Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-06-29
THE new YORK CONVENTION
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.


The Preliminaries Of the Csnventien-Ar.
rival oil Observation-Disclosures of the
Delegations - Hotel Accommodations-
The New fammany Hall-The Two.
Thirds Rule aud the PeAdleten Men-Vig.
erous Protest Against Changing 1.-THE
New York Democracy-Advice of the Al.
bany Argus-The Presiden ntial Candidates
and their REPRESENTATION Chase,
ters. Etc. Etc.
Especial Correspondence of the Evening Star
new YORK, June 2s, 1863.
New York is fass becoming the great national
centre of political interest. Even thus early
the prominent men and politicians of the Dem.
ocratic party are on hand, participating in the
preliminary caucusses and conferences to
shape the platform and strengthen the respec-
tive candidates tor the Convention, which
meets on Saturday. New York, always full,
has room enough to show the numerous pres.
ence Of thoee in attendance on the Convention.
All OF the Broadway and uptown hotels are
engaged, and large numbers have taken quar-
ters in Brooklyn and Jersey City. The St.
Nicholas has made preparations for the ac-
cornmodation Of two thousand guests, and will
be the headquarters of several Of the principal
delegations, among them those from New
York, Michigan, and Nebraska in full and
portions of the Indiana, Pennsylvania, Con.
necticut, Alabama, and Tennessee delegations.
At the Metropolitan five parlors have been en-
gagged for the meetings of the delegations who
will stop at that hotel. New Jersey wiscon-
sin, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, and portions of
the District OF Columbia, and Pennsylvania
delegations have also engaged rooms there, al.
though the headquarters of the latter gentle.
men will be at Irving Hall. where they have
excellent Arrangements for holding meetings
and caucusses. The chairman OF the delega.
ton will stop at the Union Place Hotel
Al the New York Hotel the headquarters of
the Maryland, Kentucky and North Carolina
delegations will be found, together with a Dor.
uon Of the California delegation. The Pendle.
ton interest will hold forth at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. Indiana, Ohio and Illinois have estab.
lished their headquarters there, and the Mas.
sachusetts and West Virginia delegations have
also engaged rooms. Special trains leave CHI
cago on Wednesday with the Illinois delegates
A portion Of the Pendleton escort will also
stop at the Fifth avenue The Western dele.
gates have engaged Masonic Hall, in 18th
street, Tor meeting purposes. The Everett
House will be the headq uarters of the delegates
from New Hampshire, Vermont and Missis.
sippi. The 81. Dennis will be pa,ronized by
portions Of the Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts and California delegations. the latter
The Rhode Island delegation will stop at the
Hoffman House, and here also Senator Doolit-
tie and number OF the Connecticut delegates
may be found. The Spingler House will be
occupied by the Kansas and Missouri dele.
gates, who leave St. Louis next Tuesday. The
Worth House Will be the rendezvous of the
friends and supporters of Judge Field. Dele
gates from Chicago and Cincinnati are expected
al Hexter's Hotel The New Jersey delega.
tion will do their caucussing at its headquar.
tiers al the 81. James Hotel. Several indi-
vidual delegations will room at the Ashland
House
The Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and
other Southern delegations, have made their
at the Chanler House, a new
Motel Just opened in 1ith street, opposite Tam
amy Hall, where the Convention meets, and
which promises TO be the centre of one OF the
livehest political assemblages in the city. The
Astor House, which has been tor so many years
me recognized headquarters of the Republic
can party, has been engaged by the Maine.
Vermont, and portions OF the New England
delegations. Some Of these quarters NAV be
changed, as the contest for rooms is ALREADY
very earnest aud exciting. and may result in
the transfer OF some of the delegations TO other
localities than those named 81
The vanguard Of the delegates, outsiders and
politicians, indicate that the Convention will
be numerically the largest ever held in the
country. New York is the only city that can
attract and accommodate such an outpouring
OF the masses. The new Tammany Hall, here
the Convention will be held, is in Fourteenth
street, near the Academy Of Music,
and is a magnificent structure. 1t will be
completed by Tuesday, inaugurated by Wed.
hesday or Thursday, and will seat about five
thousand people. The local committee esti.
mate that about forty thousand applications
for admissions have already been made
"Who will be nominated l'' That is the in.
curry repeated at least a hundred thousand
times a day on Manhattan Island, but the op
portunines for approximating a correct an.
swer l find TO be bet ter here than in Washing.
ton. In the first place Mr.. Pendleton will 70
INTO the Convention as the strongest man
there need exist no doubt of that. The
west VIII be almost solid for him on the first
ballot; but according to the usual experience of
con- venuons, this tact IL will be remembered,
would not insure his nomination. HIS friends
claim, however, that they will have a majority
In the Convention. which will tempt them 10
make movement to repeal the time.honored
two-thirds rule, and to provide that simple
majority Of the ballots east shall nominate, II
the Convention is carried on this point, and the
by the Republicans, Mr.. Pendleton will be
nom mated. Nor lie this an idle speculation
1 ne New York Democracy anticipating such q
proposition, Is up In arms for a vigorous fight
against II, which, il carried into the Conyen.
uon, will make lively ana bitter contest
The Albany 4TgHs, the central State organ OF
the Democracy, in ITS issue Of Friday, is out in
a decided manifesto against any such move.
ment, warning MIR. Pendleton' : friends not to
attempt IT, and intimating to the southern del.
egations that they must not lend IT a helping
hand. II says that "It is peculiarly suitabi.
that this rule should be retained at this time m
the nominating con vention, as without IL IL
would be easy for States having no prospect
OF contributing TO the Democratic electoral vote
dictating the domination, and so declaring il as
70 defeat the hopes of the States most reliable
FOR Democratic majorities. The wo.thirds rule
was the fundamental law Of the first national
OF 1882, (when Vice President
only was nominated,) and was reiterated in
le36 and lao and lSi4. II was made the cover
N the last named Convention for the detection
hat defeated MI. Van Buren's renominatlou,
md 1t owes much Of its unpopuiarity to its
ibuse on that occasion. But il Is the organic
aw OF Democratic conventions, not TO be set
aside, except by power as high as that which
it; and all that the Convention Of
1868 can rightfully do to change it is to submit
! proposition TO that effect TO the Democratic
conventions OF the several States, to be passed
upon with view TO future action The Con-
ven tion will vote by States, as heretofore-each
ielegatlon casting the whole vote upon ones.
ions and candidates, or dividing it. accordlns
10 the views Of members as the deleg alton itseif
shall determine" IL this ad vice be folio we'd.
md two-thirds of the Convention, instead of a
ms Jority, are required TO repeal the two. thirds
-ule, the Pendleton movement will not suc.i
,eed, and IL will be quite Impossible to NOM