St. Paul daily globe., 1884-07-09
From 4 staff Correspondent.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.I

CHIoAeo July s.-The visitor to the Dem
ocratic convention who was present at
the Republican gathering of a month ago,
will notice many differences, not only in the
two bodies, but in almost every detail con-
nected with the building. The routine busi-
ness, the class of attendants and in many
other directions. These differences
are suggestive of the dissimilarity of the two
parties. In the Republican gathering there
was the looseness of the party in the ordering
and the control of things. The door
keepers, filled with the inspirations
of that holy higher law which makes
Republican Independent of everything save
his own convictions, let in everybody
that came along or refused everybody ad-
mittance, as the spirit seized them. People
who tried to enter one door were generally
sent to another. There was nowhere order.
regularity or result of capable manage
ment. Within the arrangement Of things
was but little better. The press was in pen,
not the pen which in proper hands is
'smightier than the sword, " but an enclosure
in which animals are herded and where
they below, stamp and gore
each other, or which grunt
root, squeal in shrill anger and run over
each other without the slightest regard for
mutual comfort and right. In the late con-
vention there were lot of cheap tables col
lected and which were seized upon by the
first and strongest conner. The newspaper
men were jammed together like swine in
cattle car. All the Republican loafcrs came
in the press area to lounge, chew tobacco,
hold interviews with friends, to occupy
reportorial chairs and to fill the aisles to the
exclusion Of the legitimate occupants. All
of those things were of the same nature
as the Republican administration of the gov
ernment. 1t was the laissez aller of the party
in possession of power, everything for the
Republicans and nothing for anybody else.
The people were and are being overridden
just as they were in the convention. By some
species of divine right everybody is being
sat upon, incommoded, imposed upon by the
party just as they were at the June conYen-
. ton.
Now we have Democratic phase of nomi-
nation. The place of the speak
one-half of the audience to the right
and the other TO the left. In the other con-
vention it was situated so that the delegates
and the few insiders had all the benefits of
hearing and seeing, while the great body of
the people present were given no opportunity
of sharing in the proceedings. This is strict
ly in accord with the Republican method of
running convention and government.
The press seats are now close to the plat
form, are raised so that one row oyerlooks
that which is before it, and the seats are
numbered, so that when legiti-
mate newspaper representative enters
he finds his seat without difficulty,
and on leaving it for moment has no fear
of finding delegate occupying it when he
returns, as was the case in the June conyen-
ton. It Is not principle in Democracy that
simply being Democrat confers the right to
be as big nuisance as may be thought de-
sirable. In fine, like the Democracy, the
press seats are admirably arranged. orderly,
free from fmpertinent intrusion and adapted
to exactly ill the end for which they were de-
signed.
There was also characteristic difference
in the audience. There was a fine attend
ance to-day. There was no iamming, no
rush, mo overcrowding. The entrances were so
arranged that the people came in early and
found their seats without trouble The great
spaces we're filed by the visiting masses as
quietly and easily as the falling snow covers
the ground and levels up the hollows. It was