Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-06-07
WlRINGS::-
LOOKS LIKE BLAINE.
The Republican National Convention
in Full Blast at Mime
apolis.
Fassett for Temporary Chairman
Foraker Mt the Head Of the ResO-
luttons Committee--Adjourned
till morrow.
Special to tho New Mexican.

Special to tho New Mexican.
MINNEAPoLIs, June 7, 1:20 p. m.-
Chairman Clarkson, of the national RI
publican committee, called the presiden
tial nominating convention to order q
IL :15 p. %.
The Blaine men succeeded in capturing
the temporary craftsmanship by electinl
J. Sloat Fassett, OF New York, to tha
position. When Fasset. mentioned th,
names OF Blaine and Harrison as candi
dates for the nomination there was tire
mendous applause.
After the temporary organization was
perfected and the roll of states had beer
calledtbe convention took a recess till II
O'Clock tomorrow.
Foraker, of Ohio, was selected as chair
man of the committee on resolutions.
The Harrison men seem confident that
they will succeed in getting control of the
the permanent organization. The Blaine
strength thus far developed in the con-
vention is largely attributable to the fact
that majority OF the national committee
are pronounced Blaine men.
THE CONVENTION OPENED.
MINNEAPoILs, Mimi, June 7. - The
great national Republican convention,
and to which the eyes of Democrats as
well as Republicans from one end of the
country to the other are turned, is on. 1t
was few moments after the hour OF noon
when James s. Clarkson, OF Iowa, chair
man OF the national committee, appeared
upon the platform and raped loudly on
the desk with a gavel which had already
rested theron-a gavel, by the way, con-
structed of Minneapolis wood, and made
oy the boys of the industrial school of
Minneapolis, and called upon the great
gathering before him to
COME TO ORDER.
And it was great gathering indeed.
Fancy an auditorium covering full acre
of space built up inside still larger struct-
ure in the form of square, and with seats
rising from the central space for about
half acre backward upon each of the four
sides until they reach the WALL Fancy
above these seats wide gallery sloping
Upward with seats in tiers, to the right
md left and all about, and fancy every
'eat occupied, one vast sea of heads, and
me can get faint idea OF the convention
It the time it was called to order. The
lcre OF space in the center was occupied |
" the delegates, while back Of these in
he orchestra circle were the alternates.
IN the south side OF the hall, raised four
eet above the floor, was the platform
With the chair of the presiding officer
n the center. Immediately back Of this
'latform were eighty.four chairs, each oc-
upied by member of the national
ommittee, and in the rear of these again
everal hundred invited guests and
7omen relatives of the delegates. In
'ont of the platform was the rostrum ex-
ending about six feet into the space re-
erved for the delegates, and from which
le speeches before the convention will
Q made. To the right and left were the
uarters for the working newspaper men,
ome 500 of them. To shut out the glare
the MONDAY sun, which otherwise
ould have fallen Immediately upon the
slegates the heavy glass roof had been
United delicate blue, while daylight
me through forty square windows in
10 roof directly over the galleries. The
md, instead OF being located in the gal I
ry as in previous conventions, had a
location for itself in the form {