Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-01
MORNING. LEADER.
1HURSDAY MORNING, SEPT l
=. preas in the Cnicngo Convention.

,.~he Press in the chicago Convention
The managers of the COpperhead Con-
ventio \ at Chicago characteristically made
very ses Ufy provisions for the accommo-
dation Of reporters. They have a natural
oDd ,,ncono, 1erable dislike to the press
The Chicago Post (DemOcratic) thus des-
cribes the arran. .yements:
The facilities ITor reporters in the great
ampbitheatre, built expressly for this great
and momentous occasion, consist OF some
seyenty-fvs miniature Sables-pncned up
affairs, scarcely large enough to hoid
school boys slate with the pencil addeo-
and an equal number of unpalnted chalrs'
numbered in faint pencil marks on the
seat To occupy these chairs and take
down the proceedings Of the convention al
these little tables, there are present IN
Chicago representatives of more than
FIVE hundred different newspapers
Most OF the leading journals OF course
have sent moro than one reporter, ana
few haFs succeeded, .ssftel desperate end
disgusting struggle, in obs t@'nihg Lore ,ta, snan
one little table, but of course VIC .,.,,'l W.
half of the reporters from abroad, and o..
q number even in Chicago, are crowded
UuH entirely. The National Committee are
mot TO blame for this tho fault rests with
the subcommittee to whom the duty was
assigned of providing place and making
other necessary arrangements for holding
the National Convention.
Of course the Committee could not DOS
slbly supply nor begin to supply the de-
Rand made upon them for reporters tick
cts. Many leading journals got none at
all; others were glad to put up with only
one. Not single paper in the State of
Iowa, for instance, had obtained aplace for
its reporter, when it was announced that it
was too late for any more TO apply at
this junetHre, a distinguished ex-United
States Senator from that State, who had
gained entrance to the Committee room
through the window, gave the sub-com-
mittee having the matter in charge
q piece Of his mind he told the
committee that not single newspaper of
his State had received place in the Con-
vention, and he then and there demanded
the tickets TO which Iowa was entitled as a
matter of right. He accompanied and en-
forced the demand by bringing his clench-
ed fist down upon the Committees table in
a violent and suggestive manner. He said
he had come TO Chicago to defend the
rights of the State Of Iowa, and by Cd
he meant to do it-by fighting OF in any
other way that should be necessary. One
or two innocent "peace men, who had
got into the room through another window,
looked much surprised and greatly shocked
by the eT-Senator's remark but their ex-
preston of pain only caused the distin-
guished Iowan to bring his fist down a sec
ond time upon the table with a remark to
the effect that the Committee had better
furnish some reportorisl facilities to the
newspaper press of Iowa without unnec-
essary delay, or it would be better they
had never been born. he succeeded,
probably, as did some others, in obtaining
a ticket or two numbered somewhere above
seventy-fve the holders of which found,
upon their arrival at the amphitheatIe that
there we're no unpainted chairs and no lit
tie for big) tables corresponding with these
numbers.