New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-20
THE CONVENTION CITY.
CHICAGo,S ACCOMMODATIONS FOR CROWDS
A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE REPUBLICAN,
GATHERING IN 1860 AND THE DEMOCRATIC
IN 1924 SURVEY OF THE PRESENT
SITUATION.


fr,oM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT TRrBUNE.1
Chicago. June lot must be admitted thse
Chicago is prominently the convention city OF
the Union, Il has the advantages, In the nms
place. of . central location, which makes IL the
National Meeting place for all sections, and them
what il NOR. its hotel accommodations are ample
IN absorb the enormous crowds Of delegates and
shouters and spectators which once in four years
flock to the National Conventions. Until today
the crowds that have been coming In from al
quarters have mace no perceptible impression upon
the ordinary current Of affairs except at Two Ok
three points where the statesmen and fresldens
makers have established headquarters, and maoe
business Of flying around and getting In
sweat and raising mach racket as possible
At the Auditorium and the Palmer House tho
rival howlers for the New-York candidates began
early, and for two or three days have been IN
creasing in vehemence which is rapidly growing
into q pandemonium. The Tammany crowd ara
at the Auditorium, the Cleveland shouters at the
Palmer. Each crowd seems TO be in absolute and
undisputed possession Of the hotel 1T makes itS
headquarters, and ordinary guests have hard time
of it. But there plenty of good hotels where
the pressure Is not seriously felt and, even when
the convention is at the height Of what are called
its deliberations and the crowd is at the greatest
no one need 60 unhoused or unfed.
Between the Chicago of 1860, whom the first
National Convention was held here, and the
Chicago Of to-day there is very little resemblance
The half-built city had not then been raised 70
grade, and one had to go up and down stairs once
or twice and sometimes more, in walking the dis
lance Of block. Since then it has been built up
burned over and rebuilt. The visitor who slept
on q staircase at night, caught his meals on tine
fly and stood wedged in the crowd in the great
,<a1.,, fhn ctrr
nomination between Lincoln and Seward would
hardly recognize the Chicago of thirty-two years
later, with its abundant accommodations. its miles
Of level streets and solid business blocks and its
still greater wigwam for convention purposes
FEW POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE
| Between the convention Of 1860 and the one
which begins it's sessions Tuesday there are
still fewer points Of resemblance Think OF the
men who took part in that great affair OF third
of century ago-of George Ashmun, its president;
| Of Giddings, and Greeley, and Thad Stevens, ana
John A. Andrew, and Henry Wilson, and David
Wilmot, and Preston King, and hundreds more
men of the highest character and most serious
purposes who had come together out Of all parties
| 10 make stand for something they believed In
and had solemny resolved 10 fight for.
| Contrast them with the little fellows whose
| most important business this week IL to settle
which of several candidates will catch the most
votes for party which is agreed upon nothing
except hunger for office Think, too, OF what
has happened in these thirty-two years-of the
condition in which the country when the
| party which begins its wrangng on Tuesday
| turned it over TO the Republicans in 1861, and
contrast it with the state Of things today. And
these people, when they get through wrangling
| among themselves will resume snarng at the
party 10 which the country owes Its prosperity
just as they have been doing for thirty-two years
Ii is q different Chicago and an altogether df
| fercnt kind Of convention. Thirty-two years
ago this party, with kind of dim precedence Of
defeat in store, went down 10 Charleston few
weeks before the Chicago Convention aud, after
quarrellirg several days. tumbled in two. 4
little later out in front OF Charleston they began
operations on q quite different line and kept them
| up through five rather noisy years; the proceel-
| nS ending in failure. They came together again
in eight years later in Iammany Hail. unconi-
monty tit place, and resumed the old business at
the old stand Since then they have bcel in
opposition TO every measure intended 10 promote
the leace, maintain the credit. establish the posi-.
! ton and promote the prosperity of the country.
, Not that they really intended mischief. but they
were tie Opposition, and it was necessary that
| they should antagonize the party in power. which
under wise leaders was administering the affairs
Of the Nation with success. Year by year they
have traied along in the steps of their opponents,
! fighting in succession all the measures taken for
the preservation of the Union. the emancipation
OF slaves, the maintenance of the Nations credit
and the unfolding OF the National interests Of the
whole country one BY ole they have conceded
that each step taken by the Republicans was wise
and patriotic, always excepting the last. They
b.ra ~ ia prfN laf ppf rp-
affirm q single position it took and fought for
prior to eight yeals ago: and even now making
| It's most strenuous endeavor TO dodge or stradde
tie issues that are current and uppermost.
and yet repeating now tie empty
cackle of thirty-two years that the
/! Republicans have shown such insapaclty
! for administering the Government, that they
should be turned out, and the party which has
| INSTRUCTED them TO be put in their places. Not
one OF these people flying round here laden with
| badges ana red in the face with much bowling
Cor Democracy will say to-day that the war was
failure or that the National debt ought TO lie
paid iu grccnbacks, or that Government bonds
should be taxed, or that the resumption Of specie
payment was a gigantic mistake-but they did say
all these things violently and viciously when the
Republican party was pulling the country out
OF the perils of bankruptcy into which Demo-
cratic administration had plunged H. IN the MS
/ roric pcrspication they stand ont reckless
partisans bent on reaching power at any sacri-
| iicc.
THE SAME OLD GAME
Here to-day they playing tho old
game, dsporting themselves as the only genuine
ratsots the only sincere champions of an OPP
pressed people Ii takes two or three years T.
get them into the perspective which dscoses their
| real relations 70 the events and issues of their
time