The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-16
AFTER THE BATTLE.
LChicago Times.l

number OF efforts were made during the
evening to induce General Garfield to meet
the demand of the great American public
for speech. His room was vigorously be.
sieged by a hungry-looking crowd, almost
any one of whom would undoubtedly have
been willing to accept a cabinet position, or,
barring that foreign mission.
Storrs put in an appearance about Q
O'Clock, and entertained a crowd in the
parlor with his picturesque determination 70
support both the head and the tail of the
ticket with the same vim that would have
characterized his advocacy of General
Grants claims had the Galena man obtained
the nomination.
About half-past O'Clock, In lieu of a
speech. Mr.. Garfield appeared in the parlor,
hsnked on the right by his associate, Mr..
Arthur and gracefully submitted to
RECEPTION.
The public, male and female, after their
kind. to the number of perhaps a thousand,
walf ed in as Noah's menagerie marched into
the ark, and wiggled the would be Presiden-
tial paw en- PEASANT as people say in France.
One of the noticeable features of the enter
taiDment was that the desire to squet re Mr..
Garfisld's knuckles was equaled and per-
hsps surpassed by q disinclinstion on the
part of the crowd to seize the fipper of the
ex-Collector. There seemed to be q feeling
that the Ohio Senator ought to show as
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joy over the unsought nomination.
Its = weak affair."" remarked one
disguised patriot; ''the tail will bite the head
off long before November
Notwithstanding
ADVERSE COMMENT,
Mr.. Arthur appeared to enjoy the situation,
though he could hardly have failed 10 over
hear the following remarks, made within
three feet of his ear:
"Well, CoDkling hiss got Just what he
wants now, and that's the defeat of the
party next fall"
why, how's thatP'
'Can't you see? Arthur can't carry one
had the sense of pump-handle, they'd have
put Stewart Woodford on for vice, and that
would have saved the State.
The hand.happing performance went on
an hour or more, when couple OF policemen
shut the door in the faces of an enthusiastic
few who hinge ed near the open door, and the
nominees retired to their quarters.
In one Of the parlors in which the recep-
ton was held was a beautiful piece of
FLORAL WORKMANSHIP,
representing the ship of state, with white
and red roses for hull. spars of black wal
nut, and climbing vine for rigging. On
one side, just below the port scuppers sp.
peared in red flowers the name Garfield"
intimsting thereby that
Captain g.
Would go to sea
in corcmand of the ship of state some time
in the early days of next March.
While the nominees were enjoying them.
selves for the amusement of the public rep
resented In the parlors, a crowd numbering
/, 200 IT, 500 occupied the street in front of
the hotel, and looked with Fourth of July
eyes at a discharge of rockets from one of
the balconies Occasionally they broke out
into howls for sight OF the person of Gen.
eral g., but their requests. as well as their
demands. were wasted on the Jackson street
air.
About 10 o'clock Major Nevans' band drew
up in front OF the nominee chamber win
dow, and
DISGUISED MELoDIoUsLY
of the Sweet By and By" and "Home,
Sweet Home" but the seductive strains
failed to draw the General from the recesses
OF his privacy. Threats were as fruitless of
results in that direction as requests, al
though the portentous remark was made b
an ancient Hibernian:
'If ysz don't kim out and spske I'll not
vote for yel"
The last bszoo ripper left at 1922; at 1925
the final rocket was fired; the tail end of the
crowd fired itself around the Clark street
corner a. 1925, and the miserable men were
left to their own dismal reflections. The
prospect of months OF vituperstion and
SANDER may have disturbed their natural
rest, but they have
ONLY THEMSELVES TO BLAME
for the predicament in which their accept
ance of the nominations places them. Had
they simply declined to be candidates, these
months of Misrepresentation would have
been spared them, and they could possibly
have found q few other Americans who
would have been willing to suffer the noto-
riety which accompanies ones permission to
have himself named by Convention e. a
candidate for the Presidency.