Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-04
A GAME OF POLITICS
That is Being Played in st.
Louis.
DELEGATES TALK LOUD
THE HEARST PEOPLE ARE EN-
TERPRISING.
California's Delegation Helps His
Boom Along-Some of the Gossip
of the Delegates.
TALK LOUD

polltlcS Is belng played here. Ihe dele-
gates to the democratic national conven-
ton are politicians to man; they are the
kind of politicians that formerly settled the
destinies of the country on the hustings.
AS they gather here and assemble in the
great lobby of the jefferson Hotel they
proceed to expound their ideas with an
earnestness and vehemence that never fail
to insure to the speakers the attention OF
as great a crowd as can get within hearing
distance
The delegates to the national republican
convention in Chicago assembled in the
lobby of the Auditorium in that city and
spoke only In the tones of the drawing
room. Here the delegates speak to be
heard by many people as possible.
There the crowd had the appearance OF a
business assemblage; here no one can for
a moment question the very apparent fact
that every man is statesman. There it
was said there was a lack of enthusiasm.
No one was deeply enough interested in
any subject to talk in loud tone of voice;
people then said everything was cut and
dried. Republicans themselves said there
was general concurrence of opinion
There is nothing cut and dried here; in
dividualism is rampant Every one of the
thousand delegates here could name the
candidates and write the platform of the
party which would be sure to be victorious
over the 1epuDilcln TICKET ara pidilbl III.
The attention of the delegates is so strong
ly directed toward the presidential nominal
ton that they are just now heard talking
about nothing else.
Everybody a Presidential Candidate.
Everybody who is a candidate at all is a
presidential candidate. There are no cam
didates for the vice presidential nominal
ton to speak of, that office being left open
as a salve for some one whose aspirations
for the presidency will be demolished.
The platform is not a matter for much
hotel lobby discussion. There are just two
kinds of ulatforms-one of the Bryan kind,
and the other is the conservative plat
FORM Besides occasional reference 10
those two classes of platforms, that impor-
tant party document is not receiving mnch
attention from the statesmen who are hold
ing forth in the lobbies.
Here is a sample of the discussion that
one hears constantly among the delegates:
You say Cleveland was loyal to his
party?" said Louis Lenschinsky, Tam
many delegate haiing from Greater New
York district, as he approached VIM. Des-
mond one of the six Iowa delegates VINO
are instructed for Hearst, and who declare
that they will allow their vote to be cast
for the New Yorker under the unit rule
only under severe protest
This New York delegate, who declared
state had ever sent to a convention ana
looked the part, started to state why
Cleveland had not been loyal to MS party.
but the Iowa man would have none OF
if ..You got in frost and Cleveland got
out of the frost" exclaimed desmond,
whose towering form made 1t necessary
for him to look down on the youngest Dol
egate: you are early frost people, that IS
what you are
This vernacular seemed to be perfectly
intellicible to the crowd that began at
once to gather. both speakers could be
heard above the uproar. 1t developed that
Desmond was for Cleveland or OlneN, IN
the order named. and the young New
Yorker was for Mcclellan
You would throw down your country
for something to hang calamity ON,
continued Desmond; you are handsome
Young man; and know you are decent ana
you want to do flshI So, - ~,
Cant YOU stand for a little argument!
retortad the young man. But he had no
sooner pleaded for argument than the Bug
fellow began himself to argue ana they
kent IL up on that strain for half an hour,
the big one holding the floor and the young
one pleading for chance TO argue Inc
proposition he was prepared to defend 10
the effect that Cleveland had not been
loyal to his party.
Headquarters of the national committee AT
the jefferson. OF course the people VINO
are really doing the most to shape affairs,
if the process going on here can be called
shaping one are upstairs holding private
! conferences in their rooms. Rumors reach
the lobby now and then OF an sorts OF
would result In the nomination OF some
candidate on the second or third ballot
These rumors are supposed to come from
the rooms in which conferences are being
held. Wherever they come from. they get
in circulation. and each one has the inter-
est of a fifteen-minute wonder.
Enterprising Hearst People.
The Hearst people as enterprising
here as they have been all along. Max
Ihmsen. the king pin of the Hearst cam
paign moves about with an air OF COM
posure and confidence that ought to pro-
duce better results than 1t does. Max ihnl-
sen never conceived "A better scheme IN ms
reportorial days on Hearsts newspaper
than when he conceived the idea of making
Hearst President. There are lots OF peo-
pIe who are fully satisfied that he worked
the whole thing out just as he would Wclk
up a theory or a murder trial, and he had
plenty of money to put 1t into effect hlr.
Ihmsen is credited with having the cuaity
of genius He is always attn ed IL ne punk
of the style. He has the air of prosperity.
Tact courtesy and the power for thought
full arrangement of stage accessories are
qualities that were not spared In the make
up of Mr.. lhmsen-
..I am not going to vote for lot of hired
men" declared one of the uninstructsd del
egates when he was approached &c vote for
Hearst.
what the delegates in the lobby are talk
ing about What kind of a man is this
Hearst? We know his newspapers. but
how about him? We know his managers,
but let us see him and hear the sound Of
his voice.
For verify. Hearst is the veiled prophet
of the convention. Parker Is silent when
seen hut Hearst cannot be seen. He is
known to delegates only by name. Men
who, have attempted to secure conferences
with him during the last few months have
failed II tell you they will not let you
see him." declared one of the delegates.
There is nothing new about this pan in
the management of Hearst 1t is Just what
it has been claimed has been a feature OF
his management right along. He is not
in St Louis and is not expec to be here.
The Hearst management took the Jeifer-
son by storm last evening They came to
the hotel to discover that Belmont had en-
gaged the bridal apartments. Ii looked as
though Hearst would have to take the sec
ond best. Then 1t was developed that he