Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-13

tional convention, because its coming and
going is of no financial Importance. Sar-
atoga, he says, would probably offer sufi-
Gent accommodations, but it has not been
the custom to hold great convention at
watering place. Indianapolis, Mr.. New
says, is not only a central point, but it has
sufficient hotel capacity. For place of
meeting building of sufficient size could
be erected in which to hold the conven-
ton. As member of the national COM
mittee he says he shall vote against hold
ing the meeting in any building
holding over 1000 people. He says
that he believes that is the senti-
ment of a majority, if not all of
the members of the committee. Expert
ence at Chicago in 1880 was sufficient
to warn the party never to hold
another national convention in a barn.
Seats must be provided in the next con-
vention for delegates and alternates for
over 1000 persons. If there is then room
for 1000 or 5000 spectators it ought to be
ample. He says Indianapolis is city
noted for its hospitality, and the residence
es of the Republicans there will be open to
receive strangers. He does not know why
it should not be plainly stated: Indiana
will not present Republican candidate
for the presidency. Ohio may and prob
ably will. On the other hand, Mr.. New
says we believe that Joe Mcdonald will be
the Democratic candidate, and Indiana
has got to have something to counteract
the influence of his popularity and candida
cy if she is give her electoral vote for
the Republican nominee. He says Chica-
go is out of the question as place to hold
the next national convention, that Cincin-
natl is not desirable place in the sum-
mer time, and there is no occasion for
coming east. Indianapolis is central,
hospitable and abundantly able to take
care of all the multitude that may gather
within her limits.
RUCTloN IN THE NAVY.
The Admiral Joseph Porters of the
United States navy and their somewhat
numerous female relatives, including in
addition to sisters and cousins and aunts,
fair proportion of daughters and nieces,
are now engaged in hurting various suDsti-
tutes for big, big DIS at Mr.. VIM. E.
Chandler, who happens to rule the navy.
The navy is ceasing to be the pleasant
place it used to be. The venerable Hunt
took long step toward driving all ladies
out of the service, and now that Mr..
Chandler has pushed the matter still
further, it is not unlikely that all the
ladies will resign en- masse, and leave the
marine branch of the public service to get
on as well as it can without them. Various
cruel secretaries of the navy waged war
on this custom, and finally Secretary Hunt
issued a stringent order against allowing
the ladies of naval officers on
board the ships, which is still in force,
and few terrible examples having
been made, it is believed that no violations
of it are now com mitted. The next best
! thing the poor officers could do was to
move their families from point to point
where the ships were likely to stop, and to
get leave Of absence all the while the YES
sells were in port, so that they could visit
their families. From strictly domestic
| point of view this was an excellent arrange
ment, but from naval point of view it
has grown to be great nuisance, for one
result of it was that the ships spent nearly
all their time IN parts where the families
of the officers were. When ship was
ordered to some other port there was al
ways q lively amount of protesting and
begging, and some delay, and if the
heartless being at the head of the depart
ment was relentless the order was ob eyed,
/ but as quickly as possible, and sometim es
/ too quickly for the public interests
/ the ship was back at the
port where the female part
Of the naval establishment was On shore
duty. An equally serious trouble was that
when the ship got back to this point she
was abandoned by all of the married Off =
! GERS, who, of course, comprise most of the
older officers and was left in the hands of
the midshipmen and ensigns who had not
acquired wives. In short, the practice of
navy officers of keeping their families
where they could easily visit them has
really interfered seriously with the move
ments of vessels, and with the maintenance
of discipline and the proper care of pub
lie property when the vessels were in the
headquarters port. Rear Admiral Hughes,
who IS in command Of the Pacific station,
is the only commander of a station who
does not keep his family where he can FIRE
/ quently visit it. No sooner was Rear Ad-
miral Baldwin ordered to take command
of the European station than he sent his
family to one of the Europeon ports.
While Admiral Pierce Crosby was
! in command of the South Atlantic station
| he mad his family at Rio Janeiro, and as
| soon as he was ordered to the Asiatic sta
! ton he moved his family to Yokohoma.
where there are living regularly the fam
| lilies of twelve or fifteen officers. The
family of Rear Admiral Cooper of the
North Atlantic station, travel up and down
the coast from New Orleans to Eastport
and back, always keeping up with the flag
ship. These are the facts which explain
the issue of the following order:
''NAvY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July s.
1S83.-Naval officers attached to cruising