Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-20
snow YOUR TICKET.
No Back Door to the Chicago Con-
yention. ~
THE DELEGATION HEADQUARTERS.
A GaTel Of Many Different Woods--WhO
Will be the 0OOrkeepers and What
They will 0O--AppIicatiOns
for Positions.

lOf EUSlUOHS.
CHICAGO, May l9.--The Journal Of this
city publishes the following interview with
Colonel James A. Sexton Sergeant-at-
Arms Of the Republican National Conven-
ton
In response to question Col. Sexton
said:
have not all NV arrangements COM
Pleted yet, and, therefore, cannot tell you
definitely what intend to do"
How many assistants will you have at
the conventiouY'
About 100 or so. including doorkeepers,
lamtorS, etc, but not including pages, the
number OF whom. IsuppOse, wiz have to be
fixed by the subcommittee Of the National
Committee.
Are You getting applications from any
places outside the city?'
Applications from outside the citv! |
am getting them from all parts of the I'm
ion. People are writing to me from all
directions, asking positions for themselves,
or urging the claims of some oftheir friends,
and. from the way in which they write, one
would suppose that there is lot of money
in the thing, aud that it is a matter of much
consequence to the applicants that they
should be employed
DO you propose 20 pay your assistants
anything
Some of the doorkeepers will, and the
janitorS, who clean out the hall and do work
of that sort, will have to be paid, and sup
pose the pages will have to be paid too, but
the uSherS and other assistants will not re-
ceive anything but the privilege of being
present at the convention
How much do you intend to pay those
YOU have mentioned US entitled to remuner-
aiion|'
General Strong, VINO was marshal of the
last convention, and who refused to take
the position again this time, though he is
very willing to give me the tull benefit of
his experience, advises me to have FIVE or
six expert doOrkeepers at each door and paw
them s. per dav The ianitOrs, etc, | sup
pose / can get for 81 80 per dav or so, but |
have not definitely decided what ! shall do
in the matter yet.
Putting Up Jobs.
Have YOU heard of any Jobs being put
up to have you select certain parties as
doOrkecpers with the idea that those door
keepers NAV admit their friends to the con-
yentiOn without tickets2'
Nearly every man who recommends me
to appoint somebody say to me, How many
of our friends, now, can you allow us to run
in without tickets AZ that door, There
seems to be a general idea that it will be
possible to run in crowds without tickets.
There are lots of people going to get fooled
on that very thing. ! tell you now, and the
sooner everybody concerned understands
II the better, there is not going to be man
admitted to that convention without a ticket.
You may bet your life on that. / suppose |
will make lot of enemies in that very way,
as well as by not appointing everybody that
applies or who is recommended 10 me, who
win try to get even with me if | am ever
candidate for any office but | thank God !
am NOT seeking any place and am not in
politics, except Just in some way OF this
sort for the fun Of the thing. Ny instruc-
tiOns are not to admit anybody without a
ticket, and those instructions will be Obeyed
to the letter. The sooner everybody un-
derstands that the better At the last con-
vention a lot ofpeople were run in in that
way, and all other sorts of tricks were re-
sorted 70 to get outsiders in. There were
but single tickets for the whole session the
last time. and lot of people would go in
show their tickets and then, aS soon as they
got to their seats, one Of them would gather
uya lnt Of tickets, 60 out and distribute
them among their friends waiting on the
outside and get them in in that way. This
wear We are going to have coupons attached
to the tickets dated for each day, and one
of these will be torn off as the holder enters,
so that it viii be impossible for ANYBODY to
have auyhOly but himself admitted on his
ticket Br having members OF the Union
Veteran Club As dOOrkeeperS, | will have a
check on them, for it they fail to obey in
structionS' they viii aiterward be amenable
TO discipline for conduct unbecoming
member Of the club, aud viii be liable to be
expelled from the club
Concerning DoorkeePer>.
"Dn YOU intend to make any appoint
mrnt outside the Veteran Union Club?
= have appointed one mau from Penn
svIyauia and another from Kansas am
Selecting the hest men can find. iuespect-
i've oF locality
"Du vou intend. then to select your door
keepers exclusively from the club
"No intend to have two professional
expert dOorkeepprS at each door, and the
balance will be selected principally from
members fthe club?
How many doorkeepers will You have at
each door.
six. That is. there will be double
doors, and four men will be stationed at
each outer door and two at the inner. As
the ticket holder enters he will show his
ticket at the outer door, and then pass on
to the inner, where the dOorkeeper will tear
off the coupon and admit him.
"SuppOse a member has TO leave the hall
can be not be admitted again during that
sittingg'
He will have to get the doorkeeper to
hunt up his coupon for him as he passes
out. or else STAY out for the remainder of
the session. You may depend upon it.
means will be taken to prevent any one but
the bona-hde holder of the ticket from gain
ing admittance to the convention. You
cannot make that point too strong.
Has ANYTHING been done about Fr)vid-
ing gavel?
Long Jones told me that man was
makinga gavcl to ne composed OF pieces
oi wool grown IN ryery State IN the mon,
but don't know ANYTHING further about 1t
d an that
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