Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-20
All Is Not Serene in the
Republican Ranks.
INHARMoNIoUs PROCEEDINGS
The Jayhawkers and Virginians
Disposed to Make Trouble.
A Red Rag.

estltudteu tIht over miillOn yaruS o.
these goods have been used in decora
tons. The town was astir early, ant
from the rising Of the sun all through the
forenoon bands and delegations were
marching through the streets from the
various depots at which they arrived te
their respective headquarters. The day
was brilliantly clear and swelteringly
hot. The hotel lobbies, streets and side.
walks were crowded with mass Of peo-
Pile, estimated at 10000 in addition tc
the regular population. No former Con.
vention has brought out nearly such a
large number.
Parades in the interest OF various can
didates were about the streets during the
forenoon. A unique feature of the
Gresham parade was band Of alleged
workingmen carrying tin pals and wear
ing straw hats, and bearing banner
with the motto, Father of the Tin
Bucket Brigade" The most striking
parade OF the day, however, was that OF
the Cincinnati Blaine Club, several hun
dred strong, wearing white hats and
gloves and carrying parasols, marching
in column of fours in open order, the
parasols of the successive ranks being
red, white and blue. These they twirled
rapidly, giving an exceedingly brilliant
Kaleidoscope effect. Their banners bore
the words, "Vim, Vigor, Victory"
SURVEY OF THE HALL,
When Chairman Jones Of the National
Republican Committee assembled the
platform of the great auditorium hall at
noon, to call the National Convention to
order, he looked upon scene unparal-
leled in the history OF public gathering gs
in this country. Larger assemblages have
been held in more spacons halls, but at
none OF them have the peculiar proper
ties been so effective or brilliant of illu-
mination and picturesque colorings SO
splendid.
Every face can be seen without an ef-
fort and an audience OF less than 10000
appears to be an almost countless multi
tude. The magnificent sweep of the great
gallery alone, which seats nearly 5000 is
a picture which impresses even those fa-
miliar with great audiences, and the whole
scene bathed in flood of electric light
shed by $500 incandescent lamps, thrills
even the most sluggish heart. The audi
torium is 240 feet long and 120 feet wide
with two side balconies and rear gallery,
the seats in which rise in tier on Tier at an
angle of forty degrees. The stage, but
slightly raised above the floor OF the hall,
commands view not only of the great
audience in front but of the large bal
comics in the rear and the tier of boxes on
either side of the stage. The stage
stretches from side to side of the hall and
accommodates in addition to the Presi-
dents platform in the center several hun
dred newspaper representatives. There
are Just s 100 seats in the hall, and when
the Convention was called to order there
were probably 5000 people within glance
Of Chairman Jones' eye.
GORGEOUS DECORATIONS.
The decorations appear trifle be.
wildering at first. The walls, ceiling and
every post, pillar and panel is covered
with flags, bunting and streamers and a
variety of artistic designs and colors, and
portraits and paintings of historic scenes
meet the eye everywhere. Red, white
and blue are conspicuous, of course
everywhere. A great sheet of terra Gotta
painting hangs near the roof, between
the rays OF sunlight which pour through
it from great open space just above the
great gallery, and relieves the otherwise
monotony OF so prodigal display o.
the national colors; but even the sunlight
shines but dimly in the great hall, the
electric light being depended upon be-
cause OF the impossibility of protecting
the audience in the present unfinished
state of the building and letting in day a
the same time. The arrangement of tht
electric light in the great stairs from the
roof OF the hall is one Of the most ar
tstic and beautiful features of the scene
which greets Chairman Jones as he
stands. himself striking figure, tall
erect in appearance, and the air of pat
riarch, with suspended gavel to hush the
great stir and bustle before him, to pre-
sent the clergyman who is to ask {
Divine benediction upon the delibera
tions of the Convention.
Some of the details of the auditorium
decorations are worth special mention
At the apex in front of the Chairman's
desk is gilded American eagle, beneath
, it the portrait of Washington. On tn,
. right of the Chairman's desk is q plaste
bust of the late General John A. Logan
1t is of heroic size, draped with The
American flag. Hanging from one of th,
boxes at the right is large painting o
Iogan's charge at the battle of Atlanta
On the face of the north and south wall
! OF the auditorium, framed in feston O
large American flags and surmounted b,
a circle OF electric stars, are portraits o
Lincoln and Grant, the designs bein,
mammoth in proportion and form.
One OF the most striking details OF tn
decorations, flashing its parti-colorec
. brilliancy full into the face OF the audi
{ ence and delegates, is splendid Ameri
can shield formed OF different coloret
electric lamps. This shield, its horizo,
of stars, its stripes Of the Union, all pic
j tured out and put into bas-relief O
e light by flashing gems through red, whit
e and blue globes at the points of exit an,
: entrance into the hall, which dip lik
: great wells into the auditorium, are th
Nations standards planted at either sid
s and draped so as to hide the rougl
n boards which form the staircases of thes
It avenues to the Convention, of whicl
there are sufficient to empty the hall, il
case OF an accident, in three minutes.
= The Boston Club has planted a MAG
u niicent banner, five feet long, Just be
/, hind the stage, and it proudly float
: there, bearing in letters OF gold upon
. field of blue the words which appear t
be uppermost in the minds OF the dele
= CATION. The banner is inscribed: "Hom
! Market Club of Boston. American
. Wages for American Workingmen
American Markets for American People
Protection for American Homes" Thi
banner is marked by the delegates a
' they enter the hall and the spectators a
they gather in the galleries and balco
. MES and il is cheered time affar time