The daily gazette., 1880-06-08
The Chicago Convention,
A Howling, Yelling Mob.
700 SCHOOL BOYS.
A BIRDS EYE VIEW OF The SCENE.

posI scales az my command, and though
the fight is too near to make prediction
wise, my estimate of the first round leads
me to believe that Blaine will lead Grant
on the first ballot, Blaine can command
80 votes on the first ballot, and do not
see that Gil ant can count with c4rtaipty
more than 300.
DAY OF COMBINATIONS.
This has been day of combinati, n
and manipulation. Whether Tomorrow
will prove to be day OF accomplishment
the ballot alone will tell.
From the very first this National Con-
vention has been confusion aud turmoil,
and If 1t would be understood would
add of third term oil as well. The Con-
vention has been in the hands of a mob.
The demonstrations of Friday were pos
slDly genuine. But those of Saturday
night were manufacture ed and outrageous.
The Grant scene for briei period was
excusable, but its continuance for half
an hour in epileptic commissions was part
of the tactics of delay. 1t was the last
desperate effort of the third term faction,
egged on by Conkling and Logan, to
carry the Convention by brute force.
The bowling, yelling mob gave way TO
passion and frenzy. Beaten decisively
on every test vote thus far, and seeing no
ray of hope in future proceedings by
honest expression or debate on the mer-
its, they sought to overawe and bulldoze
the Convention by pounding and yelling.
They howled and stamped. They broke
of the backs of the seats and pounded
the floor with them. They took off their
boots and pounded the seats with the
heels. They fiourished their canes and
threw their hats in the air. They scream
ed and shrieked. 1t was not the sponta-
neous ou.burst of enthusiasm, full of
b art and cheer, that sometimes sweeps
over great crowds. 1t Was not a tribute
of admiration or affectionyto the great
soldier of the Republic. 1t was not
demonstration in honor of any man or
men.
| A GRANT CRAZE.
1t was display of the very frenzy of
passion. Any ordinary display of
enthusiasm would have yielded at last to
the calls Of the chair for order, and
would not have seriously interrupted the
business of the Convention. But the mob
deAed all demands for order, stamped
under foot The rights of the Convention
and paralyzed ALL business until it was
tired out and could howl no longer
Its barbaric display of force did not
cease until it was exhausted and incapa-
BILE of further mischief. Its legs were used
up, its lung power exhausted and it set
tied back limp and useless and allowed
| the business of the onvention to go ON
because it could no longer obstruct it.
The significance of this unreasonable,
undignified, indecorous aud insulting
| display may be found primarily in the
fact that the third termers were outvoted
at the very beginning of the Convention,
| and knew that they would be outvoted
in its climax. They knew that the
material of the Convention was drifting
away from them. They knew that public
sentiment was against them. They knew
that the great majority of the republican
party, including the honesty decency and
reform elements of the party were
unalterably and infexibly opposed to
the third term principle.
MEME, MEME, TEKEL UPHARsIN.
The votes already recorded had be 1
| a handwriting on the walls forebodl
their doom and they strove to avert it :
display of animal power, by trampll
down popular rights, By bulldozing ami.
machine members of the Convention.
But it was answered back with a shoI
of defiance that was justifiable because
it was provoked. This show was popu-
lar protest against violence, against
usurpation against bulldozlng. 1t was a
notification to Senator Conkling and
General Logan that they could not "ride
rougbshod," as Logan imprudently said
the other day, over the sentiments of the
the national republican party, whatever
they might do in their respective States.
The horse power demonstration of the
third termers was not a demonstration
for General Giant, and fortunately; for
to all appearances they have done their
candidate injustic enough already by
dragging him into the Convention when
they knew the Saversion of many re-
publicans to third term for any man.
1t was the expression of their last des-
perate effort to get third term because
it means a third term to them of the
spoils from which they have been kept
for four years during Mr.. Hayes clean
administration. Their yells were like the |
wells of wolves famised and desperate |
fJr flesh. They fought for the spoils, and |
sought to obtain them by riding over an |
tramplilg down everything that was |
honest in the party, every reform, every |
principle, every right that pretains to it.
But it failed, and failed miserably. But |
It also succeeded because delay was its
endeavor and delay it gained. Had
ballot been taken last night it would at
least have shown BIaine's strength and
ct best might have given Blaine the
nomination.
BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE SCENE.
From the platform strange sights are
seen. The personnel of the Convention
en- nasse is attractive The men look
honest, straightforward and earnest, and,
as a rule, bear themselves with dignity
aud decorum, except in the scenes of
absurd enthusiasm, when every mothers
son loses his head, remembers only his
arms and legs, and goes in for noise and
bsdlam. never saw 100 schoolboys so
frantic as these 700 delegates. No Tam
many Hall meeting ever furnished
tumults equal to these now Characters
tic of this Convention and major part
of its record But il queer sights are
seen on the floor, what can | say OF the
gallery?
sABBATH THOUGHTS ABOUT THE !
GALLERIES
In the first place always think of
St. Peter's "great Sheet" which ahen
let down, was found to contain all man
ner of odd d..startling beings. also