The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-01
CORRUPTION INTENDED.
THE OFFICEHOLDERS SWARM
ING TO CHICAGO.
Getting Ready to Buy Up the Demo
cratic National Convention.

All the Democrats in the United States,
all the populists west of the Mississippi
river and a good many republicans are
coming to the democratic convention.
At this date, more than week before
the congestion of hotel lobbies will be
noticed, it looks as if the convention
crowd will be greater and composed of
more diverse elements than at any pre-
vious national convention. Sound mon
ey men are coming in force to sit up
nights with delegates against the propo-
sition of free silver coinage at the ratio
Of 16 to l. They will not have the field
to themselves. The free silver sympa-
thizers are going to be present by hund-
reds and thousands, all equipped with
patent expansion lungs trained for the
occasion. The populists will help the
silverites and the republicans will look
on. The convention rooming list of
every big hotel in town bears out this
prediction.
The most significant feature of imme-
diate convention preparations is the de-
mand for rooms from men who earn
their living in the sunshine of President
Cleveland's administration. The report
from Washington that President Cleve-
land has said to all federal Office holders,
THE bars are down." is no midsummer
night dream. Every hotel manager in
Chicago has evidence of it's truth locked up
in his desk.
ONE TIME NOT TO BE COUNTED.
Whether it be the exigency of the stu
alton or the proximity of his residence
to that of well-known actor at Buz-
Yards Bay, President Cleveland has
adopted Rip Van Winkleism. "We
don't count this time" is his 1896 attitude
toward the prohibition of participation
in political conventions by federal en-
ployes.
William c. Whitney who has announc-
ed his intention here to fight the battle
of sound money, will have no occasion
to pose regretfully as a general without
an army. The United States senate, the
administration wing in the lower house
of congress and the coteries of big demo-
Gratis in the east will furnish him all the
division corps and brigade commanders
his heart can wish for. A lot of demo-
Gratis who have been in no sense the
friends of President Cleveland the past
four years are, nevertheless, with him
in this fight which he has made his own.
Senators Calvin S. Brice and Arthur P.
German, Ex-Governor Flower of New
York and Ex-Governor Russell of Massa-
chusettes are only a few of the sound
money leaders. ]. Sterling Morton of
the Presidents official family will surely
be here, and Secretary Carlisle is ex-
pected
OFFICE HOLDERS COMING IN FORCE.
And the federal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is
practically no limit to the number ex-
pected. Every man who is ranged under
the Presidents banner, either from per-
sonal conviction or out of gratitude for
his job, seems to be getting ready to do
his share Of national convention lobby
ing. A singular fact in this connection
is that none of these lesser lights in the
political world expressed any intention
of coming until within the past three or
four days. Since Wednesday morning
telegraph messenger boys navo been run
ming to the hotels IN a continuous line,
each the bearer of a request for room and
board during the convention. The lists
on file in the various hotel Offices make
almost a complete directory of internal
revenue collectors, treasury department
special agents and postmasters of impor-
tant towns. These gentlemen will be
sufficiently numerous to give Mr.. Whit
ney all the staff, regimental company and
squad officers he may need for his sound
| money army. The rank and file of this
force will lack no recruits after all the
eastern clubs and the delegations each
of the big guns expects to bring with him
shall have arrived.