Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-26
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
HOW GREAT CONVENTIONS ARE RE
PORTED TO THE PRESS.
Tilden- Stocks and Stock Boards-New
Organizations-C alifornians in New
York and Where They Stop.
New YoRK. June is. 1850

While this is being carried by the slow
tortoise of the railroad, the swift hare of
the telegraph has no doubt begun his MINI
BILE leaps and brought to your readers news
of the gathering of the clans in Cincinnati
1t is still week off with US, but the hour
| is big with the event | was in the other
day at the office of the Associated Press,
which supplies the RECORD UNION with its
Eastern telegraphic news, and through
which your readers will get the reports Of
the coming Convention. 1t was the last
dav of the Convention at Chicago, and
had an opportunity to see the working of
the machine, as it recorded the struggles
of the political machine on that occasion.
| As there will be a similar service for the
| Convention about to assemble in Cincinnati,
it may interest your readers to know how
the news they receive is being transmitted.
| As they are probably aware, the General
| Agent of the Associated Press, Mr.. Simon
/ ton. is an old Californian. He is one of the
many ex-resdents of your State who ex-
+ poets to return and pass his remaining DAYS
! there. Mr.. Sim0nton, on great, occasion
| like National Convention, usually makes
/ up the report for his association his early
and long experience in reporting legislative
bodies giving him advantages which few
of the rising members of the profession
possesses, with all then facilities for steno-
| graphic writing. He secures in advance
| the best seat on the platform for hearing
and seeing, and when the Convention as
sembles is on hand with able assistants
! and messengers. At the Chicago Conven-
| ton he had a wire run in by the West
ern Union, and an operator sitting by his
| side. This wire connected directly with
| his associations rooms in New York. The
same arrangement. | understand, has been
made for the Cincinnati Convention. 1t
was almost like connecting the speakers
stand with the agents Office by telephone.
| The words were
CAUGHT FROM THE LIFS
OF speakers and flashed to the New York
receivers, who wrote them in manifold
copies-a dozen sheets at a time-for the
press, and they were as instantaneously
shot through the pneumatic tubes into the
rUOlilS VI d QOItu iItiS
and laid before the printer. Five minutes
after an important motion had been made,
or a result nnounced-sometimes while a
resolution was on its way to the Clerks
table to be read to the Conventional
would be in the hands of the printers at
the different offices in New Y ork, the agent
and his reporters at their table catching
the substance of it while 1t was being de-
clared. The nomination of Garfield was
announced and on the bulletin boards about
the city before the Chairman of the Con
vention had made it known to that body.
1t was being cheered in our streets and in
the hall of the Convention simultaneously.
And not alone here, but in Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore, throughout the
New England cities and in each of the
principal cities and towns in this State,
whittier the agents OF The Southern. the
New England and the State Associations
had transmitted the tidings within two or
three minutes after it had been received
here. Your readers Will please, then, put
themselves
IN THE LATITUDE
Of reception" as Mr.. Emerson says, and
should the wires be in working order, ex-
pect to receive their report of the doings
at Cincinnati hot from the lips of the ex-
cited speakers, with scarcely an appre
ciable interval of time elapsing The pro-
gress of the Convention will be noted from
step to step, every instant, in what is
called "sketch report, being rapid
delineation of incidents, without much
reference to details We are looking here
for particularly lively time when that
Convention assemblies. New York will
send her choicest spirits. The fare is low
to Cincinnati (only SD, believel, and the
| Tammany chiefs with their following,
down to the very 'mussiest of the
short haired strikers, will all be on hand.
| met Frank Clark, the Secretary of the
| little self-expatriated band of California
| Pioneers III this city, day or two since.
| He had just come down from business
call on Mr.. Tilden, and told me 60 for
| fact that the sage of Grammercy is look
ing very feeble. Clark is an ardent Demo-
crat, sand when I took him amiably by the
button-hole and conjured him in the lam
guage of the boy to come off from that
stale political hackneyed coach and tell
me whether Tilden is sound enough in
wind and limb to run in the Presidential
race, and survive the first year or two OF
White House cares lin case he should get
there) nv friend looked solemn, and as
sured me that Tilden, like that
KINDERHooK CANDIDATE
Of whom we old fellows used to sing in
the refrain, cyan, Van is used-up man,
was to all appearances already out of the
fight from failing health. His voice is
weak almost to whisper, his fern slightly
bowed, his gait feeble and his nerves I'M
steady As this agrees with the testi-
mony of other friends who have seen the
old man at home, and comes from a Dem
ocrat who always votes the regular ticket,
[ think We may set it down as certain that
TIlden, however much lie may cOvet the
Presidential prize, is in no condition to run
for it. Across Gramercy Park from Til
den's plain but commodious and COM
Portable mansion, is the more pretentious
residence of the rich brother of
your Judge Field, now in this city.
Cyrus w. is suspected of being willing
land we all know he is abundantly able) to
place not one but many barrels Of cam
paign documents at the service of the
party if be could but secure the Presiden-
tial nomination for a member of the Field
family. Cyrus is not widely given to pub
lie benefactions in short, be is one of the
most unpopular OF our moneyed kings.
am afraid the New York Fields would be
rather a burden thar blessing to their
brother in the canvass in this State,
Though the Judge is by far the most
amiable and popular member of the family,
his name is not heard very often among
New Workers III connection with the
Presidency. Undoubtedly the preference
here is for Bayard. Field is here, as | said
before, and so is Duke Gwin, who is said
to be his strong Presidential hacker. The
latter is stopping with Ex-Governor Irwin
at the New York Hotel,
THE OLD RESORT
OF Southerners and Southern-sympathizing
Democrats. l perceive in this mornings
Herald that Gwin was seen by the inevita-
BILE interviewer, and discoursed freely on