Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-28
THE WARS OF THE FACTIONS.
The Republican Breach in Mas
q Hf sacluseffs.

II
The Contest for Senator waxfn Hot
N Letter from Dawes-A Caucus
Names.
Prom the Chicago Tribune.
BOSTON, March 25.-Never since ii
organization has there been such !
breach in the Republican party or in
the Legislature of Massachusetts, as
there is now between the partisans o.
Mr.. Dawes and those of MI. Hoar. The
former had 81 votes In the Joint con.
vention to-day, and thelatter 81. There
rs no hope Of an agreement which can
secure the election either of Hoar OF
Dawes, and no one can yet suggest the
name of a third candidate with any
chance of success. The voting to-day
showed conclusively that there was no
hope of any accession to the ranks
either of Hoar, Dawes, or Curtis, from
either of the others; and the few scat
tering votes, If concentrated on either,
would leave him thirty votes behind
the number necessary for an election.
OF the 200 Republicans in the Leg.
l~slature, less than a third assembled
for a conference tonight, and they re-
FUSED to allow any motion of any sort
70 be put. MIR. Phillips. of Salem,
made aspeech IN denunciation of Fed
eral interference with elections, and
against Dawes, because hewas Buffers
candidate, which made the other side
very angry; and IN the caucu the
feeling on all sides was very bitter.
1t has been said In these dispatches
that Mr.. Dawes preferred to be slain in
open fight. The following is his letter
to Senator Edward II. Leonard, of
Pittsfeld:
WASHINGTON, March Is, 1S74-My
Dear Leonard: l do not desire to give
the slightest direction, but am content
that you, who are on the ground, shall
conduct the whole matter as seems best
to you. l have had a very strange let
ter, however, from -; and l fear it
might be the ground of some PROPOSE
ton made to my friends. 1 have no
doubt Mr.. - writes as a friend. but
his letter cut me to the quick. The
short of it all is this: ELECT Judge
Hoar for the short term, then If Dawes
behaves well during the summer. we
may elect him for the long term" In
asmueh as Judge Hoar don't want it, |
shall telegraph you in the morning that
l prefer to be slam in an open field.
Yours truly, H. L. DAWES.
The excitement over the matter of
the Senatorship increases, and the
crowd at the State House to-day was
much larger than that yesterday, but
the floor of the House was kept clear
of persons who had no right to be there.
The galleries were thronged, and a
vast crowd awaited a~nxiously in Doric
Hall for the announcement of the re-
suit of the convention. Nobody ex-
pected an election. and the interest
was confined to the question of who
would gain the most. When the two
Houses came together, Just before vot-
ing began, a member of the Lower
House asked to be excused fromvoting,
that he had paired off with a
gentleman who, if present, would vote
for MIR. Dawes, while he should vote
for MIR. Hoar. 1t was at once objected
that, under the law of Congress, every
member present must vote; and
it was out of order to entertain
4 motion to excuse a member.
But President Loring, of the Senate
n the chair, ruled that it was proper to
entertain the moti.n, and thatthe Con-
was competent to decide wheth-
sr a member could be excused from
The debate was hot and sharp
or about twenty minutes. The Con-
sustained the ruling of the
Chair, but refusing to excuse the mem
Der from voting. He made his vote of
account relatively by casting it for
Wendell Phillips.
The officers of the last nights abor-
i've cauca called a Conference for to-
night. The attendance was less than
before, not a third of the party being
present. No votes were taken, the
doar men saying they would not re-
main If motions of any kind were put
o a vote. The time was spent In
making bitter speeches, which will not
end to Cancellation. The 'minions of
he Federal Government and 1.-The
Ools of Jayne's counsel and Sanborn's
working for Dawes,
we're contemptuously denounced.
ir. Dave friends injudiciously
.dopting Buffers cries, replied
y railing at blue blood" and
Boston aristocracy." Probably this
s the end of Republican caucuses for
he present.