The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

In point of numbers and enthusiasm
and in the attendance of the distin-
guished men of their party thelDemo-
Gratis have every reason to be proud
of the convention which met in Kan
sas City this week. At every session
the magnificent Convention Hall,
doubtless the most perfect auditorium,
size and symmetry andlacousties con-
sidered in the United States, has been
packed from floor to rafters. And.it
has been hair trigger audience too,
ready to go off into applause with the
slightest touch.
And all the bright lights -of the
party were there. Among them all the
one greatest figure without doubt was
Hill, of New York The mostadmired
and the most feared. The audience
admired him, and the machine feared
him. For two Jays the crowd howled
for Hill at every intermission, and for
Syo days that howl was regularly
drowned by the band, in obedience to
siguals from the chairman's stand.
The machine was not going to take
any chances of a speech which might
prove to be stick of dynamite with Il
short time fuse attached. Not until
am err the platform had been adopted
and Mr.. Bryan safely launched. was
Mr.. Hill allowed to appear on THE
platform. He is without doubt the
most potential personality that APP
pearcd in the convention.
Perhaps the most inquired for man
was Croker, the Tammauy chief
Short stocky, full bearded, he looks
the man TO delight in power and to use
it relentlessly. And Tammany obeys
him. That is what gives Tammany
its power. When it gets tired of a
king it dethrones him, but as long as
he is king it obeys him.
And then there was ''Pitchfork'
Tillman, of South Carolina, with his
one eye and snarl like an angry
cat.
And there was Gov. Beckham Of
Kentucky, young boy, very much
scared at being shouted at by so many
people, crafty pledging Kentucky fol
400, 600 Democratic majority.
And there was Gov. Hogg, of Texas
who seized the tail of the British lior
firmly between his teeth, as one of the
newspaper men remarked, and yanket
that awful beast ferociously about tn,
stage, talking about driving the red
coats from the departments atWashing
Gon and such like rot,
And there was Croesus Clark o
Montana, who drew his check fol
S3l 900 to pay the expenses of hi,
delegation to the convention, and who
is reported to have spent 81, 900 at the
Midland bar in one hour the night 0
his arrival.
And there was Senator Daniel. O
Virginia, looking the gentleman ofth,
odd school, and the orator that he is
And there was Myers, of Maryland,
making with consumate skill the only
plea that was permitted on the floor o
she convention, for u platform tina
would give them some show to carr,
New York and Illinois and Marylan,
and Virginia and Kentucky,
And there was George Free
Williams, of Massachusetts, dapper
clean ent, faultlessly dressed, making
the motion so familiar in Kansas, bu
which made the delegates from tn
East and from the South writhe an,
swear, that committee be appointe
10 confer with the Populst and FIRE
Silver Republican bodies now in ses
sion in this city.
And then there were eight hundre
other men, just common delegate,
whp had as little to do with the rea
W,lk of the convention as the dust ha
10 dowith the tornado that picks it "a
and whirls it madly into the sky
Mere cyphers.