Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-22
FINIS.
THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY CoSvEN.
TlON OVER.

rHE REPUBLICAN I4ciN soy COUNTY CoNvEN-
A Tame Anair.The Mass Meeting and
TOrchlisht Parade Dreary Fizzies
Country Politicians
DisSusted.
The great Republican convention, 1.-THE
county convention" as the
managers were pleased to call
Il, has como and gone, and there is but one
opinion expressed in regard to it by all
honest men whether Republicans or Dem
Ocrats, and that is, as compared with former
Of either party it was a
decided failure, not only by reason Of the
few men in line in both day
and night parades, but also ON account OF
the lack Of enthusiasm among the men,
and Very poor representation of the me
chanical trades and manufactures. and
the slim display of fireworks.
Prominent county Republicans have
expressed to us not only their disappOint-
ment ut the unsatisfactory appearance OF
the pageant, but their indignation and
disgust with its management. They say
the affair was got up for the glorifcatiOn Of
Frank Eshleman and Elias McMellen. As
an induccment to secure large attend
ance the managers promised to have here
ex-President Grant, United States Senator
Blaine, Governor HOyt, and other bi.
guns, not one Of whom was in attendance,
and whose places were poorly supplied by
the SOLDERING Buckeye Blacksmith, the
ranting Stockctt Mathews and the illegal
fee grabbing Attorney General Lear.
City Republicans, who had been led to
believe that an immense multitude would
be in attendance, and who made great prep
arations to entertain them, are even more
disappointed and more out of pocket than
their country cousins. They laid in hun
dre6s Of dollars worth Of provisions,
bought from the managers permission to
erect lunch booths on the pOOrhOuse
grounds (where the mass meeting was
held) for the sale OF their stock. and Ow-
ing to the slim attendance there some OF
the hucksters did not sell enough stuff to
pay the rent Of the booth, while they have
ON hand large supplies of cooked food
which is almost valueless. Keepers of res
taurants and boarding houses down town,
are also losers by providing too largely;
indeed the only persons who appear to have
reaped any particular advantage from the
convention are the hotel keepers and beer
saloons. These were largely pItrOniZed, in
many cases to the disadvantage OF the
patron.
The mass-meetins Oh the poorhOuse
grounds was a tame and spiritless affair.
When it was ascertained that neither
Grant, nor Blaine, nor HOyt was present,
and that even ''hOnest John StrOhm' was
not to preside ut the meeting, the boys
deserted in crowds and came into town,
leaving an audience for Attorney General
Lear and Gen. KOOntZ, neither attentive
nor enthusiastic.
During the afternoon John W. Bear,
tho Buckeye Blacksmith, mounted the
court house steps and gathered around
him quite 4 crowd Of men and boys, to
whom he rehearsed number of anec-
dOtes, and tried to impress upon them the
danger they were in from the bloody
rabels. The "Buckeyc has lost all his
Old-time vigov, but none OF his black
guardism.
In the evening at o'clock the clubs be
gan to assemble at their appointed places.
equipped and carrying torches, for the
great tOrchlight parade, which it was
expected would eclipse anything ever seen
in Lancaster. But again were the mana
gers doomed to disappointment. At half
past seven o'clock the bugle sounded
the advance, and one Of the bands.
whether thoughtIessly Or by design VIC
cannot say, struck up funeral march,
the Portuguese hymn-and to this slow
music the solemn procession moved of to-
wards Woodward Hill cemetery The
line was exactly twenty minutes, includ-
ing several stoppages, in passing given
point. The display was not to be CON-
pared, either in number or appearance,
with the late Democratic parade in which
only the city clubs took part. 1t was 4 sad
to the managers, who
had flattcrcd themselves they would have
not less than 5000 men in line, whereas,
exclusive Of boys and bands, there were not
more than One-fOurtll that number, and
several hundred Of these were from York
and Dauphin counties. The city clubs
were miserably represented, some Of them
not numbering more than u dozen men.
The mounted men, exclusive of mar
shals and aids, numbered less than q
hundred men ut the beginning Of the
parade and had dwindled to less than Il
lozen before its close The men in line
had y fair opportunity Of taking in tho ex.
act size of the parade during the counter
march OH South Queen street, when in
lOuble column it was found to be less than
,hrce squares in length, the head Of col
lmn passed the rear below COnestOga
street. Before the route was half
zone over several Of the country delega-
ions fell out of line, leaving great
,aps in the parade. The Lampeter dele
yatiOns fell out on East King street, and
other delegations left the line on Prince
street. As the parade passed Fulton hall
md moved out West King street, there
we're gaps in the line nearly square in
ength, and with these gaps unclOscd, the
light and left Of the procession in the
passed each other near Mul-
berry street, showing that at that time it
Vas only about two squares long in double
column or four squares long i'm single col
INN.
The Columbia delegation, numbering
'ver 200 men, the finest delegation in line,
~ the way, did not reach Lancaster in
ime to join the parade when it started, but
ell in finally and added considerably to
he pageant by their fine marching and
ancy evolutions. The high school boys
lso marched well, and performed several
volutions creditably, but most of the
lubs marched with weak unsteady, played
ut tread, the men appearing to be DISCUS
ed and wishin. themselves we'll out Of it.
The only enthusiasm shown was by the
Olored men, most of whom we're noisy and
ot few drunk. There was not, however,
the occasion, an unusual amount
+ disOrderly conduct. The police only
pulled about twenty-five drunken and
persons during the day, though
here were many more that deserved to be
rrested.
Neither Mount Joy nor Warwick was
epresentcd in the parade. The reason
iyen for their absence is that when the
)or,,l,l;o,pc Of fl,iS cif " had n r,rosio comn