The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-13

Il in NO other way. by giving
the nomination to Hayes. There
was meeting OF Brfstow men to-day, S0lf-
cltor Wilson present MS the leading spirit.
Iney counted up one hundred and sixty
votes, which they CHIN certain for Bristow
on the first formal ballot.
Inc Ohio men have grown TO be very en-
thusiastic for Hayes. They held t9o meet
ings this afternoon and evening, 1t which
reports were made by prominent members
q the delegation, who have been in confer
eIfee with other delegations, going to show
thas there is general feeling Of confidence
IN the ultimate nomination OF Governor
Hayes as compromise candidate 1t
WEES stated at the meeting shat with Blaine
out OF the way majority on the Missouri
delegation willgo over to Hayes, and the re-
maiDder to Morton. PROMINENT Massachu--
sets delegates, it was also said, have assured
the Oaio delegation that ain they desired
was that Ohio should stand firm on the bal
lots, and Massachusetts, would Jnally come
to the support OF HAYES.
The Hartranft Club, OF Philatelphia. 1o5
in msery arrived this evening, accom-
panied By q band, and marched 10 the Bur-
nett House.. Tbey are uniformed wearing
black cloth suits and white GTess-hats.
Ihey carry a. handsome portrait-banner of
their faVorte candidate. Among the most
prominent I'M the party are Colonel William
b. Mann, WiIlinn1 r. Leeds, General II. II.
Bingham, Postmaster Fairman. Mayor
Stokely, and Gideon Clark.
The Convention win be called to order by
Governor Morgan, OF New York, chairman
OF the National Central Committee, who
will make hUe-Ininutes' address. Then,
Judge Stanley Matthews, temporary pre-
siding officer, will address the Convention;
after which the committees on credentials,
resolutions, &c.,. viii be appoined. The
contested seats from Alabama will be the
hrst matter before the Convention, and
Il report OF the. Committee on Creden-
tials in that case will come up. 1t
is proposed by some to settle the
difficult point by admitting neither, but the
feeling among the Blaine, Morton, and
Conkling men seems to favor admitting the
Spencer delegation, since none Of its mem
bers will vote for Bristow, who is regarded
as common enemy. Each OF the three cam
didates named hope for strength from the
Spencer delegation
New Combinations Necessary.
4 special from Cincinnati in yesterdays
Herald says:
Mr. Blaine's misfortune oyerturns all
plans OF the candidates, rs is freely acknOw-
lodged by everybody this evening; It makes
new combinations necessary, and that what
was getting settled goes for naught. The
possibility that Mr.. Blaine may be so seri-
ollsly shaken as to- be substantially out OF
the canvass is acknowledged by everybody
except the Blaine men, who are by no means
discouraged. and, indeed, find in this last
blow to their candidate only another and
greater reason for remaining faithful to him
and using more efforts than ever for him.
But to everybody else the mere
chance OF AIr. Blaine's disability was
an event which compelled new count and
opened new possibilities.
II Mr. Blaine should be disabled it is taken
for granted that the New York and Penn
sylrania delegations would be much more
secure to Mr.. Conkling than before. The
Bristow men CONT, in that event, a solid
Ner England vote for him, and scattering
votes in the western delegations, and conSe-
quently their failing hopes begin to revive.
Mr. Washburne's friends begin to claim the
West for themselves, and the opponents OF
Mr. Conkling talk for the first time Of
Fish and Hayes as the ticket which
would cover the doubtful States, and which
they say (not very loudly as yeti would
carry more southern States than any other
combination possible. They name Virginia,
North Carolina, Louisiana. and Arkansas as
the States which this ticket would carry,
and which no other, they say, can carry.
The Conkling men are confident; they
count on New York, Pennsylvania, and the
southern vote, and are likely to make their
count good. II Mr.. Blaine should be out
OF the battle the Morton people say that
l$l, fhnr Iv1ti on
than any one else, and this must tell. They
were disposed OH Friday to give their
strength to Bristow: to-day they talk loudly
OF their own success. Dir. JEWELS friends
talk OF the yice-pI esidency for him with
some western candidate. but the chances do
not look promising.
The organization OF the Convention be-
gins to be talked OF, and General Logan and
General Harlan OF Kentucky are the prin-
cipal men Thought Of so far for permanent
president.
The Lobby at Cincinnati.
The New York Herald OF Yesterday says ::
The hosts OF friends and ciaqueurs OF the
several candidates, who go to conventions
to "work" Gas they call it) for their favor
ties, has never been so great at any Repub-
ican National Convention as it is at Cincin-
natl. In 1864, 1868, and 1872 the choice OF
the conventions was :: foregone certainty
before the delegates assembled. In those
years only one Republican candidate was
talked of or thought possible, and it would
have been bootless business for big lobby
to throng to the scene Of the nomination un-
der the pretence that they were to "work"
for him. But this year there has been 10
such concentration OF Republican sentiment
;,,f ~ onnIiIotn onl
lobby has gone to Cincinnati to ''make
night hideous' around the corridors Of the
hotels by their brawlng advocacy OF STA
yorite sons" These busybodcs will make
Il great figure until the Convention meets.
They drink, swear. button-holc, predict,
and manufacture 4 spurious enthusiasm for
the candidates under whose colors they en-
list but they can exert no real influence.
Why, then, do they take so much foolish
pains? 1t is to establish claim OIL the
candidate they profess to serve II he
should be successful. They mean to re-
mind him, after his election, how much they
did to promote his nomination, in the hope
that he will reward his Jealous and diSin-
terestcd friends in the bestoWal OF offices.
They will be the most persistent and
" cheekv" OF all otiicc-Scckers il their cam
.didate should be elected. But they will
deserve nothing, because they produce no
more effect on the result than the flies that
light on coach wheel do III setting the
vehicle in motion.
They recall an anecdote which some an
cient author tells OF Diogenes, the cynic PHI
losophcr. When SinOpe, the town where
he resided, was beSiegcd by the enemy and
all the citizens OF military age We're busy i'll
gathering arms and strengthening the forti-
1ications, Diogcnes was Observed 10 De III