The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-25

The Gallery Mob and Local Police Tried to
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The Gallery Mob and Local Police Tried TO
Run the Democratic Convention.
CHICAGO, juno 24.-The morning after
the Democratic convention finds the city
still crowded with enthusiastic Democrats,
many of whom remain over to have an op-
portunity of extending their congratula-
ti0ns to Mr. Stevenson. candidate for the
vice-presidency. The committee to notify
the candidates for President and Vice-pres-
ident of their nomination have decided that
this duty shall be performed about the
11th of July or near that date. Congress
man William L. Wilson, of West .Vir-
gina, as chairman of the convention, has
been m ade chairman of the committee
notification, and the visit will be made to
Buzzard's Bay, where Grover Cleveland
will receive official notification of his nom-
ination. Thence the committee will pro-
ceed to Bloomington, ILL.,, and convey the
same official information to Mr.. Steven
son. New York will be the assembling
point of the various members in all proba-
bility, and the comm ttee Will proceed from
there to Buzzard's Bay.
There are indications that the PROPOSE
tlon. SO warmly urged by the Hon. Patrick
A. Collins. OF Massachusetts,, yesterday,
that future convention halls shall contain
arrangements only for delegates, repre-
sentatives of tho press and the national
committee, will be acted upon, and future
Democratic national conventions rescued
from the domination OF the galleries, and
become dell berative bodies. No more eio-
quent argument IN favor OF General Col
linss resolution. which was recommended
to the national committee. could have
been afforded than in the experience of the
delegates in the past three days of this con-
ventiOn. With nearly twenty thousand
people on the floor and In the gallery, il has
been impossib BILE at any time for the most
stentorlan voice to make itself hoard from
the stage, and. as consequence the i'm
peri0us demands from the gallery To speak
louder and the cheers and counter cheers,
and hissos and counter hisses, whenever
the romarks of orators did not happen TO
meet the fastidious views of certain of the
spectators, have finally become unendura-
BILE to the delegates.
And then, too, there is q disposition to
rebel against the police interference which
seems to he eincidental to these conventions
The officers of the law on this occasion, in
stead OF devotlng their attention to the un-
ruiy galleries, crowded down on the floor
and eibowed tho delegates in the general
desire to hear what was going on. At all
times there were not less than u dozen po-
lice just In front of the speakers stand,
and in order to show the necessity of their
presence there they frequently demanded
or delegates some evidence OF their profess
sional character. On many occasions un-
fortunate delegates who had failed to dig
play their proper credentials were uncefe-
mOniOns!y hustled out of the hall by ignor-
ant police officers who refused to hear
any explanation or TO conduct them
to the presence of the sergeant-at-
arms. who might give them official Iecog-
milton. Even the representatives of the
press were not free from tho domination of
the police. The stenoeraphers, who had
received formal permission from the ma
tiOnal committee to circulate in all parts
of the aisles in order accurately TO report
the speeches OF delegates, We're hampered
on every possible occasion by these oifi-
cious members of the Chicago police. The
sergeants-at-arms OF the convention were
forced several times to intercede. but found
themselves in the unfortunate attitude of
being inferior to the police after they had
been IndiscTeet enough TO request the pres
ence of the former on the convention floor.
| One of the abuses said to have been exer-
cised TO great extent was that of the ad-
mission of favorite friends by members of
the police force. who were stationed at the
various entrances of the hail.
OF course oil this created q general re-
volt, but the public was powerless against
the police and the latter promptly arrested
all who made indignant protests. The
national committee. too, has come in for
many severe criticisms for its failure 10
make adequate arrangements for the press.
Old newspaper workers agree that never
in the past have the accommodations for
bona fide newspaper men been so W rctche
and inadequate. When II is reflected that
| In u convention containing twenty thou
| sand seats the representatives of the daily
| press OF the country were packed like
sardines into a space which afforded no
| elbow room for active work and many
were crowded out altogether, the lndlgna-
| tlOn may be we'll understood. The news
paper men. too, arc disposed to recall the
excellent accommodations that were ex-
| tended their profession in the recent
national convention at the smaller city of
| Minneapolis; and that in the vast wigwam
| of Chicago the accomm od ations should
! have been so inferior and the unnecessary
| interferences so much more captious and
annoying. makes this comparison by no
means complimentary to the national
| Democratic COMMITTEES.