The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-01
FOR BEER AND MCKINLEY,
The Convention City is Given Over
to Sunday Carousals and PO.
litlcal Wrangling.
A Liquorite Vce-Presidential Candidates
Boom-The Republican Record is 80
Drinks Minute.

st. Louis, June 15.-(Special Corre-
spondence of the Voice e.)-Thousands of
barrels OF beer are being consumed in
this city every day, and trains bearing a
fresh supply have arrived from Milwau-
kee and other places noted for turning
out the liquid. Still the st. Louis article
seems to be quite strong enough to make
the average Republican gloriously drunk.
Beer however does not satisfy the thirst
of all the visitors and thousands of ga.-
Ions of whisky and other liquors are dis
appearing down the throats of the Nc
Kinley shouters and the champions of
other candidates are not far behind in
their ability to make way with the ard
ent
Every saloon in the business district has
increased it's business tenfold because of
the presence Of the visiting Republicans.
The salons contributed to the entertain
ment fund, and are now getting their
money back in perfectly satisfactory
measure.
Among the presidential bOoms
being launched in the hotel corridors and
barrooms, is that of Perry Carson, the
notorious liquor man of Washington. He
is the peculiar pet of the colored dele
gates, and his candidacy is being rinsed
down in copious bumpers of beer.
The flow of beer is perfectly plain and
nobody disputes it, but the charge of
Doodle and the way it is used as an in
ducement to delegates, is met by claim
and counter claim. 1t was charged in
the national committee meeting that the
southern delegates were being bought up
for Mckinley, and Murat Halstead says
over his own signature that southern
Republicans have had promptings from
the bank parlors of the extreme gold
states"
Missouri has rigid law, with heavy
penalties, against selling liquor on Sum-
day, but the law was stabbed to the death
every minute in the day on Sunday, the
Mckinley club fairly going it wild. Tom
Carter, United States Senator and chair
man of the national committee, attended
the Hibernian picnic Sunday afternoon,
and mingled as hale fellow we'll met
with the sons of Erin, and thus bid for
the Irish vote.
The Southern Hotel was the politi-
clans headquarters. Not content with It's
already elaborate bar, which adjoins the
Office, the Southern management had an
other bar built $50 feet long. All day
Sunday and Sunday night this big bar
was the scene of maudln drunkenness.
Curses and drunken threats rang out
above the political discussions in the big
lobby.
The Planters Hotel put in two extra
bars. Men in spotlesS white duck suits
jingled the bottles and glasses "a hours
every day. Over the temporary bars at
the Planters were the words in big black
letters mo mixed drinks" The bar
keeps men too busy serving beer and
whisky to stop to mix drinks. Rum, and
plenty of it, was the order of the day.
The extra bars at the Planters were
capable of four times. the business of the
ordinary bar. While colored delegates
were refused drinks in some of the out
side saloons, they had carte blanche at
the big hotels. They drank to Mckinley s
health and drank again to that of Morton.
1t was a notable fact that no toasts were
drank to Allison of Iowa. If they were it
was done quietly.
No arrests were made either for Sunday
selling, for drunkenness, or disorder, the
chief Of police winking the other eye.
Hotel bars and most saloons were open
all night Saturday, as well as Sunday,
and at Tony Faust's, the largest saloon IN
the city, 100 drinks are served every
three minutes. Saloons throughout the
city are having large sales, and in the
windows of scores of them are seen pic
lures of Mckinley and Reed, the latter
being the favorite for vice president.