St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-03
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
EVerybody's Eyes Turned to the Action
of the New York Delegation
ON Saturday Night.
Some Description of the Hall -Sergeant-At-
Arms Orders-CoMmittee
Work.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, July 2.-Democratc wire pulling
will begin to boom to morrow and Friday in good
earnest. One by one the lieutenants of the.
various candidates are dropping in. Chairman
Daniel Manning of the New York delegation and
National Committeeman Barnum are expected
to arrive here to morrow, Mr.. Barnum
in the afternoon and Mr.. Manning at night.
Part of the New York delegates will leave New
York on a special train Thursday night and the
remainder viii be in By Saturday night, when a
caucus of the delegates will be held at the Pal
mer house. At this caucus the relative strength
of the warning factions in the Empire
state will be determined. 1t will be the
decisive preliminary meeting and the
convention will guide its course by the result.
Friends of Mr. Flower and of Gov. Cleveland are
boasting af what they can do at this caucus, but
the actual strength of either side will not be
known until the meeting is over.
The superintendent Of repairs promised to-day
to have the convention hall finished ready to
turn over to the committee OF arrangements by
Thursday night The contract calls for its COM
pletion by Saturday. The greatest obstacle in
fulfilling the contract is the 4th of July. The
workmen at first declined to labor on that day
Now half the force has succumbed
to inducements and has agreed
to work half the day if the task is not completed
by Thursday night. The telegraph operators
and newspaper reporters are going to be disa-
greeably crowded by the new arrangement, and
there were numerous complaints among the teleg-
raphers this morning The telegraph offices
have been placed in a narrow way in
the rear of the stage behind large posts
and the means of iHgress and egress
suffer by comparison with the width and spa
cious accommodations behind the stage at the
Republican convention. The stage upon which
the officers and national committeeman are to be
seated needs only few finishing touches 1t is
plain structure sixty feet long by eighteen
deep, with an abutment in front ten by ten
feet in dimensions for the presidents
personal use. The only changes in the hall are
this stage, the reporters tables and an additional
opening at the east side. This latter is made by
removing the partition from in front of the east
wing. Thirteen hundred additional chairs are to
be placed here, facing diagonally the
stage. The obstruction of the view
caused by the large pillars will be removed
by making diagonal aisles on line with them.
The alterations viii make five additional doors of
entrance and the desire to have the hall com
pleted by Thursday or Friday is burthened by
the impossibility of appointing the door
keepers, ushers, etc, until it can be discovered
how many will be needed.
When the hall is finished Sergent at Arms
Blight purposes making his appointments and
not until then. These officers will number about
200, and all except dozen or so win be Chicago
men. They viii be appointed on the recomen-
dation of members of committees and acquaint-
ances of the sergent at arms. Gen. Field has
already been appointed door keeper
and he will have ten or a dozen assistants. Then
there will be a small army of ushers, messen-
gers and pages, but no assistant marshals Mr..
Bright says that he sees no necessity for a regi-
ment Of assistant sergeants at arms, and that the
pages will not be boys, but young men.
The sereeant-at-arms has formulated an order,
the disobedience of which is to be followed by
immediate dismissal. 1t is: "Admit no man
without ticket; be polite but firm in refusal
be courteous and dispassionatc to everybody and
if you open your mouths to shout, YELL or in any
other imaginable manner to boom candidate
you will be kicked out without fear or favor"
This rule is expected to bring about the de
sired result. The officers will all be designated
by badges of the same color, but distinguishable
by the word messenger" ''usher," ''doorkeep-
en-" etc.
There is a reception committee Of the com
mittee Of arrangements, numbering 1870 mem
bers, there is subcommittee for every state
and these committees are going to undertake the
difficult task Of receiving the various delegations
as they arrive. Each committee watches for the
arrival of the delegates from the particular state
TO which it is accredited. The members will not
believe that the performance of their duties
wcllnigh impossible account of the uncer-
! tainty Of the arrivals. Only one committee has
yet experienced these difficulties 1t is the
committee in the Louisiana delegation. These
gentlemen have been reported every hour for
two days being about TO arrive and
the committee has spent the greatest
part of each day running from one depot to an
other to find them. Being now completely used
up they say that a formal reception of the dele
gates will be impossible when the rush comes.
They rather admire the GOODNESS of the Repnbli-
cans, who let their delegates come in unwel-
coined, The Republicans said Chicago, in their
opinion, was large enough for any sober Repub-
lican to find
There is also a subcommittee on rooms This
committee consists of Corning Judd, Mike Ryan
and Ward Best It is their duty to find rooms
about the city and keep full stock on hand
They advertised and they got all the stock they
wanted. Hundreds OF sealed proposals are now
lying unopened on Mr.. Judd desk.