The New York herald., 1872-08-30
KENTUCKY B0URB0NS.
Blanton Duncan on the Outlook
for the Straight Outs.
LOUISVILLE PROFOUNDLY UNMOVED.
General Dubiousness About the
Candidates.
WHO AND WHAT THE DELEGATES WILL Be.

LOUISVILLE, KY August 20, 1872.
Blanton Duncan, the author and fudller of the
Straight-Out Convention, lies sick in bed with the
g0ut, and when he moves at all he uses cane or
crutch. He is nervous, fidgety and good deal
overworked, and appears to comprehend that he
has taken considerable work upon his hands for
very little legitimate glory His Convention will
meet In the County Court House, probably at ten
O'Clock, next Tuesday. Duncan Is to be the sole
Committee on Credentials and to bar out any body
whom he peases He says that he has information
that
LOT OF BOGUS DELEGATIONS,
put up by the Greeley people, mean to come here
and take charge Of his show; therefore, he wishes
1t understood by all the world and the rest of man.
kind that badges will be required, and that the
said badges are to be given out by no proxies. He
has no newspaper in Louisville which seconds the
movement except small weekly sheet called the
JeDe,'SOntdn Democrat edited by an ncOnslderable
person who ran himself In upon Duncan at
Baltimore, and was made chairman OF
the Committee on Resolutions. At the
Bolters' Convention there Duncan and
others didn't pay the proper respect to this
editor, and the latter now revenges himself by
publishing inuendos and sidethrus at his superior
Snowman and, among other things, he is guilty Of
the atr0cious saying that the straght-0ut cause
could better have lost ten Blanton Duncans than
the support Of the New York Day Book. Duncan's
own journal, to be called the True Democrat, will
appear on the day the Convention meets
He has no ONCE Of publication, and his let
ters and advertisements are addressed to the care
of Thompson & Booth, lawyers. These gentlemen
appears to be good deal annoyed at the precptate
use which Duncan Co. have made OF their ONCE
without previous agreement with them. The paper
Ia IN nuhlishad nv iOh frOy who
Mr.. Duncan says to-day its columns will be chiefly
taken up with the publication OF letters from am
bilious individuals from all parts Of the country
anxious to express themselves upon the demerits
Of Horace Greeley. When pressed to-day to know
exactly
WHO SHOULD BE PRESENT
Duncan was unable to give the names OF more
than three or four persons In all the country who
have any public prominence. Chief of these were
Goldday, who hastily resigned from Congress for
cadet selling; Horace Day, who is anxious to be
candidate for President at the hands Of the straight
out party; one Davis a Congressman from West vir.
ginia; Brick Pomeroy and Jimmy OBrien's crowd.
Sykes, the publisher Of Pomeroy's paper in New
York, has telegraphed to the Gait House for forty
rooms He will bring on about one hundred per.
sons Of the O'Bren party. Brick Pomeroy has
engaged parlor and two bedrooms, and will hold
court in state here. The delegation from Indiana,
composed mainly of people who live in regions ap-
proximatng to Louisville, will stop at one of the
secondary hotels. Many OF the States
WILL HAVE NO REPRESENTATIVES
at all, as for example, Maine, Vermont the Pacific
States, Rhode Island and several of the Southern
States Judging from the class OF folks due here, it
Is difficult to see low they can come to any Organ-
cation, being mainly Of the class OF labor refOrmers
irrecOncilabes etc. Mr.. Duncan says that Indiana
ton ton Duncan behaves about % tSs CONVENTION ike an
overgrown boy, as wild as George Francis
House room for the convention because 500
was charged for wcisger Hall, and said that
of patriotism he preferred to take the Court House.
He says 1t will seat 1900 people, although his
townsmen are content with the modest estimate of
800 in the same premises. He will make an assess
mcnt'up0n the Convention for the expenses he has
personally incurred in bringing 1t together unless
help him out. He says he has spent for postage. ace,
handbRs, circulars, clerk hire, &C., between fifteen
hundred and two thousand dollars, and that this
is due to him from the county and that Louis
vile would be dsgraccd II 1t is not paid up It is
remarkable fact that nobody In Louisville pays any
10 tme a@o as s
convention in this city, on which was perpetrated
every species OF recommendations for all sorts OF
jobs, levees, canals, railroads. &C., and the organ
izer OF the whole thing somehow slipped out of the
promenade as soon as the Convention met, and
persons expect that the same will be the case
with the straight-out movement, but Duncan
himself has been seriously meditating the policy
Of taking the nomination for the Presidency. He
says that he does not think 1t would look well, un-
der the circumstances, to take 1t, but intimates
that, in view Of the alarming condition of the
country, 1t may be necessary to do so. He keeps
book where are enrolled the names of his numer-
Gus correspondents In all parts OF the earth and
in particular pasted away in folio scrap books
TO be preserved for the eyes of posterity. He was
asked this evening
WHETHER CHARLES o'CoNoR HAD CONSENTED
under any circumstances to accept the nomination
for the Presidency. and he evaded direct re-
sponse He also was unable to say who could be
fused to honor the Joke. In fact to person right
on the spot in Louisville, 1t would seem that Mr..
Duncan has brought a very large elephant on his
hands, and will be very successful II he can slip out
without the most roaring laugh ever raised in the
whom he instanced as his Correspondents chief
workmen and factors, are known to nobody, and
he has put together
LABOR REFORM AND pouRBoNIsM
In such ridiculous conglomerate that the result
must be mere patchwork. Among the recommen-
datiOns received in his letters is one from Missouri
suggesting the adoption Of the platform of the New
York Fifth Avenue Conference, which nominated
Groesbeck and Olmsted. AS to Duncan's democ-
racy, IL can be inferred from his avowal that II he
were in Indiana he would vote against Hendricks,
and II In Pennsylvania he would cast his vote for
the LABOR m IN m p5e to Bek
be given for what 1t is worth, that Dan Voorhees,
will be defeated by Hunter in Terre Haute dis
trict in Indiana, and that Hendricks will lose
the State by 10000 majority against him. He says
that Greeley viii not carry state in the Uni0n
and that his puncan's candidate nn wi viii get get more
Greeley. Duncan says that II his advice had been
followed Grant could have been laid out, and that
he .(Duncan) had prepared splendid proposition
of victory, which nobody would hearken to- and IL
was, therefore, lost. Duncan says that he means
to produce, within two or three days, letter from
his father old Duncan, who used TO be in Congress
as whig, In which letter said father expresses
a reprehensible notion Of Horace Greeley. 1t
would appear that this father is now living In the
city Of Paris, and the country which he has left
behind him Is not progressing according to his
conception OF the fitness OF things Mr. Blanton
Duncan says he has never had any personal init.
macy with Horace Greeley, but accredts the latter
THE AUTHOR OF THE ENTIRE WAR;
He says that he was invited to confer with
Greeley, but 1t did not become his dignity He
points with considerable eoquence to the fact that
since Greeley has been nominated Oregon has
repudated the democratic party. North Carolina
has defeated Merrimon and West Virginia has
fallen into the arms OF the original Jacob. He
says, with confidence, that Jacob is an anti