Show republican our special furnishes a spicy description of its proceedings CHICAGO june 19 AA little after noon today one of th the great political events of 1888 the OF THE NATIONAL B convention took place the hall ball was not by any means crowded fully chairs were vacant most of the vacant chairs were in ih the thea top gallery ticket holders were afraid to asce riU puch bach heights for this top gallery is away beyond the stars loud and emphatic dissatisfaction was being mant mani tested in the press quarters if reporters were expected to catch speeches from the platform or even from the ch airmans stand the idea seems not to have entered the mind of the auditorium engineer the reporters may as well have been located in the basement as far as the practicability a of doing work w was gs concerned it would not be difficult to get the whole scribbling tribe to leave the hall it if some energetic and magnetic agitator were among them THE OPENING was offered by a mr gunsallus a local clergyman though the prayer was spoken in the usual way with closed eyes and melodramatic melo dramatic tones it has been in print privately for days the praye hid had to be submitted for revis revision loh to the national committee it appears the republican party dont want to be handicapped in future by tool preachers as it has been in the past why they preachers wrote poor blaines Bla inea platform and inserted that old gid utah plank in it mr thanked god for the problem of the present the glory of the past the majesty of law and the inspiration of liberty he said we pray thy blessing for all the leaders of this party at home and ala abroad road 11 but he did not say we pray thy malediction on all other parties especially anthe on the prohibition party though it was ex pecked such would follow A special blessing was ask asked ealor tor this convent convention lon political revision of a prayer makes make it very commonplace prosaic and selfish mr is a sleek slender brunette he looks like an italian monk on a furlough he wears a black mustache giving him the appears appearance uce of an italian roman koman churchman in disguise it if his prayer were the spontaneous utterance of his heart it would do more credit to his rell religion glion CHAIRMAN JONES ORATORY alter after the call for the convention was read B F jones jonea chairman of the national committee comme meed the reading of a long address mr jones will probably be described as patriarchal and poetic and so forth but to me he be appeared one of the sickest travesties on oratory it has ever been my misfortune to te hear or rather to se etor or save a word here and there I 1 could not tell what he be said his mouth opened and closed with mechanical regularity it if mr jones ba any friends frienda ario entertain a tease of me ridiculous they will insist on the old gentleman keeping his mouth shut in future and in converting his manuscript into wadding for fireworks WHAT THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN when mr jones introduced john M thurston Thur of nebraska as aa temporary chairman the convention was delighted here kansas entered a vig orous protest against thurston and dit disavowed vowed all responsibility for his appointment though mr thurston Tb arston was provided with the inevitable manuscript it did not mar his delivery he has a splendid voice clear resonant yet well modulated and made himself distinctly heard beard all ail over the ball he is a deliberate squeaker speaker and this trait in a larg ahall is a great advantage to a speaker or reader his of mr blaine as our uncrowned king was received with applause strange that the mention 0 ota ot a king and the savor savo asso associations suggested by the word mould awaken applause in popular government republican breasts mr thurston dwelt on the necessity of protecting american industry on the evil of chinese immigration and on the propriety ot of meeting an anarchy anar arcay coy socialism and probably democracy with the sword speaking of the presumption or assumption indulged in by many that the republican party has ceased to 11 live ve jae be said but the mission ot of the republican party will never be done until every american citizen enters into the unquestioned possession of his every political 0 it ical right 11 it is 18 only a short t time pl me ago slice since the state of nebraska in the persons of senator Mang mangerio Mandera erso oo in and others helped very earnestly to deprive utah citizens of all political socia laye even civil cr viland and natural rights mr thurston should read that hymn in which are the lines that mercy I 1 to others show that mercy show to uie me though the pension list is now andua annually yet mr thurston wants it extend extended led socialism promises wealth tor for everybody but a pension is just as good the most pathetic tle part of the discourse was the closing sentence in which a moses was prayed for to lead the re be publican party in the ness for four years not forty years OTHER SPEAKERS the most interesting incident of the days work was the presentation of general fremont to the convention he is here as toe the guest of the nebraska delegation the general is a grizzled looking person but graceful and quiet appearing appear fax As a founder of the party he is looked upon with reverence he spoke briefly on party matters he alluded feelingly to his bis campaign of 1856 judging pg tram from what he be will see at the present convention he must feel that he will survive ills his party the factionist fact has been carried I 1 sto the convention and it is only apolitical miracle that can prevent serious in the future the speech of mr fremont gave the convention an idea that a general speaking barbecue was now in order and fred douglass was loudly called calle for the aged negro grizzly ferocious and earnest ascended the stand and delivered a warm address on and on race issues his oratory and philosophy philo philosophy soThy are becoming an antiquated equated and the day a ay is not tar distant ta t when something more serious will I 1 occupy the public mind than the ol 01 old d issues of mr douglass still as i a theme for heroid heroic poetry or tor for elevated oratory mr douglass presents a fine opportunity but the speeches of these old timers like douglass and fremont should be subjected to political revision before delivery the same as the prayers of mr Gan gunsaulus considerable KICKING loud load cries were heard calling for ingersoll foraker butterworth etc now it became apparent that the introduction tro of business irrelevant to the occasion is not always a wise proceeding ce and if dauglass or fremont was introduced for political effect why not introduce mr ingersoll and mr pat egan the more mere sober minded in the audience held that the chair was a little premature in this business then the ardent Blai began to denounce the chair lor for throwing cold water on blaike chances of election to the presidency kansas also began to kick against the arbitrary procedure of the national committee in selecting mr thurston Tb urston for a while it seemed as it a v very ery disorderly house would soon result vir virginia inia came to the front in a very pugilistic kind of way may the republicans of that state are now feeling the ahe effects ot of the faction and the clan they are divided linto wise republicans and mahone republicans wise took the plat platform forin and made a terrible onslaught ba OB Mahon ism saying that william mahone represented dented nothing but william mahone first last and all the time A WILED philanthropist by this time utter confusion reigned mahone was on his feet as we weir 11 as half a hundred ot others endeavoring to catch the chair the placid face ace of senator hoar of mass wai directed to the airmans ch stand and finally he be was recognized the senator is bach a mild fatherly looking old gentleman and so venerable so saintly so stu dent like as he looks over his dicta picta cles that his presence ely quelled the uproar it was like on one a of these homeric episodes wherein neptune appears on the surface ot of the billo billowy wy ocian and thi the storm at dofice once subsides I 1 paid little attention to the sen senators igors speech because I 1 was ab so absorbed in ia thinking how jacla a looking person could ever get it into his head to act as he did once towards utah therbia nothing billions dyspeptic nor neuralgic about him alm in appearance at least fie just the ahe nian man to view calu calmly sly to reason logically and judge honestly yet the fact remains that ha has I a utah record I 1 asa am convinced the man must nave bave been mislead or misinformed of position A SPIRITED MAN william mahone next took the the very appearance of the roan map is ia striking and individualistic physically insignificant yet he presents a picture of pugnacity incarnated ed it is no wonder that he be was a hard fighter in the late civil war it is no wonder that he be was the first to drive a wedge into the solid south and with all this belligerent propensity the man is logical and reasonable his martial characteristics must have come with his mothers milk they sit on him naturally aatu rally it seems he was born to that estate in oratory he is jin as signed ned earnest vigorous no manuscript about him his little body dilates into herculean proportions as 48 he be rises on tiptoe to emphasize something wise had the oad grace to interrupt him but the little man bit back with tongue in a way that meant something more to follow wise like 8 all 11 poltroons who first start the fight are the first to fly also took refuge in the future the colv convention entrop haid bad now become a pandemonium and the famous ben butterworth butter worth of ohio took the alaor ben reminded his auditors that this was a republican convention not a one and that order sk should u V p prevail devail mr stevenson of mn minnesota 0 ta proposed a way out of the difficulty but it was not until the NESTOR of massachusetts again broke forth that the matter wits was laid on the table whoever first designated the sleek faced senator grandmother was a most irreverent person it is true there is something soft touching pathetic a in the word grandmother tut but associated with senator hoar it is entirely out of place As a confidence man his appearance would be worth a million to him I 1 was once conal danced out of five dollars by such a looking kind of man one would never suspect aguile hidden bidden under such a s exterior but that utah record I 1 cant get over that if senator hoar hear should ever meet this I 1 hope he will publish n b II 11 a recantation inta on of his bis utah 1 business a and rin I 1 am sure that nothing else I se remains in his way to canonization canonisation in any chur chorea crt DAKOTA made a demand for ten votes and in the person of a judge moody loudly denounced the democratic party lor for denying statehood to the territory here comes in another of those grand outbursts against injustice which when examined of ar pricked is but a soap bubble gov go v pierce of dakota did more to place utah in an unfavorable light than many others he hd it was who wrote one of these musty trashy dramas which not alone debauches accides and destroys manly feeling but misrepresents represents ep resents ana maligns maligas an honest god fearing but unpopular people in fact his bis governorship was toe the reward of his bis prostitutes prostituted pen and dakota has only received from the democratic party what she herself would measure out to utah I 1 teach me to feel fee an others woe to hide the fault lault I 1 see that mercy I 1 to others show that derev show to me THE excitement prevails in Chi chicago cagg fully visitors estimated in the city Farac parades tes professions processions process sessions cessions ces ions bands banners bugles kazoos sos trumpets and trombones are the great sat fashio fashions nil of the hour strange factors in the making of a president but it is when the heat of this convention dies away awal this aspect of the politics of out our t time me should be betoken betaken taken up and examined the different factions are fighting just as a zealously amono among themselves as it they were in aront front ol of the common enemy blaine Bla inels Is certainly the most popular larman man with the public gresham is gone down owing to the venal support he be had bad the ChiC chicago agiD tribune killed him by advocating him this ls is what mr oath gath says and the mail awl tines times and herald s say a y so too depew is talked about IL a good deal abal and andio so is sherman JUNIUS |