New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-06-09
NEXT WEDNESDAYS BATTLE.
PREPARATIONS AT CINCINNATI


CINCINNATI, June S.-Tbe daily tide of business
still Gibbs and flows through this beautiful city. its
cheering hum as yet unbroken by the notes of prep
araton for the grea. political contest near at
hand. The trains which arrive from all directions
bring unusual crowds of passengers and in all of
the hotels there is. and will be for several days,
room and to spare for all Corners On the train
which left Washington yesterday morning l was
unable to discover a single delegate politician;
and if one was taken up the way, he did not make
himself known. Yet it is true that few of the ad-
vance guard of the Convention are already on the
ground. MIR. COnklings chief manager, Mr.. Cor
nell, arrived two days ago. accompanied by two or
thrco Federal office-hoders from New-York City.
and has opened the extensive headquarters of the
Empire State delegation at the Grand Hotel. Secre-
tary Gorbam Of the United States Senate, also an
active worker in Mr.. Conkng's behalf, came yester-
day, and is cooperating with Mr. Cornell. The New
Workers have secured great number of rooms at
the Grand Hotel, and say that from 500 to 200
from the city and State will be here by Monday
next. The first detachment is expected on the
trains that arrive this evening and tomorrow.
Mr.. Holloway, Senator Morton's brother-in-law
and several others of his political managers came
down from Indianapolis yesterday. and have secured
quarters at the Grand Hotel Others will join them
tomorrow and next day.
Bristow's law partner, arrived at the Burnct House
this afternoon. He will be looked upon as the chief
manager for Secretary Bristow. and will have the
assistance of several other gentlemen from Louis
vile. who will all be here by the close of the week
The Kentucky delegation viii have its headquarters
at the Grand Hotel.
None of Mr.. Blaines active friends are yet in Gin
cinnati. The fight which his enemies have forced
upon him in advance still goes on at Washington,
and Judging from present indications, it is to con-
time there until the Convention has done it's work.
Congressman Frye and Hale to whom the Blaine
delegates will probably look for leadership and adj
vice, have secured Accommodations at the Burnct
House. There are no representatives here yet of
other candidates-if such men rs Gov. Hayes. Gov.
Hartranft Mr. Wheeler, and PoStmaSt cr-t;cnera
Jewell who will each receive few complimentary
votes be called such, and whose only chance of
nomination lies in the fact that the most prominent
candidates may possibly play the role and share the
fate of the Kilkenny eats.
Until the clans begin to gather the gossip which
picks up in Cincinnati can hardly be more valua
BILE or interesting than that which may he CLEANED
in Washington or Ncw-YOrk or any other political
ccnte. in the country. The few friends of Senator
Conkling whom have seen to-day share, or pretend
10 share, that inexplicablc confidence which has
marked their behavior both in Ncw-York and Wash
ington for the past month. They either in pos
fession of some information which they guard very
carefully as a secret and on which they base their
calculations or else they are playing "a more des-
perate and impudent game of brag than that OF
which they have ever accused Mr. Blaine. 1t ia
certain that they hope to profit by putting forth
very prominently tho idea that the election is to
turn on the vote of New-York. and that the nomna-
ton of Mr.. Conklng alone make that certain to
be cast for the Republican ticket. especially if Gov.
Tildcn should be nominated ut st. Louis. Gao OF
Mr.. Conklings supporters remarked to me to-day
that the balance of power III Ncw-iork IS held not
by the class spoken of in the newspapers the in
dependent voters but by the business men Of tho
large cities of the State who really care for neither
party but desire the adoption Of some sound iinan-
cial measure which will give relief 10 business.
This class of men, he said, will not vote for Demo
crat unless the Republicans should nominate an in
fationist For this reason lie claimed that the
electoral vote OF New-York would be cast for Mr..
Conkling OF any hard money Republican. in prefer
ence to Gov. Tilden, not because they donbt the
soundness of Gov. 1ilden's financial views, but be-
cause the Republican party rs a whole is more
likely to be sound than the Democratic party.
think the confidence of the few Conkng men
now here is also based in slight degree on the cx
pectation of breaking Mr.. Blaine down and remov-
ing him entirely from the list of candidates 1t has
been remarked in my hearing to-day by one OF them
that the contest will be narrowed down to iight
between Mr.. Conkling and Mr. Norton and have
heard it limited that if his enemies do not succeed IN
utterly destroying him in Washington, the fight will
be renewed on the very floor OF the Convention, and
that Mr. Blaines friends will then and there be re-
auired to make sundry explanations in his behalf.
Besides this, it is reported that Mr.. Conklngs
friends IN Washington have caused to be compiled
all of the scandalous accusations that have been
made against Mr.. Blaine. and that they intend TO
make effective use Of them in the Convention 1t is
already evident that the COnk.ing party Is making
preparations spend more money To secure the noni-
nation than the friends OF any other candidate.
Senator Jones, who is delegate from Nevada, has
taken large house centrally situated on Ninc-st.,
where il is said he will dispense bonanza hospitality
in Sir. Conklings behalf. The preparations to ac-
comnodate hundreds of New-Yorkers have already
been mentioned. When Mr. Blaine has been broken
down. If that happens the Conkling mon hope to
get majority of his delegates from the south This
MIR. Mortons friends dispute and claim that their
candidate is the second choice Of all the Southern
Blame delegates The few Morton managers who
have arrived are much less boasful than the Conk
ling men from New-York. The confidence Of the
latter aud their apparent disposition to spend money
l4vishly trouble tho former; mud they think that
the election of Boss" Shepherd and Frederick Doug
lass in the interest Of Mr. Conkling in the District
of Columbia Is a straw which shows wind adverse
to them.
Almost the entire local interest, whatever it may
be worth, will he exerted III favor Of Mr. Bristow
The abors Of The Gazette and The Commercial news
papers have apparently borne abundant fruit. In
almost every second shop window 10 displayed
good photographic portrait Of Secretary Brstow,
while the Brstow Club Of this city, numbering from