Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-06-11
The chicago Convention.

GARFIELD OF OHIO FOR PRESIDENT, AND
ARTHUR OF NEW YORK FOR VICE PRES
IDENT.
We gave our readers last week the facts
about the Republican Convention at Chi
cago up to Thursday hight. To-day we
give some scenes which preceded the NOM
ination of President and Vice President,
which will be Interesting reading. detail
ing as they do some of the most ridiculous
events ever witnessed In delibcrative
body assembled for ID grave purpose. in
this country. The ballOting commenced
on Saturday and the first ballot stood
Grant, S04; Blaine, 284; Sherman, SO; Ed
munds, "a; Window, 10, and Washburne,
80. To elect $40 votes were necessary.
For tWenty-eight ballots these figures were
hardly changed but on the 10Th Sherman
ran up to 116. The highest vote Grant
got was on the 34rh ballot when he receiv-
ed 312. On the 36th ballot the line broke
and Gen. Garfield got 399; Grant 3O6;
Blaine AZ, and Washburn 5. Tie vote OF
Virginia was cast on the LIST ballots for
Grant; for Sherman; and for Blaine,
and on the last ballot 10 for Grant and
for Garfield. We give below some extracts
from our exchanges
WILD SCENES IN THE CONVENTION.
CHICAGO, June 5.-The greatest scene
which ever occurred in a National Con-
ventlon took place between IL and O'Clock
this morning. amounting almost to bat
tie between the contending factions.
1t was 80 prolonged and excited that the
coolest men were daZed. and stood terror
stricken in their seats. Men and women
went into Mysteries, and rushed around
and shouted like MANAGES. People who
heard the lush and roar five blocks away.
crowded into the Convention without tick
cts, as the police seemed tOo much startled
to detain any one.
It would seem that the animal spirits
and wOndrOus lung-p0wer of the Conven-
ton we're reserved. after all, for the clos
ing debate on the Is anti-Graht cOntes-
tants from Illinois. Matters were COM
par atively quiet during the speeches, al
though the speakers on each side spoke
with more than usual power. But when
Emory otorrs, OF Chicago, the last Of til.
four, took his stand Oh the edge of the
press platform and proceeded IN Ills pecu-
liarly eloquent style to laugh down the ar
guments of his opponents, the enthusiasm
increased each second. When, improving
his advantage. and in voice that over
came the acoustic difficulties of the hall,
he spoke of Blaine, and told the suppOr-
tiers OF that gentleman to nominate hiul il
they could, the tempest opened in good
earnest with stirring cheers and loud ver-
bal Interruptions from the gallery. MIR.
StOrrs, turning 10 the cheering crowd,
said: And when the gentlemen who are
oh r.
ing under the soft sum mer sky, tired of
politics and disguised with its fatigues,
you will find the followers Of the grand old
silent soldier awake by their camp-fres
and carrying the banner of the sluggard
forward to triumph
WILD WOMEN, TOO.
Ten Thousand people were on their feet.
standing upon tables and chairs and the
backs Of the benches, waving handker-
chiefs, canes, hats, umbrellas. Overcoats,
shawls, papers, IN fact everything that
could be seen or used to add to the cnpfu-
sion and excitement. The flags with which
the building is decorated were torn down
and waved aloft. Crazy women tore off
their bOnnets and swung them by their
strings; and crazy men pulled their coats
from their shoulders aud waved them in
the air. The noise was absolutely deafen-
ing: and no one knows till he hears it how
much noise ten Thousand people can make,
shouting at the top Of their lungs, pound
ing the floor " it'll their feet, and banging
the resonant pine benches with boards torn
from the backs and arms. 1t was Bedlam,
and beyond Bedlam. 1t was like nothing
that was ever seen or described, and any
attempt to describe it would be failure.
One woman on the stage, a Mrs. Deane,
of New jersey, craZed with the excite
ment, tore down the flags and shook them
in the air. She finally climbed to the ped
estal of the Goddess Of Liberty that stands
behind the chairman's desk, and there
cOnspicuOusly to all the audience she swung
her flags and bonnet, and screamed with
all her voics. She was finally taken down Ly
ergeant-at-Arms, Strong. Gov. Jewell.
Congressman Aldrich, and others, and
placed in a seat, but her Mysteries return
ed, and she snatched the flags from the
men who had them and Gprang to the ped
estal again. She was second time taken
down, and compelled to k. ep her seat, but
was finally taken from the building before
she could be controlled.
MY LORD ROSCOE UNBENDs.-
Senator Conkling stood upon chair and
waved the banner, which, hanging upon
pole, was placed to mark the seats Of the
New York delegation. When his arms
were tired with holding this heavy banner,
he waved bis bat in one hand and his hand
kerchief in the other. The digniied gen.
tlemen in the New York delegat Oh
sylvania delegation. General Beaver
waved his clutches in the air, and Sei.-
ator Came ron swung his hat, standing on
the top of chair. Long John Went
worth huge body and conspicuous head
rose up among the Illinois delegates like
giant among pigmies. He stood upon a
chair for twenty minutes, with his cane in
one hand and his old brown hat on the
end of it, and his red-hemmed handker-
chief In the other, forgetting all parlia-
decOrum.
REPORTERS COOL, AS USUAL.
The delegates began to sing "John
Brown" and Rally Round the Flag, and
in all that yelling, rapping. swaying crowd
the only men who kept quiet were the re-
porters. who were compelled In the midst
Of the deafening turmoil to attend to the
business of furnishing the news for the
public. 1t was midnight when the first
was heard, and it was half an
hour after O'Clock when the chairman
began to show that he still lived by ham
mering the desk with the formidable gavel.
He could not succeed. however, immedi-
ately, because the delegates from Maine,
California, Nebraska, Nevada, Kansas.
Virginia, and New Mexico, bearing aloft |
the banners which designated their places
in the hall, formed a procession. which,
amid monstrOus confusion, marched
around the hall.
PEACE AT LAST.
Doubtless the disorder would have las
ted all night had not GENERAL .Raum, with |
an unexpected sagaclty, proposed three |
cheers for the victorious candidate. This |
parting volley Of sounds seemed to satisfy |
The frenzied assemblage, and Mr.. StOrrs |
concluded bis speech IN careful sentences,
fearful that he might create another scene |
like the one which he had so ably succeed |
ed in producing. There never was, and |
perhaps, unless in the same body. possibly |
never will be, such another spectacle. In |