The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-10
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
All About she Convention.

I
hours has been most unusually in
tense. The thermometer has ranged
trom 90o to 1902, and it requires all
the ingenuity of mountaineering
with the cool places of New Yorker
to find any comfort whatever. The
delegates to the Convention from the
more Northern and Northeastern
States especially, who seem to have
no other resource than mint juleps
aud various other forms of iced IL
quors, are manifestly suffering in the
flesh. The chaotic condition of the
question as to who the Convention
will nominate for President and Vice
President does not have a tendency
to make them any cooler. The dis
eussions among themselves are as
fiery as the weather. On every corner
Of the street, in every restaurant and
bar, and in all the hotels, groups
of excited patriots may be found
wrangling and dispu ting as to who is
the strongest man the party can put
in nomination. 1t is apparent that
the question of strength and popu-
| larity with the people is the only one
| to be determined. All the delegates
| profess indifference as to the candi-
date, in every other particular except
that of the probability Of his success.
The Chase men are better organized
| and are making q stronger fight than
was anticipated by the Pendleton
| delegates, who are becoming excited
and Indignant in proportion as they
meet with obstacles. The Chase men
unhesitatinglY assert that if Pendle-
ton is nominated the party is doomed
to inevitable defeat, and it is hardly
worth the while to attempt canvass.
The Pendleton men, with equal posi-
tiveness and more bitterness, insist
that if Mr.. Chase is nominated
Gen. Grant will be elected with GER
tainty and without difficulty, for the
Western States will be lost to the
Democracy beyond all hope. At this
juncture the friends Of Mr.. Hen
bricks suggest him as a compromise,
and meekly inquire il it will not be
better and safer to take second rate
politician upon whom the party can
harmonic and unite, rather than to
attempt to elect any one who is objec-
tionable to a large portion Of its men,
beers. This is an artful way to cleo
tlOneer, and we are not sure but that
it will prove successful III the end
though Mr.. Hendricks shows less
strength in the outset than your cor
respondent anticipated. 1t is still
urged that Gov. Seymour, Of this
State, is playing a deep game and will!
be sprung upon the Convention at an
hour and in way that will render his
nomination certain. But we can see
no good reasons for this belief.
THE CONVENTION.
The arrangements of the Associ-
ated Press for sending detailed re-
ports of the proceedings of the Con-
vention are so good that / presume
you receive them daily, and shall not,
therefore, burden my letters with
them. | will, however, say that your
correspondent obtained admission to
the Convention through the attention
and courtesy of our Congressman,
Hon. William e. Niblack. As at
Chicago, the arrangements for the
Press were exhausted by persons who
. registered their names and assumed
to represent papers with whom they
had no connection whatever, and by
this means secured the places design
ed for their reporters. There seemed
to be no remedying the difficulty, and
the real BoheRians could do nothing
but give vent to their exasperated
feelings in curses.
The delegates and visitors began to
fill the hall as early as 10 o'clock.
The delegates came in pretty much
together, having been previously as
sembled in State caucuses. The per-
sOReI of the delegates is good. They
seem to be intelligent and earnest
men. The great majority of them.
perhaps, honestly think the Republi-
cans are all that is asserted of them
enemies of the Government. and
dangerous to the liberties Of the
people.
Some additional decorations had
been made to the hall to those men
toned In the letter of yesterday.
-Four large and gorgeous baskets of
| flowers adorned the stand in front of
the President. The flowers were ar
ranged so as to represent the national
colors, and correspond with the gem
eral display Of bunting throughout
the hall. In front of the building
two rows of policemen stretched
across the street above and be-
low the entrance, keeping back
| all the crowd except those who had
tickets or badges. On the steps,
policemen and ushers We're thickly
stationed to direct the various mem
Ders OF the Convention to the quarter
OF the Hall set apart for them. All
tne arrangements were so ordered
that no confusion existed, and less
morse prevailed than could have been
anticipated In so large a crowd.
AT haif-past II o'clock Mr.. Bel
mont lmped across the stage and
raped with his gavel to call the Con-
Ventlon to order. Some time elapsed
before silence was secured, after
which he proceeded with his speech.
Mr.. Belmont possesses all the ply
siognomical peculiarities of his
race. tie Is thick, sWarthy-
cOmplexiOned man with black eyes
and hair, rather thick lips and
nose more inclined to turn up than
down. Ills head is bald In front, aud
heavy black whiskers adorn his
checks. lie in mainly celebrated for
his wealth, his magnificent private
residence on Fifth Avenue, and his
picture gallery, which is said to be
the finest private collection of master
pieces in America. His speech had
in it the usual qatdRtuns of denuncia-
ton, but failed to elicit much enthu-
siasm. Some portions of it were
feebly cheered, but Impotence was
manifested at its length, aud the hum
of conversation in the hall became so
loud, before it was finished, that 1t
was unintelligible to the greater part
Of the audience. The speaker could
not forget the associations OF the
place In which he was talking, and
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