The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

the little company had meltel away. The
aifaoie stranger never finished his story.
The last hope o. the gamblers u Chi
eag0 has DISAPPEARED, Gays the ZINES
Herald None ~ me delegates 70 the
convention e inclined 90 daily "lth me
tiger and the bunch OF faro dealers ana
roulette men who dropped INTO lni-asn
last week 20 turn an honest 1o-tar are
pemoaning the far- mat money j So ugit
among the delegates
in fact. the men who usually follow The
yer tootprnts and Try 70 copper me
com OF the unWarg say they nave never
seen such convention. they say Do y
IKE a sunday school picnic. though none
OF them ever went % anything but the
county Marching Club picnic, ana nave
only read or heard u sunday scuo0l pic
Dies. Lots Of quiet games are "altlls
70 De started ". but the delegates are
TOO much tn earnest 20 tamper with th-
felFet claws Of the festive tiger Inc
games are going begging and the val ~
me user Is heard along Clark street. Even
the explosion on the lake front and the
caEing IN OF the tunnel by the lighthouse
viii not work. All the delegates ask
Wnen told Of the sad accident ls: Amp
Tree SILVER delegates among the deadt
ana the confidence man, the ounco
steeEer and the gambler sigh and talk
IN their sleep Of the good old days When
a democratic convention was free WIKI
its money.
William Ferguson. bless his soul, viii
% missed from this convention, says the
lmes-Herald. He Is dead lie was for
several years a conspicuous ngure from
1plofauo, because ne stood for the rights
OF young men 10 have opinions and 20 ex-
press them. He had an impeliment IN
rs speech. II was a source OF pride 10
MIN mat he was called the suffering
statesman Of the Rockies. He never
missed democratic convention Of any
kind, and his friends now remember the
many clever things be drew from an APP
parentiy boundless fund of wit. He once
was delegate IN Denver and he vas
NeNed mat there was opposition 10 the
nomination OF Pence on the score OF his
youth. Ferguson arose and got the eye
OF the chair He spoke with great diff
Guilty and said. Mr.. Chairman. l am
s-g-g-grieyed that there is op-p-p-p-po-
sluon 70 this cand-d-d-didate because he is
not ola. / wish to call your at-t-t-tention
70 the TACT that the st-t-t-t-istics of this
country show that t-t-t-here are more
young men born than DID, and he sat
Gown and his man was nominated.
they say that he chews tobacco said
an excited Bland partisan TO a small
stumpy man with red Whiskers. accord
ing to the Chicago Record. What if he
A dozen or more Of the Palmer house
gument
Hes got a right to chew tobacco if
ne wants to-" said the small man.
Yes. and they make fun OF him be-
cause he's a farmer"
ITS about time we had a farmer in
there, said the small man.
ne Is a poor man and so am l."
Here too"
When he gets in there he'll turn that
blamed Wall street crowd upside down"
Ihats what he ought TO do"
there was no chance for an argument
between these two men. and the crowd
uttered away to fne something more in
teresung.
Ben Tillman is sure of the platform.
says the Chicago Times-Herad. He has
his doubts as to the candidate He re-
eelVed his delegation at the Union depot
last night The greetings were hearty
Wei. Ben, how're you been gettin' on?''
asked a tail man, who seemed to be the
mead Of the delegation
oh pitchforkin' around in the same
ola way, I1liman answered with the IN
lovely grin that he is noted for when he
jokes.
The same old Ben" remarked the tall
Then Ben" was asked how the cause"
was 'gettiu' on
"WAV ct the platform all right. .
ben answered. but I'm afraid they'll
skin us on the candidate. They'll knock
us out of gettin' the right kind of a
man, II appears to me-
That seems mighty unpleasant" said
the tan man.
"Ben."
One OF the free silver yawpers took IN
place in the corridor Of the Palmer to-
day for fifteen minutes and shouted out
that IL was not possible to get a thou-
sand dollars in gold in the city Of Chi
cago. says the Philadelphia Record 5
special.
A man stepped up to him and tapped
him on the shoulder and said 'fMy
| friend, think you are mistaken You
| can get all the gold you want in chi.
| cago. If you win get about 25.OOO0OO In
| legal tenders and come with me I will
give you 25,OO0,oO0 of gold for them in nvt
| minutes"
Some Of the gold men in the corrido,
| recognized the tall man as Whit Glover
| the chief clerk of the sub treasury here
| ana they set up a shout. The silver mar
looked dazed for moment and Their
made his way out of the hotel.
| The incorporate language used by this
silver men in discussing the issues before
/ the convention is likely to turn many
! votes against their candidate if it is con.
| tinued throughout the campaign, saws the
/ New York Tribune's special For exam.
| pie, at the Palmer house yesterday a gen.
| tleman repeated a remark, attributed &c
= Mr. Whitney, that a panic would follow
/ the nomination of Mr.. Bland what tel
/ is panicY' asked a bystander where.
upon the first speaker explained that a
| panic was a fall in the value of stocks
which squeezed all the water out of the
| railway and other investments and de.
| clared that he thought 1t was a good
| thing for the country to have one now
and then, so as to bring the millionaires
and sharks OF Wall street down to hard
| pam
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