Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-20
uOWO " 0io6ioPn FROM ALL QUARTERS. BLAINE GETS THE CHEERS His Name A Magnet For
 Enthusiasm. X COMBINE TO BEAT DEEPEN. Harrison Is Now Looming Up Strong. THE RACES AT CHARTER OAK. A Young Lady Returns To
 Life.
THE RACES AT CHARTER OAK.
THE CONVENTION AT WORK.

An Impressive Scene at Chicago l Thousands or ThrOats Cheer The l Ringing speeches of Chairman Jones and ThurstOn-Blatness Name Wakes l SaIvos of ApuIause-John c. Ere. mont Speaks Amid a Torrent of En. thusiasm The Virginia. Contest Raises q Rreeze-Proceedinss In De tail of The First DRY's Session.
 CHICAGO, June 19.-It was wonderful scene that greeted Chairman Jones of the National Republican committee at noon to-
 day when he ascended the platform of the great auditorium to call the national con- gently arranged that every face can be seen without effort, making the audience appear many times magnifed. Twenty five hundred incandescent lights shed their glow over the scene. The auditory is 260 feet long and 120 feet wide, with two side balconies and a great gallery, the seats in which rise tier on tier at an angle of forty degrees.
 The stage, which is but slightly raised above the floor of the hall, commands a view not only of the great audience in front, but of a large balcony in the rear, and tier of boxes at either side. This stage stretches from side to side of the hall, and accommo- dates in addition to the presidents platform, which is in the center, several hundred news paper representatives. There are just s, 100 seats in the hall, and as the convention was called to order probably nine thousand peo- pie were within the glance of Chairman Jones' eye. The decorations were most profuse and brilliant. Flags, bunting, streamers, portraits and paintings of histori- cal scenes are mingled in bewildering con- fusion. At the apex in front Of the chair mans desk is gilded American eagle, and beneath it portrait of Washington. On q, fChk oE@ nhoir nar'a dasl~ ia far bust of John A. Logan in heroic size, draped with -an American flag. Hanging from one of the boxes at the right is large painting of Logan's charge at the battle of Atlanta On the face of the north and south walls of the auditorium, framed in festoons of large American flags and sur rounded by 8 circle of electric stars, are portraits of Lincoln and Grant, the designs being mammoth in proportion and form the two most striking details of the decorations. Facing the audience and delegates is 8 sus- pended American shield formed of different colored electric lamps, and national stan dards are placed at the exit and entrance of the hall On the chairman's desk, in Greek letters, is this inscription: "James A. Gar field was nominated from this desk in 1880, and James G. Blaine was nominated from the desk in 1884"
 As the delegates filed into the hall much interest was shown by the spectators in the
 
 peared. Carson Lake of the National com- mittee came upon the platform just before the convention was called to order, and brought with him two handsome oak gavels. One is intended for hard pounding. The other is more pretentious affair, intended as gift to the temporary chairman, is richly chased in gold and has engraved upon its several gold bands the names of Washington, Lafayette, Grant, Lincoln, Garfield and To- gan.
 Precisely at 12:3l the gavel of Chairman Jones of the National Republican committee sounded sharply upon the mahogany desk and the Republican convention of 1888 was formally opened. The hum of conversation ceased throughout the vast auditory gave place to an impressive silence as the chairman introduced the Rev. Frank W. Gunsaular of the Plymouth Congrega- tional church of Chicago, who opened the den then read the call for the convention is- sued by the National committee, the salient points of which were loudly applauded. Chairman Jones made 6 speech congTatu- lating the party on the brilliant prospect of success that lies before it and bespeaking wise and courageous action by the conven- tion. Thanks to Mir. Cleveland aud his southern allies, &he Democratic party has thrown off the disguise in which it has here- tofore fought its battles in the northern States, and has boldly declared for British free trade and against American protection. This avowal has caused much adnlation in certain sections of this country and in all of England, which has from the beginning been hostile to the industrial progress of the United States; but it has fallen heavily upon the ears of the patriotic portion of the Demo- cratic party. We must, he said have platform based on true Republican principles, freefrom euuivocation or ambiguity, and should rom Info vhr1a ho ho1 1frno of theee principles. The Republican party be- lieves that it is not necessary or right that we should be reduced to common level with other nations; but that we should have the full benefit of all our natural advantages and the full enjoyment of our glorious heritage The logical consequences of the theories of the Democratic party would have left this country without fringe of population on the water ways. Many of the leading Bour- bon Democrats of to-day look upon the mag nifcent development and the grand improve ment of the nation, which are simply labor, genius and management crystallized, as 8 rank unnatural and unwholesome growth and believe that we ought to go back to the days of ignorance, sloth and small things, quickly as possible. MT. Jones concluded as fol. lows:
 | If a majority of tine American voters favor the
 sest ia fhe world. and the forcing of the people. now the most prosperous and happy on the face of
 the eaTth t , antS eomPenon with a and ana 6Gwn eS of our foreign rivals, the Democratic reactionary
 m p ao n0s sne saa
 great country, with its benedcent institutions, to-
 m nSs gGs Tnsh all Sa1 5 Sogb of the result. Mr. Jones then introduced J. M. Thurston of Nebraska, as the temporary chairman, and after protest against the national committee's \ right to select the temporary chairm an by Delegate Osborn of Kansas, who said his del- | egation wished to cast it's vote for Hon. Will | liam Warner of Missouri, which, however, was not considered, MT. Thurston made his ! address.
 MT. Thurston, after thanking the conven- \ ton for the honor conferred upon him, said | this convention was prepared to sacri- fee individual judgment to the wisdom of the party, and when the candidates are chosen l to join in the chorus of victory next Novem
 ber. The party hoped, he said, that 1866 would right the great national wrong of 1884, when 8 victory fairly won wes robbed by the Democratic party, and continued:
 Right 1t not only for the Republican parry but So, ! were the inspiration of that wonderful campaign
 The infinite wisdom of aI % ams alss hss
 the statesman the black eagle of Illinois has beer
 by the silent to ,F s1PoIs to aiF
 John A. Logan is dead in the boay m he lives agaiL g
 sni hao sfisi i
 people, whose union he so galIantly fought to pre-
 serve lives in the blessings Of race whose freedom
 he manfully struggled to achieve lives in the fu ture song and story of @ herowoI3hipping world and along the highway of the nations glory side by side with old John Brown, Abraham Lincolr and Ulysses s. Grant his soul goes marching on The other, that gallant leader, the chevalier o American politics, the glory Of Rspubhcanlsm anf the nightmare of Democracy, our Henry of Nayarre
 is seeking in foreign travel the long needed reaxa
 ton and rest fren the wearisome burdens of public | of his incomparable greatness he has denies | us the infinite pleasure of supportlng him II | this convention. Desiring above all things party ! harmony and success he has stepped from the cer | tain ladder of his Iaudable ambition that som'
 other man may climb to power. As his tiIe friend | we cannot dare not commit the political crime O
 iisobedience to his expressed will We cannot plaG \ hin at the head of the ticket, but we will mak \ him commanderin-chief at the head of the force \ fin the field. And though James G Blaine may no \ be our President, yet he remains our uncrowne; I king, yielding the baton Of acknowledge leadership, supreme in the allegiance or hi devoted followers honored and respected by al
 honest and loyal mon. the greatest living America ! and the worthy object of our Hndy1ng love. Blu the Republican party is not left Wi5nout great me-
 to place upon it's ticket We have that honest, abi I and experienced fnancier, statesman and senate ! from Ohio and his no less distinguished coiteagu from Iowa. Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin pre- Jersey, ,.Kansas, Connecticut and other States oRe ! worthy and favorite sons From this splendid ga axy of political stars we cannot choose amiss.
 After pointing to the glorious record of th party in the pest Mx. Thurston said the Rs