The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-06-24
AT CHICAGO.
THE ooNvi u FOR BLAME.
Oppressive Heat, and Confusion
Which Confonnds.

Editor Rule of the Knoxville
.Ioaeraal telegraphs his paper of yes
terday, Blaine has not vet been
put in nomination, but may be, and
if so, he will be nominated y
The result of the second and
third ballots was very disappointing
to the Sherman men. He was re-
garded yester lay as out of the
race It's thought Depew's with-
6rawal meant ,mbination fn
favor of Harrison.
Greshanls and Blaine created
more enthusiasm than any other
T3ames.
Late Thursday evening Blaine
procession marched into the rotunda
of the Grand Pacific hotel with
band of music and hoisted their
transparencies. The cheering was
tremendoCs-tin horns, flags, canes.
umbrellas and hats helping On the
general enthusiasm. A Gresham
procession had returned to the
hotel only Il few minutes before and
some of the Gresham men did not
lose the Blaine enthusiasm They
went t, the Gresham rooms and
brought out couple of transparene
cies used in the parade ana hoisted
them 10 counteract the cheering for
the man from Maine.
The din now became frightful.
The big rotunda was one solid mass
of humanity, men standing on
chairs and wherever they could OBJ
tain a foothold.
CHEERS FOR BLAINE
and counter-cheers tor Gresham
rent the air until Clark street be-
came impossible from the crowds
trying TO get into the hotel. Hats
were hoisted on canes ant! umbrellas
and a mid the din the old campaign
shout of "Blaine, Blaine, James G
Blaine !" could be heard like the |
yell of marching army. The
sympathizers seemed to be evenly |
divided and when the Blaine noise
taltered the Gresham men cheered |
like mad men.
Suddenly man carrying a Blaine
transparency was hoisted on the |
shoulder of a group of enthusiasts,
and from this eminence he waved |
the name of the Plumed Knight. |
The crowd went wild, and then the |
Gresham men did the same, and for |
twenty minutes there was q rivalry |
to see which motto could BE- placed |
the highest. Men pulled off their !
coats, climbed on top of each ether
and waved
-THErNAMEs OF BLAINE AND GRESHAM |
within few feet OF each other. If |
one motto fell it was grasped by a
score of hands and sent alott again. /
Finally Blaine man reached the
capital of pillar. His banner was
now the highest, but Gresham fel-
low, more of a sailor, climbed up
his pillar to the projection above
the capital and pushed his banner
against the ceiling. The crowd went
wild. He had hardly descended
when a pack of Blaine men set upon
him and in second every vestige
OF linen was torn from the frame he
carried. The Gresham men retali~
ated and the Blaine banner was
only saved by being rushed on!
through cigar store. In the melee
the partisans pounded one another
in the face and several men Were
knocked to the floor.
POLICE TO THE RESCUE.
Policemen in vain tried to force
their way through The dense crowd.
but before they reached the combat
ants the struggle was over. In re,
venge, two Gresham men climbed
up and fixed their favorite's picture
on the highest points of the pillars
and left it there. Such a scene was
never known in Chicago before.
Last night was the last occasion
many of the clubs had to shout for
their favorite candidates, and they
made the most of it. Alger clubs
paraded, the Sherman forces were
out, and the Gresham clubs repeated
their tour of the principal streets
with half-dozen bands and myr-
lads of torchlights. The principal
Gresham demonstration was CONS
posed of large number of working
men armed with tin dinner pals
and spades, who paraded, headed
by the Topeka Flambeaux Club
The Blaine professions were not
wanting either during the evening.
LATER.
From the Sans bulletins yester-
day the convention went through
/ the farce of few more ballots,
everything as badly scattered as be-
fore. Then an adjournment was
taken until p. M, Mr.. Dapew,
Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, and
others remarking after adjournment
! that Blaine would be nominated
during the evening session. Upon
reassemoiing it was evident the con.
vention could not be carried unani-
mously for the Plumed Knight, and
so the convention adjourned with@
out taking ballot until Monday at
ten o'clock. This is the only dis,
couraging sign yet given for Blaine.
1t will either be Blaine Monday,
however, or a very dark horse, Lin-
coin possibly.
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