Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-02
THURSDAY. MAY =, 1879.


The dispatches say there is large number of
people in Cincinnati; but the New York Worlds
reporter explains that the city is checked, not
by delegates only, bat by au army of strangers"
There are several regiments of democrats; but
the crowd comes chiefly from two or three
states; "1llinois has fully one thousand; Mis-
souri, not less" and Ohio appears to have as
many. On the other hand, many of the states
are represented only by few stragglers; there
fore, the seats in the hall az were not classified
owing 10 the slender delegations from many
states" So far, there has been little more than
a vehement contest relative 10 candidates This
contest has been made very angry by the in
trigues and desperate maneuvres of the rings.
The Worlds reporter SAYS: "Judee Dayis's
friends have, on one hand, succeeded in creating
a mOmentous force in favor of their candidate,
and, on the other, the strongest prejudice
against him; the prejudice fiourishes most in
the higher circles of liberal republican dele
gates"
The contest about candidates seems TO have
been reduced to a struggle between the friends
aud opponents of Judge Davis. The effort TO
defeat him has given rise 10 an earnest attempt
10 combine all the elements of the opposition in
favor of some other candidate; and we have
varying reports in regard TO the prospects of
Trumbull, Greeley, and the other aspirants
Now TrumOull is "the coming man." Gree
ley's prospects are Frightening" now it is
hoped that Mr.. Adams will succeed and min
gled with these various utterances, there are
ominous suggestions concerning NEW man"
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be something in the reported intrigue for new
man. Many of the reporters state that Fenton
has limited mysteriously that a new candidate
will be brought forward, at the right time; and
there are uuequivocal signs that he and that
Inscriptions adyenturer, Mcclure of Pennsyl-
vania, are engaged in plot TO bring forward
Pennsylvania who has not yet been heard of
in the canvass. The Worlds reporter says ::
"Mr. Greeey's friends have seemed TO rely on
Pennsylvania; but have very remarkable news
in regard 10 what may be done on the part of
Pennsylvania--news which Mr. Greeley's friends
will be surprised at" And then, after stating
that the Pennsylvanians will vote as unit,
that they viii vote first for Curtin and that the
second choice of many of them is Adams or
Greeley, he goes on as follows:
"a gentleman met Mcclure, the leader of the
delegation, and asked him if the Curtin resOlu-
ton really meant business. we propose to go
for Curtin, answered Mcclure, till the last horn
blows, or so long as there is any hope left for
him. But suppose Curtin has got to 20 under,
what thenP To this question Mr.. Mcclure re-
piled by iutimating that there was a prepared
combination 1.-THE details Of which he declined to
eXplain) for the purpose, in case of Curtin's de-
feat, Of springing the of Thomas A. Scott
on the convention. 'Haye you seen Scott about
thisP asked the gentleman who repeats to me the
dialogue. 4 saw Scott before leaving home re-
sponded Mcclure, and although did not breach
this subject to him, am satisfied he don't want
or expect the nomination. don't believe he
would throw it over his shoulder" But would
you have any help from other quarters for
Scott?" Mcclure replied by saying that in a
certain contingency New York would 90 with
Pennsylvania. "Haye you any assurance to this
effect? Have you seen FentonP 81 saw Fem
ton this morning." "Wll he agree to this 2"
asked my astonished friend. "You'il see" said
Mr.. Mcclure, Significantly, and there the con-
yersation ended"
Here it is. Fenton's mysterious "new man.
is Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylva-
MIA Central Railroad Company. Fenton and
Mcclure, a well matched pair of intriguers
have conspTed to give the Cincinnati mass
meeting smart specimen of the New York and
Pennsylvania method in politics. Meanwhile,
it is noteworthy that these Performers" these
protested purifiers of politics, these self-appoint-
ed pilgrims to the mass meeting, who have
talked as if they were the prophets and apostles
Of purity, spend all their time, at Cincinnati, in
quarrels about candidates, varied now and then
by attempts to devise successfully swindling
resolution on the tariff question. They have
neither done, attempted, nor talked about any
thing else.