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Itt* gerald and' gdufftiay.
Jfewnan, Ga., Friday, July 6, 1888.
BOW CHICAGO WAS PAINTED.
Pen Pictures of the Convention
Nominated Harrison and Morton.
New York Herald.
No man in America probably knows
more politicians of all sorts and sizes
than Phil McDowell. He has just re
turned from Chicago. He went out
there just as any one would go to a
spectacle, though he is a Democrat,
bred in the bone.
Phil describes what he saw and heard
and felt with a characteristic verve,
and with a wealth and strength of vo
cabulary which could only be possible
to one born and brought up a New York
boy. Yesterday he was seated for most
of the afternoon in front of the famous
Fog Horn Tavern, in west Twenty-
third street, of which lie is mine host,
and an interested group gathered about
him to hear the story of his adventures.
“A big guessing party, that’s what it
is,” said Phil, as the key-note of his
discourse on the national Republican
convention. “Those fellows up to Sat
urday didn’t know a thing as to which
way they were tending. They knew
no more as to whom they would finally
vote for than I did—perhaps not as
much. The New York delegation
Friday was all at sea. N o one cont
led it. Everybody was asking
body else, ‘Who do you guess it will
be?’ And everybody at some time or
other would say, ‘Well, I guess it will
be so and so.’ And tjien the next min
ute, maybe, he’d guess somebody else.
Of course, Blaine’s name was in every
body’s mouth. About every hall min
ute you’d hear among the New York
ers, ‘Let’s spring Blaine on ’em! Let’s
spring Blaine on ’em!’ And then when
this talk grew a little too loud, Steve
Elkins would step in, amd he’d wave
his hand with the impressive air of an
undertaker who had a corpse lying in
the next room waiting for the wake,
and he’d say, ‘Psh-sh-sh! Psh-sh-sh!’
And then you’d see a scattering of the
talkers* and Steve would explain to
somebody in whom he affected to con-
tide, in awfully mysterious tones, that
the Blaine boom mustn’t be resurrect
ed just yet. The time had not come.
It was funny how the thing was repeat
ed over and over. The delegates seem
ed lo suspect that they were really
there for Blaine, but for the life of
them could not be sure of that or
of anything else.
“J tell you there are two men whom
the best men in the convention are
afraid of, and they are Foraker and In
galls. Blaine is bad enough. Blaine is
a lighter, but these men are worse. Get
’em in power and there is no telling
what foreign trouble may come upon
the country. I’m just giving you an
idea of some of the talk I heard among
delegates, and it’s time, too. It’s well
to know what the Republicans them
selves think of their leaders. Gres
ham’s standing as a statesman and a
citizen was not criticised. He’s a good
man, and Chicago is mad right straight
through at the way in which the dele
gations from other States have treated
him.
“Blaine? Why, of course, that was
the law with the fly managers from the
start, though they kept the common
delegates in the vagueness of uncertain
ty as much as they could. Why, they
were bound everything should be just
so. There was a story that even the
the way I got ahead of ’em. Other
wise every man who jenew me would
have struck me for a loan. As it was,
I had to tell a good many of them that
I w T as just going to ask them the same
thing. There was one man I saw in the
Grand Pacific hotel, also, who went
a around with a card pinned to the lapel
of his coat. It was like this:
BROKE!
For God’s Sake
Don’t Ask Me for
A LOAN ! 4
“Everywhere was the greatest demor
alization. You can’t say anything about
the situation that would be too strong.
A starched collar would not retain its
stiffness five minutes in the convention
hall A couple of peddlers’ wagons
came along Clarke street loaded high
up with cheap gingham shirts and jack
ets. Dozens of delegates rushed up to
them and in a jiffy had obtained new
outfits. The first-class stores in the vi
cinity of the auditorium or of the hotels
did not derive much trade from such of i
the delegates as were unprovided with |
ample changes of linen, for the reason ; nanie( j * v j]j ,j je the principal
that the latter wanted the very cheap
est stuff. Strapping negroes from the
Southern districts would stride into a
high-priced gentlemen’s furnishing
shop or an elegant dry goods store, and
shoving their way to the front would
ask for 3-cent collars. The sidewalks
in front of many of the finest business
control- places were the lounging places of Hie
every-3 strangers, and were frequently covered
witli tobacco juice.
“You haven’t an idea of what the
real wild, back country delegate is un
til you see him. Buffalo Bill’s Indians
aren’t a circumstance to him, and to
name that convention rightly you will
have to call it the ‘Wild West Show.’
The business men have gone almost
crazy.
“Some of the places where the dele
gates slept are worse than are common
ly provided for immigrants. One of
these was a meeting room over a stable,
and white and black men occupied it
together. A keg of beer with a block
of ice on it was on tap in a narrow
closet, and a champagne basket on the
floor was filled with meat .and bread.
The best barrooms were simply in a
horrible condition. The bartenders
were exhausted. Men were employed
to do their work who had never done it
before. They could not find time even
to wipe off the counters. The floors
were just flooded.
Luckily for me, I was well lodged in
the house of a friend, so I did not suffer-
with the others, but I am glad to get
home.”'
that the Democrats will carry Indiana,
especially as Cleveland’s popularity has
steadily increased since the day he
was inaugurated. But if the Republi
cans should carry Indiana, they will
still need 4 electoral votes.
Connecticut is a very close State. The
Republicans carried it in 1884 by a slen
der majority—less than 1,300. No
doubt they will make an extraordinary
effort to carry it this year. Campaign
literature and money will not be want
ing, and it would not be surprising if
they should canvass it more thoroughly
than in any previous election. Of course
if the Republicans should carry all the
States that they did in 18S4, and in ad
dition to them Indiana and Connecti
cut, they would elect their ticket, but,
as above pointed out, it is by no means
"certain that they will carry both, or
even one of these doubtful States. The
Democrats will not let them have ev
erything their own way in any of the
doubtful States, and they.are likely to
strengthen rather than lose their hold
upon these States. The prospect now
is, however, that the two States above
battle
ground of the campaign.
But while the Republicans are put
ting forth all their efforts to carry In
diana and Connecticut, may they not
neglect those States which are now
classed as Republican, and which are
bv no means as firmly bound to the
Republican party as that party would
have the country believe?
The Pacific coast delegates to the St.
Louis convention said that if Mr.
Thurman were put on the ticket for
vice-president they were sure that
that ticket would get the vote of the
Pacific States. Mr. Thurman is on the
ticket and his popularity, together with
that of Mr. Cleveland, ought to be suf
ficient, under the circumstances, to
place those States in the Democratic
column. There is thought to be a
chance for the Democrats to carry one
of the Northwestern States, but it is too
early in the campaign to get any indi
cation of how great that chance is.
The population throughout the north
west favor tariff reform, and the strong
declaration in favor of the protective
system which the Chicago platform
contains may make many votes for the
Democratic party there.
thousands of them do not condemn it
with their ballots as their representa
tive newspapers have through many
months condemned its suggestions in
advance.”
He Soycotted the Bandana.
St. Paul Globe.
Last Sunday church-goers in a small
town in the western part of Minnesota
were not a little surprised when they
had settled in their pews to see staring
at them from the wall back of the
preacher’s desk the following card,
written with charcoal on a piece of
white cotton cloth:
Members of this church will refrain
: from wiping their foreheads with red ban-
: danas during services until the next pres-
: idential election, as such an act would en-
: courage Democrats present to cheer for
: Grover Cleveland, and prove a serious in-
: terruption to the divine service.
George Sqvip.es, Pastor.
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ig *
clergymen who opened each session
with prayer had to write what he had
to say and submit it to a committee be
forehand, and that he had to swear to
it, too, before a notary public. That
only shows you the spirit of the thing.
They didn’t want any more of old Bur-
chard in theirs.
“Well, the Republican convention
will disgust its own party, and that’s
the truth. It’s enough to turn any one’s
stomach, this week of wrangling, and
grabbing, and lying, and conspiring,
and wire-pulling. Chicago has had
enough of that crowd, and don’t you
forget it. Talk about a national con
vention bringing business to a town
The only people benefited by it at all
are the hotel-keeps, the liquor dealers,
and the barbers. A fine party that is
to talk of high license and temperance.
Why, just about the whole convention
is drunk and has been the whole week.
When it gets sober .some of the men
who are in it will set to thinking very
hard about what it has done.
“Why, it was hard to find anyone
who was really in his right senses out
there. What with bad food, rum taken
in fifteen minute doses, and live times
as often when the convention was not
in session; what with utter lack of ven
tilation, crowded sleeping quarters and
the frightful heat, it's only a wonder
that delirium tremens and fever did not
carry a lot of them off. The big hotels?
There wasn’t room or anything else to
be had in them unless it had been en-
gagedTnonths ahead.
“Excitement? Why, around the Pal
mer House you’d think that they had
General Grant’s dead body inside, and
it. was going to get up and make a
speech. Poor devils. Hundreds of
them were in a deuce of a plight. They
had come expecting to stay a day or
two, you know, and wnen the conven
tion hung on and hut n on they found
themselves without clean clothes with
out money, almost without .,nj thing.
Credit? Lucky was the man who had
it. Nearly all the New \orkeis weie
broke. Why, it got so I'd never meet
one, but I’d yell out first, don’t you
know,
The Principal Battle Ground.
Savannah News.
The two great political parties' are
surveying the field and getting ready
for the campaign. In a few days the
letters of acceptance of their candi
dates will be given to the public, and
soon afterward the campaign commit
tees will begin work in earnest. Then
the voices of the stump orators will be
heard throughout the land. A ques
tion which naturally presents itself is
this: Where will the principal battle
ground be ? Of course, the campaign
will be conducted vigorously in all the
States, but attention will be directed
chiefly to the doubtful States.
The Republicans assert, of course,
that there is no doubt about their car
rying all the States that they carried in
18S4. These States are California, Col-
orada, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. These
eighteen States have 182 electoral votes.
It is conceded that the Democrats will
carry Alabama, Arkansas, Deleware,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
These fifteen States have 153 electoral
votes. The doubtful States of New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
Indiana have 66 electoral votes.
There are 401 electoral votes and the
successful ticket must therefore have
at least 201. There is not much proba
bility that the Republicans can carry
either New York or New Jersey. Mr.
Cleveland is stronger in both of them,
in fact in all the States, than he was in
1884, because his administration has been
clean, conservative, safe and economi
cal. The Republicans, to win, must
get nineteen electoral votes more than
their ticket got in 18S4. Where will
they get them? There are strong reas
ons for thinking that they hope to get
them in Indiana and Connecticut, The
former State has fifteen electoral votes
and the latter six. If the Republicans
should carry these two States, they
would have two electoral votes to
spare. What are their chances of car
rying them? No doubt one of the rea
sons for nominating Harrison was the
belief that he could carry Indiana. The
Democrats carried it in 1884 by a major
ity of over 6,000, but it must be remem
bered that Hendricks, who was on the
ticket was an Indianian. and was very
popular in his State. In the election
there were over 8.000 greenback and 3,000
prohibition votes cast. There will be
no greenback vote this year, but it
probable that the prohibition vote will
Dissatisfied Republican Organs.
Savannah News.
The leading Republican newspaper
of the West, the Chicago Tribune,
doesn’t like the Republican ticket. It
says: “It would be sheer hypocrisy to
pretend that the convention placed in
nomination the strongest candidate
before it. The general belief is that
the convention was not influenced by
the question of availability to any
perceptible degree. The managing
men and railroad attorneys, having
widely different purposes and views,
made the bulk of the convention think
that the whole campaign would turn
the two parties’ respective plat
forms, and that the merits of the can
didates would be obscured and almost
lost to view, and hence that it matter
ed comparatively little what the can
didate’s record or fitness might be, as
the platform adopted would elect any
body. These views were adroitly im
pressed upon the mass of the delegates
by the managers, who sought to de
stroy all the candidates put forth by
the granger States, and it must be con
fessed that they accomplished tlieir
end skillfully.”
The Tribune was on the ground, and
ought, therefore, to be pretty well in
formed respecting the influences which
dictated the nominations. It is certain
that it is not pleased with the ticket,
and will hardly give it an enthusiastic
support. It is also certain that the far
mers of the West are not pleased with
it, and it will be difficult to arouse
much interest among them in its be
half. Some of the representatives of
the workingmen have expressed their
opinion of it and they are opposed to
it. Neither Harrison nor Morton is in
hearty sympathy with the working
men. There are a good many things in
Harrison’s record which will be used
with effect during the campaign to
alienate the labor vote from him. The
statement is being widely circulated
that on one occasion, in a public speech,
he asserted that $1 a day and two meals
were enough for a workingman. With
the vote of the workingmen agaiust
him. what chance has he of being elec
ted? The Tribune has very good rea
sons for shrouding its editorial utteran
ces in gloom when speaking of the re
suit of the convention’s deliberations.
The two ablest and most popular Re
publican papers in New York city, the
Times and the Commercial Advertiser,
repudiate both the platform and the
nominees of the Chicago convention
The Commercial Advertiser says:
“The platform is astonishing in its
proposals. It is, as we have said, unre
publican and un-American. It is
platform in direct contradiction of the
history, the principles, the teachings,
and the oft-reiterated promises of the
party in whose name a conspiracy of
unscrupulous politicians has put it
forth. Lincoln would have repudiated
is it with disgust and loathing, because it
mtagonizes individual liberty, and the
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Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot.
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ggf- Refekkxces
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; confidently assorted that the
part of the prohibition vote
: drawn from the Republicans, and that
the greater portion of the greenback
j vote of 1SS4 will go to the Democrats.
: Assuming that these statements rela-
1 tive to the greenback and prohibition
greater. favored and would-be aristocratic class, i j on of an experienced superin-
will be Henry Wilson would never have assen- j tpm d ent anc i w \RRANTED,
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