The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-02

RIVAL OF DELEGATES HEADQUARTERS OF THf
pELEaATIoNs-HoTEI. ACcoMMoDATIoSs
! NEW rAMMAHY HALL-rHE TwO-THlRD3 RuI.l
AND THE pBNp1EroN MEN-vIaoEoUs PRO
TEST AGAINST CHANGING 1.-THE NEW YoRi
Observation-Disclosures OF THE ALBANY ARGUS
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND THEIl
pRospEcrs-PENDLE1oN CHASE, HANCOCK AM
uEnDa1oKs- MATTERS.
special correspondent writes from New
York June 2s) 10 that lively little shoot. h'f
Washington Star:
New Yo,k is fast becoming the great nation
al centre of political interest. Even thus carly
| the prominent men and politicians OF the Dem
ocratic party are OH land participating III INC
preliminary caucussrs and confer ences 10 sii:.pi
The platrorm and strengthen the respective
candidates !er the ConvCntlon which meets OH
Saturday. Kew York, always :Hll, has room,
enough to show the numerous presence oi
those in attendance on the Convention. All 0i
the Broadway and uptown hotels are enSaSeu,
and largo numbers have taken quarters Ill
BROOKLYN and Jersey City. The 81. Nicholas
has made preparations for the accommodating
of two thousand guests, and VIII he tiic lic;lo-
quarters OF several of the PRINCIPAL detc9a-
lions, among them those from NOW A"rh,,
Michigan and Nebraska i'll full, aud portions ol
the Indiana, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, aia-
bama and Tennessee delegations. At The Nc
iropolitan five parlors have been engaged Tor
| Lhe meetings of the delegations who VIII sCnp
at that hotel. New Jersey, Wisconsin, Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Alabama, and PORTIONS Of the DIS
trict of Columbia, and Pennsylvania dclc%a-
irons have also engaged rooms there. although
the headquarter, Of the latter gentlemen Will
be at Irving Hall, whero they have excellent
arrangements for holding meetings anu eau
crsses Tho chairman OF the delegation VIII
stop at the Union Place Hotel.
At the New York Hnte the headquarters al
The MARYLAND Kentucky and North Carolna
delegations will be. fonnd, together win POI
lion OF the California delegation. Ilic lellui'-
ton interest will hold forth nj The tiltl ANcliile
Hotel Indiana, OHIO ana llllliois nave slid
Ishrd their headquarters ;irre, and tho Mas
sachusetls and Vest Virginia delegations nave
also engaged rooms. Special trains leave Clll-
cspo on "Wednesday with the Illinois delegates
Abortion of the Peullcton escort will also stop
at The Filth Avenue. The Western delegates
nave engaged Masonic Hall, IN Thirteenth
street, for meeting purposes. The Everett
gat es from New Hampshire, Vernon. ami Mis-
sissippi The st. Dennis will he patronlZed by
;purtions OF the Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts and California dclogations; The latter
will probably iix their headquarters there. Tie
Rhode island delegation will stop at the lion-
man House, and here also Senator rnolltlle
and number OF the Connecticut delegates
NAV be found. The SpinSler House wlil he oc-
cunied by tn. Kansas and Missouri delegates.
who leave st. Louis next Tuesday. The Worth
House will be The rendezvous oil the friends and
supporters of Judge Field. Delegates from
Chicago and Cincinnati are expected ut Hex.
ters Hotel. The New Jersey delegation VIII
do their caucussing ai liz headluartcis Ut The
st. James Hotel. Several individual delcaa-
The Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and
other Soulhon delegations have mldd tilelr
headquarters ut THO Chanlcr House, y new
hotel lust opened in nth street, opposite Tam
many Hall. where the Convention m6eiS, :tlH
which promises To b. the centre "l one ui aii'
Iiveiest political assembla%ea lll Tie cily. Ihc
Astor House, which has been for so many years
The recognized headquarters Of the Rrpubhcan
party. has bsan engaged by the Maine, YER
mont, and portions oi tho Mew England dele
cations. Some of these quarters iily NC
Changed, as the contest for rooms is already
very earnest and exciting, and may result III
the transfer OF apmr OF the delegations to other
localities than those numed.
The vanguard of the delegates: outsiders ana
pui;tiicia,is, indicate that the Convention VIII
be numerically tho largest ever held i'll the
country. New York il the only city that can
attract and accommodate such nm outnoilrInS
nj Inc masses. Tho new lalnmally Hall, whore
The Convention will be held, is in Four'ernlli-
street. near tho Academy ct Music, ahd ~
magnificent structure. IL will Io completed 10y
Tuesday, inaugurated by "Wednesday Of li'iiN-
day. and will seat about five thousand people.
The local committee estimate that about iurty
thousand applications FOR admission have al
ready boon made.
"Who will be nominated ?" That il Ito in
uury repeated ut least Z hundred thuldaiiu
times a ,iay OIL Manhattan Island, but The op-
pOrlunllies for apprdXmatnS correct answer
/ find to bc better here than i'll Washington.
In the first place, Mr.. Pcndlcton will 50 INT"
the convention as the strongest mar there
need exist no doubt Ol That. The West Will he
almost solid for him Oh the lirst ballot; but ac-
cortlug to tho us:,al experience Ol conventions,
this fact, il will bc remember cd. wOnld not in
sure his nomination. His friends claim, how
ever. that they will have majority III the con-
yention, which will tempt them TO mako II
movement to repeal the timo-honored two
thirds rule, and to provide that simple ma
iority of tho ballots cast shall nominate. Ii the
convention is carried on this point, and The
Democrats adopt the majority rule, now III llso
by the Republicans, Mr.. Pcndleton will be
nominated. Nor is this an idle speculation.
The New York Demorrac7, anticipating such
proposition, is up in arms for vigorous fight
III.
ton, will make lively and bitter contest.
The Albany Argus, the central State organ oi
the Democracy, i'll its issue OF Friday, il out IN
o. decided manifesto against any such move
mont, warning Mr.. Pendletons friends not to
attempt it. and ntimating to the Southern del
,egatiuns thai they must not lend il helping
hand. It says that III is peculiarly suitable
that this rulo slould l,r ctancd at this time
in the nominating convention, as without IL it
would be easy for States having no prospect "f
contributing TO the Democratic electoral vote
debating the nomination, and So declaring II ;i
to defeat the hopes OF the States most roinlln
for Democratic majoritics. The twh thirds rule
was the Fundamental law OF lhr first National
Convention of 1872 lwllcn 4 Vic2-rrcSidrnt
only was nominatcd), and was reiterated IN
1886 and 1910 and 1874. 1t was made the rov''i
in tho last named Convention tor the detection
that defeated Nh. Van Buren's renonnnatinn,
and 1t owes much oil itS unpopularlty to its
abuse on that occasion. But it is the organic
INV OF Democratic Conventions, not to be sei
aside, except by power as high as that which
originated il, and all that the Convention 0f
1868 can rightfnlly do TO change it is to submit
q proposition to that effect to the Democratic
Conventions of the several States. to he Tls -rd
upon with view to future action. Tho Con-
venlion will vote by States rs heretofore each
delee alton casting the whole vote upon ques-
tions and candidates, or dividing it. according
to the views Of members, rs the delegation IT.
self shall determine" Ii this advice he FOL
lowed, and two.tliirds Of the Convention, III
tcaJ OF majority, are required l." rh2ha' iiIr