Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-04
II niun aud 8ispattt.
SATURDAY. July 4. 1895.
Largest Circulation in City and state.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION.
81 sssssaHls aE E
The Immense Attendance.
Half a Million Strangers tx
"a peCted. w
The Field and the Candidates.
Judge ChaSe'S Position as Stated
by Himself. -|i.l
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION.
The Immense Attendance.
The Field and the Candidate.

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the National Democratic Convention
either as delegates or spectators. Ever
| hotel in New York and Brooklyn is filed
and thousands are coming to the city every
day, to find themselves disappointed in the
hope Of getting good Accommodation, and
are compelled to put up with the best they
can 6nd-inferiOr boarding and lodging
houses. y
IL takes an immense crowd to be noticed
as an addition TO the population Of this
great metropolis, but the influx of strangers
during the past week has been 30 great az
to add materially and percepiibly to the
big throng on Broadway, and yet the halt
have not come yet. Every city and town
Of importance has delegations on the road.
Democratic Clubs and Societies of all sizes
are coming, many Of them from distance
Of little less than a thousand miles. Com.
petent railroad authorities say there will
be nearly half million of strangers in the
city before Monday morning, and it is
manifest that if one-half Of the promises
to come are fulfilled, the estimate will
prove TO be below the fact.
Pendleton's star is in the ascendant. Il
is impossible just now TO make anything
strength of the candidates for the Presi-
DENTAL nomination. Pendleton's friends
are enthusiastic to-day, and would give very
little for a guarantee of the success Of their
chosen standard-bearer. They find, in the
first place, majority Of all the delegates
in favor of Pendleton; in the second place,
something like unanimity In the platform
of principles Of which Pendleton is the
chief exponent, and in the third place, a
difficulty looking very much like an inn
possibility for the opponents of Pendleton
to concentrate their strength upon any man
whose nomination would be approved by
the Democracy Of the country. Delegates
and Others from the West express them
selves astonished at the opposition TO PEN
dleton which they find manifest in New
York and Washington.
ana convinced that New York is only
rejecting the views of the shoddy Democra-
cy Of Washington in this matter. The men
who take the lead in it have never been re-
cognized rs Democrats, and would not be
acting or pretending TO act with the Demo
cratic party to-day but for their failure TO
get office or hoLors from the Republicans.
They do not represent the Democratic voters
East or West. ..
President johnson and his friends have
been busy for a few days, and Andrew
johnson is not without a big hope Of sue.
cess for himself He actually believes that
the lightning will strike him, snd is baring
his bosom TO receive the stroke with the
heroism of martyr. He may possibly
be struck with lightning, but he certainly
won't be nominated. Democrats are not
Of the good he has done, neither
are they forgelful of the good he has left
undone, He has given it out to-day that
he viii issue universal amnesty procla-
nation, TO Include every body, even jeff.
Davis and John c. Breckenridge, on the
Fourth Of July, and be thinks this will Sc
cure him the nomination. he will find
himself grievously mistaken.
The friends of Chief Justice Chase are
active and yigIlanb but the chances of
their i4vorite have long since disappeared.
Il is said that he has written letter, now
10 possession Of the delegates in which he
pledges himself 10 the support Of the Dem
oCratic nominee. / have not seen the let
Ter, nor been able % come across any one
who had more than heard of it, Every
delegate l have met speaks kindly of judge
Chase, bat not as a possible nominee. he
has asked the mountain to go TO Mahomet,
and the mountain WON'T do it. Mahomet
won't go TO the mountaID, and so ends the
Senator Hendricks has positively and
Withdrawn his name A a
and 50 long as there is the least
hope of nominating PendIeton, no one will |
be authorized TO run Hendricks against
him. This announcement was received |
this morning, and its effect was immedi-
ately visible in increased enthusiasm COR
Pendleton and greenbacks, and in dead |
Earnest for both,
The following is an extract from the let |
Ter Of Chief Justice Chase to friend in |
This city, TO which allusion has been made |
10 my dispatches heretofore
while j would be gratiiied 10 receive |
The nomination, do not desire to have |
my name used without positive assurance
of success. i desire to put on record, in |
advance Of the meeting of the conven- |
ton, that ! will support the nominee"
Pendleton stock is better than ever this |
evening. All sorts Of falsehoods are in |
about Pendleton's war record. |
They originate with the Radicals. who are
anxious 10 defeat Pendleton, because they
know that he and a greenback platform |
will get more votes than any other cfndi- |
date and platform that can be put out.
Men are circulating the report tonight |
that he voted against every appropriation
bill for the suppression Of the rebelioA |
Also, that he voted against furnishing |
either supplies or soldiers. If his record |
we're fairly presented and fully understood, |
he would be nominated without much or |
position. MACK. |
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette. |
NEW YORK, July 1.-The drih of to-
days work among the delegates tends to
general concentration in frvor of the con-
tinuance Of the tWO-thirds rule. Pendle- |
ton men do not yet give il up, but they ad. |
NIT that they will make no serious fight /
against its adoption. Vallandigham said
this evening that he considered il settled |
that the two thirds rule would be enforced |
Mclean boasts that this does not seriously /
iniure Pendleton, si9ce he can be nomina-
ted any way, but outsiders do not take so
view Of his chances.
The only signs Of much political &C
tiYity TO night are in the Pendleton inter
est, and mainly around their headuuar-
ters, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Eastern
men are really noticed hard atawork, and
thus far their leaders have been unable to
upon any body unanimously,
in their opposition 70 Pendleton. They
are, thus far, unanimous in nothing else;
and at this hour Pendleton is the only for
midable candidate really in the field.
So doubtful and uncertain are the lead
ing New York politicians, that to-day
come Of them sent on committee 10 con
,ult with Reverdy johnson about the use
IF his name. ...
New York men who have been sounding
Ohio delegates privately on Chase, report
hem very unwilling 10 admit that they
will consent 70 support anybody but Pen
ileton under any contingencies, bot cody /
adding, that if forced 20 = choice they would
prefer Chase 10 Hancock.
The Pennsylvanians except those
pledged TO Pendleton, will support Packer j
Oh the FIRST ballot, SO that Hancock stands
on the race without the votes Of his own 4
Stale.