The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-14
POLITICAL AIR
HOLDS CHICAGO
HOuSAND3 OF TIE CONVEX
TioN HOST ARRIVED THERE
YESTERDAY.
DELEGATIONS ARE LATE
urGGuaI CaIr1 a. Compared With
Gatherings in the Pact--Activity
at Various Hea6quarteTs--
Prominent Men Arrive.


q Nh'eaao' June i@.-ihf tramp Ct ta.
L feuhvention heats is now fairy uld
i way and tonight Chicago is baGinni T.
TO thrCb wit htae confusion and eN
ritemaat Of arriving throng8, sem,
with banners aud bands, and gain
lunit, rmed marchers, others made u
Iof state delegations with their con
spicuoGs leaders and their cohorts o
strong 'unged followers and shoutars
others with friends and admirers oI
! the various presidential candidate.
/ and sllll others and again others al
/ Gu ,uus on-lookera, drawn from eY rH
section CT the country. Including mam
/ representatives. Of tle ro'ei II loFeru
ncnts, who have come 70 witness tn
national spectacle,
Thousands Arrive.
All day special and regular trains
emptied thousands of strangers into
this political Moca, The effect Of this
influx is seen tonight in the sursilg
street crowds growing animation OF
|choktd and smoky hotel lobbies
strains Of music and the swell Of era
tory from some Of the headquarters OF
candidates. and the bounteous hospi
tality which those Headquarters ar
beginning to dispense
And yet this fore gathering of the
Chicago convention of 1908 has al
y a
clam and. tranquility, for measured by
the din and turmoil, scenes of delir-
ious excitement and the spirit Of die
in the last ditch. which has marked
some historic gatherings Ct the past
THIS inNadidB army 81 delegates a1d
spectators IS a most stand and uhemo
tional body But II Is none the less
an army with new columns coming
o the front hourly and with the pros
tect Ct plenty oi hurrah ana fireworks
lhead to animate the leaders ana s'il
he blood On the onlookers
Notable Arrivals.
The centers OF interest today nay
been the arriving delegations, win
many leaders ct con n5picuous national
1romlnenece, and the headquarters ol
he various presidential candidates
Among the notable convention figures
o arrive were Ron Cameron former
lnited states senator from fehhsS'
'ania who has not attended Il halloha
convention since 1880 when he stood
With Roscoe Conkline and John a
-ogan as leaders OF the thlrd Term
movement in the interest OF Genera
irant. and Tenry Taft brother OF the
ecretary OF war; senator DepeW, k"p
'esentatiye Payne, 81 New lork
hartman Of the ways aud means com
niltee Of the house Of representatives
,ho bears on his shoulders good
cal o fthe burden of iuIture tarin re
ision; United states Senator Long
+ Kansas, who is reputed to have th'
he Dolliyer vice presidential boom
a cold storage; James S. Sheman and
=. h. Woodruff, Of .ow York, both re
eptlve vice presidential possibilities:
&GOyernor Yates Of Illinois, with hi
lean shayen, actor-ltke face and viii
lsncsa to consider his return to the
International chair and host oi ON
rs, notable in the political world.
State Delegations Late.
The rank and file of state delrRa
ons are late in arriving and organ
ling, compared with previious conFen
ons, but most Of the states have
Ioir own advance guards here. New
ork's delegation arrived by sp'ci"
ain at noon, considerable part "i
le Pennsylvania delegation was add
1 to that already here, and other
ate contins'ats struggled In during
le afternoon and evening.
The Amcricus cub, OF Pittahuis'
noX organization with handsome
Informs and gay coior'd uinbr"iia g. Q
arched through the streets anu gave
foretaste Of scenes to come.