The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-19

New York. 20 Louisiana. 10
New Jersey iS Missouri .......-.-... 90
Oregon. ............. Pennsylvania So
Nevada ........ Virginia .............. y
| Total. .252
!, The New York votes will be given to Mr.
| Conkling at the outset and be las true as
steel" from the beginning to the end of the
contest, with two exceptions-namely, Mr.
| Curtis and Mr.. Prince. The other sixty
eight will give an unAinching support to
Mr. Conkling through all the ballotings
| The Pennsylvania delegation will vote as a
! unit for Governor Hartranft ON the first and
perhaps the second ballot, but will afterward
vote as a unit for Mr.. Conkling until he is
either nominated or his nomination is found
to be impossible. The three Pacific States
California, Nevada and Oregon-will all
send out-and-out Conkling delegations to
Cincinnati, by the inspiration of Senators
Jones and Sharon, who are the most infu-
entail republican leaders in that section of
the Union, and will easily control the choice
of delegates. The Pacific States will sup
port Mr.. Conkling with as much steadiness
and zeal as New York itself With respect
to this part of the list, including the five
| States of New York, Pennsylvania, California,
Nevada and Oregon, and casting together one
hundred and fifty votes in the Conven-
| ton, we suppose nobody will question the
correctness of our estimate. Deducting the
two boiling delegates from New York, there
remain one hundred and fifty votes of which
Mr.. Conkling Is reasonably sure as soon rs
the Pennsylvania delegation ceases to
vote for Hartranft who is courtesy cam
didate, put forward with an under
standing that he is to be withdrawn
when this mark Of personal esteem and
appreciation shall have been paid him by
his own State. Even if the list terminated
here Mr. Conkling would start at Cincinnati
with stronger support than any of his
rivals Neither Morton, Blaine nor Bristow
has any appearance of receiving half as
many votes at Cincinnati as will be given to
Mr.. Conkling by those five States which all
intelligent politicians must concede to him,
and to which none of his rivals make even
the pretence of a claim. We now proceed
! to state the reasons for assigning him the
residue of the foregoing list. The delegates
| from Missouri and Louisiana will vote for
| General Grant on the first ballot, but their
votes will be intended as q mere courtesy
and mark of confidence, like those of Penn
sylvania for Hartranft, and will then be
transferred to the candidate whom the Presi-
dent is known to favor-that is, to
Mr.. Conkling. New Jersey, which lies con-
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share their preference for Conkling, as there
is no reasonable doubt that her delegates
will support him. The attitude of the two
remaining States of our hst--Virginia and
South Carolina-may seem more open to
question, but we think we have classed them
correctly 1t is true that part of the virginian
delegates are claimed TOR Blaine but the
claim is hollow shell without substance
The members Of the Virginia State Conven-
ton had been chosen before it was known
that the President favored MIR. Conkling
which put the delegates in an awkward
dilemma. Blaine had been intriguing all
winter without opposition in the Virginia
Congressional districts which sent Blaine
delegates to the State Convention before
they understood the real situation. The
Virginia friends of Mr. Conkling first came
into the field in the interval between the
election of the delegates and the meeting of
the State Convention, and their hardness is
the only reason why full Conkling delega-
| ton was not appointed to Cincinnati. TO
ease members who had been chosen as
Blaine men portion of the delegates to
! Cincinnati were given to Blaine in the same
sense that the whole Pennsylvania delega-
ton is given to Hartranft and the whole
| Ohio delegation to Hayes. Mr.. Blaine will
receive no Virginia votes Mt Cincinnati after
the first or second ballot, it being already
understood that they will all be given to
Conkling as soon as the concentration begins
on real candidates. The same thing is true
of the South Carolina delegates, who will
give complimentary support to Nor
ton on the first ballot and desert to Conkling
when the voting becomes serious.
With so large support Mr.. Conkling
is already assured of he is certain to grow in
strength, according to the adage that more
men worship the rising than the setting
sun" He is fortunate in having no draw
backs which can hurt him in party estima-
ton. He is, indeed, . stanch thick-and-
thin partisan but SO are all the really infiu-
entail public men in both parties and in all
free countries, and this objection would
have the some force if applied to Disraeli or
Gladstone as to Mr.. Conkling. Whatever
political carpet knights and Miss Nancies