The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-07
Gains Admission for Many Tam
many Men to the Con
vention Hall.
CHEERING is PROLONGED.
Sergeant-at-Arms Martin and Sip
Policemen Unable to Check
Tumult Caused by Gro
yer'S Name.

| All the cunning OF DAVID Is. diu ~dS
| not enough to keep the Tammany FORCES
| down and prevent them from making a
| demonstra ton at the Coliseum yesterday.
| Less than 800 hundred tickets were aitoc-
| ted to the thousand or more Tammany
| men now quartered in the city. Hill
| feared that if too many members OF 'he
| wigwam got into the convention tnere
| might be some miscarriage OF his plans.
Accordingly, the allotment OF tickets Was
| cut down.
| But Tammany was not TO be 1oiied
| Michael J. Padden. a lieutenant OF Con-
gresham Timothy d. Sullivan was CHOSEN
TO carry out the plan Of campaign, and ne
| is to-day the idol of all the Tammany
| braves.
| Thomas F. Smith. secretary OF lam
many Hall. succeeded in purchasing the
| badge OF an assistant sergeant-at-arms OF
the convention. This he pinned upon
Colonel Padden ard introduced him to the
sergeant-at-arms and the head door
keeper as Tim Luce of Brooklyn, loyal
| friend of Senator McCarren and therefore
of Judge Parker.
| Mr. Padden was instructed to have all
I the Tammany men without tickets who
I applied for admission permitted to enter
| the hall Shortly after the doors were
| opened the braves lined UP in force and
| were admitted. Some Of them secured
I seats in the galleries. while number re-
| mained near the Colonel. They all waited
| for the cue.
NAME OF GROVER.
This came when John Sharp Williams
mentioned the name of Grover Cleveland
| Colonel Padden stood half way down the
center aisle and. shaking a ian in one
hand and handkerchief in the other, sig
nailed to the Tammanyites to rise and yell
His orders were obeyed to the letter Pad
den himself howled like Commanche In
dian. The demonstration commenced by
| Padden continued so long that Colonel
| John !. Martin started down the aisle TO
suppress the Bowery idol.
Just what happened when the two Colo
rels met is related in Colonel Paddens
own language:
THE sergeant-at-arms came at me fast
said Mr.. Padden. He said: Man. you are
making a disturbance here. You must
quit it l said to him: I'm a good
Cieveia nd man. and just can't quilt cheer
ing the name of the great Grover CieVe-
land Then he made a dash for me, but
| didn't hit him. No. l never hit a man
that old in my life. l just leaned up
against him and he went dowr
He came back at me. putting. saying
I must be thrown out of the convention
told him l was a good Democrat ana
wouldn't he put out of the conventlon-
Then he went away and / kept on cheer
ing and waving EN- up with my fan every
time they seemed inclined to get tired
The push got pretty fierce around me, and
the next thing knew a police captain and
Ii. md u-pr
duced in due form by Mr.. Martin. the
sergeant at arms Mr. Martin, you see.
was hot and excited. and l don't blame
him He said to me: Will you walk out
with me-? l said: 'Yss. sir: ! will walk
out with you and talk IL over if you'll
promise TO let me come back with you
when We get through.
Then he told the big policeman to take
me out. The Police Captain was all right,
only he didn't know I was a good Demo-
crat from the Bowery. l told him il any
knock his head off. also told him his
place was outside Of the building. and he
could only interfere there If murder was
ing and public convention for Demo-
Gratis. and not for policemen. But let
any policeman put his hand on me-. says
man that tries TO take me out Of this hall
simply because am cheering for Grover
Then said Nh he Maa shoaEs, the wsad
be quiet. and the policeman went away.
got pushed up near the speakers stand
and 5osnp kept shs1p MaDn Wams sD leaned over and
said to me: My friend. do. you want to
break this whole thing upc ! turned to
thing Mr. Speaker. I just idolize Grover
Cleveland. and I've simply got to cheer
for him every time his names mentioned
touching me on the shoulder. said: My
good man, do you want to ruin meT II
YOU will just keep quiet a minute. this
whole thing will STOP
SORRY FOR WILLIAMS
II was real sorry for Mr.. Williams, but
the spirit of the thing had got on me. and
1 couldn't stop being enthusiastic foy
Grover Cleveland.
Finally l got over toward where the
newspaper men were, and they asked me
to step aside so the messenger boys could
get past with their dispatches. Then
say say the Cheering only lasted seven and a
half minutes. / know 1t lasted twenty
minutes. and If the newspaper men hadn't
messenger boya it would have lasted
Minneapolis in lss2 and Charles A Towne
says that was thirty -one minutes, and he
was there"
Mr. Padden and Sergeant-at-Arms Mar.
tin arranged their differences without fur
ther violence just after the convention
You shouldn't have done that" said
Mr.. Martin to Mr. Padden.
g! took my cue from you," said Mr..
Padden.
NO, you didn't: I was pounding with
the gavel to get things QUIET
Not bit of it," replied Mr.. Padden.
was applauding with my fan"
"An right" said MIR. Martin. ST apoIo- "
size and I'm sorry 1 hit you"
Mr.. Padden was asked II he would be
in the convention again tomorrow
Il will be in the convention ready to
eneer TOT Grover cleveland II I'm alive,