went to n haystSI silver Convention
until now was the response
The Bland and Boles booms again clashed nj the
R.fI In