The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-18
The Tel,graphIe Facilities at the clnei
natl Convention Next week.

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The Telrgraphic Facilities at the cinein
natl Convention Next week.
CNcIssATI, June l7.-At meeting o
press representatives appointed by the 10
cal committee in charge OF the arrange
ments for the National Democratic Con
yention, 1t was decided that only legiti'
mate representatives OF the press, properly
accredited, will be provided with seats ~
the Convention. These upon arrival Will
register at No. 200 West Fourth street.
The representatives OF weekly papers
must look to their delegates for tickets
None but actual telegraphic correspond
ents for the daily press will be admitted TO
the press platform. There Will be press
accommodations for from 200 10 500 per
sons.
The telegraph company have run sixty
wires into the hall, and will attach quad
ruplex instruments. A corps Of the most
able operators that can be obtained Will
have charge Of the instruments. The
press will be located Immediately in 'front.'
Of the stage, on q platform q lew inches
lower. The telegraph operators will oc-
cupy the left OF the great stage and the
secretaries the right. The delegates and
alternates will occupy the floor oil the
hall, while the balconies aud gallery Will
be- given up to spectators, to whom tick
cts will be Issued. Just who will have the
Issuing OF these tickets has not yet been
decided upon. A part OF the balcony Will
be reserved for ladies and their escorts:
The hal, including the stage, Will hold
about 1000 people. Ex-senator Barnnm
and Smith Weed will, 1t is said, be Ill
denis managers in the Convention.
Thurman and 'seweit and Their Booms-
CoLuMBus, June Ex-senator Thurman
is respected home Friday evening, and his
friends would give him reception we're
it not for his known opposition to any
such demonstration. 1t is asserted that
he is greatly opposed to this style offriend-
ship. He is also opposed to the way the
howlers are going to Cincinnati-with
flags, badges, banners and bandanas-but
the boys propose to do as they please this
time.
1t was seriously thought to start a liter:
ary bureau, something alter the style oil
the late Blaine and Sherman bureaus, but
when It came to the knowledge OF Senator
Thurman he ordered the movement
stopped. ~
il is understood that the Senator will
remain at home iu this city during the
Convention, and that he will permit q wire
to be run into his private room, so that he
NAV be in constant communication with
his friends at the Convention. He will be
In consultation with his leaders Friday
evening and Saturday, before their depar.
ture for Cincinnati. Several hundred
Democrats are going from this city.
The Jewett men are making themselves
very aggressive in this city, and are throw
ing considerable cold water on the Thur.
man boom. They use as their argument
that 1t will only take short time in the
city OF Cincinnati for the Senator'S friends
to see that his chances are hopeless, and
then the delegation will boom for their
candidate, while Thurman's friends claim,
with "Jongee's" confidence, that the pow.
er Of the unit rule will be in their favor
and hope for accessions from the West aud
South. Many Republicans think sey-
mour will be the man, unless he comes
out in letter boldly declining to be
candidate under any and all circumstances,