The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-06-05
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II an utter absence of enthusiasm be an indication of
the popular temper the name Of Grant is the signal
to which the people Of this country will rally in Noven-
Der. Never was Presidential nominating convention
held i'll this country which attended with SO little
interest," and complete absence ofevery enthusiastic
feeling, as are visible on the present occasion.
The number of strangers in the city very large and
yet when the Convention called to ORDER yesterday
few people that were not delegates newspaper report
ers appeared i'll the Opera House. Much larger audien-
ces assembled week before last to witness the descent
ofpheus Into hell than assembled yesterday to witness
tho descent OF Ulysses to the position of the Jacobn
standardbearer. And from comparison of tho demon
STATIONS of applause it is manifest that the public feels
more lively interest in the intrgues of the Internal
dee3 than it does in the partisan plans of Tho Internal
JacObins.
On the streets at the public meetings. in the hotels
everywhere, the absence enthusiasm was appar
emit The gatherings were Of poyeity-strcken proper
tons The speeches were Stat stale, and improbable"
and fell upon the ears of indifferent listeners Party
sprtwas dead Over all party hopes seemed to hang
dismal portent of coming doom.
The Convention, compared to any previous convention
OF the same party palpablo failure 1t is aggre-
CATION Of small talents event of small interest an
occasion that has failed to tho expectations even
men whose political sympathcs against the party
which 1t represents. city convention of either party
in Chicago has often excited greater interest and very
rarely been attended y little enthusiasm as the pres
ent National Convention of tho Jacobh party presents
Why tho Convention went to Democratic State to
find presiding officer matter that causes some COM
ment. One reason, doubtless was desire to preserve
consistency in appearances The selection of presiding
officer from Democratic State most appropriate
considering that the Convention is placed under the ne
cessity of nominating General Grant in Democratic
city.
Another reason may have been that Ex-Governor
Hawey Of Connecticut, thought to be the most ca
pable member of the Convention for tho chair. The
Convention very far from possessing abundance of
good parliamentary materials, fact that forcbly
illustrated yesterday evening when movement to pro-
coed with the nominations very nearly succeeded before
the Convention was organized
The adoption Of the rule to act tho platform before
making the nominations will now put off the latter
til this evening, and possibly until tomorrow The
platform committee it stated cannot possibly report
before afternoon, to-day There is wide difference of
sentiment in that committee and the anticipation is
that its report will present meaningless of mega
tive and non-commital phrases that will develop still
wider difference of sentiment in the Convention.
Tho speech of "Joo Brown" the Georgia Ex-Governor
yesterday afternoon, revealed that the party has dan
ger to guard against in its platform in the recon-
structed States Joe Brown tried hard to make Jaco-
bin speech, but very narrowly escaped making Demo-
cratic His remarks such must have warned
all Northern delegates of the necessity they placed
under of guarding their brethren WE'LL lest
they be found before November running for Office on the
Democratic tcket.-ChicdyO Tribune