New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-06
SIDE LIGHTS OF THE CONVENTION.

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A SIGNIFICANT sCENE-The stage manager
at the Academy Of Music knows thing or two
about the fitness of things He made the entire
back of the stage magnificent ice scene. 1t may
have been meant for Spitzbergen or Vladivostok,
but TO the crowd it looked exactly like the Maine
which we're the cottages of ten ice cutting families
A perspective view gave an iceberg about nan =
ioo t o5S it with wateriag moafhss if he'd 70
scales a and fOng e he eouS se at
There only one thing needed TO make the ice
should have been some OF the American Ice Com:
Psnys yellow delivery wagons in the scene If
would have been veritable thing of beauty.
Mr.. PALLIsER LAS 'OPEs"-M. G. Paniser.
secretary of the State Chicago Platform Democ-
racy was the platform at the Academy of Mu-
sic yesterday afternoon. He wants Bryan for
President, free silver, the referendum and a lot OF
other things He last night was as happy ytS as
the Bryan men who have done the hammerng in
reward The Bryan men generally will feel satisfied
with the result of this days proceedings The dele
and pledged to support the platform adopted there
form and ' Tammahy viii do this fall what it failed
TO do four years ago..
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.-A tall wearing his
hair cut Buffalo Bill fashion. with large SOM
brero and huge silver chain Topped several times
on his waistcoat, stroed among the upstate dele
at o'clock one of the rural delegates went up TO
him: grasped him by the hand and said 49,. su,u,
the size Of that silver chain your meek T T ana
Nebraska. and that You ore whooping it up fer
Bryan. Am ! right or am wrong?' 81.
Rerqrbably with gTn I'm Him the JqggsF
dG turn at of the S9n ss
a lot of new business. As to my politics. you're
case aras
hon rika fOpVn here re-
particularly thick wear the gold chain"
"GERRYMANDER' AND "JERRYMANDER." -
Assemblyman John T. Norton, the temporary
chairman, attacking the Republican State ad-
minstration. and referred TO the alleged gerry
mander of the State whereby the Republicans. &C
seInby districts than they are entitled TO.
NoIo q say on nsead of
ned turn over in his grave, SAID man from
English. He had horror of hearing the word
.gerrymander mispronounced and he used to haul
Norton over the Goals for it. After all these years,
right ahead and harrows up the memory of the old
professor 10y calling 1t jerrymande3r And the
Nortons long drawn out address.
Stokes OF EssEX."-"stokes of Essex had
his little day yesterday fattened out by the
convention steam roller. and Will doubt go back
home and tell his neghbors that he fearlessly
bearded the Tammany tiger in his lair Mr. Stokes
is a man with wavy white hair and fiorid middle
aged face. He tried 70 sidetrack the convention
afternoon and his effort lent considerable gayety
Fed iT W. Hnrchs Of Broofn oniy he
his frst little fling, and had been suppressed. the
convention grew tired Of him; and whenever he
angry Tammanyie yelled at. at him Say who the
fss are Who you amy said the enasos
But every one knew it before he said it.
SLIM ASSETS FOR NEW TRANSPORTATION
F. Gaynor the retiring treasurer of the Democratic
State Committee has been succeeded by his bust
ness partner Eugene Hughes of Syracuse so that
the treasurership, a Tammany man put 1t last
night is still in the family When Mr. Gaynor
was asked last night about the condition of the
treasury he said The sole assets of the Demo
cratic state Committee at the present time consists
of two barrels OF Bryan buttons: That's all I've
got to turn over TO my successor"
JIMMIE" OLIVER -LOOMs"-"Jimmie, Oil
YER of Paradise Park the perpetual consolation of
William jennings Bryan whenever the latter thinks
of the way Tammany Hall treated him four years
ago. begins to loom up Mr.. Oliver does not
loom up, as candidate for anything in particu-
thing fortunate should happen to Mr.: Bryan jim
on sofa in the Hoffman House last n TTeF w ia5
Clarence Ladd Davis and Thomas W Seaman, OF
verites, but Mr.. oliver is more of a harmonizer
these days than he is partisan.
Bryan next fan We would carry the State by 5000
sure, said Mr.. Davis.
Mr. Seaman nodded assent ana then made the
somewhat pertinent suggestion that neither Hill
nor Augustus Van Wyck a Democrat
Huh said Mr.. Oliver. in of his pacifying
and harmonizng moods. there's more DEMOCRACY
in Hills little finger. or in one hair of Gus Van
Wycks head, than there is in 400 Liliputans Ike
you"
Mr.. Scanlan-Oliver, you ran away in 1896 You're
gutter, and the streak OF yellow in you is so big
that you could sell yourself to a paint works for
ochre bed.
MI Ohver--What! Ne run away? Ny legs amt
built that way. ! wouldn't run away from mar
If he nine feet high and came at me with a
You
The were glaring at each other with red
eyes when a hotel porter ed