The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-09
THE PREPARATIONS,
The Hall Where the Convention
Is To Be Held.
A POLITICAL DIRECTORY
Where the Various State Delegations
Will Be Found.



Club or this city, opened Pixies Hail. spacious build
ing, where tho delegates clubs and organizations In
hvor OF Brlstow may moot and fratcrnze and and
various convcniences furnished them. Hopkins Hall,
another roomy place, viii be opened tomorrow In tho
interest for the accommodation OF the friends Of
Governor Hayes, who will como In strong numbers
thoy have but comparatively little distance 10 travel
His .rend, General WyckoG Adjutant General Of tho
State, IS here Tho Missouri delegation Will come ON
Monday, and take up quarters at Keppler's. Tho
Gcant courier OF the Blaine support has arrived Mr..
George c. Gorham, Of Washington.
The largest aud most important ARRIVAL, however, Is
the Morton body guard from Indiana, headed by Bill
Holloway, Morton's brother-inaw.
Monroxs SHOWING
Holloway claims 207 votes for Norton tho first
ballot Morton, he says. will also be tho second choice
OF his friends, they havo q conviction that the
triangular fight betwcen blaine, Conking and Bristow
will prevent union between the friends Of any Of the
three md their support must SO Morton and that
the ticket will be Norton and Hartranf Tho Morton
men already here number dozen, among them
beng Henry Taylor, OF Lafayette; H. Trip, Of North
vincenncs and J.. J. Hammer, H. lddngs, George
W. Friedley and r. s Robertson, OF Fort Wayne, all
ardent workers for Morton These woa't allow
the grass grow under their and they already
trying to negotiate alliance with tho Hayes for
certain specified conditions They ut the Grand
Hotel and they speak II Morton certain OF the
nomination. Holloway says of Aonzo D. Cornell that
he IS hand srying make breach among the West
srn delegates, so as to secure Ohio tor Conkl.ng
General wy ckoG, who is here Hayes, thinks that
II Blaine BIO defeated his strength will 90 to Hayes
Genera! J. X. Harlan. Of Kentucky, is here for
Bristow
Tomorrow Eugene Hale, Of Maine, and the day after
Blaine himself are expected
-.,"S~ coLoRxD DxLxGArEs WAITED
The coiored element this Convention 10 apt to stir
up feeling the question Of hotel accom-
mediation Is concerned Halt the delegates from the
South likely be colorod. and, according to tho
Civil Rights BILL hotel, under certain penalties
refuse them accommodations II they demand it. Last
evening Colonel Stokes, OF Alabama who runs the
Speacer delegation for Norton applied for accommoda-
tions at the Walnut Hoaso for twenty-five dole
gates. lie said some OF them colorcd, but no
wanted the whole gang kept together and tho landlord
refused them. Other Of this kind are
likely 10 occur. but there Is plenty OF hotel
daton and the grca that has been expected by
sho ixniiords IS not anticipated by others.
coSKLixG's STRENGTH.
A. B. Cornell said this morning that he believed
Conking would 80 into tho Convention with $50 dele
gates lie thinks very little Of tho Bristow movement
and considers It mere flash IN the pan tho chief
friends OF Brstow enemies VI tho republican party.
an eteaHt de yoes' hcre and undertakes tho
Bristow movement lightly. There no doubt that
Conklng will up great strength and the
politicians here all I'D nit IL; but Blaine s yet
dead, It Is said, and Morton lives
Judgo Groesbeck told me he thSSsns " ashburne
would be the coming man, having been out Of tho
country SO long and being powerful with tho Ger
mans.
PLENTY ROOM SoR CONVENTION
The the Convention has boon arranged to seat
5000 persons The regular delegates will sit ut the
front the altcrnatcs their strong railing
VIII separate the classes. No will DO admitted to
the floor except invited guests and reporters. The
public large will have the galleries. Surplus tickets
will DO distributed among tho different dcIcga
isoasL All but thc reporters accommodation arc
finished.
Collector Arthur, Dewitt Wheeler and 8. B. French,
Conklng delegates from New York, arrived this even
Ing.
GLIMPSE AT THE PLACE IN WHICH THE pRxsI-
DENTAL NOMINATION WILL BIZ MADE-THE
HEADQUARTERS oFTHE STATE DRLxaATEs
CINCINNATI June 8, 1875.
Tho preparations for the Republican National
Convention, which meets here on the 14th
inst, about complete, and tho Con-
veutIon itself here II could 90 Into
the hail and It's delegates ind their places with more
difficulty than they viii encounter the meeting day.
EXPOSITION HALL,
where tho Convention meots large wooden struc-
tNse, which originally ouiltin the year 1859, be-
lcvc-as u meeting place for tho National Saengcrcst
That years ago. and since that time saenger
Halle, rs stl called here, has served good many
purposes. II the central building for the Cincn-
natl Exposition during tho SIX years was run; m,s
the place where the Liberal Republican National Con.
vension OF 1872 met and nominated horace Greeley; m
Is the nall whore the May music festivals held
here for several years, which gave Cincinnati
able position IN the musical world, and lately u
was the theatre the meeting OF the Ohio democracy
when they put Thurman aside take up Allen
aud indorsc him tho 81 Louis nomination. Taking
IL all In all the old sacngcr Halle has become almost
historic and whom II Is pulled down. II will be alter
che Republican Nanonai Convention has got through Its
s,.tngs, not u lew will be found here who will mourn
It's departure as though It OF the land
marks
The arrangements for National CONF ention which
are now fully maturcd and very nearly mpetod,
Of general interest The body OF tho hail. which
IL SCI apart Tor delegates and thc altcvnatcs ~M
Eortabiy seat 500 people Tho galleries will scat
equal number while tho stage with the amphithcasrc
In The rear will furnish room for 600 more. Besides
shis there arc wide hobbies under tbe galleries which
viii not be seated but will give standing for 000
more; will be easy matter to pack 1000 persons
Ia the hall. Even more than that number can be pro-
v,ded Tor In Ncrowd but when II Is remembered that
the Convention itself numbers only 49, i'm hardly
.sobabie thar the crowd OF outsiders viii increase q
tenIosd.
WHERE rnx DsLEGArIoSs orARrERED.
Nearly all the State delegations have secured tnss
quarters IN advance at the hotels here and when they
meet viii become matter OF interest for the dele
gates aud tho friends OF candidates TO know where
they located IN order that they may be informed
on this point have been ut considerable pains SO
around the hotels and tho whereabouts of each
that has secured quarters up this tims which ap-
pended herewith
ALARANA--Twcnty delegates Gibson Household
quarters, parlor No Ia
ALABAMA tcontcsting)-Twenty delegates Not Co.
cured quarters yet