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THE GREAT CONVENTION.
FOURTH DAY.
THE BATTLE RACES.
WHO WILL WIN?
The Disputed Seats.
NEWS FROM GRANT.
Friday Nights Pro-
ceedings.
REDLAM!
NEWS FROM GRANT.
Friday Nights Pro-
ceedings.
BEDLAM!
Special To The Star,

CHICAGO, June 5, 1880.
The Battle Of the Giants.
The greatest scene which ever occurred In
national convention took place between ~ aud
O'Clock this morning, amounting almost to
battle between the contending factions.
Long John Wentworth says he has never seen
anything Ike 1t In forty years and Pixley,
California delegate, declared that it looked like
a scene OF terror from the French revolution.
Wild and Thrilling scenes.
1t was so prolonged and excited that the
coolest men were daZed and stood terror stricken
in their seats. Men and women went into hys-
terics. and rushed around and shouted like
maniacs- People who heard the rush and roar
five blocks away crowded into the convention
without tickets, as the police seemed too much
startled to detatn any one.
1t would seem that the animal spirits and
wondrous lung power OF the convention were
reserved after all, for the closing debate on the
is anti-Grant contestants from Illinois. Mat
tiers were comparatively quiet during the
speeches. although the speakers on each side
spoke with more than usual power. But when
Emory Storrs, OF Chicago, the last of the four,
took his stand Oh the edge of the press plat
form and proceeded In his peculiarly eloquent
style to laugh down the arguments OF his oppo-
nents, the enthusiasm increased each second.
When, improving his advantage, and 10 voice
that overcame the acoustic difficulties of the
OF that gentleman to nominate him il they
could, the tempest opened in good earnest with
stirring cheers and loud verbal Interruptions
from the gallery: Mr.: Storrs turning to the
cheering crowd said: ''And when the gentle
men who are cheering in the gallery tonight
are reposing under the soft summer sky tired
win find the followers of the grand old silent
soldier awake by their camp-flres, and CARRYING
The banner OF the sluggard forward to
triumph"
..HeIl Broke LOOse.n
At the conclusion OF the closing sentence
'Hell or something that very closely resembled
that territory" says the Chicago Times, ''broke
loose, beginning on the east side OF the hall
spreading to the floor and finally injecting every
part of the vast audience until 1t seemed to
nave gone absolutely mad for the time being.
The adherents OF both the renowned candidates
Wed with each other in roaring like wild bulls
or perhaps it might be true to say like an Inn
mense band OF wild Indians sounding their
feroc1ouS war whoops at a gigantic scalp
dance"
The delegates from the different states and
territories seized their banners and waved them
on high while every body on the floor and In the
galleries waved handkerchiefS or hats or UNI
brellas, or sticks, or whatever they could lay
hands on to indicate their preferences The
continued roaring, which lasted three-quarters
OF an hour without official interruption sounded
Ike the storm OF the battle field itself
Conspicuous among the leaders of the scene
were Roscoe Conkling, Long John Wentworth
and John Logan on the floor, and Bob Ingersol
and Mr.. Conger on the platform. The flashing
eyes and scarlet faces Of the excited multitude
and dignifed republican party had come.
Wild Women, Too.
Even womanhoOd for a time lost Its delicacy
and dignity, and showed as much insanity
standing On chairs and 1ourishing symbols, as
the men themselves. They were few, OF course
In proportion to the number or women who sat
Their eaWed and amazed by the Titanic uproar.
Ten thousand people were on their feet
standing upon tables and chairs and the backs
Oh the benches, waving handerkerchiefs. canes,
q CHI QxIy1C fnf
everything could that could be seen or used to
add to the confusion and excitement The
flags, with which the building is decorated, were
torn down and waved aloft. Crazy women tore
OH their bonnets, and swung them by their
strings; and crazy men pulled their coats from
their shoulders and waved them In the air. The
noise was absolutely deafening; and no one
knows. till he hears it, how much noise 10000
people can make, shouting 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 1t was like nothing that was
ever seen or described. and any attempt to de.
scribe 1T would be failure.
One woman on the stage a Mrs Deane OF
New jersey, crazed with the excitement. tore
down flags and shook them In the air. She
nnalIy climbed to the pedestal OF the Goddess
OF Liberty that stands behind the chair
mans desk, and there conspicuously to all the
audlence she swung her flags and bonnet and
screamed with all her voice. She was finally
taken down by Sergeant-at-Arms Strong. Cover
nor Jewell, Congressman Aldrich. and others
and placed In seat, but her histories Returned
and she snatched the flags from the men who
nad Them and Sprang to the pedestal again.
she was second time taken down ana COM
peiled 10 Keep her seat, but was finally taken
from the building before she could be controlled
My Lord Roscoe Unbends.
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
nolClDg thlS heavy banner, he waved his hat in
one hand and his handkerchief In the other
The dlgnlned gentleman In the New York dele
CATION shouted with the Senator In the Penn
sylyania delegation. General Beaver waved his
clutches In the air. and Senator Cameron sWun nc
his hat, standing on top of chair LONG JohS
Nentworths huge body and censpicuous head
rose up among the Illinois delegates like a gianf
among pigmieS. He stood upon a chat for
twenty minutes, with his cane in one hand and
MS old brown hat on the end of IL, and his red
hemmed handkerchief In the other forgetting
all parliamentary decorum.
Reporters Cool, as Usual.
The delegates began to sing John Brown
and Rally Round the Flag" and In all that
yelling. rappdng, swaying crowd the only men
who kept quiet were the reporters who were
eompeiied Ia the midst OF the deafening turmoil