Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-26
CONVENTION NOTES
Sidsllghts Of the Great Show BY
Special Correspondent lowa's
Part in It.
Iowa Delegates Covered Themselves
With Glory Iowa's Dignl6ed
Standing Abroad.
Personal Observations Of Quay,
Roosevelt and Blythe-Some
Personalities.
,ecial to Times-Republican.

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Special to Times-Republican
Philadelphia, Pa, June 2s.-The sec
ond day of the convention WAS tame
and featureiess There We're the great
hall, the sea of faces, the music and
the stage, but we had seen all these
before. Senator Lodge is not an ora
tor; he is unable to interest such an
audience. His pose is attractive and
his diction elegant, for he is a man of
much culture. In comparison with the
eloquent and magnetic Wolcott, who
preceded him, he suffers. II Lodge is
a great man he doesn't look It. He ls
dapper in appearance and genteel, re-
Winding one of floor walker in large
dry goods establishment. Fairbanks
read the platform. on, 1t was tedious!
1T was very long and Fairbanks, VINO ls
Very TALL saunt and ungainlS, Win
whiskers of an ante diluvian pattern
has voice that acts on one nerves nerves
hike the fling of a saw.
The only incident TO relieve the mo-
notony was the Quay incident, ana
that was trlfling. The imaginative re-
porter made much of II. AS matter
| OF fact there was nothing TO ". Inc
whole thing was planned. Very rev
people in that vast throng knew VINO
had risen nor what the applause was
for In such bodies one fellow applauos
because he sees his neighbors DO ~.
l8..Nyhos is it, what's it about? and then
ieNerybody yells.
Here. is dramatic rendition by the
Enquirer. Quay paper Col. quay.
IL !. is now on his feet. Coat ana
lsveSt are thrown open. his hair IS un-
| kempt and he looks ready Tor battle.
| The chair recognizes Senator Quay, OF
Pennsylvania. says the chairman. Inc
| crowd catches the name. the cheer
! starts. 1t spreads with wave after wave.
\ and lasts for fully five minutes. NOW
divest this OF the humbug. What
iare the faclso Mr., Cummins, OF Iowa,
\ precipitated the discussion OF the
4 southern representation question IN the
national convention. Mr.. Payne. OF
\ Wisconsin. introduced a resolution
(which was referred to- the convention.
Quay seized this opportunity to make a
spectacular display. His rising was the
! signal to his claquers: the applause
lsdidn't continue one minute. much less
4 five. 1T was desultory and scattering
and Very few knew what it was about.
4 Quay didn't look like a war horse; he
4 didn't scent the battle from afar,' and
sl3he didn't breathe fire from his nos
i@trils.' II e simply threw bomb in orr
4 der TO get an issue to trade on and the
A question was bound to go over. The
a measure ought to- have passed, but
what does Quay cure about measures?
u He is like the Jew on he sinking ship.
4 "What auf it, it is not ours
Y Quay issa puzzle, That he is popular
With some people In Pennsylvania is
4 true. This is no certificate of charac.
z ter Penrose is popular Who and
& what is he? Thousands of Pennstlva.
. mia republicans and many of the great
Republican papers denounce and dis
y thrust him. 1t is strange that state 81
J Overwhelmingly in favor Of soune
:. money should sustain man who stood
"a steadily in the way of currency legisla.
= ton and who escaped the penitenitiar.
z because Jury took the bit in theil
Isteeth and acquitted him in the face o.
! lcondemning evidence.
!. Dolliver Boom Lost.
q Wednesday night about oclocl
:, word came IN Iowa headquarters tina
! we could find a large assortment o
. damaged booms by calling on Mari
: Hanna. This meant that the conspira
!, stors had succeeded and had driver
!, | Roosevelt from the New York govern
i lsorship under the threat that If he re
y fused TO accept the vice presidency h
! should be neither governor nor presi
\ dent. The hero Of San Juan, who neve
flinched before in the presence of tn
. enemy. hesitated and was lost. An
Z Isother idol is shattered" If Roosevelt
!. lean BIZ president in 1904 there will b
I, some compensation. But watch and Sc,
( Platt is an old man. He is a sick MAJ
Maybe God, In His infinite mercy, wi
remove him to another sphere befor
s four years roll around. He sometime
d accomplishes His purposes in this wa.
"a The Iowa people took 1t most grace
y fully. and Dolliver emerged from III
ID contest stronger than ever. He nevt
,r asked for it: all he wanted was a stron
u, ticket and he was ready to serve
hi wanted. No convention boom was ev,
i, conducted more modestly nor in bett,
4 taste. Iowa and Dolliver grew in publ
st estimation every day. She made lots
n friends: no enemies 1t made my ca
e. tin4le to hear on every side nice thin
III said OF Iowa. Of her people, her delegi
IS ton, her great men and her strong, alb
/. delegation in congress. The fact is
A. made me little stuck up. Iowa sent
:. nice body of men to the convention, al
- their conduct wac the conduct Of gel
tlemen They treated everybody royal
- could not have Jared better had l be-
- a distinguished guest
k Iowa Personalities.
he There was Cummins able, POLISH
er and always a most perfect gentlema
At the genial railway commissioners al
er jolly Frank Merriam, sturdy old
er Knott. and Col. Root, Lacey, Dollivt
ed Hepburn, Cousins and Thomas. Y
he also had Judges struble. Ryan al
n. Prouty, and host Of others. She
ed was the able man in the delegate
re LATE Young the orator and pleader, G
IA French was the handsome man, the
he dies man, but the colonel knows thi
or two, and II you don't think so ju
sound him upon the money questic
Charley Hinsdale was the jolly ms
st Judge Stevens the quiet thinker TOT
ne the worker, Penrose the diplomat. Chs
on ley had his picture in no less than TIVE
on .,a ,,nre, 4 IA