Show republican convention an another other descriptive des crip tive letter from junius CHICAGO june jane 22 1888 the great the all important day has arrived the ae day ay as tile the poets would say big with te fate of empires and of rome everybody is talking of the candidates and of the dark horses there are so many that thai old id politicians must keep a memorandum of the names fred douglas dougla it the he in mayor abor of pittsburgh general I 1 B radley adley fred grant graat and a host of others are said to ta be dark horses the general belief is that alcer after a few ballots a stampede for blaine bla ine will follow chairman estee called the convention to order a few minutes after 11 clock or rather tried to call it to order for his voice was gone the poor man mail presented a SORRY SPECIMEN OF HUMANITY the disorder and turmoil of yesterday was too much for him his bis efforts to maintain order and to the proceedings with deco decorum so shattered his voice and nerves that this morain he looks like one who had just emerged from a long debauch about twenty minutes were lost trying to find i vice president capable of presiding finally cock of new york took the chair the rev bev mr worcester of chicago opened the proceedings with his bis re bigio political prayer he called on god to inspire with wisdom and dignity the leaders of the convention the prayer was a good one but as tar far as the convention was concerned it fell on heedless ears disorder and con fusion prevailed while the prayer was being bein made and when finia finished lied it was greeted with cheers and cries of inger sol soil the first ballot showed fourteen names before the convention as presidential ASPIRANTS dakota was allowed ten votes and managed to cast a ballot for ten candidates it would have been a little bet better er if the dakota delegation ele gation had been een allo allowed vired twenty half votes then all the candidates might get a slice dakota did the best beat she could and called for a poll of the delegation she helped to advertise herself in the convention and to show what diversity of thought prevails within her in tolling up the return tile the secretary ta displayed a knowledge of arithmetic inz betic truly astonishing his education is a credit to our oar public school system and a living contradiction to the charge of the dutch roman catholics lincoln got three votes and mckinley two these therie the secretary announced correctly the twelve others had to te be r revised several times FOW koweil ell clayton of arkansas with great pomp and formality cast ten votes for john J ingalls of kansas this was partly by way of appreciation and of sympathy for the loss of his manuscript novel by fire it reminded one of f dean swift and a fellow clergyman who travelled together toge at oae time the fellow clergy mans valise was stolen he said to the dean 1 I lost my portmanteau deau dean 11 pity your grief clergyman cler finlin ial my sermons we were re 1 in n it dean III pity the thief when california announced herself for the plumed knight the hall presented a scene that DWARFS pandemonium or a monster meeting of the salvation army it seemed as it if the galleries were packed specially with blaine shouters the proceedings edings during the first ballot were dreary sickening and tiresome over a dozen states demanded a poll of delegates it seems these delegates all mistrust each other and the manner in which delegations I 1 split up suggest something mercenary of 01 course afis it is common talk here that a vote to is worth 1000 when cut cast lor for certain candidates it seems also that the system of district representation as practiced by the republican party is not such a blessing in a measure the alarming number of candidates and dark hordes horbes can be attributed to the district system and certainly tain lythe the anarchy in this convention can be traced entirely to it As usual there was a primary election over virginia with mahone mabone wise and as a trinity of war arrogance and flatulence the second ballot wasla wasa repetition ol of the first but hawley and fitter filler were dropped entirely ingalls lost 12 votes lincoln and mckinley held their ground with two and three votes respectively ively utah changed from blaine to allison virginia caused the usual racket IN THE THUD THIRD BALLOT ingalls disappears but judge miller gets two votes rotes this makes fifteen aspirants pi rants thle the name of miller was a surprise lse yet after consideration it was applauded suIr pennsylvania and texas demanded a poll of their delegation which occupied much time virginia came to the front again the dele gates are not on speaking terms ani and a a half dozen policemen are close to the first family representation lest the convention should be desecrated with blood and bullets it was now 2 p in and a recess was taken until 7 p m during the day all kinds kind 0 of wild rumors prevailed on the str streets beets the depew faction openly proclaimed revolt because their candidate did not develop the strength anticipated the gresham and harrison factions are growing more and more antagonistic the sherman Sn erman blaine and alger factions are growing confident the impression is that all factions are go ing to stick to their chief and that all chiefs will hold out except depew about p in chairman chaiem an estee who had evidently been partaking of syrup called the order but like the spirits called from the vast vasty deep it did not come to order we well T yes af after ter a time THEN MR DEPEW ascended the platform and withdrew from the candidacy he alluded in a delicately sarcastic way to the prejudice said to exist against hi him m because of his being a railroad king he said the wise laws of new york prevented railroad troubles in his state and that it was not net fali fair to make him the victim of the dishonesty practised practiced outside his kingdom alter after ur mr withdrawal cries of adjourn were heard with counter cries of no A adl was demanded and adjournment carried by to new york did not want adjournment and 61 of her delegates voted no immediately after adjournment a wild yell was a set e t up FOR FOB INGERSOLL after a few minutes the colonel appeared he said 1 I belong to that great party that is in favor of giving to every human being equal rights with every other I 1 belong to this P party arty because you can be a mun in it I 1 in this style he went on for f ully fully 15 minutes eulogizing free speech free religion but denouncing free trade finally he attempted to cram gresham down the throats of the convention in a few moments mr ingersoll experienced perien Perlen ced the luxury of free speech tie he was told to leave the hall to go home that he had bad insulted the convention that he was a pope a czar a pasha anything but a democratic republican pauli carl for the first time in his life perhaps the complacent ingersoll was non not no t another word could be heard from him let him go home and ruminate he proclaimed the republican party as onel that upheld equal rights for alliet it was only hours before that a plank in that party platform ADVOCATED TSE THE disfranchisement of americans and also proposed the total deprivation of their religious rights was it not a heavenly judgment on ingersoll Inger soli to te be just shut up with a lie in his throat by his bis own following parsons the anarchist was sprung from the trap with a word unfinished in his hia mouth the brutal hangman laughed and chuckled at his bis deftness ingersoll Inger eoll was checked in like manner with a falsehood in his bis blasphemous throat and he was told by boutelle bontelle of maine to get out now mr ingersoll where is your boasted party your free speech your tree free reli religion glop echo answers where with all the prayers tor for spee special elal blessings on the convention not one seems to have been heard beard these preachers FRAY LOUDER perhaps their god is asleep or on OH a journey and the they ought to get the reader of the st louis convention to read the prayers dante never found anything in the inferno to equal the scene presented by the convention this evening the behavior manifested on this occasion didiot betoken savagery nor drunkenness nor barbarism but it was a plain evidence of ef absolute and incurable madness inflicted by an offended deity whose name had been been mock mocked edin in sham pray prayer erand and invoked in hay hypocritical petition nothing else could couls have turned a representative assembly composed of the try intelligence and wealth of this nation into the mad furious brutal base I 1 bloody mob which it beca be cameli a moment except the direct hand band 0 of an offended 3 outraged and mocked god A comparison calls were heard amid the din for fred douglas fred came forward he looked like a smoked edition of 01 senator edmunds with the tail of gen geh logans white horse on his bis head here was the born bondsman leading the native born free men and teaching them patience calmness and unity what a lesson lesson for the moralist and PA philosopher lo 10 opheal mr douglas presented actor C to r pope of st louis who recited Sheri Sheri dans bide 11 here was another of those grand sublime episodes which awaken a sense of deity in thoughtful bosoms the valor the worth the heroism the purity the manhood of a poor soldier on his deathbed whose lathers fathers were persecuted mal maligned I 1 ened and mutilated to sat iffy the thirst r at for blood of a christian ta sect h here ere was his name and his nget deeds deed a tal talisman aman to soothe the burning passions of a nations greatest men thus will it be with some son of utah at no day mr fitch of california addressed the POLITICAL rabblement but it was of no avail the sergeant at arms was finally called on to clear the hall and so ended one eventful friday in the history of the republican party it was a black friday an un lucky friday it killed ingersoll and gresham and wounded numbers of otters others while dints dents of deep scars remain en an the party body this party whose platform is a good deal like lesbia hath a beaming eye but no one knows for whom it belmeth bea meth acht and left her arrows arrow fly nut but what they aim at no one drea meth the dissatisfaction with ingersoll went with the audience to their respective spec tive hotels harrison Harris men mea denounced ingersoll blame blaine men anath him allison men excommunicated munica ted him sherman she man men boycotted him alger men d d him in vigorous orotund phraseology la in fact all factions agree for once to pour out the most emphatic on on poor bob but bob laughed gaily at all this and i ibis Is said his bis win wile and daughter laughed also if he did laugh it must be the laugh of mephistopheles the adjournment was attributed to some party machinery by which blame blaine was to be made nominee of the convention v at an early hour tomorrow it is generally felt that gresham Is a dead duck allison is not popular with the whisky men and that spoils is availability lt is said will hurt harrison well better leave it as gath does after filling six columns he wisely concludes that if sherman is not nominated somebody else will I 1 agree with gath but tell it not in gath JUNIUS |