The San Francisco call., 1896-01-17


give them chance to make an honest dol
lar. Laughter
1t would also give them an opportunity
to care for the delegates and visitors in {
way to rebound to the honor of New Yorl
and OF her hotel-keepers. He promise:
that no one would have to spend his nights
'feverishly tossing on a billiard table ol
slum bering within the narrow confines o.
a bath tub" Laughter. 1t was said, be
added, that Mr.. Depew had spent two
nights in bath tub at Minneapolis, and
he presumed that it was benefit to him
| [Laughter.l The ordinary delegate, how
ever, preferred naturally to wrap the
| drapery of his couch around him and lie
down to pleasant slumbe Laughter
1t might be too much to say that New
York was the only city that could offer to
| the delegates comfortable bed at night
[Laughter.l Excelsior was the motto OF
the State, but the would find they did
not force the motto into their hair mat
tresses. Laughter.l There were hotels
there, he said, for all classes OF people-fine
hotels for fine people, plain hotels for
plain people and "bum" hotels for "bum'
| people, but he did not expect many OF the
| latter class to attend the convention.
| The hotel accommodations exceeded the
| combined accommodations of st. Louis,
| Cincinnati and Chicago, and were
the finest in the world. In this con-
nection Mr.. Ford spoke humorously of
''most of the delegates having gone
through Chicago and of Chicago having
gone through most of the delegates" and
he closed by saying that the New York
hnt tnl \ 49, fo.
iota.
The claims of New York were further
urged by Colonel John r. Fellows, who
said that more than 10000 guests could be
| accommodated in the hotels which he
| named within five minutes easy walk Of
Madison-square Garden. New York could
at any time, he said, supply 150, 900 visitors
with separate rooms and separate beds.
de extended liberal invitation TO the
committee, but said it was an auction bid.
AS to railroad fares, he promised that
they would be as low from the extreme
South to the city of New York as to any
central city, ana it would cost the dele
gates from Oregon, California and Wash
lngton, or from the extreme points of the
South, 20 more to go to New Y York than it
would cost them to go to the central city
nearest to their residences. This New
York was prepared to do, because it was
only meritorious and proper TO do it. New
I ork pledged herself to extend q welcome
which no other city was capable of extend
ing. New York had never given her vote
for any but a Democratic candidate, and
she now pledged to the Democratic candi-
date majority of 5000. In conclusion
Colonel Fellows said:
Come to New York; come to Demo
cratic city; come to the welcome which
her citizens will extend you, irrespective
of party. And having come, and having
once experienced the courtesies and
generosity of her attention, / am sure that
every delegate Will thank this committee
for deed most graciously and gratefully
performed" Loud applause.]
Ex-Governor Francis of Missouri was
put forward as the first advocate for the
city of st. Louis. That city, he said,
asked nothing but the honor of the pres
ence of the convention. st. Louis would
open to the Democratic delegates the doors
OF her residences and the hearts of her
citizens. She had public hall that would
accommodate 1900 people; not Tempo
rary structure, but q substantial brick
Louis, he said, had the largest railroad
station in the world, the largest hardware
house, the largest drugstore, the largest
wooden warehouse, the largest tobacco
factories and the largest brewery in the
United States. [Laughter.] Time, he said,
would not admit of his recounting all the
advantages of st. Louis. She had been tried
as convention city and had proved equal
to the task.
He assumed that the National Demo
cratic Committee believed in civil service
reform, and therefore he said give US an
other Democratic convention" But if the
committee did not believe in civil service
reform they appealed to its members as
the followers of the immortal Jackson and
asked: "Who has done more for the Dem
ocratic party than Missouri? For twenty
five years the electoral vote had been
always cast for the Democratic nominee,
What other State aspiring for the conven-
ton could say as much? And Just as
surely would her vote be cast for the DEM
ocratic nominee in 1896.
eff, therefore" he continued, ttyou want
to reward party service, and that is the
only way in which a party can hold to-
gether, give to Missouri this convention of
1896. 1t has been charged that as
the Republican convention is to be
held there the Democratic conven-
ton would only be picking up the
crumbs left by the Republicans. The
Republican convention, it is true, will be
held in that city on June 16, but the
middle of June is the only hot weather we
ever have in st. Louis. Laughter. July
is always cooler than June, and the
weather statistics will bear out that state
ment. Are you going to let US return
home and say to the Democrats of our city
and State that you have refused US what
the Republican National Committee gave
to the Republicans of Missouri? They
are claiming that State. We. do not de-
spair OF carrying it. We did not despair
of carrying it in 1894. And we never be-
lieved that we had failed to carry it until
the returns were counted a second time.
[Laughter.] We are confident that we
will carry the State by majority of
10000. Come to st. Louis, and as you did
not regret it in 1888 you will not regret it
in 1867