The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-27
BIG TOMuNSON HALL IS
CROWDED TO THE DOORS
Every Available Foot of Space
Occupied When Chairman Good
rich's Gavel Falls.
MANY DEMONSTRATIONS
Candidates, Senators and Gov
ernor Are Greeted with Pro-
longed Cheering.

Every available inch of space in Tomlin-
son Hall, with ali seats filled and stand
ing room occupied 10 the walls, was taken
up at o'clock yesterday afternoon when
the biennial Republican state convention
was called to order by State Chairman
Goodrich
Coming in the year of the fiftieth ami
versary Of the birth of the Republican
party. the convention gave indications of
being one of the greatest in the history
Of the party in Indiana.
With large crowd of delegates and Wis
itors waiting, the doors of TomInson Hall
were opened at o'clock and from that on
the main floor, the balconies and the gal
lery were gradually filled At 2 o'clock the
vast audience was ready for the fall of the
gavel, and eagerly awaiting the moment
when Chairman Goodrich should call the
convention to order.
Tomlinson Hall never appeared better.
and offered fit setting for the dramatic
incidents that were to be crowded into the
day and half of the convention Its dec
orations, while simple, were very effective
From the ceiling hung suspended four large
American flags. with fan-shaped festoons
of bunting in the national colors at regu-
high windows of the halls festoons of the
same kind hung upon the walls, alter
mating with broad pennons of the national
colors. The balconies were draped with
bunting. At the front of the hall, high
over the stage, in a setting of red white
and blue bunting, hung pictures of state
and national leaders of the party, living
and dead. On one side were pictures of
prnc
and Beverage and of Governor Durbin
on the other. pictures of Mckinley. Hanna,
Harrison and Mount. On the draped
speakers stand, at TIE front, was a vase
of carnations, flower that the martyred
Mckinley loved.
To make room for the conventions de-
manos' the stage OF the hall had been ex-
tended upon the floor. In the center of
the extension, with a railing of bunting
shutting 1t In, was arranged the stand for
the Chairman and speakers of the conven-
tlon; 10 the west of IL long box for the
press, to the east similar box for the
secretaries of the convention.
PARTY LEADERS ON THE STAGE.
Seats on the stage had been reserved for
state leaders and members of their fami-
lies, and for men who were once promi-
nent in the councils of their party. Several
women also occupied stage seats. The men
seated on the stage when the convention
was called to order included State Chair
man Goodrich, Senators Fairbanks and
Beveridge. Governor Durbin, j. Frank
Hanly, congressman Crumpacker, Cromer
and Holiday, Admiral Brown. Col. l. N.
Walker, Judge Leander j. Monks, and four
teen survivors of the first state conyen-
ton of the Republican party in. Indiana.
held in 1S56-John w. Ray and Col. George
w. Parker, of indianapolis; Judge James
ID. Conner. of Wabash; John G. Eiler OF
Muncie: c. 8. Hudson, of Corydon; j. l..
Darnell, of Greencastle; e. b. Wingate and
James b. McFadden, of Shelbyvile; Judge
Thomas ]. Kane, of Noblesville; William
kee. of Terre Haute; Judge NJ. l.. Bundy,
OF New Castle; Col. Henry q. Thayer, OF
Plymouth, and John Tilson, of Franklin.
Congressman Fred Lands sat in the front
row, just two seats from Major George
w. Steele. with Judge A. o. Marsh, United
States pension commissioner, between
them.
Stationed in the gallery of the hall the
Indianapolis Military Band played from the
chairman's gavel. National airs alternated
with popular music, but the audience that
slowly filed i'm too busily engaged in
looking at the hall and at itself TO dc
more than give occasional applause TO one
of the Nations songs or to a tune of the
hour.
The whole of the main floor, the first
balcony in the rear and the same balcony
on the east side were reserved for dele
on the east side and to the front of the
hail. was reserved entirely for women
while men and few women occupied the
rest of the available space in the balconies