The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20
How the Crowds Of People Attending
the Republican Convention
Amuse Themselves.
EVERYBODY IN GOOD HUMoR
IMPROMPTU CREATIONS By UNKNOWN
SPEAKERS.
Mass Meeting at which adi Poll
ticians Delivered A~ddresses-
Convention Hail..

PHILADELPHIA. June 19.-The crowd is
easily and easily amused. To-
night Is ~everybody's night in Broad street.
The Albany Club started out from the Ho-
tel Walton about s o'clock. headed by a
band. The crowd quickly gathered around
the club and the band played while the
throngs applauded. Then somebody called
for a speech. This was seconded by every
body. There were calls for Hanna, Roose-
welt. Lodge and others, and the crowd In
the street looked up at the hotel front as II
IL expected to see some of those called APP
pear. Then the crowd yelled for anybody
to talk. There was an advertising wagon
In the crowd. constructed on the electric
plan. A man mounted this and harangued
the crowd. He had the voice and that sat-
isfed them. No one seemed to know the
speakers name, and no one seemed to care.
When the speaker jumped off the wagon
the band and the Albany Club moved tow
ard the City Hall. The crowd shifted and
broke into groups and still filled the street.
The artist doing the crayon sketches, the
gang of bloods on a balcony pitching pen
nies TO pickaninnines, and gamins who
rolled i'm the dust and fought for the
coins. the man who flashed news and con-
vention celebrities on the canvas. the fakir,
the lemonade vender. the ice cream dealer,
the badge seller-all had audiences. and
the aggregate made the crowd.
Later in the night a drum and fife corps,
| under the apprehension that they had been
| neglected, started in and added to the
| noise. This was a diversion for the street
| for a few minutes, and then the crowd re-
| sumed It's promenade. hating, commenting
| or shouting. according to the exhibit.
The weather was we'll adapted for a
crowd and il made the most of the combi-
| nation. A new generation has come into
| Philadelphia since the last national con-
vention held here and it seems to think
| there will never be another.
While the street throng was enjoying
| itself, the hotel Hobbies were in a merry
mood. The time for buttonholing delegates
in the corridors has passed. So the hotel
crowds amused themselves by inducing
| anybody to mount the office stairs and
| crate. From that time the speaker was the
butt of ridicule and catcalls until he gave
up in despair. And then the lobby crowd
| would sing. or try to, and wind up with a
| college yell.
| Tonight a big mass meeting was held in
the Academy of Music. at which Mayor
| Ashbridge. of this city. presided. This is the
building i'm which General Grant was nomi-
| mated in 1872. A number of distinguished
| Republicans addressed the meeting. Repre-
| sentative Dalzell, Of Pennsylvania, referred
| to Grants nomination in Philadelphia and
| said the Republicans Of the United States
| had met to nominate another American
| soldier for a second term. The record of the
Republican party was its PLATFORM, and on
this platform victory was certain TO come
next fall.
| Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, quoted
| Representative Bailey as saying in 1898 that
If prosperity followed the passage of the
| Dingley bill there would be no necessity
for a Democratic nomination In l9V. and
| in view of the present conditions he called
On Bailey to make good his implied prom
Use.
Senator Thursuon, of Nebraska, in the
course of his speech said the convention
was to nominate Mckinley. Out
of the Spanish war had come new problems
which the American people had been COM
PEELED to face, and they had faced them
with consciousness of owe to settle them
and settle them right. Having conquered
the Philippines 1T had become the duty of
the United States 10 maintain there condi-
tions of peace and to see that rapine and
murders should cease. Every consideration
of humanity and honor demanded that the
islands be not turned over to be divided
by the nations of Europe. Senator Thurs
ton said il seemed to him that the God of
the universe had kept the continent of
America in its virgin condition for the spe-
cial purpose of exhibiting here on soil UNI
stained by the blood that had deluged
Europe the highest development of which
humanity was capable.
Washington" said the senator. made
our flag of independence, Lincoln made il
the flag of liberty and Mckinley made 1t
the flag of mans humanity to man until
to-day on land and sea the wide world
round, serenely lifted into the blue EN-
pirean, kissed by the sun of day, wooed
by the stars, feared by tyrants and beloved
of man, IL TRANQUILITY floats -unconquered,
the flag of the greatest nation of the
earth"
LAFAYETTE Young, of Iowa, was next in
troduced by Mayor Ashbridge as the rep
~resentative of Representative Dolliver, who.
said he. hoped the audience would not mis-
understand his position. He said he was
not Mr.. Dolliver, but only represented him.
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania. closed
the speaking by a brief talk, which was
heard with interest and punctuated with
applause.
The Blaine Club of Cincinnati was given a
banquet tonight by the William r.. Leeds
Association, one of the largest and most
active local Republican clubs. Over five
hundred participated and the entertainment
leaders attended and made informal
speeches, including Senator'S Foraker, VOL
colt. Penrose and Shoup. Congressman