Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CON.
VENTION AT CHICAGO.
[special corre,pondence Of the Monitor. ]

work and submitted it to the people to |
ratify or condemn. However it may
terminate; whichever candidate before |
the convention succeeds in carrying off |
the palm, there is no question but politi- |
clans here assembled have about as lively |
a fight on their hands as they have taken |
a chance in for some time. The ring
which came here with q sugar-coated gag
already prepared, and expecting Ameri-
can people to hold their mouths open and
stand quite still while it was rammed
down their threats, have found they had
been a little too fast, and had come with
in dot of counting their chickens before
even the eggs were laid. Nothing is surer
than this: If that little triumvirate COM
posed of Conkling, Cameron and Logan,
which fiatters itself it holds the destinies
of this great republic in its hands, does
not succeed in having it's say noao, it will
come out Of this convention so completely
set down upon that squeezed lemon will
be round as an apple beside it.
Everybody and his neighbor seems to
have come up to see the fun. The streets
are full of strangers; the corridors of the
hotels swarm with people, everybody beg
ging first for ticket to get into the con-
vention and failing to obtain that, for the
latest move from the field of battle. Out
side the great Exposition building in
which the convention is being held, thou
sands of men, with a fair sprinkling of
women, crowd and surge, hoping that by
some unforeseen interposition of Provi-
dence chance for them to ''get inside"
will occur. Those having the coveted
| tickets are eyed enviously, and often lib
eral offers are made in the hopes some
one more covetous than curious may sell
| out. Notwithstanding the vast roominess
of the building, it will not hold one quar-
ter Of the people who are ':just dying to
get inside" If you can imagine vast
ampitheater whose ground outline is al
most elliptical, it's length four hundred
| feet, its width one hundred and fifty, you
have in your mind the outline of the
| building in which men are wrangling
not over principles; not over human
rights or liberties not over the greatest
| good to the greatest number, but over
men, and to the shame of our country be
it written, if true. After three days of
such work it is now said, the triumvirate
are causing every delay possible In the
hopes that their barrel aoiU hold Out longe,
than that of any other man. But to return
to the building: Over this vast room is
an arching glass roof one hundred feet
high, from which are draped American
flags of all sizes, the largest being 28(
feet long. Pictures of eminent statesmen
who have passed over to the land where
if there are any politics, civil service rules
stand fairer show than they do here, are
scattered about the hall; statuary anC
green plants adorn the official platform
which is ten feet above the floor, fifty
feet broad and twenty-five deep. Darl
green carpet covers the floor of the plat
form, and on it, in addition to the chair
mans seat and desk, are the chairs of tn,
, secretaries and several hundred seats TO
distinguished politicians, guests, etc
Just in front of this platform is the re
porters' place, there are eight long table
) with room for fourteen at each table. Oh
the main floor, facing the platforms, ar
, the delegates seats, in four sections
running far back, the allotted place O
each delegation designated by a Uniol
shield with the name of it's state or terri
tory printed upon it. Behind these ar
the alternates' seats, and behind all
, large space for spectators.
0 Rising on every side, terrace above tel
race, are more seats for visitors, the Ell
E tire space accommodating ten thousan
people. A fine band is stationed in tn
gallery at the end opposite the platform
but imagine the music on the main foo
: will be livelier than that from the banG
: and brassier, too.
4 When that vast crowd, every man an
@ woman and boy in it moved up to pitc
of enthusiasm never reached except o
. some such occasion as this, breaks fort
i in applause, hand clapping and shout
e and whoops and yells mingled togethe
C it is enough to make one feel as if rack'
can save America she is safe for all tim
4 A good many people here believe if
! "dark horse" is trotted out to win, Sen
tor Edmund's chances are from "fair
~ middlin';" and there are more who b
e than that if he had not apparently catert
d quite so much to the third term bushes
y 1 doubt if the Vermont delegation has
well-defined idea as to the manner
which it is being marched, and, thong
it is too late to do them any good, W
81 add, there is many Green Mountain
N trembling in his or her boots lest tho
ii chosen men from their native state {
n something now which shall make us wi
have drifted from within her border
ashamed to own our birthplace. He
y" often have said within myself: go,
aC within that delegation, there were b
n the clear, penetrating, all-discerning bra
I'd Of Benjamin H. Steele, one of the brigf
he est lights which ever Vermont cou
il boast!" But perhaps ere this sees t
light, events will have proven our anx
Nc ties were groundless. If so, herewi
Oh beg the pardon Of the delegation a
lis make them my choicest bow, which is ne
in er trotted out except on state occasion
nd TRUFAX
=, Chicago, H., June 4, 1880.
les A century hence the United Sta
he will contain population of one the
las sand millions, more or less, if the IA
I'm | &C ;z,a.onna &c ;nh hikantn rhnuld ha