The Washington critic., 1888-06-20
THE CONVENTION.
The Weather and Political Pot Boi
ing Hot To-day.

ing Hot To-day.
CONVENTION HALL, CuoAGo, June 20
ii a. m.-The weather and the political.
pot are in accord this morning. Both are
boiling, The grateful breeze that waited
its way yesterday across the lake has
struck snag ON the Michigan shore, and
its place was filled with a sitting blast
that, for aught ear be told, may uaye
strayed away from the Sahara desert.
Hot as it is, however, the political
legions 10 not propose to allow their en-
thusiasm to be scorchod. They are more
active than ever this morning and are
making even more noise than usual
From 8 o'clock this morning the in
teriors of the principal hotels,to say moth
ing of the exteriors for blocks around
haye been one solid and ever-moving
mass of people. A thousand Rusk CO.
horts came down from Wisconsin before
the managers of the Governors boom
were out of bed. They took possession
OF the headquarters, committee.room and
the adjacent corridors, and proceeded to
give themselves up to general hurrah.
Senators SpoOner. Taylor, Rublee and
others of the leading Republican lights of
the Badger State looked down upon the
scene from an upper balcony and came to
the conclusion that 1t would be wise to
leave the. new corners in full possession
until their enthusiasm had exhausted it.
self.
ReinforcementsA Arrive.
The Alger adherents received an addi-
ton this morning to the extent OF several
hundred persons, and there were rein
forcements in the Sherman, Harrison and
Allison camps. All of them were
loud-lunr and hearty and their
appearar was more than welcome
TO the ,atriots that have been bear
ing the ieat and burden of the past few
days. according to one impartial calcu-
lation a quarter of q million Of strangers
are In the city, and fully two hundred
thousand of these are here to play the
parts of amateur politicians.
They enact their roles by shouting for
O fayOrite son on an average every five
minutes of the day. Two hundred thou
sand shouters-an average of thirty.three
thousand to each OF the six candidates,
the entire army concentrated within
radius of square mile-makes an equal
collection for the study of mankind.
That was the spectacle presented last
night, and will be the same way tonight
when the fire is stirred up and the bubbles
begin to appear again on the surface of
the cauldron.
1t is welcome relief to leave the torrid
temperature on the outside to pass under
the huge stone arehway and thread the
labyrinth of passages that lead into the
auditorium hall. There it is Just cool
enough for comfort.
One Cool Place.
A constant flow of fresh air passing in
both ways from the basement over tons
of ice, brings with it an invigorating in.
iuence. 1t is not quite refrigerator,
but it is near to it as place of its kind
Han ~ IN u lNhfnanh O. nc In
are opened and the throng OF people that
has for hours been patiently waiting on
the outside begins TO pour in the expires
sion on their faces is one ofglad surprise,
and joyful realization that it ISM going
TO be the fierce furnace that they had an
ticipated.
The women are among the earliest on
the scene and very soon the stage boxes
are filled with them. Very agreeable to
the eye IS this aggregation of summer
toilets and it harmonizes agreeably with
the elaborate decorations below and
above The floral decorations of yester-
day are replaced by two simple bouquets
of red and white carnations which orna-
ment the top of he speakers desk while
the mass of tollyle and the big bank of
tlOwers that Great I'd so much admiration
yesterday has given way to an eagle
wreathed in smilax.
A life size bust of General Logan, with
the Stars and Stripes in the background,
looks down from the edge of the reporters
platform right into the eyes of Chauucey
Depew. AT half past eleven only small
scattering of Ohio Massachusetts,, New
York and Louisiana are in their seats.
Wharton Parker, the Pennsylvania mil.
lionaire, who IL he lives few years
longer will control a network of railroad
lines and telegraph wires in the Chinese
Empire, swings himself round languidly
in the chair which will soon be occupied
by the presiding officer
Horace Rublee snilis the bouquets,
carries him back to the conservatory that
adioined his embassy at Berne IN the
olden days when he enjoyed the distinc-
ton of being United States Minister to
Switzerland Fred, Douglass comes in by