Gilpin observer., 1904-01-21
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From Irregular Correspondent


met at the Shoreham on Tuesday with
full house. The first hours were wasted
over the insignificant contest for COM
mitteeman from this district. The lob
bies were crowded with familiar faces.
There were Senator Clark, slight of fig
ure, keen eyed, jocund, volatile with the
Western manner; Senator Jones, serious
and dignified, conceding at last that
Bryan was not elected: Senator Dubois
and his comrade, ex-senator Charley
Towne, both buoyant and confident of
the future: McCarren, the new boss of
Brooklyn, tall and smooth shaven, re-
ceived etfusively; Ex-Governor Peck Of
Wisconsin. whoi alluded to Chicago as
the twenty-third ward of Milwaukee;
Charles F. Murphy, Tammany leader,
moustached, solid, commanding; Till
man, shaggy, pugnacious, loquacious and
of opinion that sit is high time the
South was conceded vice president"
Sulzer, brisk, talkative, chock full of
opinions; Bryan, belated and welcomed
affectionately but not vociferously. The
committee selected st. Louis, July 9th,
for the convention to nominate pres-
dent. In the lobby Judge Parker was
jure with. Neither Cleveland's friends
nor Bryan's object. Gamiliel Bradford
of Boston, vice president of the Anti
Imperialst League, stirred up the crowd
everywhere by his appeals in behalf of
General Miles for preside pt.
When the committee adjourned for
refreshments your correspondent walked
around the square to Lafayette Theatre
and attended one of the most remarkable
meetings ever held in this city-in be.
half of international arbitration, espec.
tally between England and the United
States. Their flags were hung side by
side in the proscenium arch. From the
stage the audience was very distinguish
ed, including hundred members of the
House and Senate: and to the audience
the six publicists ranged in rank back of
of the footlights seemed even re re-
markable. Mr.. Cleaveland. who lost his
ent to preside. and his place was taken
by our formost diplomatist. John w.
Foster oftsn ambassador to foreign
countries and recently active in the set
tlemeut of the Alaskan boundry. Slend-
er, alert, facile, he is at 10 the ideal pre-,
siding officer. Thomas Nelson Page act
ed as secretary and vigorously read the
resolutions. There was little that was
strictly novel 10 any of the speaches, but
they were impromptu and deeply 10
earnest. Cardinal Gibbons, tall, lean,
grave, made favorable impression, the
key OF his thoughts being the necessity
of peace between the great English
speaking races. General Miles was re-
ceaved with applaus long continued, as
his commanding voice and vigorously
personality drove home his sentences.
The gem OF his speech was that armies
should not be organized and armed for
the purpose OF hunting down week peo-
pies, and that arbitration had its noblest
service in protecting the feeble against
the powerful. The situation was unique
the formost soldier of America speaking
for liberty and justice instead of con-
quest and pleading for peace against all
warlike methods. Edward Everett Hale
the venerable author and chaplain of the
Senate, was an agreeable but most
startling presence, unfamiliar to the peo.
pie CT Washington. Tall-giantesque,
hirsute, explosive in speech, abrupt in
manner, with the mien. the gesture and
the lusty CALCULATIONS of the primitive
man, he trumpeted forth his denial that
arbitration was new invention. The
Constitution adopted in 1887 was an ar
bitration, providing n Supreme Court;
now we need worlds supreme court.
j. M. Dickinson spoke of the South most
eloquently. He was counsel for the
American boundary commissioners in
the Alaskan dispute. lie said the South
is more interested in arbitration than
any other people on earth, for it will be
fully 100 years before the South RECEIVERS
from the destruction of her young man.
hood wrought by the Civil war. Dr.
Silverman spoke for the Jews, and
warned the audience against "vho pro
claims pence and permits thousands OF
his people to be butchered." Andrew
Carnegie, understood, close clipped, fire
in his eye and a laugh on his face even
when most in earnest, warmed the aud
ience into n real Scotch conhagration of
enthusiasm. 1t was good to be there |
and made one feel for moment as il |
tho world was progressing.
While the Democratic committee and |
the International Congress were in SEES
sion within block of the White House,