The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-12
Scenes and Incidents.

The messenger boys for the different papers
were compelled TO crawl ont of high windows
and do some heavy jumping in order TO reach
Before the evening session was called TO order
and with hundreds OF ticket-hOlders awaiting
admission, the police bolted the doors against
all entrance or exit, much TO the Indignation OF
a throng on the avenue outside, who had in
tended listening to the nomination spec hes.
The delegates on the Platform Committee, in
Gliding these who are moderate drinkers, were
much struck with the eloquence OF Miss Frances
Willard, who made a twenty minutes speech
before them in behalf of the Woman's Temper
ance Union, in advocacy OF plank favor able to
prohibition. They listened with wrapt atten-
ton, and were warm in their admiration of the
earnestness and eloquence oisplayei by Miss
Willard in the cause she so ably represented.
At the pOol-rooms the interest in the conven-
ton was found TO have increased somewhat
and a dozen or more small ools were sold.
Blaine was the favorite, wi h Arthur q close
second, in all the wagers made, and Lincoln
led the other candidates In one pool Blaine
sold for $685. Arthur s27. Lincoln ~. Edmunds
So. and Logan, the two Shermans. and CIR sham
s. EACH and the held 50. In another Blaine
sold for $50, Arthur S25 Lincoln So Edmunds
So. and the field SO. All OF the bets made did
not aggregate $1,000.
The only men have under pay in the con-
vention, said Col. James A. Sexton, Sergeant
at Arms at the convention, number four. The
rest of these ushers were all volunteers, and
they are doing their work well.
The devices resorted to by persons who
sought admittance but lacked ticket were too
varied for enumeration. Many the sad
blows which inflated Importance and over bear
ing assurance received at the hands of the
almighty door-keeper. POmpous-loobing citi-
zens. who held their heads high in the com
munity and prided themselves upon their i'm
poTtance, marched mp TO the door and sought TO
brush by with lordly air. They snutfad their
noses disdainfuIIy and shook their heads
haughtily when asked to produce the requisite
pastetoard, and calculated, Il am Mr.. So
and-sol"
noticeable feature of this convention. or, to
be more accurate, the lack OF one noticeable
feature, Ia the absence OF any claque. There has
been, as vet, no organized or preConcer ed APP
plause The galleries have not got up and
yelled, like their namesakes in cheap theaters,
when the villain is finally overthrow and vir-
tue triumphs.
The report of the Committee on Credentials
in favor of seating the delegation from Vir-
ginia headed by Senator MahonH.
When the report of the Committee on Order of
Business was read, Gausha A. Grow, of Penn
sylvania, submitted a substitute, at the
National Committee issue call for the next
national convention six months before the date
of the convention, and that the delegats rep
resentation be the same the Cong essional
representation In States and Congress. onal
delegates in Territories, which was carried by a
viva voce vote.
Judge West came to Chicago with reputa-
ton for otatory which his speech in support Of
Mr.. Blaine did nothing TO dim. The pow rful
plea for the ex-Seci etary's nomination was
made by man obliged by physical weakness TO
sit most of the tim he az sreaking, and the
MAGNIFICENT audience, the sight OF which was
the finest inspiration an orator could receive,
was unseen by the blind jurist.
The w. c. II. ladies sent page down to Gen.
Donnan. who Is the Chairman of the Iowa dele
cation. with large scroll of cut flowers and
their compliments Great was their disgust
when IL was learned that he had yanked of their
card. attached his own 10 the wire frame, and
sent IL mp to Gen. Henderson's table.
One pretty woman was h ard TO say: Now,
there's renator Sabin, OF Minnesota. he n ex-
ceedinglv nice-loolCing, but on, he is such n
perfect big bear. l was introduced TO him last
night, and what do You think he saidY oh,
| the Chicago ladies are very nice, but l haven't
| time to bother with women folks.
Long John Wentworth seems 70 be paying Nh
social debts that he contracted I'm the days OF
Webster, Calhoun, ant Clay. In colossal in
| dependence he wanders among the delegates,
| finding chair here and there beside some old
| friend and evidently having real good old
| fashioned time The younger generation OF del
| egates perhaps wonder who this Republican at
| large Is, but they find In him the strength and
| size of the party personified incarnate
Chairman Henderson ne a his inaugural
| spc ech from manuscript, after he hal made an
| Intellectual ATTEMPT to rccite IL from memory
\ and blushed violently when he took tho copy
| from his pocket. His manners are those of 4
vell-bred gentleman,