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Show THE CHICAGO CONVENTION assembled on Wednesday last, and up to the time our last dispatches were received, the eyes of republicans were still directed toward the "Garden City" with an unsatisfied longing to learn the decision. Hon. [Honorable] Geo. [George] Y. Hoar of Massachusetts was elected temporary chairman; and that gentleman made a stirring speech. Among other things it is reported by telegraph that he arraigned the democratic party for all political sins committed by it, and said that that party confronted the republican party today, unchanged in purposed, in temper, or in character, and united in nothing else; proposing no other measure of policy, than war upon the safeguards which had thrown around the purity of elections. It saw nothing of evil except that a freeman should cast a vote under the protection of the nation. In Louisiana and Mississippi it was the accomplice of the white league and the Ku Klux. In South Carolina it took the honest ballot from the box and stuffed tissue ballots in their place. In New York it issued fraudulent naturalization papers 60,000 in number. In Main its ambitious larceny tried to pilfer a whole state government, and in Delaware it stood as an accomplice to the whipping post. The republican party had no such miserable history. It told of rebellion subdued, of slaves freed, of great public work constructed, of debt diminished, of sound currency restored, of a flag floating everywhere honored and respected. After the roll call there was some discussion about the admission of the delegates from Utah; but the committee declared that Utah should be put upon the roll. The convention was soon thereafter adjourned until 11 o'clock yesterday. |
