Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Two Issues. [ARTICLE]

Two Issues.

Commenting on the defeat of Senator Pendleton because of his position on eivil-service reform, the Philadelphia Press says: Judged, therefore, by its own acts and the sayings of its own organs, the Democracy stands to-day for free trade and the spoils of office. It has made its position upon these two issues so plain that he who runs may read. It must go before the people on these two planks, the most important ones which will be incorporated in the political platforms of the year. No patty but the purblind Democracy would imagine that‘this Nation is now really to have its industries broken down after being laboriously built up, and to see a return to the spoils systems which, for fifty years, disgraced American politics. More reasonable than that these events should happen is it to suppose that the Democracy will find, as the Charleston News says, that, by its own acts, its fate in the Presidential battle has been “settled before the spring-time came, ” Republican Committee of Arrangements. Senator Sabin, Secretary Martin and Mr. John C. New are the committee of arrangements for the Chicago convention. They have already decided that the next convention shall not be hampered by such a crowd as filled the immense galleries on the last occasion. Then accommodations were provided for abput 15,000 visitors. It has been decided to limit the seats in the galleries to about 3,000. The body of the hall must give room for 823 delegates and the same number of alternates. It is the purpose of the committee to portion off a part of the Exposition hall in such a way as to afford room for the platform, the space required in front of it for the press, the delegates and alternates, and the gallery room included. This will allow a total attendance of about 5,000.