New-York tribune., 1880-06-24


GENERAL AsrRCr OF THR CONVENTION ON ITS
FIRST FIELD DAY-TELEGRAPHIC ENTERPRISE
TAMMANY sIGNALtY DEPEATED-MR. KELLY DE-
sRTRRD BY SUPPOSED FRIENDS.
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l d"
CINCINNATI June 23.--The crowd of yesterday
was great but the crowd of to-day was greater
There always is room in convention for Thousand
or 30 more at least that is the opinion of the peo-
ple who want to get in, aud they usually prove it
by getting IN. They got IN to-day. swarmed upon
the platform and filed it full to the edges over
which they hung such superfuous legs as could not
be accommodated there: pushed their way In
among the reporters and squeezed the elbows OF
that timid aud shrinkingy modest class until they
ould not work their pencilsI stood In
the aisles to DO roared at by loDg-haired
delegates from the Southwest, who follow the pro-
ceedjnps with as much attention as they would
at circus and are anxious to get their money
worth; poured up into the galleries and when they
had filed them to overAowing unanimously took OF
their coats and famed themselves at rapid rate
The galleries appeared in full dress this hot morn
ing-sbrt sleeves and palm-leaf fans. Let 1T be
sad for the good fame of the party that the display
was most creditable Even Massachusetts, Repub-
lcans could hardly have had more impressive linen.
The ladies' amphitheatre was even more picturesque
than yesterday there was large addition to their
number and great multiplication OF Huttering
ribbons and graceful! fans.
Perbaps the most interesting part of the whole
speetacle was that which could hardly have seemed
picturesque to any one, and, perhaps did not even
seem impressive. This was the regiment of report
ers and correspondents, 200 of them seated in
broad zone crossing the ball in front of the stage
trife of fifty, perhaps, clustered the stage. and
in each of the galleries looking down on the stage
between 100 aud 200 more. Under each OF the
Ia riv tall their
Offices and back of them of operators click
ing the news away the instant O vote was cast or
speech was made. The American Union ran q
slender pneumatic tube over the heads of the re-
porters to the stage and its bulletins for all parts
of the country were shot into the OperatinG-room
in twinkling. These 500 busy men representing
every large newspaper in the country driving their
pencils over the paper fast they can fly are to
the rest of this great audience as are to
5000. These are the eyes with which Maine and
Texas. New-York and California see, and the ears
with which they hear this Convention and as the
pencils fly and the telegraph boys rush hither and
thitber with the dispatches. flung off every moment
on all sides like leaves shaken from the trees, and
the news leaps along the wires to every point of the
Union IL is impossible not to find all this strange
and impressive.
There was such a crowd on the platform that it
seemed doubtful whether Judge Hoadley could
swing his trp-hammer mallet without being the
death Of somebody but he did, and called upon the
Convention to rise for prayer
BUSINESS BEGUN.
The first business in order was the report OF the
Committee on Permanent Organization. This was
read, announcing ex-senator John W. Stevenson, of
Kentucky. permanent chairman. The selection
was made in reality long since, as The TRIBUNE
dispatches showed week ago. Ex-senator Steven
sons name was greeted with cheers. The only
other portion Of the report In whicn the Convention
took much interest was upon the representation of
the District of Columbia and the Territories. The
memorial of the Territories asked that they might
be allowed votes is the custom In the Republican
Conventions while the plea Of the District Of Co
IumbIa was both for seats aud votes The Commit
tee recommended that two delegates be admitted
from each Territory and the District with all the
rights of the delegates from Statos except the right
20 vote
As the question was about to be put on the report
of the committee, General Pierce M. B. Young, Of
Georgia chairman Of the Committee on Creden-
sials appeared with his report and demanded the
Aoor as a question Of the highest privilege. This
was denied by the chairman, Judge Hoadley, but
after some unconsequentat talk by varions dele
Gates motion to receive the report Of the Commit
tee ON Credentials ives put aud carried.
Tho report disposed Of the Massachusetts, case
very briefly. saying that the Recommendation for the
sdnasion of both delegationE each with one half of