Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-08

gold, and the foldings and fringes about the
cornice and stage are in old gold and laven
der A band OF music is placed opposite
far up, to fill this mighty trunk or cedar
chest with resonance.
And thus, in the course of Its 81
years of wandering, the Republican party
has progressed from Philadelphia, in 1856
to Minneapolis in 1892, having checkered
the country with its conventions at Balti-
more, Cincinnati and Chicago.
Minnesota is only seven years older, as
an organized political community with q
| territorial government, than the party, and
| the convention meets here amid $50, 00C
urban inhabitants. The land grant system
of railroads, started by Stephen A. Douglass
in 1850, with the result of making Chicago
the emporium of the Northwest, has nearly
all been fostered by the party now meeting
here. AT the close of Lincoln's two terms,
and at the commencement of Grants, the
| Union Pacific Railroad was opened to the
coast, followed in year or two by the
launching of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
which has made all the towns in Minnesota
except st. Paul, and, queerly enough, while
this convention is meeting here, steamboat
navigation BY government aid has come up
to Minneapolis, and last Sunday more
steamers lay at the Minneapolis levee than
ever at one time before.
A Country of Vast Distances
The 500 and other railroads hereabouts
have all come into life through land grants.
Three railroads running north of Minneapo-
| lis 60 to point beyond the Rocky Noun
| tains, and vet, in spite of all that has been
done, it seems to have taken the California
delegation five or six days to reach this con-
vention. Such is the distance and latitude,
that while one newspaper man must save an
hour or two to get dispatches East before
midnight, another from the Pacific coast can
give two hours way in sending his dispatches
at near o'clock in the morning, and file
them before midnight in Portland and San
Francisco.
When the skies are clear we can write
here till past o'clock at night by the light
of day, and commence work again at 4
o'clock in the morning by the daylight
also.
Here comes a crowd of people from Bos-
ton which has travelled first to Montreal
and thence to the Sault Ste. Marie, and so
through the woods to Minneapolis, never
having touched any American State but
Vermont on the way
II came here" said Theodore Cook, of
Cincinnati, ''35 years ago; hardly anything
was to be seen around the falls OF st. An
thony, except the hillage on the other side
d
small hotel here, and went to see these falls,
very picturesque amidst their mighty
boulders, and now the Government has put
an apron over them and they are grinding a
1000, 600 barrels of -four a month"
Peculiarities of American Politics.
Yes, the course of events has resulted in
two political conventions, but the parties
are nearly the same, living under one ma
teriality, using the same implements and
instruments. This mighty continent has
absor bed into one stock all the nations of
man.
And now let us look around the hall of
the convention. When II o'clock had come
and gone the seats in the upper galleries
were hardly filled, though the people were
still pouring in, and it seemed apparent
that few who desired to witness the pro-
ceedings in this quarter of the world would
be debarred from gratifying their wish.
Notwithstanding the good treatment of
everybody here by the citizens, scarcely
think it probable that another National
Convention OF the existing parties will set
tie down so tar upon the circumference.
Thirty or 40 posts Obstructed the view. The
light, however, was cool and good
Whispers were heard of new drive from
New England to manufacture a third can
didate, and some said: Suppose it should
be Chauncey NJ. Depew, after ALL
The political clubs which marched into
town made very little impression, and
among them was the Indianapolis Blaine
Club, containing a good many negroes
One felt like mote inside of a vast grand
piano when the music vibrated upon the
infinite wooden kegs and chords in this
edifice, and the roof let in strains of white
light as in the garret OF Noah's ark.
Snap Shots at Prominent Men.
Distinguished men were almost light in
the human acreage. Tom Reed sat by Mrs.
Hit; she, dazzling and stylish and Bla1ne's
greatest favorite; Reed, pop-eyed and hun
CRY looking, as if his Pickwickian fat had,
from the contlguity of a great ambition,
borrowed leanness from Cassius jim Bel |
den, a Hebraic copy of Martin Van Buren,
and Minister Palmer, the Worlds Fair |
President, in a procrastinating way came
in with Depew, as placid as rose, talking
to a lilac-haired escort, and Vanderbilt |
behind, good looking and gray.
John c. New came in with his sons wife. |
md the Harrisonites loudly cheered. Matt |
QUAY had the front seat-a pale, Edgar A. |
Poe sort of man. He had nervous hand,
which brushed his face ever and anon. a |
pale, nearly ghastly complexion, a small, |
white hand, and reminded of an old news
paper editor, used to wearing an eve shade
and reading proof by gas light
Clarkson arrived with a harmonious head
md big mustache and introduced preacher
o pray, which made a spectator applaud,
probably because his University of Dakota
vas thus honored. About all the delegates
rose and stood. Light and gray clothes
prevailed.
Michael DeYoung, quite bald, read the
all. A fine white light settled upon the
a dalpuQtps l-al
rent and generally young. Fassett's name
vas mentioned and the applause was long.
lie got $500, 600 from one of the Crockers
With his wife. New York arose and gave
i'm round. He has sharp features. with
eddish mustache, a bald peak, and spoke
s if from the steam arising his foreinger
triking the keynote of protection.
The First Blaine Charge in the Hall.
Applause followed thick and fast, of tba
rapeshot sort, but when he added recipro-
ity to his bouquet Tom Reed turned pale
D hear the sharp and rattling musketry of
he first Blaine charge. While he spoke
he empty seats filled. His voice was heard.
lie kept conservative, with a shaking of the
lume, the tone on the floor gradually be-
oming enthusiastic. Warner Miller sat right
pposite Senator Cullom, clean-shaved and
incoln-faced, who was next to old General
glesby, looking like a presiding elder.
latt of New York. worn out and over
orked, sat behind Miller.
All these were under the speaker. whose
re burnt out after while. The imagina-
on of that house was for Foraker as an
-ator. In some way his reputation has
1tended beyond Ingersoll and Depew's
t last he got to the name of Blaine, and
leers were strong, but it was yet fresh, a