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St. Louis Convention stories.

st. Louis Convention Stories.
The following stories of the St Louis
Convention are clipped from the special
reports of several papers:
| Col. "Bilr' Sterrett of Texas is view
/ ing with equanimity the downfall of
/ Bryan. The Colonel is loyal to his
| party, and voted twice for Bryan, but
{ he has no tears TO shed. He said to-
1 day:
i've followed our peerless leader
4 to a cherries grave for eight years,
and l am glad he's arrived there"
In the presence of a big crowd in
! the lobby of the Planters Hotel a
| Kentucky delegate was seized with d
| desire for something III his suit case
which he had in his hand. He put the
case down on the floor and opened it,,
and the first thing visible to every
| eye was a six-shooter. The theory
| that the gun issue in Kentucky had
been overestimated by newspaper
writers Immediately fell several
| points.
The most picturesque and loudest
lunged Parker boomers struck St.
| Louis Tuesday night. They walked
| right over the Tammany delegates, in
| front of the Southern Hotel, and plung-
ed into the lobby. Then they ex-
| ploded.
"Rah Rah! Rah! Geor-Jah! G-e-o-r-
g-i-a! Parker forever. Parker for
| aye!"
The Georgia delegation was full of
enthusiasm for the New York judge
and for five minutes the big Georgians,
! led by the giant editor, James r.
Gray, kept up the Parker war cry.
| They stirred up the other delegates
| and declared that they would stand
| by Parker till the last trumpet
sounded.
The Georgians are such ardent
Parker men that they are fighting
among themselves as to who and which
were the original Parker men. Clark
Howell, the national committeeman
| from the Cracker State, was a little
| bit slow on the Parker movement, but
finally got caught in the avalanche.
| Now the originals are refusing to
allow him any claim as Parker
| pioneer.
Give me $40 worth of fish hooks,
and I Will carry West Virginia for the
| Democratic party" said a we'll known
| Texan, who has fished in that state.
1.-THE West Virginians love their
country and their state" he contin-
ued, 'but they love fish hook bet
| ter than their children. When l went
into West Virginia after a few shin
ers, every man l met leaned up
against me and after a moments con-
versation on the weather inquired:
| 'Neighbor, have you got a real, sure
enough fish hook?'
When l produced one, the state
was mine, and the fulness thereof
If can persuade the chairman of the
| Democratic National Committee to
| give me $40 worth of fish hooks, a lot
| of bait and pay my expenses, 1 can
carry the state, whether the nominee
be Parker, German or Bryan"
| Some years ago Mr.. E. U. Benedict.
an officer of the Chicago, Burlington
| and Quincy Railroad, was travelling in
/ the South with a lot of jolly railroad
| friends, says the Brooklyn Eagle. At
| jackson, Miss, a man who had been
| seated in the opposite section of the
| sleeper arose satChel in hand, to leave
the car, but before going stepped
across and, Offering a beautiful silver
handle pocket knife to Mr.. Benedict
said:
II believe this is yours, sir
Il guess not" Mr.. Benedict answer
| ed. 81 never saw ii before
But the stranger laid the knife on
the railroad officials knee and hasten
| ed away.
When Mr.. Benedict's surprise had
| somewhat subsidized he inspected the
| knife more closely and found an in
scrfption neatly engraved on the re-
| verse side of the handle:
This knife was made for the home
| lest man in America. Pass it along
until it reaches him.
Last week one of MIR. Benedict
| companions on that trip was visiting
| the Worlds Fair in st. Louis. In the
| crowd at the Inside Inn he saw a man
| whose homely face was singularly IA
miliar, but whom he could not place.
who is that man?' he asked of one
| of the clerks.
THAT is John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi. the Democratic leader in
| the House of Representatives at
Washington" the clerk answered.
| "Of Mississippi, eh?' exclaimed the
railroader. 81 knew L had seen him
somewhere. He's the man that gave
| the knife to Benedict"
When the story had been told, the
clerk said:
well, If your friend Benedict is
any homlier than Williams 1 guess
the knife reached its destination all
| right"