Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-04
CHICAG0'S CONVENTION.
A MISSISSIPPI NEGRO MADE
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.

selecIOn OF Powell Clayton as temporary
Chairman OF the convention. This feel.
ing is confined mostly to delegates op.
posed to Blaine, but there are number
OF Blaine adherents who express dissatis-
faction at the choice of the National Com
mittee. So intense, indeed, is the feeling
on the subject that a plan is on foot to at
tempt to defeat Clayton in the convention
and elect Hon. B. X. Bruce (colored) J.
Register of the United States Treasury. in
his stead. The feeling in some quarters
Is exceedingly bitter, and that strong
effort VIII be made to compass
/ Clayton's defeat seems very like
| ly. The Arthur men have de-
termined to stand firmly by their candi-
date to the last, and will make no combi-
nations looking to the selection of apy
other man. They say that this is their
firm purpose, and if the Edmunds men
ana others wish to nominate Blaine
! by refusing to support Arthur, they
must take the responsibility. There has
| been much quiet talk about the possibility
OF the nomination of Gen. Sherman. 1t is
said that deadlock is highly probable
and that at the proper time some prOmi-
nent delegate might present the name of
Gen. VIM. Tecumseh Sherman, the band
at the same time striking up "Marching
through Georgia." when the Generals
| friends say he will go through with
an enthusiasm which cannot be
controlled. This has been suggested so
many times as to excite considerable
comment. When the objection was urged
that the General does not desife the nom
inatlOn and will not take it, the reply in
every instance was, Eve know he will
| accept if nominated"
THE NEW YORK DELEGATION.
The New York delegation had a pro-
tracted and very interesting meeting with
closed doors, for the purpose of organiz-
ing, last night. The meeting began at s
O'Clock, and was not concluded until after
10. The voting for delegation officers and
| Committeeman was viva YOce, the tally
being kept as the names were recalled.
| George William Curtis acted as Chair
man Of the meeting, and Speaker Titus
| Sheard. Of the New York Assembly. as
Secretary. There were 81 votes cast out of
y delegates present. At the outset the Ed
munds and Blaine men voted together.
and, having a majority, elected their men,
! Under this combination George William
| Curtis was chosen Chairman of the dele
| CATION, Thomas Cornell for Vice Presi-
| dent of the convention, Speaker Sheard
| for Assistant Secretary of the convention,
and E. III. Hobbs for member of the Com
mlttee on Credentials. Silas B. butcher
| was MIR. Hobbs opponent for the place,
| but was beaten by the Edmunds-Blaine
! combination, but the vote was
lost, and Secretary Sheard could
| not remember how it stood.
| Thus far the Edmundsites had voted per-
| sistently with the Blaine delegates, and,
| having helped choose four of the eight
| officials, suddenly changed around and
| voted with the Arthur men, that cOmbi-
nation choosing the remaining four, which
| included II. G. Burleigh on Permanent
! Organization, George A. CahOon on the
Rules and Order Of Business, VIM. DOwd
on Resolutions, and j. d. Lawson, a pro-
! nOunced Arthur man, for member of the
National Committee. There was a par
| :icularly warm contest over the last, and
three ballots were required to decide it.
| The leading candidates were Lawson, eX-
Senator Thomas G. Platt and Attorney
General Leslie q. Russell. The last
vote stood: Lawson "a, Platt 23
and Russell 10, giving Lawson one ma
jOrity. Speaker Sheard says that the Ed
| munds men agreed to vote with the
Blaine men throughout the list, but broke
faith when Burleigh was reached. AS
result of this ballOting Sheard estimates
that the delegation will stand: Blaine 27,
Arthur 80 to 81, and Edmunds IA to 10.
A a meeting of the Pennsylvania dele
1
Of Galusha A. Grow for permanent Chair
man of the convention. One Of the dele
| gates estimates the Pennsylvania vote as
Blaine 46, and Arthur II. Others give Ar
thur as high as II.
THE CONVENTIONS OPENING.
CHICAGO, June 3, P. M.-The cOnven-
| ton met at noon. The working body of
the convention, the greatest in point of
numbers of any national political assem-
| blage, occupied only small portion of
| the vast auditorium. The hall is the
| largest and has been termed the most
complete ever thrown open for the work
| of vast deliberatiVe body. 1t is in one
sense temporary, having been constructed
| within the walls of the Exposition build
| ing, situated on the east line of the city on
| the shores of Lake Michigan. Its capacity
| apprOXimates $4,000. The speakers desk
rests on a platform twelve feet above
the seats of the delegates and the press
occupies an intermediate space midway
| in height, or about on a level with the
| heads of the delegates as they occupy their
| chairs. Back of the chairs, ranged in a
| semi-circle and on a level space, are seat
| ed the remaining officers of the cOnVen-
tiOn, the members of the National Com
mittee and their immediate friends. Back
of this circle, on sharply rising incline,
are one thousand seats, occupied by a
| great many persons of national repute,
| whose presence is by the grace of the
national committeeman.
ARRANGEMENT OF THE DELEGATES.
Swinging over the desk of the Chairman
and fairly touching the arches is wide
spreading sounding board, embracing the
| side extremes of the building. The dele
gates and alternates occupy dead level
space bounded by square lines. They are
hemmed in on two sides by tiers of boxes
| Oh ink INV nj dole.
gates. The section of the hall occupied
| by the working body of the convention is
broken by four wide aisles, from the
edges of which rise Roman standards
pendant with blue silk banners imprinted
in gold with the motto of the States and
Territories. Beginning on the left facing
the stage is the State of Alabama, and
| back through the first tier of seats fol-
| lows Kansas, California, Connecticut,
and down through the line of States in
alphabetical turn to Maine. Beginning
! again on the right and rear is Maryland,
with Massachusetts Immediately in her
| front, and ending with the District OF Co
! lumbia in front of the second tier. New
York occupies the front rank in the third,
and Ohio holds the ranking position in
the fourth and remaining tier.
BEHIND THE DELEGATES.
Back of the delegates is a similar space
occupied by the alternates, and separated
from the main body by a hardly percepti-
BILE partition. In the rear of the alternates
is a cOmmOdious seating space, the chairs
resting on an easy inc9ine. Cut off from
the space occupied by the alternates by
| a line of pickets, beginning at point one
hundred feet in the rear of the alternateS
is another dividing wall, and from that
point rise tier after tier of seats to point
| almost midway between the hall and apex
of the dome like roof. Huge and narrow
galleries run along the east and west sides
| of the hall its entire length and seemingly
| suspended in mid air. The front of this
| gallery is faced with the coats of arms of
| Of the States. On the back ground of the
| fesfooned flags fiuttering from the arches
| are the national cOlOrs and hags OF all
| nations. The first TO arrive ON the scene
were the staff correspondents and their
| assistants, representing the great journals
| of the entire country. Their accommOda-
| tions proved to be ample, and through the
precautions taken against any possibility
| of confusion. due mainly to the efforts of
| Hon. John G. New. of Indiana, they were
enabled to find their working stations
without any consequent .YeXations of
spirit.
FILLING THE HALL.
Before 10 O'Clock the main auditorium
hegan to be sprinkled with early cOmers,
and when the band, located in the eX-
/ treme southern part of the building,
/ hurst forth with a martial strain, the
stream of arrivals became steady and
1 increasing till the scene from the Speak
/ er,s DIatfOrm was that OF an unbr0ken,
undulating sea of faces relieved by the
coIors of the toilets of the ladies, who were
nresent in force. The first of the dele
gates began to arrive at II 80 O'Clock, and
the full delegations were In their allotted