The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-04
DISTINGUISHED DELEGATES.

Some of the Striking Figures in the Hail.
(The Tribune thus describes some of the
more widely known occupants of the Hall as
they appeared Wednesday,
In the Connecticut delegation, in front OF
Illinois, sits Marshall Jewell, with his silk
hair and skin as white as baby's.
Lieutenant-Gener Philip Sheridan with a
cropped head, is on the stage, and not far
from him is ex-Attorney General Williams
The mulatto, with a complexion that is
something more than sallow and something
less than black. and great head of bushy
gray hair, is Frederick Douglass.
Senator G.. F. Hoar is not in his seat; he is
waiting to be called to the temporary chair
manship, but glance at his retreat shows a
face that slightly suggests Horace Greeley.
Postmaster James is there with that innoc ,nt
habit of his, looking as if he had never heard
of the New York post Office.
On the floor there are negroes of all shades
OF blackness, surely proper persons to sit in a
Republican convention. They range all the
way from the burly ex-tield-hand to the dapper
mulatto. The most intelligent of them in ap-
pearance is Senator Bruce, handsome,
broad-shouldered mulattos- sitting with tho
Mississippi delegation. He smiles now and
then bright southern smile, as if his Vice.
Presidential fever had not proved serious.
The man with huge burly body, popularity
supposed to be seven feet long, and an ugly
face, who is sitting by the side of General Lo-
worth
William E. Chandler is standing in the
aisle. From his dress and appearance you
might infer that he was college tutor. From
his Quick, abrupt, decisive talk you would sup
pose that he was a stock broker.
The man over in the New York delegation,
who looks like nothing so much as a bulldog,
with mustache, iS--well, it would be wiser,
perhaps, not to mention the name.
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas with his one
arm, and long dropping mustache, and face
that impresses you with an idea of the mans
cool daring and southwestern nerve, is rather
another man to be known by his long mus
taches, which have waved to the wind of cav
airy charges. Ex-Governor Warmoth of LOU
isian, looks as he always has looked, since he
was old enough to be in politics, like ID tall,
straight young man of thirty-two or three.
with more of the marks of commercial than of
political life about him.
The slender man looking like a handsome
boy with gray hair is Richard G. Mccormick
of Arizona.
gan, with tightly shutting mouth and sill
vered beard, is James f. Joy, who is to be one
OF the Blaine orators when the convention gets
at the work of nominating President.
The bald-headed, sturdy little man with a
close brown beard, in the Illinois group, is
General Green r. Baum, whom General Lo-
gan put into the chair at Sprinfeld to pound
out forty-two delegates for Grant, and who
did it.
Just on the other side of the aisle is the
Maine delegation, at the head of which sits
Eugene Hale, compactly built man. rather
under the medium size, of quiet and refined
appearance, with New England face and
New England voice. Congressman Frye, an
other conspicuous Maine man, shows his mod
crate stature on the platform. He has pleas.
ant, cordial face. No one who remembers the
broken voice in which he moved at Cincinnati
to make the nomination of President Hayes
unanimous, can doubt that the man from
Maine has his whole heart in the fight for
Blaine. The tall, slender man dressed in the
continental black which is the typical attire
sombre face sand his mouth shut nervously
under his heavy tawny moustache who moves
forward to the chairman's desk and lets the
gavel fall so that the vast gathering quickly
settles into silence, is Senator Don Cameron of
Pennsylvania.