, 1880-06-03
The Grant Men Hold Another
Caucus-Roscoe Conkling
Gives 1t Up.
Three More Pennsylyaninns Join
tho Ranks Of tile Pro-
testers.
Don Cameron Trying to Get His Dele
cation to Go as a Unit
for Elmunds.
The Plan Now Is to Unite the
Grant Forces on the
Verrnonter.

Tho CONVENTION Hall Is finished In tho
form Of M amplitheatre, with seating
capacity Of 10000 or 1900. Itlsayast place,
adorned with National flags fcstooncd and
draped In every conceivable style, and orna-
nentcd with huge pictures Of the great men
Of American history. On the right lungs
TINT Of Charles Sumner, whose stern features
recall his record iii defense Of human rights,
md especially that great speech OH '"The
Barl,arlsm ot Slavery" which intensified the
bitter hostility Of tho South, which, once
found vent In tho deadly assault of Brooks
In the Sennto Chamber Of the Nation. On
tho left appears the face of Dix, which re-
calls his famous order: II any mnn at-
tempts to hnul down the American
flag shoot him on tho spot.'' Over
the centre of tic delegate floor hangs tho
picture Of Washington, ard near on tho left
that of Jefferson, tho two constituting MI
embodied rebuke of audacious third-term
conspiracy. At tho extreme north end Of the
hall hangs picture OF martyr.patrfot Lin
coin, ensllrlneu with flags and adorned by that
famous aphorism Which has become house
hold phrase and tho stock-in-trade nIiku Of
tho patriot and tic poEtlclan-"Aud that
government of tho people, by tho people, and
for tho people siIall not perish from the
cnrtll." Over tho speakers desk there Is u
portrait Of Zac,nrIal Clolulier, whose short,
crisp, aggressive speeches electrified tho Selt.
ato In 1851 a1Ml nenln III 1878; who declared
in 1SDl, In tho teeth OF tho Rebels by whom
I.o wns surrounded, that treason must bo
punished with death, that there must
be IN l[ttle blootl-lettlng" to save the Unfun.
and who, upon his return to tho Senate III
1878, agntn dellpd and warned tho cx-iscbo!s,
parLoncd, reenfranchlscd, md returned to
the NatIon's councils, ,-dGiiea them to agnin
assault the Union by tho roassertlon Of those
extreme Stata:r1slsts theories which threat
cnctl Its existence, tlolugcd the land In blood.
and burtcned a loynI a1Nl patriotic people With
debt and taxation. Other plcturs,-al long lIne
Of dead statesmen and military heroes, and
among them portraits Of Morton, the War
Governor OF Indiana, and Yntes, thu War
Governor OF Illinois.
At II O'Clock tie delegates began to assem-
bio and tho spectators to push uIolr way Into
tile galleries. Thu lnuslc,-Natlonal airs, -
the grcat throng Ut people pouring Into the
llal! from q score Of entrances. the bustlo
and confusion OF thousands OF persous
jostllng each other, the buzz OF conYers1-
ton, forming not cor.lantacconpanlmon
to the music,-all those formed curious and
inspiring scenc.
The entrance Of the New York white
halted delegation. headed by S0nator Conk-'
ling, was the flrst event Of the day. The
vain, proud, and handsome chief of tho
Now York machine inclined his head
haughtlly but gracefully III response to tha
applause by which ho was grcotetl. Tho del
cgatcs-(somo Of them, not alD Ills honcla'
men--follow0d him (some Of them, not al!)
! with MI Enthusiastically obselu1ous alt.
"Wl,at sent will 1t please you to have, Mr.
Conklin2 %' Inquired Alr. Arthur, tha haud-
some OK Collector Of the Port Of Now York.
! "To whom will tho lloaor OF sitting noxt to
you be accorded p 1t may ba presumed so1no
one said to tha New York Senator. mot
! Mr. Woodiu, the engineer Of the wrecked
1nach!ne," he may have replied. "nor Mr.
Robertson, nor blr. Sessions, nor any one OF
the twenty-five Eocalcitrants."
The scat obseQulously tonuerod Mr. Conk-