The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-15
DEMOCRACY.
THEIR STATE CONVENTION
A Half-and-half Arrangement-W What
it Did, and How it Did 1.-THE
"B'hoys" only Half Sup
pressed-The Candi-
date for the Su-
preme Court.
From our oicn Correspondent.


After hard days labor in the Of "Retrench-
ment and Reform" the representatives OF the State
Democracy as write are lodging between the drops
OF slow drizzling ran on their way from the State
Capitol to the hotels The day opened with a cloud
upon her brow, and she draws her end in tears
But this lachrymosity does notaect the stout hearts
OF the men upon whom have been centred the eyes
of the unterrifed masses throughout the State
to day. Their labor had no sooner been completed
than they discovered the wonderful attractiveness
OF such pretty ALTERATION as is contained in the
words "Packer and Pershing.' The accident OF
these two ps in conjunction will cost their opponents
many vote. so, despite the drzzling rain, the
town is overAowing with enthusiasm, and squads OF
Onenbachian admiras are perambulating the Streets
dispensing Offenbachian strains, with troops OF the
unterrifed tagging after them in the most jubiant
OF moods.
The hour appointed for the assembling Of the con
venton was 10 O'Clock, but there appeared to be NJ
hurry about 1t, and it was well that such was the
case for it was worth almost much as the valua-
ton OF ones life to effect entrance into the hall
Some of the leading men of the party had made up
their minds to keep out as much of the disorderly
element as was possible. Hence no one was to be
admitted without q ticket, and to obtain the ticket
to which was entitled IL was necessary to devote
half hour, beginning with the stroke of s, to about
as heavy pressure as the human frame is capable
of bearing, without sustaining very serious marrng
OF its symmetrical proportions But this was nothing
compared to the task OF getting into the hail. One
of the delegates stated that 1t took him full half
hour to run the gauntlet Of pickpockets who were
grouped about the entrance. Still, he made his
way through them without sustaining any fnan-
cial damage, while others, and notably
ex-senator Buckalew, found themselves at the door
only to discover that not beggarly cent remained
In their pockets. When the crowd OF light-hngered
gentry was penetrated, one found himself face to
face with two bury, hard-nsted individuals who had
been selected for the task of keeping out the roughs
because they the toughest Of the rough them
selves, and were quite as willing as able to knock
down and drag out any unlucky wight whose paste
board credentials not entirely satisfactory to
them. When it came to the afternoon session, the
precautions at the entrances were redOubled and
several delegates Of respectable bearing submitted
to the ndignty Of being lifted in at the windows by
the legs and in preference passing the ordeal
at the doors One of the delegates urged as reason
against the holdingo evening session the trouble
of getting into the hall, and declared, with sarcas-
tic reference to the customs prevailing in Phiadel-
phia, that he would as soon be thrown out OF the
window as dragged in through it by the legs, and
would suffer either nniction in preference to at
tempting to walk in through the doorway
While awaiting the calling to order of the con-
venton, that perfect type of red-hot Democracy,
yclept "Brick" Pomeroy, was escorted about the
hall and introduced to the more ambitious of the
delegates 'Brick" was in brilliant trim. His fin
gers were loaded down with rings, in which gilt
tered monstrous stones OF various hues, and in his
responding splendor. This shirt-front cut re-
markably ow-so low, in fact, that it impaired a
sailor-like aspect, and justified some OF the dele
gates from the wilds of the interior in supposing
that the distingue stranger was nobody other than
the chivalric Semmes, OF the late G. S. A. Navy.
During the morning session, the delegates gene
rally comported themselves so quietly and orderly
that the injunction previously placed upon the
rough-a -andready element in fair way of enforce
ment. But at the outset there was slight disturb
ance. The Hancock men were so few in numbers
that only flank movement OF some sort could give
them any hope OF success. SO they attempted to
smuggle into the hall the huge transparency in
scribed "Ohio has her Rosecrans-gve Pennsylvania
her Hancock" The movement was at once de-
tected, and soon as the attention OF Mr. Wallace,
the acting Chairman was called to it, he peremp-
torily ordered it to be withdrawn. The ever-ready
McMullin pulled up his coat-seeves and plunged
towards the OF dissension. But before he
could lay violent hands upon it, the discovery was
made that both Cass and Packer banners had been
suspended over the very head OF Wallace, and the
order given in ignorance Of this circumstance was
at once revoked. The Alderman, however, was bent
upon doing something, and so he grasped the trans
parency and triumphantly bore it to the front, the
Hancock men in the lobby meanwhile raising fear
fu din. 1t at this point that Wallace jumped tC
his feet, and declared that there had been quite
enough Of rowdyism witnessed in Democratic con
ventions OF late, and that it desirable to have
none OF it there.
Soon after Wallace was called upon to retrea
from the chair by the selection OF temporary Pre-
sident and he embraced the opportunity to eXpount
briefly the true basis of the Democratic faith. II
dwelt, aso at some length upon the fact that h
had welded the Democratic baton for three years
but was omnously silent upon his achievement
with the famous coffee-pot with which his name
80 closely associated.
The morning finally wore away without the accom-
plishing OF anything, and little before reces
until two O'Clock was voted but not without encouu
tering the most determined opposition.
The ceremony OF running the gauntlet at the door
or OF being lifted in at the windows was so tedious
that it was halpast two O'Clock before the conVeI
ton was again called 10 order. The first importaI
business was the installation OF eX-United State
Senator Charles R. Buckalew as permanent Pres
dent. He a. OnSe proceeded to deliver himself OF
very elaborate Grafton, in the course OF which /
expounded at length the true Democratic theory
government, and wound up with a s3athiDg and bl
ter ass ault upon the present Governor OF the Con
monwealth, whom, to use trte expression, /
handled without gloves and without mercy, we
Then came long and vexatious delay, pending Il
deliberations OF the Committee on Resolutions. III
convention disposed Of two or three contested seat
and few other trihing incidentals, during the da
but finally so completely exhausted all these meal
OF diversion, that 1t forced, for the sake of XII
ing time to formally declare its willingness to listC
to harangue from the Hon. Richard VauX. Richa
was in town, but unhapply he was not in the ha
and just as despair was seizlng the convention al
manifesting its presence by deal Of confusion, d
the platform were borne into tle han by the COZ
mittee OF thirty-three which had been charged wi
the task.
When the resolutions, as soundly Democratic
the most Democratic heart present appeared to d
sire, had been unanimously adopted, the conventi