The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-07
PHILADELPHIA, June 8, 1913.

IHlI-ADELPHfA June D, 1915
we have not discovered anything to-day chang
ing the complexion OF affairs, forth in our let
ter yesterday, TO any material extent The TAYLOR
men are working most industriousIy- keep
his name and his strength in the convention promi-
nently public at the hotels In addition to their
personal activity in talking down the pretensions
OF all other candidates, they have posted upon the
street corners large handbills, calling Taylor
meeting IN Independence Square tomorrow eve
ming, on the very heels OF the convention. Wat
son Webb and Fuller of the Mirror, Gen. Duff
Green, and other leading Taylor men, consider
that the proceedings Of the convention will be the
mere formal ratification OF Taylor's nomination.
already made by the voice of the leope
distinguished Clay man from Kentucky meet
ing win Col webb yesterday, charged him in
that pointed and unqualified humor ofthe West, as
tollows:--
"Why, colonel, you arc guerillero, sir. poll
teal guercro; you do not fight In the regular
ranks, but you hang with your band along the
roadside under cover of the bushes to waylay the
wing train rs it enters Phlladeph and to plumber
the baggage wagons"
Col. WEBB Very well, sir we 90 for men
and not principles, altogether just now. The old
motto good enough Tor an abstraction, is not the
thing tor the times. The wing party, to carry out
their principles, must first elect their man. We
go Tor victory first, and If we get that principles
are safe enough Gen. Taylor is the only man
there Is no chance for him, and it would be the
blindest folly TO nominate him. Scott might do bet
ter: but Taylor is our man. He is good enough
wing tor the canvass; he will be better one when
the hght Is Won There Is policy in war. Now,
show us your hand; you have seen ours.
hENTUcKrAN-(Openlng his hand and looking at
II with great complacency)-T 1t is, sir
Clay all over and there has not been another stripe
across 1t for the last twenty-five years, sir-(ool-
ing at Colonel Webb Acknowledgment another
stripe, sir. Clay and the bank, sir, and the bank
rupt law, straight through. And, if you guerll
ieros succeed in stopping the train and plunderng
me baggage wagons, you do II at your peril
we are not pledged TO support man who Is
ioiesworn against us. We protest against
any concession 70 a candidate who stands
ut IN defiance of the convention. 1t is our
convention, sir, and not yours IL Is an ultra
whig convention, sir, and General Taylor IL
not an ultra wing, neither does Col. Webb belong
TO The regular army and we don't accept volun-
teers on their own terms, SIR; nor DO we hght on
tho Guerilla system You had better run Taylor
ON his own hook. He would get good many soft
iocofocos and that would so diminish the vote Of
Coss that we could elect our legitimate man.
Make old lack a sort of go-between; it is the very
Mace for moderate wing but tor Gods sake
ddonr presume to dictate to the wing convention
Going. Colonel Well, then, good morning to you,
sir but none of your guerrlllero bush fighting;
don't claim right to our platform, without first
asking our consent. Ila Ia ~ and the Kentuckian
turned around to look up customer for Iulep.
The TAYLOR men, as an Offset for the certain
loss OF ONO, calculate upon inc certain gain oi
psnnsvyanla on the event of his nomination.
They estimate, that with the native vote of fifteen
thousand in the city and county of philadephia.
General Taylor will leave the same with MAORI
" of seven thousand, and that with the nomina-
ton of Andrew Stewart for the Vice Presidency.
the ticket will sweep the State on the top wave Of
surplus ofat least nine thousand nine hundred and
ninety-nine majority. They further calculate That
the protective tariff doctrines OF Mr. Stewart,
SO long and so ably and indusiriously maintained.
will help Old Zachary but amazingly in the New
England States, while the fame OF Old Zack, and
over The whole South like a hurricane supcradded
To fire in cane-brake. This Is the Taylor cal
culaiion.
The friends of Mr.. Clay, IN falling back upon
General Scott. calculate that he will carry all the
States that Henry Clay carried in 1874, which