From all the States delegations of "slioutcrs" poured into Denver for tho National Democratic Convention. Tho. claque in tho galleries, whose business it is to chcer, boo, hiss, sing songs, and shout through megaphones in tho interests of tho various candidates for nominations, number over 10,000. Tammany Hall alone sent to Deliver live train-loads containing GOO or 700 stentorian politicians. They took with them £25,000 in loose change, B=loo pints of wino, 35 tons of ice, 30,240 bottles of beer, and 175,000 cigars, by. tho judicious distribution of which tliey intended to produce a hurricane of noisy enthusiasm in the convention citv-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 293, 4 September 1908, Page 8
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