The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-14
DIE EMOCRACY.
THEIR STATE CONVENTION.
The Gathering Of the "Unterrifef'
at Harrisburg Preliminaries Of
the Contest The Instructed"
and the "Uninstructed."

things but there are q few things in which she is
anything but great She is unfortunate in having
for a capital niserably fororn and broken-down
settlement which is about the nattest staest, and
most Improbable place to be found within her
borders when her lawmakers are not in session,
and when they in session-the less
that is said about it the better About a
par with the town itself is the collection OF unyanly
and antiquated structures which shelter her eglsla
tive and executive functonaTies.
The most prominent OF these ungainly and anti
quated structures has been since the adjournment
OF the last Legislature the most dreary and unin-
vtng Of the whole collection. to-day the chairs,
which last winter served seats for about the most
unconscionable set OF rascals that were ever ga
thered together under one roof. dragged from
the obbes and Corridors and placed in amphithea-
trical rows in the hall OF the House Of Representa-
tives, and tomorrow the representatives of the
Democracy of the State vial install themselves
therein and go through the ceremony Of setting up
State ticket
On Monday the faces OF the hotel proprietors be-
gan to be gladdened by the arrival Of the vanguard
Of the invaders upon their summer desolation. 1t
was not until this morning, however, that the un-
terrified put in an appearance in force. About 8
O'Clock the people of Harrisburg startled for
the first time since Sam Josephs hurled his last
lemon-peel at the head of a fellow-legisator and
Elisha w. Davis made his last tilt against the que
rllas At that hour the Great Western Band attired
as gorgeously as Ofenbachs Swiss admiral, marched
up the principal street. dispensing OfTenbachs
strains, and struggling after them the drowsy
and dusty members of the Cass Club and the Young
Mems jackson Democratic Club Of Pttsburg, their
stomachs full of emptiness and their souls full of
enthusiasm for General George w. Cass
A few minutes later an enterprising foreigner ap
| peared in front Of the Court House with wheel
| barrow load OF sticks, tumblers, and boxes, and
slu ggshly went about the task Of setting up pea
| nut and raspberryade stand.
Then there alull upon the streets until about
q uua I wi
| there another invasion. About seventy-1ve
| young men, sporting white cotton gloves, white
| duck vests and white silk hats, alighted from the
| cars OF the Reading Railroad Company, each one
bearing the lapel Of his coat silk badge, with
this inscrption:-"Asa Packer Association OF Phila
delphia." And, impressed with the fear that some
wayfaring men, even if they were fools into the
bargain, might not be able to decpher the legend as
they ran, each had thrust into his hat-band slip of
white paperwith the imprint in big capitals OF "Asa
Packer Club" Accompanying them was another col
lection Of Philadelphia Democracy lacking all the
aristOcratic tokens, and labelled simply 'Cass Club
of Philadelphia" full brass band, in brigadier-
general attire, accompanied each club and marched
through the streets at its head, through drizzling
1ain until was halted in front OF one Of the hotels.
| The vender of peanuts and raspberyade groaned,
outwardly as well as nwardy, because OF the rain
and so did the arstocratc youths whose enthusiasm
for Packer sustained as much Of dampening as did
their nobby white hats. BY three O'Clock, however,
the drizzle had drizzled itself out, the sun had
| doubled his energy, and peanuts and Packer were
| simultaneously on the rise.
Then, about four o'clock, arrived the Asa Packer
Club OF Lehigh Valley escorted and Outshone by the
youths in ruflied white hats. 1t is said that Judge
Packer himself albeit in his sXty-fourth year. shell
ters his venerable head in OF these immaculate
tiles and it is supposed that the seventy-hve young
men from Philadelphia were inspired to make their
| wholesale investment as partial venting OF their
ardor in his support But strange as it may appear,
fashion set by their leader, who lives in their very
| midst.
For the sake of displaying their ambitious head rigs
to the best advantage, the Packerites took to the
middle of the street. AS token Of respect to the
| characteristic and undisgused modesty OF their
leader, the Hancock Club Of Reading, whose arrival
was simultaneous with the one just noted, marched
| along the sidewalk They were full thirty strong,
and their foremost man carried huge transparency,
bearing this inscription -"Ohio has her Rosecrans-
| Give Pennsylvania her Hancock" The circumstance
| that this banner had TO be lowered about
minute to avoid collision with awning, was
garded by some OF the spectators as an omnous one
The ostentatious arrivals OF the day were wound
up with the advent, about O'Clock in the evening"
OF the Americus Club of Philadelphia, arrayed, like
the Packer youths, in paraphernaia OF white.
Meanwhile the delegates to the convention ITSELF
one hundred and thirty-three in number, were pour
ing into the city from all quarters, and also came
| large unorganized crowd OF outside manipuators
to assist those bearing regular credentials in the
task OF discriminating between the true men and the
false, in the making up of the ticket General George
! w. Cass, accompanied by his son and Mr.. John N
Hutchinson, son-in-law, had arrived early on the
ground established themselves at Bottoms, and en-
tered seriously upon the task OF inspecting the list OF
| "msuuctedn and "uninstructed." Judge Packer
| renamed at home, meditating upon the vanity OF
earthly hopes and white chapeauXs. But in his place.
ana as his direct personal representative was Judge
Broadhead, OF Carbon county, who established his
headquarters at the Jones House, and Bottoms as
wei. General McCandless was on hand in person,
and as his case looked rather desperate he made his
headquarters in the field; while the Hancock men,
ihelr leader being inspection tour in the wids
OF the Northwest exhibited signs OF utter demorali-
zaon as they discussed the probable truth fasity
OF the fumor that the Hon. Samuel j. Randall car
rled III mis- side pocket note bearing Hancocks sig
nature, and declaring that under no circumstances
would he consent to run, except in pursuit OF
bloodthirsty redskin.
the Hon. s. j. r., who was among the first
10 come, took a room at the Jones House. So,
also, did William McMun, John p. Ahern, s.
Josephs, and A. Fletcher; this worthy quartette
haVlng nrst been allotted two rooms at Boltons from
which establishment they speedily betook them
serves, IN order doubtless, that they might sleep
Iour In bed. Among the other shining lights from
fhladelphia were numbered DR.. Henry X. Linder-
man, ex-Mayor Richard Vaux, General William A.
Leach, Albert Scoheld, G. W. Carrigan, Charles M.
Hurley, Samuel Carson, and Folyard Degan In
audton to the regular delegates, the list OF whlch
includes the names Of Alderman Francis Dewitt
AlDert Lawrence Lewis c. Cassidy, Tnomas A.
McDevitt, Alexander j. Dimond Robert s. Lister
and Alderman William McMuln, already noted
When all these arrivals are taken into the account
your readers may well imagine that the hotels were
about fun, and win doubtless pardon the slight