The sun., 1904-07-04
CONVENTION SIDE LIGHTS.
INCIDENTS nv WHICH SOME or
THE DELEGATES FIGURE.
Electric signs Plenty ~ the various Head.
qtsarters-Psrker's Portraits Drsg
on 1fis Prospects Trust-I,uster Nose
WetmOre II at Work for COckreiI.


sr. Louis, July s.--'say," remarked one
delegate 10 another tod y. well 20 out
70 the fair this evening and see the ilumina-
ton .
well" said the stranger, "this is a re-
ngious country. man just asked me
TO go to a gambling house and all the bars
are open. but fellow can y go to the edu-
cational fair
The heartrending predicament OF one
New Yorker is thus told: He ordered an
expressman to cart his trunk to the station
on the day before he left for this city At
the same time the man living opposite his
apartments ordered another expressman
TO take his wife, trunk to another railroad.
The expressman who was to take the
woman's trl nks got TO the house first and
through the natural perversity OF express
men got hold of the trunk that ought to
have gone to st. Louis. Later the express
man who was to take the trunk for st.
Louis arrived. and he got the trunk that
should have gone to the seashore
The unfortunate delegate to this city
didn't find out the mistake until he had
undreesed after his arrival here and turned
to his trunk for some fresh linen On open
ing 1t he found a remarkable array OF femi-
nine clothing. the uses Of which were abso-
lutely unknown to him.
And when l think that TO fill up that,
trunk OF mine put in two dress suits and
all the.white shirts own it makes me sore.
said the delegate.
One man who arrived in st. Louis before
the New York delegation rented a state
room on his car for the sake Of being COM
Portable on the trip. He made up his
mind that it would be hot on the train.
and he thought that alone in the stateroom
he would be able to enjoy himself. Half
an hour outside Of New York city two
acquaintances invaded the room and said
that they would like to play little poker.
The game was started and after 1t had been
In progress an hour another man came in.
The game kept up without interruption
until u WAS bedtime.
THE next morning the game started
bright and early and after while the pro-
prietor Of the stateroom suggested that
he was getting tired of so much company
particularly as he was unlucky in the game.
No words of his could stir his visitors.
They STAYED and played and an utter
stranger joined them before long. All day
long the game was kept up, the. owner
of the stateroom playing In self defence,
for he feared he would be turned out Of the
room if he did not When the train finally
reached the Union Station he had lost
as much as the cost of the stateroom and
had experienced the worst trip West, that
he had ever taken.
The Democrats like electric signs. The
Hearst headquarters boasts great Amer
ican flag in electric lights. The lights are
extinpuished and lighted in a way to pro-
duce the effect of a flag waving in the
Of
Louis evening newspapers remarked sa-
piently last evening that Mr.. Hearst had
used the American flag so much in his news
papers that the people Of the country have
grown to consider the flag part of the
man. 81,
Tn. Indiana delegation, not content with
writing it's name on the walls Of the South
ern in letters of fire, has great big picture
OF a man labelled Parker in its rooms. and
this is framed in electricity. The Penn
sylvanians also have adopted the electric
as they have no candidate for the Presi-
dency vet they have not been able to use
as many bulbs as the lndianians.
IF Parker should be nominated" said
one Of his supporters from Indiana this
afternoon, Il hope that he will swing around
the circle. II he doesn't he will be beaten
to a pulp and all on account OF those pic
lures of him that are being circulated.
7 saw the man once at Manhattan Club
dinner, and he is a fine figure of man. and
don't YOU forget it. But every artist who
has drawn him for campaign purposes
has left all Of the strength and manliness
out of his face and has depicted MN as
soft, weak looking chump, about to de
liver a speech before the mothers ciub.
One of nv constituents told me the other
day that he would never vote for man
who looked as much like stun as the pic
lures of Parker he had seen made him look
II he IL nominated all the Republicans
will have to do to defeat him will be to put
and circulate them. Roosevelt is not
dream of manly pulchritude, but in the
prints he has Parker beaten to death
United States Senator Francis Marion
Cockrell of Missouri Is the candidate Of his
State for the nomination for President.
His associate in the United States Senate,
william Joel Stone, is in charge OF the
headquarters of the boom in the Southern
Hotel Whoever goes TO them 10 see Whae
is happening finds the famous tobacco
trust buster, Col Nose Wetmore, IN charge,
ready to shake hands with any one who Is
for Cockrell. Representatives Clark, Cow
herd. Lloyd and De Almond are also on
view at times in the headquarters.
Senator Stone boasts that already Okla
homa has come out for Cockrell, and he
thinks that by tomorrow night he Will
be able TO tally up couple more votes.
The delegates from Hawaii are here,
looking for a chance to nail plank to
the platform calling for full Territorial
rights for their island home. AT present
we are only a nominal Territory said
7. B. LYONS one OF the delegates. in fact,
we are a monarchy, ruled by one man,
and that man is the Governor, appointed
by the President.
-Four years ago the Hawaiians played
mighty important part in the proceedings
of the Democratic national convention
Their member of the committee on reso-
buttons was the man who cast the vote
deciding that the committee should recon-
mend the adoption Of a plank calling for
the free coinage Of silver at the sacred
ratio of 10 to L. When this had been done
the islanders could not contribute to the
support OF the ticket that was nominated.
Two former candidates for President
viii occupy seats in this convention. Bryan
bas hnan nominated twice by the Democ-