The sun., 1904-07-04

the other candidates put together. The
boom has the hearty and unqualified in
as the Hon. j. c. Wall Of Wisconsin, the
Hon. James Wall Of Wisconsin and the Hon.
Donald Wall Of Wisconsin. These gentle
men are here to take charge Of the interest
Of the Hon. +. G. Wall, and they report
that there is no discord In the family what
ever.
The caucuses begin tomorrow. Illinois,
which Ii afflicted with as fine a family row
as ever caused delegate to sit up at night.
will lead of and the st. Louis newspapers
gravely say that they expect the police will
be called in to calm the delegates. The
Pennsylvanians will meet in the evening
and tomorrow the New Workers will get
together in order that Mr.. Hill and Mr..
Murphy and Mr.. McCarren may have an
opportunity to smile at each other.
"You can bet your bottom dollar that
there is one tune that the band will not
play at this convention said a member
of the local committee to-day. THAT
tune is Grover. Grover. four years more
of GroveDD We have the bandmas ter
under bonds to exclude that tune from
the programme, and if he starts in mo-
ment of al Lsentmindedness to play 1t. we
will have a man handy to shoot every
member of the band No Grover. Grover
for ours In this convention
One of the most prominent features OF
the community is the Hon. p. Sheedy of
London. Paris New York. Cairo. Chicago,
Berlin. Monte Carlo and other places.
rs there anything doing?" asked
sportive New Yorker of the Hon. Pat.
Not thing" said Mr.. Sheedv. mot
a thing. 1t Is sad affair. a very sad af1air
I'm out here selling few old masters.
and that is all that there is going gbasa on .d
| an old friend TO see him later in the even
ing. that friend Immediately put the price
of return ticket and his board bill into
the hotel safe.
Ex-senator David Bennett Hill has rented
a room at the furthest and Of the most
| completely hidden corridor in his hotel
1t takes uninstructed delegates hours to
find the way to Mr.. Hills room. However.
as one of them remarked on leaving the
room this afternoon. the ex-senator
hearty hand-casp, and his free and frank
and open manner Of greeting his visitors
more than repats them for the trouble they
have in finding him.
When the Peerless Leader arrived in
town to-day there were half dozen
photographers in wait for him at the Jeffer-
SON The Colonel made his way to the
desk and registered, and then allowed
himself to be drawn to the entrance OF the
hotel to be pictured. AS he stood on the
threshold a crowd collected about him.
In it was man with little girl in his arms.
LET them come into the picture, said the
Bow Orator
By this time the crowd was so great
that the photographer could .l,Ia not gett toa a
the people away, and the Colonel endeav-
ored to drive them back, but it was all to
no purpose, and for fifteen minutes the
Colonel stood with uncovered head trying
to get his picture taken. At length the
crowd gave way a little and the task
dreaded so much was accomplished.
Col. Abe Slupsky wandered through
the corridor of the Southern Hotel this
evening and looked the delegates over.
delegates to a convention always make
me think of the brass horns they put on
phonographs," he said. All you see is
the horn and out of it all the noise comes.
First think you have you put that horn
down AS a great institution. You think
it is the famous phonograph and you say
that there is something worth while: Then
YOU look it over a little and you discover
that the horn does not amount to whole lot
at all, and that somewhere, where IT doesn't
make much show, is a little machine that
is doing all the work. All that the horn
is doing is hollering. and that Is about all
the delegates do. Somewhere there Is
machine that makes a noise and the dc ie-
gates take that noise and make u louder.
That's all they are here for.
The Hon Wind Allen OF Nebraska and the
Hon. John Jaw Lentz of Ohio are both on
exhibition here Lentz's seat is contested.
but he says that he will be content to lose
it il he can get the convention to adopt
plank calling for the government & tele-
graph wire in every post Office. Mr. ALIENS
contribution to the gossip was the remark
that the Hon. Arthur Pue German OF Mary,
land was a good, practical man, who looked
like an Episcopal minister.
II one wishes to learn the details of the
life Of the Hon. William Randolph Hearst
he can read the history of that gentleman
issued by the William Randolph Hearst
League of Chicago. For complete particu-
lars of the fights in which the Hon. Will
liam Randolph Hearst has clipped the wings
and drawn the teeth OF monopoly, the
searcher after the truth should go TO the
publications of the Rhode Island delega-
ton to the Democratic national convention
of 1904. - ,,.,,.
If the running ability Of the Hon. William
Randolph Hearst is under discussion, full
statistics thereof may be ootalneo from
the pamphlet Facts vs.. Theories, issued
at ST Louis to-day by the California dele
cation. Great sellers. other works in
press.
L. F. TAYLOR of Grand Boulevard. ST.
Louis. called on Col. Bryan this afternoon
with his three sons, tripiets. in tow. Mr..
Taylor said that the boys were years old
and that oncsof them was named William
the next Jennings and the third Bryan
al in honor OF the Nebraska statesman.
Il congra tulate you, Mr. Taylor said
Mr. Brya6, -lf all the fathers of the country
had been as fortunate and as patriotlc as