The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-03
OUTLOOK Al CHICAGO.
How the Politicians Spent Sunday
in the Garden City.
A Warm Day for Everybody Atmos-
phericalIy and Politically
Wear:ed Workers Making a Late APP
pearance Monday---"Gath's" Cos
sip About the Way the
Cat Will Jump.


ton, pitched his tent and his hymn on
the custom-house steps just opposite
the Grand Pacific and made an
earnest appeal to whoever would
hear him to flee from the wrath to come
The weather was warm, and the political
situation rose with the temperature. The
streets were crowded, and the hotels swarmed
like bee hives. At the Palmer house and
Grand Pacific hotel there was some
excellent singing by the Hubbard
Glee club Several state meetings were
held, and there were numerous private
| consultations. The Blaine mea dill great
| deal of work and talk, and their claims were
| numerous that they were breaking Arihur's
vote in the southwestern delegations, Inter.
views with the members of these delegations
seem to show that the detection Oh Powell
| CLAYTON from Arthur 10 Blaine was about
| the only thing they effected.
Among tie documents distributed 70 aid
| the "boom" was an address iSsusi 10y the
executive committee of the American free
| school alliance to the delegates to the national
| Republican convention advocating tho noml.
nation Of John a. Logan for presi lent
| 1t alludes to Logan's war record
and says by honoring him honor would be
bestowed on all that was glorious, chiva!riC
and noble in the American citizen sold.rry
aid says Senator Logan was thr first to pro
pose national aid for public schools He was
| the first to introduce n bill in congress pro.
viding for an appropriation of public money
to supplement- state aid in supervising
illiteracy and banishing the crimes conse-
| quence upon cumulative ignorance.
! The workingmen were not idle Messrs.
Harry Cole, j. p Seaman and George Muir
| ray representing the New York Topographic
cal union, were present at the meeting of the
| Trades assembly and made brief speeches in
regard to the existing trouble between the
union and The New York Tribune
| They are in the city to advocate a
labor plank in the Republican platform
and TO ask the cooperation of the Chicago
! labor organizations in hoycotting The
| Tribune J. W. Rowan, J. P Mckinley, and
President Rodgers were appointed "A commit
| tee to act with the New York men in getting
such plank inserted, and Richard Powers
and P. n. Michigan, who were appointed 10y
| tie Confederation of Trades in August, 1898,
to secure the same recognition, will act
| with the committee The principles
| TO be asked for is a statement Of their posi-
ton on the enforcement of the eight-hour
law, the Incorporation of national trade Or
CARNATIONS, and the establishment of a ma
tional bureau of labor statistics. The com
mittee, headed by NJ. J. Geary, president OF
the New York Typographical union, viii
meet the committee on resolutions Mt the
Grand Pacific hotel by appointment
Monday morning the politicians were late
making their appearance. and 1t was O'Clock
before anybody was at the different head
i quarters And when they did begin tC
emerge from their rooms there was a genera
| Generalization apparent, the effect of tot
much political dissipation and excitement
| and not enough sleep. 1t was some time be
fore things began to warm up, but they did
warm and the day was busy one.
The most prominent figure in the earliest
arrivals was famous Tom Ochiltree, of Texas
| Tom retired to bath Immediately to refresl
himself for the arduous labors before him.
At 7:30 O'Clock whole drove of delegates
rushed in Over 100 were waiting at one
time to register. The majority of these wert
from the south-Mississippi, Louisiana, Ken
lucky, Florida and Texas being largely rep
resented. Later came the Maine and Colo
RADIO men with band and banners. Thei
arrival cheered the spirits of the Balm
followers and he;ped very materially d
| strengthen their number The Colorado del
ecatps we're headed by W. A. Hamill AM
Judge S. H. Ebert They, too, are TO
Blaine
William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey
for whom the Blaine leaders hav
been looking for several days, al
rived very early, with Chairman
Cooper, of Pennsylvania Cooper, VIII
earned the characteristic demon
nation in the Beaver Pattison campaign O
@red- headed and hopeful" is as lurid-hsiret
and sanguine as he was in 1882 He says tina
Blaine will have nearly all of the delegate
from Pennsylvania That may be. from hi
standpoint. but NJ. S. Quay. the great Arthu
general in Pennsylvania, is expected, AM
it is certain that after be has looked over tn
, field, he will give a different version of til
story. They all do it.
James D. Gary, delegate-at-large from Tel
nessee, said that the delegation from his stat
, preferred Arthur first, with Sherman s
second choice. He was unable to find an
indications of any support for Logan anon
/ them.
The carpenter and decorator were yer
busy putting the final touches on the COZ
ton chamber. The delegates will it on I'll
main floor, Immediately in front of the pres
J dent and solid partition, as high as chat
back, runs across the hall and separates the
chairs from the chairs of the alternates, ju'
r in the rear of them. The alternates' chail
p are separated from the seats of spectators 0
the main floor by a low, ornamented pick
fence, running across the hall On the il
r side of the entrance to the main floor, at tt
( south west corner of the hall, is very nniqt
display Of all the flags that have been uss
In this country since it was discovered. III
following are few of them: A Ne
Jersey flag, white ground, BIZ
q union with white stars. an anch'
and the word Hope" in hlacl
a Hopkins flag, i776, of red and black stripe
0 with "Join or Die" in white; a Col. Moultr
] flag, 1775, black ground, with white crescel
n in the upper corner; a Gag with blue groun
? and a rattlesnake and @Culpeper MIMI
Men, Liberty or Death in white;
| Boston Tea Party flag, with brio
red ground, white-and-blue unto
~ and George Eek, ami Our Liberties" !
e white; 1776 flag with the same ground al
e | union. and union aid Liberty III white;
black flag with "Qui transtulit sustinet
> white; and white Massachusetts, flag, III