St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-23

went Illinois. The coming canvass
would be business mems canvass, and
the business men of Chicago by a large
majority (and a majority of them Re-
publlcanS) were III favor of the re-elec-
tlon OF the present chief magistrate of
TINS country. [Applausel. For the first
time i'll thirty-two years the Dem
ocratic party was going into
presidential campaign with a prospect
Cleveland of the qualities which has en-
deared Stephen A. Douglass TO the
Democracy of carrying Illinois. The
convictions and the courage of those
convictions of the president had given
the Democracy of Illinois hope of at
last crossing 1.-The current roaring loud
on the unsteady footing of spear" If
the Democratic party gave the conven-
ton to ChicagOit would have a response
from the great West next November
which would settle party domination i'll
this country forever. [Applause.
CINCINNATI'S CLAIM.
Gen. Hunt presented the claims of
Cincinnati, duty which had been as
signed to Speaker Carlisle. He re-
GREETED the enforced absence of that
gentleman, who he said had been sum-
mOned to the bedside of a sick son in
Kansas. He was assured that the SYM
pathy of the committee would
follow the speaker in his calamity. Mr..
Hunt then proceeded to portray the ad-
vantageS Cincinnati offered as a con-
Ventlon city, 1t was the center of a
great circumference of location:
1t was the gateway to the pivotal
state of Indiana. 1t was contiguous
to West Virginia which had become
rather a doubtful state. The Demo-
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tent had been a great Democracy and
had borne heat of great political fights
fights i'll the West. The Democrats
there had adhered to the party with un-
faltering devotion in defeat and diSas-
ter and he believed that if the conven-
ton went to Cincinnati they would be
stimulated so that they could possibly
carry the state, they could at least carry
the two congressional districts of Gin
cinnati. [Applause.l
NEW YORK.
Representative s. S. Cox, of New
York, then went to the platform to pre-
sent the claims of the Metropolitan city
and was greeted with loud applause and
cheers. He thanked the committee for
the kind reception given New York in
his own person. That city presented
through its business men, its political
organizations and all the associations
which belonged to that Democratic
stronghold, its earnest request for the
meeting of the Democratic convention
at that place. He presented commu-
nlcation from the business mems
committee of New York, set
ting forth the accommodations
which could be afforded the
convention i'll Madison Square garden,
and making generous offers of hospital
n a mi nd nfo
to the delegates to the convention. AS
to transportation, he said, New York
would stand on a par with any other
city, and as to journalistic and tele-
graphic communication it was far at
the head, with all roads leading to New
York as the industrial, commercial and
imperial emporium, for the Democracy
of New York was an imperial dem
ocracy. He did not say that New York
surpassed her sisters in suburban COM
fort and sea breeZes. But she was the
peer of other cities, not excepting Con-
stantinople itself. Laughter.] If the
healthful comfort, without which no
convention could be trusted to do abSo-
lutely well, New York should receive
the suffrages of the committee. He de-
clared absolutely and without reServa-
ton that there was no consideration,
favorable or unfavorable. insidiouS OIL
open, contemplated by any one con-
nected with New York as to the candi-
dates. But as to the election, that was
quite another thing. New York was
the political metropolis of the coun-
try, and the vote of the state of New
York had determined the last three
presidential elections and would decide
the result of the next. Looking to the
consequences to the Democratic party
he regarded the choice of the great me-
trOpOlls as not only the best possible,
but as almost indispensable to victory.
In conclusion he said therefore, in be-
half of the business of New York and
its united Democracy [Applause], while
L would not challenge any contrast OF
comparison with other cities, 1 may
proudly say, as Napoleon once said to
the Austrian ambassadors, "a French
republic is like the sun in the heavens;
misfortune lies with them that are so
blind as to be ignorant Of either" But
this committee is no more blind to, or
ignorant of its existence than it is of the
orb which is to-day so auspiciOusly
shining over this city, which bears the
name of George Washington. [Ap-
plauSe.
ST. LOUIS.
Mayor Francis, of st. Louis, con-
tended that the convention should be
held in the same city which had been
the scene of the memorable convention
of 1876, which had broken the the long
record of Republican successes. TAp-
plause. He asked that the convention
should be held in that city on the banks
of the Mississippi, which, within three
short months, had rendered to the ma
tiOnal leader of the Democratic party
such an ovation as had never been sur
passed i'll any country. The national
gathering of Democrats was an honor
to any city, but to st. Louis, with the
Democratic administration, it would be
an honor indeed, and one for which its
citizens would feel deeply grateful. She
would defray the expenses of every
member of the committee, and her
telegraphic, transportation and hotel
facilities were unsurpassed. Senator
Vest, of Missouri, in seconding the
claims of st. Louis, said that if there
was anything in location which would
enable the Democratic party to continue
the present brave and honest admins
tratiOn of the government, no sort of
local or personal feeling should inter-
fere. If one grain of dust could be put
in the balance which would influence
the issue in the coming contest, that
grain of dust should be put in the scale
by the location of the convention in any
part of the United States. But he did
not believe that the holding of the con-
ventiOn in any one of the cities named
would influence to any degree the cleo
ton. Chicago had obtained the last
Democratic convention, but his impress
sion was that Chicago had given the
same Republican majority. Laughter
In the course of his speech he declared
that he belonged to that school of Demo-
Gratis who believed that all the offices of
this country should be filled by
COMPETENT AND WORTHY DEMOCRATS.
Loud and prolonged applause and
cheers, and cry of ''Hurrah for David
b. Hill."l He believed that unless