The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-20
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CHICAGO CONVENTION,
Delegates stnI Pouring In-ChAnces
of CandIdaIes-Course Re-
gardIng ImpeAeh-
menL.

IRy NALL

CHICAGO, May 1s.-The crowds ar
irving on the trains to-day for the Con
vention have hardly been SO large in
proportion as those of yesterday. ThC
hotels, however, are full, and at the
leading ones large number of guests
themselves with cots in the pnrlors and
halls.
The New York delegation is thus far
the fullest and the noisiest; the Indiana
and Kentucky delegations are not all
here, and scarcely one-half the Ohio
delegation is yet on the ground. Large
numbers Of soldiers are here to attend
their Convention tomorrow, though
there are not thus far very many oil
high rank, Gems. Sickles, Logan, Frank
Heron and Dodge being the most
noted.
Among them there are many who
settled in the Southern States after the
war. These all unite in representing
| the dangers which the failure of i'm
peachment Is sure to bring upon them.
Two topics engross all attention.: The
nomination for the Vice Presidency,
and the proper course of the party with
reference to the impeachment failure.
Indications still are that Wade will
lead on the first ballot, but more ac-
tive work is being done thus far, for
| one or two other candidates. The New
| York delegation is attended by big
crowd OF out siders, whose expenses are
paid on condition that they keep up a
| tremendous noise for Fenton. Their
leaders boast that they have several
States sure on the second, il not on the
first ballot, besides the &C OF their own
| delegation.
The Pennsylvanians are hardly SO
earnest for Curtin as the little Cam
| eron faction in their delegation, is sc.
tive and malignant.
The New England delegations have q
Joint meeting Tonight, at which they
mean to try 10 unite on either Wilson
or Hamlin, but they have only slim
prospect of success.
Tee Colfax men are not noisy, and
thus far there are no signs OF their
having made any gains. A few out
siders from Indiana are working
against ColfaX.
| Quite n formidable sentiment has
manifested itself to-day in favor oi
| Hamlin us the first choice of some
| Western delegates, and the second
| choice of great many. If New Eng
| land could unite on him, IT is probable
| that he would be Wade's most formid-
able competitor. Illinois will go pretty
largely for him, ana the EUening Post
here is out in favor of him.
The Wade men figure up vote OF
$50 on the first ballot for their favorite,
somewhat as follows: Ohio AZ, Minne-
sofa 5, Nebraska 8, Maryland Il, New
Hampshire 10, Kentucky u, Pennsyl-
vania 6, Kansas 6, and scattering votes
from several Others Including some OF
Thus far the Southern delegates are
keeping very quiet as to personal
preferences. They are anxious to gain
admission to the Convention, and are,
therefore, avoiding any awkward COM
initial. The only one of them con-
tanning Il negro delegation is that from
Louisiana. He was member OF the
State and was known as Conservative
negro. He is light mulatto, quite
handsome and elegant in appearance,
and with some of the best white blood
of Louisiana in his veins. He started
in life as hotel or steamboat steward,
and from that changed to be profess
sional gambler, to which occupation he
adhered till emancipation gave him an
opportunity to enter the army.
The feeling on impeachment has been
intensified by reports from Congress-
men at Washington that bribery would
be proved in the cases OF one or two of
the Senators who voted for acquittal.
Trumbull, Fessenden and Grimes are
denounced on all hands as deserters.
The Missouri delegation, with Governor
Fletcher and General Carl SchurZ at its
head, is specially vehement in denun-
citation of Henderson, whom its mem
bers declare to have been Influenced by
corrupt motives of some sort to violate
his pledges as we'll as his principles.
The Tennessee delegates are very un-
happy over the case of Fowler, and the
Kansas men, as we'll as the soldiers,
cannot find words bitter enough to eS-
press their feelings concerning Ross,
The Southern delegates all take the
action of Fowler and Van Wrinkle to
heart, since IL seems to afford small
promise of good from the rest OF the
Southern States now eager for admis-
sion.
The outside feeling runs strongly in
favor of n movement to read out OF the
party all the Republican Senators who
voted TO acqult the President. All the
speeches made on the subject at the
meetings In the rooms of the several
delegations to-day, looked in that di-
rection. General Logan and Norman
B. Judd, OF Illinois, were particularly
bitter in their denunciation of Trum-
bull. They sneered at men who para
ded their consciences on n question
like this, and inquired where their con-
sciences were when they voted for the
Senate resolution declaring that John
son had violated the law In removing
Stanton. u
Gen. Sickles, in addressing the New
York delegation, was less personal in
his remarks, but the tenor OF his speech
was that Impeachment had been de-
feated by treason; that treason had
done its best to break up the Republic
can party, and had only succeeded in
running the traitors.
Col. Forney is very active in press
ing the idea that the Convention should
by resolution read the anti-impeach-
ment Senators out of the party. So far
as known, however, he is the only con-
spicious delegate who has taken open
ground in favor of SO extreme a meas
ure. The cool heads of the party seem
to be lin favor of either passing over
the Impeachment business as dead
issue that ought not to be thrust into
the Presidential campaign, or OF pass
ing a resolution that shall endorse
Congerss and condemn the course of
the President, while leaving the Sena-
tors to be dealt with by their respective
States. Those who were earliest on the
ground are less vehement now than
Yesterday in their demand for the
prosecution of the anti.impeachment
Senators, but the fresh arrivals espe-
cially from the heated atmosphere OF
Washington keep up the feeling. It is
very evident that strong effort Will be
made to secure decisive action on the
subject in the Convention, and that the
bulk of the outside pressure Will be In
The Soldiers Convention, which
meets tomorrow, will be hampered by
no ideas of party expediency, and 1t
will denounce the Senators In set terms.
The seven vials OF its wrath are held in
especial reserve for Ross, whom the
soldiers all denounce as a traitor to the
cause for which he fought.
There is a strong disposition to-day,
among the soldiers to nominate a full
Presidential ticket, but the probability
still seems TO be that the Managers will