New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-05
SCENES AT HEADQUARTERS.
GOVERNOR Bo1Es BROUGHT ON FOR EX-
HIBITION.
HE RECEIVES CALLERS BUT WON'T TALK POLL
TICs-MR CIEvELANDs PICTURE DIsAP-
PEARS FROM THE NETWORK ROOMS.

tyY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNE.]
Chicago. July 1.-THE Palmer House assumed to-
day the true Convention appearance AS the head
quarters Of tho Democratic National Committee
and Of the leading State delegations. It naturally
drew within its doors large number OF delegates
m thu Convention and the political friends who had
accompanied them Chicago But to-day there
was an additional attraction. One OF the most
prominent candidates for President, Horace Boles.
of Iowa, had come to Chicago and taken room
in the hotel, and genially welcoming all VS.
4tors This last allurement packed the main office
OF the big hotel Its etairways leading to Mr..
Bodees apartment and the spacious Railways or the
building with crowds OF politicians
In the main Office OF the hotel they saw dis
played a big oil painting OF Mr.. Boies, and scores
OF nthcgraph portraits Of the same gentleman II
was true that there was rival face exposed TO
view that Of Richard p. Bland, reiterated in many
Autographed forms; but, on the whole, the Bo.es
portraits Iredominated At The head OF the main
stairway Also a sort OF glass case. was small
Byes heaIuuarters where could take a hand
FIJI II one so chose, of Boies buttons ornamented
with the face of Iowa's former Governor.
On the second floor the visitor found the head
quarters OF Wisconsin. Missouri. Indiana. New
York Pennsylvania and Of the sound-noney Demo-
Gratis gay with bunting and crowded with visitors
But the person DESTROYS Of seeing Mr. Boies did not
stop upon this floor but assembled 10 the third floor
where in Room 2ls the candidate could be found.
1t was true that upon knocking at the door he was
told by the men who opened It that while Mr. Boies
would be glad b see any visitors he did not caro-
TO talk With them upon any political subject; but
then they would see tho candidate
Entering the room the visitor standing near
one Of its windows q Of medium height with
silver gray hair and clean shaven face, sturd,ly
built and could suspect him TO be a farmer
1t not for A etudent-ike look. which. with his white
necktie and black Prince Albert coat. black waist
coat and trousers. would excite suspicion OF
tors cordially but IN a dignifed manner Politicians
were pleased to see That ne a good hand
shaker. He grasped ones hand firmly and gave It
a hearty shake. as though pleased to see his visitor
Throughout the day his room crowded With
visitors. large proportion OF the delegates in
the city visited him and had few minutes chat
with him. The Boies managers frankly said that
they had brought Mr. Bo!es here because there had
been a complaint among Southern and Western
delegates that Mr. Boles had not made political
soeeches outside Of the limits of his State of
Iowa, and. therefore. they were unacqualnted win
him a ana haa 1n Gh c C
ure Mr.. Boes mentally in the two minutes al
leed to nm sea nor Of about mr. Boe
scattered around Chicago tonight ana the aim
Of Mr. Boiess friends in bringing him has been ac-
complished. - ~
Going downstairs from the room OF Mr. Boi e.:
freeconage candidate tor s & the
the sound-money Democrats In big room at the
nd NJ long corridor. sound Money HeadGuar-
ters in letters Illuminated with electric light crossed
the end OF the hallway Entering the room one
discovered that Il was an excellent place IN which 10
hold meetings Of a political nature
MIR Whitney must have looked around the room
chanees. for in this very place four years ago ne
became conscious that he was the master, OF We
Democratic National Convention ana cou;n eass,!
nominate Grover Cleveland for President Now Mr.
Whitney Is aware that he IS a mem per OF q IeL.ir
contingent Of 800 delegates and car secure neaI's
In the Democratic National CONVENTION oHy on ~
s,,rserarce OF the free-conege Delegates souhu
money Democrats have huGced tcBetneI ioT niutua
warmth a.onC this corridor or the fdi"ef
House. Ii, -, s.a. the be2douar-
tors Of the decorations from WISCONSIN, ~ ~
I'D pennsy,vania all sound money rtIe
The New-Yorx headquarters are gay win pu,. 80,
I'D days When the headquarters were op,neu ="
ahu iiaeo nortrat OF Grover Cleve.and hung oV,T
70 Mirror and below II were p!actn me POI &
a, D Is VA a HIll and Edward Murphy p ~ rs
"a ~ room now discover that Mr tIeNe.''.in p h
,o ia gone from the room and It's pace uPgn r o
!. al bas been taken by one OF RoswsiI II ~
yTho made this change? Is Grover ~ I,
w IA the Democrats or New ioih IN,
.ni,ayai that ne Is so ob1ecuondpt ~ w n,icv
,u Of other States that II would De 49, Sr.in
f,emocrats OF Newlork state 10 ,.,,r't.,
toi ageravating them by exhiDitihs NE ~ Cieve-
sr the reason the portrait OF Work
~, w "a, nae vanished from the rooms oi "'e -
oeIssaePr0 nnsvvania de,egations room Is nea =.
.nH One discovers there portraits W ppes,dent
LEILA D .ts~on Pennsyvansas candidate ioi .csntance
ina Pattisou badges ready for any o"s ~''s''~