The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-16
[Erom the New York Trlbune.]
The Personnel of the Convention.

The gathering was an instructive ono
from the character and bearing OF many of
it's members. A lesson in American poll
tics not easily forgotten was to be learned
from contrasts in the men seated in this
hall You might trace the whole history
of the republican party through all the
eras Of abolition, war, reconstruction, the
carpet-baggere, Grantism, and the liberal
revolt. There was not few picturesque
figures in the gathering, and not few
strange and interesting histories. Run
your eye over New York and you see Cur
it's cultured face, not far from the typical
custom house delegate. Henry Highland
Garnet, with his coal black skin, sits next
to Judge Robertson, and near such solid
New Workers as A. A. Low, Marshall o.
Roberts, and George Opdyke. Near them
in the Massachusetts delegation are the
Hoar brothers, one rugged and stubborn,
the other keen and alert, with question
ing way with his Iforefinger. Lowell, the
poet, listens to Gen. Logan and does not
smile. Loring is there with his suppressed
ambition in full play under an ample and
ltepIClhDiC WaiottOGt' Adhc u buNiNiVh yum
TO the Arkansas representatives. There is
chief justice "Poker jack" whose Judg-
ments were such as to make the judicial
grievc, who kept about twenty-four packs
in the sleeves of his robe of office, and had
wax on his judicial finger nails and Clay
ton with his empty sleeves and pirate
phgsignomy and Gov. Brooks, who first
was counted out and then was counted in,
| and always suited bis politics beforehand
| to his changed situation.
In Ohio theIe is the veteran enjamin
Wade, who missed being president of the
United States by single senatorial vote
and named cabinet which was never
formed, and ex-Gov. Noyes, one of the
most popular of Buckeyes, who bears his
certificate of honorable service in his lame
leg. In the front row from Maine are the
two inseparable Blaine managers--Con-
gressmen Frye and Hale, who have them
selves SO much of the Blaine vim and snap
that they have infused the whole Blaine
following with it. Behind them is John
l.. Stevens, Mr. Blaine's partner in news
paper ownership and in the political engi-
neeriDg Of the state of Maine, one of the
two having been at the head of the rcpub-
| litdi ttutI tDliiliiiltCc tNti biHIG tuC lOt
lion of the party.
In Alabama there is Senator George K.
Spencer, the livery-stable graduate, still
faithful to all the traditions of his alma
mater, and Ananias Hays, the original
dealer in blood-red southern fiction, and
the man who got up the celebrated corner
in ''outragee." In the Illinois section there
is Robert j. Ingersoll considered one OF
the greatest western orators, and the free.
thinker who coined the phrase, "An hon.
est god is the noblest work of man." and
q. q. Farwell, who is congressman in
poker-playing and poker-payer in con.
gress. At the head of the Kentucky dele
CATION is Gen. j. NJ. Harlan, a stall Sari
Kentuckian, whose celebrated horseback
canvass of his state earned HIM Mr.. Gree.
ley 6 mention as man whose party ser
vices, as party services were being reward
ed in that way, deserved a place in the
cabinet. In Louisiana there is Mr.. Pinch
back, always clamorous at the doors of the
senate; Packard, hung round with memo
rics of intimdated legislatures and Calling
guns; Kellogg, the weak but tyrannica
ruler of an unhappy people in Mississippi
Adelbert Amcs, who resigned to avoid i'm
parchment, and Alcorn, his old time enc
my, one Of the few native southern sena
tors, with Senator Bruce, handsome and
dignified mulatto, between them, are to b.
} seen among the Mississippians. In Yer
mont, Luke p. Poland appears with his sill
yer hair aud whskers, and his ostentatioul
blue coat and bress buttons, who saved
Arkansas to law and order by courageous
report in congress.
From Utah there 10 ex-Chief Justice Nc