Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-23
St. Louis Convention.

meet 10 the grand half OF the Merchants Elk
change building, which has capacity for seating
fully FIVE thousand persoUs The Merchants
Exchange has but reccn,:y been completed, auH
is ona OF the htudsoau II, s. build ugs, especially
designed for {. nmerci. purposes, 10 the c'uA,
Try. There are f..r different entrances to the
building, and in addition to the graud stairway
which asceuds 10 the centre, there are TWO
fights of stairs from separate entrances on
Third street The hal iSef extends he Gu
,!r. length Of the building, and ls halt II,
width. The ceiling l. lofty aod b au'luly ara
approrriately trescced rne light Is superb.
All of the arrsugemeD's for the accomlunda-
ton OF the press will be /. pear perfect as pos
slble. Fifteen of the principal cities 10 the
cuuutry are connectd iy wires, which lead to
an operating room in t:@.r rear OF TIL, rhsttuni.
wliie pn.uma'i tubs connect the hall Win
the uau ffi,e G. he Wcs:rrn Uaieu Telegraph
Company. TIE arrangements of the seats tor
delega es and sp ctators viii nor be completed
bef,r. the last OF ;he We. K and the decorations
of the hall 10; before Monday next.
The Was hlugton correspondent OF the New
York Werld Says:
IF one were 10 judge from the talk here
Hancock and Hendricks are to be nom, mated
at 81. Louis on the Il st ballot-not that the
| ticket is the first choice Of everybody, even Ct
| a mai,iity of the democratic members OF Con-
| gress, but seven men out OF ten appear to think
It is the strongest ticket that eau be named aud
The best one 10 uuile the democratic parry
| The ouly two objections thus far made to Ii are
tina. the couurJ dos not want another mill
ary President and that 1t Is uncertain whether
Hendricks " ii accept the second place. The
Indiana people positively asscrt that ne VIII
not, and strongly urge reversal OF the tlcSet,,
declaring that Hendricks aud Hancock uId
carry Iudlaua to moral rtalnty.
III is certain that Thurman prospects are
much brighter than they we're week ago.
Congressman Payne, OF Onio. 10 an interview,
said that there was a noticeable modification VI
the feeling of the anti Thurman men 10 Ohlo,
aud he considered it quite among the poSslolll'
| ties that after Allen shall be out OF the race
the Ohio delegates will uoite 90 Thurman.
The plan now ia KID OF is for the Thurman
uen 10 the Ohio delegation to cast their first
votes for Alien as the favorlte s)n. with the
understanding that the Allen men shall, when
the time comes, untedly present the name OF
Thurman. ,, ~
ut is generally conceded that Iildeu Will
lead on the first ballot; but it is not believed
here that he will be able to get the tw1 thirds
required under the present rule.
! A largely attended aud enthusiastic meeting
of delegates from ten New York trades uulons
met Wednesday to commend Gov. lildeG's &C
ton ia vetoiog the late bill for employing con-
yicts and alnshouse i0mates. ReSoutloDS
were passed to the effect that the Governor
had favored ~orkingmen 10 ucutrallzlng the
competition Of prisoners, and urglog iis uuml'
nation for the presidency A committee OF
seven was appointed to visit ST. Louis and pre-
sent the resolutions 10 the convention.
A dispatch from St. Louis to the New York
Times says:
ALREADY q variety Of combinations ale be-
ing talked Of aud some Of The delegates here
have been conerriog With each other during
the day. Judges HAMA and Porter, OF the
Indiana delegation are at the Southern. while
Dorsheimer and his three colleagues from Nez
York are at the Lnde. Hama and Porter
both strong for Hendricks, told your cores
pondeot to night they had been approached
several times during the day with piopos'tlon
to trade the vice. presidency to Hendricks, IN re-
turn for the support OF tllden. !he ludia1aos
answered that their delegation was Ter Hen
bricks, FIST, last, and all the tins, ami that
under no circumstances would they support
Gov TiIdeD.
Every tiug betokens fierce contest be-
tween Ildeu and II -odrck-, the frleads oil
each. as far as eau now be observed, being
determined TO stay with the tUrlorn hep.
The He1drckites who are here say the IL
dentes will make desperate effort to abro
gate the two.thiIds rule, for tie reason tina,
bis nomination under such rule is simply
impossihle COL D,r>heiu"r stared in az
interview however, that the New Yo!k dele
CATION had 20 d ire to change a rule that
had OBJ lined 10 the party slrcc 1870 auJ
therefore were not resolved upon the ab0ll'
Oh OF the two.tbrds rule.
Hou Fernando Wood says:
"Han, ok seems to be comiog forward rapid
" as a candidate. His domination would,
believe, create great enthusiasm, which the
Hayes aud Wheeler ticket cannot. He is the
ablest civilian among the military man, /:
strong at the south, ard could beat Haye:
by % 900 in Ohio. 1t would be wise for Us tc
adopt the republican school resolution, but
suspect our people viii fight shy C. it. Un'
der the TWO thi - rue TlIdcn has 10 chance.
That rule defes all the prominent candl
dates | think It'd u weak 10 NV York.
The city aId Brooklyo do not favor HIN, aud
I believe be would be beaten by rs 900 votes
10 the State. NV York does not care fol-
Tildeo.'
The New York Herald says:
"If the two thirds rule should render the
nomination of IIden Impossible Senator Bay
ard is the candidate on whom riIden's supprt-
ers could most easily uuite. He represents the
same views on public questions AID is the spou
taneous second choice OF probably niue teuths
of the Tlaen men. The only weak poin' 10
Mr. Bsyards canvass is bis locality; ii he Werc,
a citizeD Of north ra state no candidate could
prevail against him.
The New York Freedmau's Journal (Catho-
lic) with reference to the anti sectarian plaak
10 the Cincinnati platform says by way of ex-
planation of some previous utteraDces on the
same subject: ut is not our wish to have the
democratic convention at St. Louis 50 much as
to touch the subject Of schooling. We staod
By the principles of our graodfathers on this
soil. Government, federal or State, has 90
business to NEEDLE with anything that belongs
to the internal regimen Of the family, and the
schooling of children is !amiy affair. What
Catholics ask of political conventions is, not to
be vindicated-they have no need-but they
| do not want to be iDsulted."