, 1876-06-18

ing of one faction against another, capturing
some, coaxing others, and keeping the opposi-
ton separated, and preventing coalition by
every means possible to devise, they actually
drove them to act together By their insulting
and domineering conduct. Curtis Was hissed;
Douglass WAS snubbed, aud then thrown out OF
hts scat The Morton men were enraged BY the
rejection OF the Spencer delegation from Ala
bama, and swore vengeance OH Blaine's hackers,
who did It, Brisrow's friends we're insulted
and sneered at as the "Only honest men,"
and the '+Holier than thou" gentlemen, because
they and their leaders were opposed to stealing
the revenue and to blackmaiiing the distilers-
They hooted and leered the demand for Civil
Service reform, and laughed at the idea Of
Governmental publication as a good Joke.
They regarded their fellow-ringsters who were
urging Conkling with ill-concealed anger and i'm
patience, because they refused to coalesce foEces
and support Blaine
TIE FIRST PALPABLE BLuNDRR
the Blaine men committed when the Convention
met on Thursday was in making McPher-
son, Of Pennsylvania, President Of the
Convention, for. this was throwing down the
gauge OF battle to Don Cameron and his
clans 1t is true they gained Chairman who
was hot partisan Of Blaine's, and to whom
they cou1d confde their plans, prea7ange their
motions, and secure the floor at any time for
their speakers, and obtain any ruling favorable
to Blaine's side or injurious to his opponents
which would not outrage parliamentary law too
much; but, on the other hand, they lost by this
stroke Of tactics. They made every opponent
Of Blaine suspicious Of the fairness Of the pre-
siding officer, and watchful for tricks and par
liamentary legerdernain. They withdrew from
the body Of the Pennsylvania delegation Blaine's
sharpest and ablest worker, and cooped him up
in the Chair But, worst Of all,
THEY MoRrALLr OFFENDED DON CAMERON
and his tribe, for 1t seemed like IN open inten-
tion Of breaking him down and running over
him. The plucky Scotchman lost no time in
accepting the challengetotig fight, and he put him
self promptly at the head of tie anttBlaine
faction OF bis delegation. The Pennsylvania
State Convention had instructed her dele
cation to vote as a unit in order that
the power of tbs State should not be
frittered away, and that It might be cast
solid in the crisis Of the fight where it would do
the most good for Pennsylvania, and that has
always been the policy Of that state. BY the
rule adopted by the Convention, the delegation
was instructed to stick to Hart1anft as long US
majority Thought he had any prospect OF sue
cess. At the instance Of the Blaine men, at a
caucus Of the delegation here, it was resolved
that at any time, on the demand OF twenty
members, the delegation should re-
tire for consultation in regard to
dropping Hartranft and substituting some
other candidate. It was understood all
the time, from Sunday until Friday morning,
that Blaine had 10 or Il votes, against IS OF II
for Conkling or Morton. They we're perhaps
ten or dozen who would support Bristow as
against Blaine. Cameron knew that It was not
IN his power to secure majority Of his delega-
tion for Conkling, which, Of course, would carry
with it the entire IS votes.
THE NEW YORK DELEGATES ASSISTED n1N
in every possible way to get control Of 30 votes,
which would enable him to swing the whole
strength of the delegation to their fayorite son.
They worked to this end desperately, almost
frantfcally, and 1t was while they we're engaged
in this effort for several days TINT they would
listen to no overture in regard to Hayes or any
other candidate, as they lived in hourly hope
that, By some stroke Of good fortune or other
means, thirty members Of the Pennsylvania dele
cation could be brought to see on which side
their bread was most thlcklE buttered- But the
time never came. Don Cameron, however, was
that, happen what might, the ffty-eight votes
OF Pennsylvania
SHOULD NEVER BE RECORDED Fon JAMES G.
BLAINE
for President.
Blaine's men had sayagcly assatled the Prest-
dent for appointing him Secretary OF War, and
his father for suggesting the appointment, and
himself for accepting It, The telegraph wire
bore message home to Simon Cameron, whose
language no man knows, but whose import
many now guess. Immediately kilograms began
to shower upon the delegates rom all parts o1
the old Keystone State, that the dignity OF the
State had been tnsulted In the person OF the
Secretary OF War; that pennsylvania had
right to have seat In the Cabinet,
and that Don Cameron could not be humiltated
without the degradation also attaching to every
truc-born Pennsylvania These mfsstves per
formed their mission. The work was got III
well, and the Blaine phalan1 OF forty-fouF
WAS BROKEN AND DEAoRAL1zED,
and never again united Don's next move was
to hold his delegation to HaFtranft solid up to
the decisive moment Meanwhile the dispatches
continued to pour in from all parts OF the State
upon the delegates, telling them not to deser.
the Secretary Of War, but to stand By him IN