The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-20
TICKETS TO THE CHICAGO C0NvEN.
TON.

Nearly two weeks ago we puDllSncC
an article intended to correct misap
prehensions concerning the distribu
ton of tickets of admission to the Re
publican National Convention, and tC
inform those desiring to attend how
tickets may be obtained. But it is ev.
ident the matter is still imperfectly
understood, and people going to Chi
cago to attend the Convention may be
subject to grave disappointment and
unnecessary expense. We would
therefore, request Kansas papers gen.
orally to publish the facts, which are
as follows:
The tickets of admission to the Ma.
tional Convention are being prepared
under the supervision of the SUBJ
committee of the National Commit
tee. They will be engraved, with cou-
pons for each probable session of the
convention. The tickets will be num-
bered and allotted to particular seats,
as is done in the theatres and opera
houses. The owner will retain his
ticket, and as the coupon will be for
successive sessions of the convention,
this will prevent more than one per-
son obtaining admittance at any one
session on the same ticket.
The total seating capacity of the
hall will not exceed 5000. There are
800 delegates and 800 alternates, for
whom seats will be reserved; 1000 seats
have been allotted to the Chicago 10
cal committee subscribing the funds
for defraying the expenses of fitting
up the hall, policing, guards, and
printing the proceedings; about 600
will be reserved for reporters of daily
newspapers making special reports;
and about 1000 for distinguished
guests, including Senators, Congress
men, State officers, and others. The
remaining seats, about 400, will be
distributed among the delegates from
the several States, pro rata, so that
each delegate will have, in addition to
his own ticket, from five to six for
distribution among friends. The del
egates from each State will, there
fere, have the distribution of the tick
cts, and they are the persons to whom
should be made.
We wish to add, also, that unless
persons who propose attending the
Convention have secured, in advance,
the promise of ticket. they had bet
ter remain at home. The pressure for
tickets is enormous. If only half of
those in Kansas who talk of going, do
go, not one-third of them will be able
to procure a ticket, and they will have
the journey and the expense for moth
ing, and be subject to a grave disap-
pOintment. The eighteen Kansas del
egates will not have to exceed total
of 1OS tickets for distribution, or
about six for each delegate. Hence
we would say to all persons in this
State, if you have not obtained, iE adj
vance, the promise of ticket, stay at
home, and thus avoid expense, loss of
time, and grave disappointment. The
seating capacity of the hall cannot be
and the chances are that
there will be in Chicago from all
parts of the country, twenty appli-
cants for every ticket that can be fur.
nishcd
There is another fact delegates
should bear in mind. The tickets as
signed them are intended for distri-
button to citizens of their own State,
and they should be reserved for that
purpose. No matter how near and
dear may be the friends applying to
them, from other States, they should
refuse all applications made by per-
sons living outside Of Kansas.
We wish the newspapers of the
State would make public these facts.
Their wide circulation may save many
persons the expense of a journey to
Chicago, and the grave disappoint-
ment of finding, on their arrival there,
that they cannot get seats.-Champion