New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-25
A CALM SET OF DELEGATES.
NO EVIDENCES OF rEvEh.sH EXCITEMENT

SURPRISE EXPRESSED AT THE LACK OF
FEELING DIsPLAYED-PLENTY OF
80 LITTLE BooMs FOR COVER
NOR IN EVIDENCE.
There was hardly ripple to disturb the placid
satisfaction OF the visiting delegates ana sta'ee
during the afternoon They haunted the corrido's
OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the other ho'e's
uptown and talked politics. Presidential candidates
and the Raines bill. The morning SESSION hdo
passed of with all the smooth regularity tha' Is
becoming a well-oiled machine ana the ueiesa'e'
had their instructions for the evening lhere was
none Of the fevc-ish excitement tina, Is frequently
visible at a convention. and there was MANIFEST
lack of enthusiasm anything or ANYBODY
ENTHUSIASM NOT THE NAME FOR IT.
A party Of Ohio men. who are staying at the I'M
perial Hotel, became curious to see just now en-
thusiastic the delegates were over Morton ana ~
during the afternoon they wandered down 10 inc
Fifth Avenue Hotel and looked In at Republican
Headquarters. They saw lot OF politicians com
p,acen,ly smoking cigars and waiting ior the sha"-
ows of night TO fall, when they could carry out
20 set programme. Robert Nckinhsy' o''e VI
Governor McKinley's political heutenants' sa1eo
thoughtfuly over the assembiage. end theh saio
musngly:
% 81 heard somewhere that New-York was enthusi-
astically for Morton if they call that enthusiasm,
! wonder what they would have done X they mao
wandered into our convention At COLUMBUS wiz"
McKinley's name was brought TO the 'front.' why
for hours before the Convention was called 10 oroer
men were marching through the streets shouting
at the top OF their voices for Mckinley reo IRE
WAS burned on every corner, the town was covered
with banners and the crowd was 50 great that even
Senator Foraker found It difficult TO get INTO tne
convention hall II New-York Is enthusasucaly
for Morton / must say that the populace has the
best system Of REFRESHING its feelings ever known
This meeting reminds of a meeting OF board
of directors. They have something 10 90. lhey
20 and do II and then get away with as niue ho'so
as possible. I have heard Mortons name men
toned thousand times and every time man uses
II II seems TO that he speaks IN an apoio-
pe,,c way On the other hand have talked with
many men In New-York about Morton and find
that he has enthusiastic friends here am IN
t.ined to think that the New-iork PUBLIC Is IKE
,he girl who didn't known whether she was In
love or not but when Ter lover told her she was
abe said that she would take his word for II. Some
people have been telling the New-1orK puohc
that it is for Norton and the public Is taking their
word for 1t. 1t may find ont different when a true
test of feeling lie made.
ROCHESTER, PEOPLE DON'T DRINK 1T.
A party OF rural delegates wandered into the
cafe of an uptown hotel in the course OF the AFTER
noon and shortly came TO grief There were
eight in the party and they sat down at table ana
ordered beer for all. Dark Wurzburger was served
When the check came 1t was for 80 cents Al once
. there was a protest from the most he lhsis'eu
that he could get glass OF beer twice as large
IN Rochester for five cents.
.What kind Of beer Is it?' asked one country
man. who astcunded at the price He was
told the name and replied
Where is Wurzburger? Is II on Staten Island?
The party went off muttering something about
seeing John Raines and having the tax doubled Tor
such beer as that.
There il no place 50 cosmopolitan in New-York as
the Waldorf Hotel 1t is not the headquarters OF
any particular kind or class OF politicians There-
fore II was rather surprise yesterday when some
Morton boomers carried their creed into THIS mousse
They did not expect any opposition. and were
chatting in aggressive way about the Governor
"A a Presidential candidate when they suddenly
found that they were almost entirely without SYM
pathy George Z. Matthews has been at the hotei
for some time. and he is a stanch Mckinley man.
He found sentiment with him In the hotel. and he
has been doing much to boom the Ohio man right
under the eyes Of the Morton men A strong argu-
nent was therefore precipitated BY the morton ,
the 'psepondeTance Of Opinion among those who
happened to be in the cafe was Overwhelmingly for
Mckinley.
"HAM" FISHs LITTLE BOOM.
Speaker Hamilton Fish one of the most ag-
excessively public figures during the day. The
Speaker tau and erect. was to be seen everywhere
Those who saw him fitting hither and thther busy
engaged in shaking hands smiled as they thought OF
his boom for Governor. In the convention one OF
his retalners shouted. whats the matter with
Ham Ffsh?Y Later in the day. in the corridor OF
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. the same cry was heard
again. and politician who had heard both shouts ,h
Speaker to have this pyrotechnic display or his
popularity kept up.
man who attracted good deal Of attention
during the recess was jacob Worth, who has re- Re,
Gently broken loose from the Platt MACHINE and
come out solidy for the nomination Of Mckinley
Mr. Worth was watched with anxious eyes by the
sy that If SeS
come from Worth. The impression was general
that he was done With the machine ior GOOD and
that he would from this time out fight the Platt-
Lauterbach organization. and that ne would use
Worth Would not tax for publication. but his many
conferences with friends caused the machine men q
great deal OF uneasiness.
ARCHIE" BAXTER is NEW BARKIs
.. "Archie" Baxter as every one calls him, admitted
70 friends that he was afraid he was candidate
Tor Governor. 1t is almost pathetic when one hears
Baxter tell Of the way in which this sad truth
forced upon him. He telling some friends
about it In the afternoon. when Senator Higgins.
who is looked upon a remote possibility for the
nomination himself said consongly: We'll. never
mind "A, Archie you won't Be Lonesome s, You VIII WIN
was IN fact candidaie the ifaprint Of modesty
st. saying when the boys first mentioned it
Thought It was a Joke. but It seems to be serious
many years. and before that carried gun. The
people have taken the thing into their own hands.
Warner % als S 'n and Of
mystery to many OF the delegates. was busy among
the ys ~. Ws ssarS
nomnee for Governor the successor Of Senator
David B. Hill the nominee for Vice President, in
Western man. and other Offices. With 1t all the
Senator was smiling and inscrutable. He once
l!Quor license. and the Ranes bill made 1t per-