Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-07
A MULTITUDE

That Cheers All other Conventions Into
Insignihcance.
Chicago, July 6. - Exclusive The
gathering Of the Democratic hosts now pro-
crossing here is phenomenalin the history
ofthe Democratic party and the country.
As compared with the republican National
Convention of month ago, the present
demonstration is vastly the superior in mag
nitude in average intelligence and in its
representative character. After ten
o'clock this morn NJ it was a sub
ject Of general remark that the
crowd was already larger than the Republi-
cans had the day their convention was called
to order. All day the delegations and their
escorts have been pouring in, not in squads
but in bsttahons, professions and brigades.
New York has Just arrived, and Pennsylva-
MIA has met and greeted her. The streets
are brilliant with their banners. The air is
vocal with music. The walls e:ho to the
tread of their marching hosts and the voice
Of the assembled republic is like
A Solid Yell.
Politicians yainly Try to recall a popular up
rising approaching this. The great demon
stration in New York city in 1865 when the
National Democracy met TO call the wander
ing South back &c the ancestral home is
cited as something akin to this for multi
tude. Yet even then when Fourteenth
street from Tammany hall to Broadway was
a dense mass of shouting men, when Union
Square was packed and crowded with peO-
pie, when Madison Square trembled under
the tread of twenty-five thousand enthusi-
sstie Democrats. and when New York from
Harlem to the Battery was one vast and
imposing sea of banners decorations, bands,
professions. meetings and mulhtudes, there
vas but feebly typed the purpose and mag
ui,ude of this historic occasion, when the
Democracy Of the whole Union seems to
be here to meet in person and to see that
their representatives in convention as
sembled shall 10: fail to rise to the level
of their great opportunity. While 1t is true
that it IS a representative body of Demo
crats, it is also true that no delegate need be
at loss as to his course about any man or
measure that may be presented tor MS con-
siSeration. His constituents are here IN
person TO advise, to inspire, and If need be
IN caution or 70 commend. If ever there
WAS vast BODY of men moving to COM
mon purpose ofwhom it could be Iruthfully
written. distinct as the pillows vet one as
the sea, before, it is true OF
the representative body which on next
Tuesday will proceed to order the restora
,ion of Democracy to her righttul rue IN the
| land Candidates or possible candidates are
many, factions are few, and teuds are none.
| Tie men through whom it is proposed to
accomplish the great result OF November
| next have each their adherentS. The meth
| eds are diverse and many But It Is earn
| es,ly believed that beyond the fortunes OF
sny man or the technical details of plan,
/ the purpose prevails to harmonic and to
| triumph. Can this hope and this movement
| toward unity De embodied in act; can all
! the interests be united all the forces CON-
/ bipeG: all the energies Of this impulsive ag-
! gressiyensss be consolidated with resist
| less movement toward
Victory and Reform:
! So far ali Is uncertainty conjecture and
doubt. Next to Tilden the thought of the
country aud much ofits hope has turned to-
ward Cleveland But Cleveland will be ac-
! cepted if al all, because of his ability to
| take New York out of the doubtful list,
| combine the reform elements in MaSsachu-
sets Connecticut and New jersey and re-
store Indiana to her rightful place within
! the Democratic column. The action or
rather the inaction Of the New York Democ-
racy. their failure to come here heartily
united in Cleyeland's interest and the
rumors of possibly fatal fac6onal ditferenc
in their midst, caused halt IN
the movement for his nomination. If the
Cleveland boom is not now receding, II is
certainly not gathering volume. He is Ger
tainly in the lead. He is certainly not nov
far enough in the lead to be assured of a
two-thiris vote. BE needs a majority IN
his own delegation to enforce the unit rule
aud command the seventy-two votes Of New
York. So far he has thirty-two, with Brook
lyn to hear from. The Kings county De
moc-1cv are so far notieeably dumb to this
extent: They hold Clsvelands fortune in
their hands, and without their votes, his
boom Is bursted at the outset,
Il is understood that the action
of New York will be determined
tonight If they resolve to give to Grover
Cleveland that vigorous party support that
would betoken the thorough union Of al
the tribes and clans Of New York, Democ
racy his nomination would speedily follow
But if there is any mental reservation, heSt
tstion or hslEheartedness about the mattei
the convention viii understand that New
York is not sincere in her vote and viii re
fuse to heed words Of promise THAI in th'
time Of extremity strengthen hope and vii
victory. G II N.