People's voice., 1900-07-12
Convention Notes.
Evening Journal.

Convention Notes.
Evening Journal.
The Wellington crowd at Kansas
Glty played in great luck yesterday.
Every Wellington man, regardless OF
his politics, secured tickets to both
sessions. They are under obligations
to Geo. I. Pitts and Ed T. Hackney,
VINO had to make acquisitions on other
state delegations and work various
schemes to get enough tickets to 60
around. Wellington Republicans
walked into both sessions Of the con-
yentlon yesterday while influential
Democrats from LeayenwOrth and
other places stood outside OF the ropes
and Looked wistfully at the entering
throng. Convention hall was packed
at both day sessions yesterday with
10000 people. The acoustics of the
nall are better than the Salt Lake
tabernacle, but the hum OF 10000
people made ii extremely difficult TO
hear the speakers. Little attention
was paid TO the speakers, anyway,
and people put in their time pointing
out the notables. "Boss" Croker,
Mayer Van Wyck, Judge Augustus
Van Wyck, Senator Jones, Senator
Clark, SenaiOr-elect Joe Blackburn,
Prince Kanananaka of Hawaii, Gov
erDOr Beckham, Perry Belmont
and David b. Hill were The men
around whom interest seemed to cen.
ter mOst... The Tammany headquar-
ters are at the Midland hotel, third
floor. One room adjoining their
headquarters Is occupied by bar,
where a Tammany brave serves all
kinds Of drinks, from mineral water
to high-ball, free. Tammany
brought an express car full Of whis-
ky from New York, and third of IL
was drank yesterday. The Cali
focnia delegation brought a car OF
wines and fruits, and visitors are
treated as cordially as at the Tam.
many headquarters. &. . Senator Clark
OF Montana, yesterday serenaded the
Tammany delegation at the Midland
hotel and treated everybody that
could crowd into the barroom to
champaign, wine aud old rye. 1t cost
him, it is said, $500. The Midland
pool and billiard tables have been
removed for the convention, and a bar
built entirely around the room. The
bar is over 200 feet long, and about
twenty 6artenders wait on the trade.
1t is said that it has been next to an
impOssibility to get into the barroom
at any time since the convention
opened, so great is the crowd. The
Midland charges 10 cents for a beer,
aud the jays gladly pay it. The
crowd on the streets Is immense, and
all sorts Of takers are working the
crowd. In front OF the Baltimore all
day yesterday, a faker with handful
OF bills elbowed his way through the
crOwd shouting: "Five dollars for a
session ticket to the convention -
A session ticket admits the holder for
one session only. There are several
sessions each day. Following the
tirst faker, was another faker Offering
session tickets for 81 so, 81, or SO So
anything he could get over SO. Season
tickets could be bought at one or two
OF the hotels for S., but it was not
generally known and there was no
great sale for them. The takers did
all the business, and robbed pee
pie numerically. The Wellington
crowd started new "story'i yester-
day, and as fast as new Wellington
man would put in an appearance, it
was told TO him. The story "took''
well, and finally got away from the
Wellington crowd, and the Kansas
City people are telling it. The fire.
works feature OF the parade last night
Was good, but the other features were
not worth seeing. About fifty men,
escorted by brass band, marched at
the head OF the parade. Each man
carried Roman candles, or a bundle of
SkyrOckets, and shot them of az
fast as he could, two aud three
at a time. The effect was
startling. The rest Of the parade
consisted OF advertising wagons, men
and women wearing lodge regatta,
meO on horseback, tallv-hOs, etc.
The Wellington crowd Is housed at
the Centropnlis, Baltimore and at the
home OF DR.. d. P. Wetzel's sister. II
miles out. The street in front of the
Kansas delegations headquarters lad
joining the Baltimorel Is a sort OF
foyer where the Wellington people
meet every day and loaf between the
sessions Of the convention. Several
Wellington men can always be fOuno
there II the convention is not 10
session, and as usual thing every
Wellington man is somewhere in the
crowd. They hang together like a
biz family al circus. 1t Is the
program to nominate candidate for
president today, and possibly a candi.
date for vice president as well. You
Eear the story in Kansas City that
Bryan will address the convention
tomorrow, but this is probably a Kan
sas City story to hold the crowd,
who are fas. leaving. The Santa .Fe
ran hve trains into southern Kansas
ast night-One at 10, one at 1910,
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