OCR Text |
Show CLEVELAND TO SEBRIGHT GITY FOB DELEGATES Republican Convention Scene Will Bo Vastly Changed ' Oyer Condition Condi-tion of 1864 Convention ' CLEVELAND. April M. (By A. A P.V Whsn til Republican national convention opens her Juna 10 Cleveland lupublleans hop. ,h,v will not aa renct1 th scenes lUa sear tba rmasp aeaeeai Una of dlsaatlafied Republican which, nominated John C. Framont hara In 1. Th Republican of today will j find a different Cleveland from that which the Fremontexa entered May 10. When tha lattar want to their hotala after th day's eelon, they ware passed by Ismpllghlers, who carried ladders serosa thalr shoulders. shoul-ders. Later they want to an ove-ning ove-ning meeting tboufh dimly gas lit treat a. Juns 10 there will be no walling for ths lamplighter lo make rounds. An entire city will be Instantly Illuminated Il-luminated by a few turns of the hand at a awltchboard. The convention con-vention sons will b msds radiant by slectrlo lamps of high wattage. One of the streets her was rs-j csntly lighted at an ajiprtrBejiritsa demonstration by tamps of ooo-candl ooo-candl power each.. Equally different will b th ln-tereet ln-tereet taken by Cleveland In ths convention Preparatlona bav been Coins on for months to houe. Its jgssion In the munlclpaaunjlo- rlum, which Is expected ta seat, mors tham II. 60S. Th day before the Fremonter convened tbelr rep- reeentattv sought to nce Brainard's hall, "but Miss Kale Dean, th vocalist, waa ahead of th national convention." so ths Clove- I land Leader, a supporter of Lin- . coin, reported the nest day with I antlsfartion. The Leader asserted that Chapin's hall, which was. flnstly encased, "could not hold looo i the number whirh another pa- ; per had predicted would attend! If they were parked like herrings from , floor to calling. . Ths leader eald ths maximum ca- I pacity of ths hall was 000 and that 1 at no time were there mora than 400. Th sams paper declared that In- congruous slsments composed what It termed "the great sorehead con- i ventlon." It Is related that when Lincoln waa Informed of the proceedings he smilingly opened his Blbls to th . first book of Samuel. "And every ona that was In distress and every on that was In debt, and every on that waa dlacontented, gathered themselves unto Him; and H became be-came a captain over them; and there war with Him about 40 men. Kremont, th captain referred to, subsequently resigned h re command by withdrawing his csndldacy. Hs j lived to see part of hla own pro- j gram fulfilled under th leadership h had distrusted. |