The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-07
CHICAGO CALM.
Names Of Candidates Placed Before
she Convention. but Sossns /.
Postponed Until To-Day.

ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING AND ne
MARKABLE SCENES EVER WITNESSED II
a POLITICAL AssRMBLAGE-ALL TIL
CONTESTED. DELEGATION CASES DIS
POSED oF-THE PLATFORM REPORTED
AMENDED. AND NORTHUMBERLAND
apprenticeship VOTE SATURDAY NIGHT
CoNyrNTIoN ADJOURNED UNTIL MON
DAY MoRNING-GRANT's DEADHEA
MOVEMENT on THE VIRGINIA DELEGA
T,oN-THE BETTING AGAINST GRANT
THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE CoNvEN
TION.
CHICAGO, June 5.-The greatest scen'
which ever occurred In National Conyen
ton took place between IL and o,cloci
This morning, amounting almost TO battle
between the contendng factions.
Il was so prolonged ard excited that th'
coolest men were dazcd, and stood terror
stricken in their seats. Men and womer
went into mysteries, and rushed around ant
shouted like maniacs. People who heart
the rush and roar five blocks away crowded
into the Convention without tickets, as tbt
notice seemed too much startled 10 detair
any one.
II would seem that the animal spirits ant
wondrous lung-power or Inc convention
were reserved, after all, for the closing de
hate on the IS anti. Grant contestants iron
Illinois. Matters were comparatively qule
during the speeches, although the speakers
on each side spoke with more than usua
mower. But when Emory Storrs, OF Chi
caro-. the last of the four, took his stand or
the edge OF the press platform and proceeded
in bis peculiarly eloquent style to laugh down
the arguments Of his opponents, the enthu
siasm increased each second. When, I'm
proving his advantage, and in voice thai
oyercame the acoustic difficulties OF the hall,
he spoke OF Blaine, and told the supporter:
OF that gentleman to nominate him II they
could, the tempest opened in good earnest
with stirring cheers and loud verbal inter
ruptions from the gallery. MIR. Storrs,
turning to the cheering crowd, said: And
when the gentlemen who ale cheering In
the gallery tonight are repOsing under the
soft summer sky, tired Of politics and dis
gusted with its fatieues, you Will find the
followers OF the grand old silent soldier
awake by their camp-fires and carrying the
banner Of the sluggard forward to TIL
umph."
WILD WOMEN, TOO.
Ten thousand people were on their feet,
standing upon tables and chairs ana the
backs OF the benches, waving handker-
chiefs, canes, hats, umbrellas, overcoats,
shawls. papers, in fact everything tnat
could be seen or used to add to the confu-
sion and excitement. The nags with
which the building is decorated were torn
tnff "a
off their hornets and swung them by their
strings: and crazy men pulled their coats
from their shoulders ald waved them in The
air. The noise was absolutely deafening;
and no one knows till he hears it how much
noise ten thousand people can make, shout
ing at the tops OF their lungs, pounding
the floor with their feet, and banging the
resonant pine benches with boards torn
from the backs and arms. 1t was Bedlam,
and beyond Bedlam. II was like nothing
that was ever seen or described, and any at
tempt to describe 1t would be failure.
One woman on the stage, Mrs. Deane,
Of New Jersey, crazed with the excitement,
tore down the flags and shook them in the
air. She finally climbed 10 the pedestal OF
the Goddess OF Liberty that stands behind
the chairman's desk, and there conspien-
ously 10 all the audience she swung her
flags and bonnet, and screamed with all her
voice. She was finally taken down by
Sci geant-at-Arms Strong, Governor Jewell,
Aldticb, and Others, and
placed i'm seat, but her Mysteries re-
turned, and she snatched the flags from the
men who bad them and sprang TO the
again. She was e second
lime taken down, and compelled to keep
her seat, but was finally taken from the
building before she could be controlled.
MY LORD ROSCOE rNRESps.
Senator Conkling stood upon a 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 his bat in one hand and his handker-
chief in the other. The digniied gentle
man in the New York delegation shouted
with the Senator in the Pennsylvania dele
CATION. General Beaver waved his crutches
in the air, and Senator Cameron swung his
hat, standing on top OF chair. Long
John WentwOrih's huge body and conspic-
uous head rose up among the Illinois dele
gates like giant among pigmies. He stood
Ipon chair for twenty minutes, with his
cane in one hand and his old brown hat on
the end OF it, and his red-hemmed bandker-
chief in the other, forgetting all parlia-
mentary decorum.
REPORTERS COOL, AS USUAL.
The delegates began to sing "John
Brown" and orally Round the Flag"
and in all that yelling, rapping, swaying
crowd the only men who kept quiet were
The reporters, 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
handicapped was heard, and IL 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, immediate.
ly, because the delegates from Maine, Cali
fornia, Nebraska, Nevada, Kansas, Virginia.
and New Mexico, bearing aoft the banners
which designated their places in the hall,
formed procession, which, amid monstrous
marched around the hall.
PEACE AT LAST.
Doubtless the disorder would have lasted
all night had not General Raum, with an
sagaciiy, proposed three cheers
forthe victorious candidate. This purting
voley OF sounds seemed to satisfy the iren-
Zied assemblage, and Mr.. Storrs concluded
his speech in careful sentences, fearful that
he might create another scene like the one
which he bad so ably succeeded in pro-
ducing. There never was, and perhaps,
unless in the same body, possibly never will
be, such another spectacle. In fact, the
scene put Grant and Blaine in nomination,
and the speeches after this will be tame in
Washington Star.
ny Associated Press.I
THE AFTEBMIDNIGHT SESSION.
CHICAGO, June 5.-In the Convention last
night the question on the adoption Of the
majority report in the case of the First dis
trict OF Illinois resulied-ayes, 1884; noes,