The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-09
EsT.SLoUIs. July .s.-Tne Cleveland

Vi ocratSs stamped the Cleveland boom
into the ground the moment it made
an appearance Many conservatives,
u socially those anxious for. harmony,
helped the work along. Even a sug-
gestion OF Cleveland sent the Western
& and a large portion of the Southern
delegates into angry denunciations.
IA few Cleveland workers stuck man
fully their missionary work, but
found the field was TOO hostile to at
ford any encoura cement. This made
syesterday's demonstration the more
4 s1rpri sing. Some Cleveland buttons
were in evidence very few-which
Fl lad Yplainly been resuTrected from
campaigns OF the past. They We're SO
few that a lapel adorned with one
was certain of inspection by many
curious eyes in the hotel lobbies.
Col Ned Hay. missed being secre-
tary OF the convention by Just three
votes. #Afterward several members
told him they We're 50 sorry. Had they
been aware what was on they surely
would have voted for him.
Hay admitted moleGtly today that
he would have liked it. He surely
would have felt co1nplimenyed, he
who presided ever the Lafayette
Theater convention, he who PROCESSES
ito be only a mere tyro in politics. to
hold til e high Office of secretary.
And, oh, N.Y. exclaimed the pop
1l1a Washinstonian again. those
Jealous District of Columbia delegates
remind me of those hard-flsted men
wi, in no,
woods to rehearse for a play. Oh, yes,
you all remember them. Bottom, the
weaver you know, wanted to play the
lion. No said another, I want that
Il part Then another wanted to play
s$Pyramus, but that one man inter
rupted to say that he wanted to be
q Ryramus. And it was the same way
when one wanted the part Of Thisbe.
OF course, you all follow me- con-
scIuded Col. Hay, joyously, "but wasn't
that a close vote on the convention
Secretary Oh, my, eighteen for
Walsh, who, mind you, is member of
the national committee, to fifteen for
Ned Hay, who is only a tyro in this
funny game Of politics"
Representative Clayton, OF Ala
hama, who has a big body and big
voice, brought to ST. Louis with him
little man with a big voice in
whom he processes pride. He is Col.
William w. Brandon, trim and sol
dierly looking young fellow, adjutant
general of the State.
wa The Colonel said Mr.. Clayton at
the St. Nicholas, in that deep, we'll
rounded, and Southern modulated
voice for which he is famous in pub
lie life, will be one of the reading
clerks in this convention, sir. Just
wait till you hear him and then tell
me if his voice isn't superior to that
of Clayton's, which you have heard
so often in the halls of Congress"
curiosity to the convention, as far as
curiosityto the convention, as far as
the South is concerned-a delegate
who is an out-and-out Bryan man and
likewise circuit Judge. This is
Judge Evans, of Barbour county. He
would like to support the "cheerless
lead er'' for third nomination. OF
course, he won't have an opportunity
to do that, and therefore he. will &C
tQuleSce the decision OF lNe AID
sbamans to vote for Parker.
Another member Of the Alabama
delegation is Representative Under
wood, of Birmingham, we'll known in
Washington, who for months advo-
Gated earnestly the nomination of
Richard Olney, therein being about
the only Southern man who wanted
the Massachusetts candidate. When
the Bay State delegates got in here
1 Monday evening they made a bee line
for Mr.. Underwood to urge him to
deliver a speech seconding Mr.. Oh
ney's nomination, and they have been
refusing to take no for an answer.
Mayor Pat Collins, of Boston, still tall
\ and slender and straight as an arrow,
but showing signs of i'll health and
advancing years, will make. the nom
mating speech, unless the delegation
is puffed off by the Parker managers.
While he was in his quest Of Mr. I'm
Sderwood he encountered the chunky
figure of Gov. Dockery, OF Missouri,
and the Olneyt boom was sidetracked
for a! few moments. as those two old
Democratic veterans reverted to their