The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1860-04-11
The Charleston Convention and
the Landlords.

A great deal has been said about tn
high prices fixed for board by the hotel
keepers of Charleston during the Conven
ton The Charleston Mercury has some
thing to say in explanation and extenna
lion. We quite agree with that paper
that anything which might tend to keeT
away the horles of camp followers who
hover around the main army of delegates
would conduce to the comfort and quiet OF
the guests, and, will add, we think, to a
satisfactory result of its deliberations:
"Our landlords are a, much extra ex-
pense and much trouble to accommodate
ruesL-not for a year. or month, b"l
for few days. If the Convention slls
only IA week, their remuneration Will be
but small, at $5 per diem eorh. 1t 1t re.
mains IN session wo weeks, their prolits
will be larger. Yet they canrot tell which
will happen, and incur the risk in their
outlay. We claim that our landlords have
acted with reason aud foresight in extend
| ipy their accommodations, and with straight
forward candor in informing The public OF
their charges We should have regarded
their action reprehensIble and dlsgracrful
had they made no preparation until the
Convention assembled, and then charged
high rates for inferior and unsatisfactory
accommodations. The latter course has
been pursued in other ches, and has been
avoided in Charleston.
There is, too, another view OF the sub.
lect that is not perhaps sufficiently borne
in mind in the abuse heaped upon Char.
lesion for the apparent want OF hospitality,
The Convention is a party caucus not well
lbouph, of in South Carolina There are
gentlemer in various portions OF the olate
who take upon themselves TO represent
her. But i, is well known that the over.
whplming voice of South Carolina Is
against any participation in It's connsels'--
The meeting, even in Charleston, was a
very feeble and badly supported demon
stmtion. Throughout the State the whole
,noveren, is looked upon with profound IN
difference aud distrust The appointment
to meet at Charleston is regarded, too. us
an effort to enlist our people, and IN fact
ipaucurate and build up spoIIs party IN
the State much more attached to party than
the State ever has been. With this feel
ing and ,hes- views prevalent 1t Is absurd
to expect-what has never anywhere else
been expected unbounded hospitality 10
be lavished on the Convention, or ITS Plug
Ugly buIlies and corps Of camp followers,
who, from the galleries, would overawe
the body bv outside pressure. The idea
is piece of Yankee lnsolence, which we
are surprised to hear Southern men re-echo.
Beyond the five or six thousand guests
which our hotels can accommodate. we an.
licipate but narrow provision Will be made
To some small extent few restaurants,
etc, will arrange their business for the
occasion. We regard that number as am
ple for the Convention, and hope that ii will
not be exceeded. We look upon the cries
of ten and twenty Thousand strangers at
tendant upon the Convention, as insanely
extravagant.
II the outside mob can be curtailcd, aud
the retaining host be but trlfiine, the old
s,agers at such Conventions will confess
that the Charleston Convention was the
most comfortable and most quiet of all
these Ouadrennial assemblies. The only
discomfort attending the Convention. will
be the presence of outsiders and black.
guards for whom no accommodations, eX-
cep, an increased police, will be made.