New-York tribune., 1876-06-17
BALLoTING FOR PRESIDENT.

BIAISE's BANNERS IN THE FRONT FROM TIE
srARr-now TIE OPPOSITION CONCENTRATED
AND GAVE THE DAY TO GOV. HAYEs-A LONG
AND EXCITING STRUGGLE.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
CINCINNATI. June 16.-The first two ballots for
President to-day were alike They were largely
com plimentary to the candidates and varied
scarcely at all. Mr.. Blaine was by long odds ahead
of all others, MIR. Morton second, MI Bristow thlid
and Mr.. Conkling fourth.
The third ballot opened and intense anxiety
This was the ballot on which it was hoped Pennsyl-
yania might split up the entering wedge having just
been driven in the shape of four votes for Mr..
Blaine, and IN which it was also hoped the New
York delegation would redeem some of their prom
ises of strike for independence and break the bond
that held them. The vote proceeded almost without
change. A look of deep disappointment settled on
the faces of the Blaine men. The vote waveIed d
Httle Mr.. Blaine fell off three votes, and to fall
oil at all was like getting a sudden check in a
charge. Mr. Brstow gained seven votes, making
121 and Mr.. COnkling suffered hIs usual loss and
STOOD at 90. Mr.. Jewell had been dropped on the
second ballot, and Gov. Hartranft and Gov.
HAYES were nearly even, is and "a, Gov.
HAYES the lowest. There was again no choice. Mr..
Blaine was still nearly 80 votes away from noml-
nstou His fate seemed to rest with the NewYork
casting their votes the largest in the Convention for
men whom they never intended to nominate. But
gew-York was largely in the hands of Mr.. Blaine's
bitterest enemy, and was still voting for him with
only single exception; and in Pennsylvania four
Of Mr. Blaiues friends had just attacked the Cam
erOn power by asserting their right to vote their
Individual preferences led them, and not in obedi
ence to the instructions OF the State Con-
ventlon and had appealed to the Conven-
ton which had sustained them. Thus they
rendered IL impossible to obtain the whole vote of
Pennsylvania. not only because they had broken in
upon the precedent which has made the vote OF
PENNSYLVANIA commodity marketable III bulk, but
because they had reused the anger of Cameron HIM
SELF who for the first time saw the authority OF the
ring in which he heir apparent to the position OF
"boSs" not only set at defiance but actually sub
ieeed to the mortal chagrin of public defeat. Never
theless union of the elements Of opposition seemed
as ssimpractcablc as ever aud the Blaine men did not
diminish in the least their quiet confidence.
DANGEROUS DELAY FOR BLAINE.
Mr.. Blaine's vote on the fourth ballot was almost
fac snile of that on the third. His friends were
still standing firm. He lost l vote in Alabama,
where he had had l6; l vote in Iowa, where he
had had the whole %; 2 in Michigan, where he had
had 8; in Texas where be had had 2; and l in
Vermont where he had had only /. But his gains
IN other localities enough to reduce his total
loss to a single vote He stood firm at 292 Indiana
was still voting for Morton, Kentucky for Bristow,
New-York for Conkling, and Pennsylvania for Hart
ranft. Another nconclusive aud meaningless ballot,
and another dangerous loss of a half hour for
Blaine, added TO the delays that had gone before.
HAYES BEGINS 10 GAIN.
So far four ballots. On the fifth, the who
were in search of anything to beat Blaine, disclosed
their scheme and their candidate 1t had been
known for days of course, and had become matter
Of nctOrety all over the country, that Gov. Hayes
was the central figure Of most of the thousand COM
biuatons against Nh Blaine, that had been born and
had lived their little lives, and died; but it was
also generally known that up to the very latest
hours of the intriguing that preceded the Conven-
ton, these plans had failed and the difficulty Of
combining such diverse elements seemed 50 great,
and the danger of freeing Blaine in attempted
transfers so manifest, that 1t was hardly supposed
that success could crown any such efforts.
The attempt might have been called an expected
surprise. Every one knew that it was coming but
when old Gov. Howard of Michigan hObbled for
ward on his crutches and said in firm and loud
voice as his age would let him that there
was one man who had defeated three Democratic
asprants for the Presdency-Allen G. Thurman,
Ge'rge II. Pendleton, and William AIen-whO
seemed to have a habit of defeating distinguished
Democrats. and that Michigan therefore cast her
Whole % votes for Rutherford B. Hayes. there
was something electric III the way the
galleries, the delegates and the great audience be-
hnd caught at the name. Evidently the galleries
lad been taken into the confidence of the opposition.
They cheered wildly and long, and when the crier,
VINO had been stationed haN way down the great
hai to repeat after the secretary the roll of each
seate TO the alternates, and the audience beyond
reach Of their voices, called out that Michigan had
cast ~ votes for Rutherford b. Hayes the cheering
Dfoke out again, and the cheers from the platform
aiu the Convention were echoed and reech0ed by
tae great audience beyond, and the crowds outside
.Ne building But the excitement died away, and it
oegan to look if it might only be spurt after all.
Aiuhesota followed with her steady Blaine
vote, and Missouri gave him 20 where there
aad been Is before. There another
.uore when North Carolina went away from Blaine
hayes; but the crowd sobered again as the steady
DiAine vote went on TO the end of the column The
e"d Oh the fifth ballot had come. Blaine was not
se' nominated, was as far as ever from it, and
,i'uu loomed up ON his horizon that was now far
~ser than mans hand Mr.. Blaine had 2S6
'e'es out Rutherford B. Hayes had 104, and there
cefe great probabilities in Mr. Brstows Id,
S'nkiings 50, Hsrtranft's 80, and Morton's 95.
EXCITING SIXTH BALLOT.
ine sixth ballot was Blaine rally and the vote
~ oiaine down to the time when North Carolina