New-York tribune., 1876-06-17

and errors of the Grant Administration, and the
meaning and weight of that charge apparent
that the party which elected Gen. Grant flung them
of for their intimacy with him. Both of them were
weakened by the suspicion of sympathy with
the Administration, and Mr.. COnklmg espe-
cially, by the conviction that he had
the active support Of the President.
Mr.. Bristow was sacrificed for a different reason.
He had excited bitter opposition from the corrupt
and dishonest rings in the party which he had prose-
cuted and broken up. Had ne been only little less
conspicuous, he might have been "the Little I'm
KNOWN" but he had excited the hostilities of one
class in the party, while Mr. Blaine. Mr.. Morton and
Mr.. Conkling had aroused the opposition of another;
and they all went by the board together.
The disposition manifested by the party in the
conventions of the past year or more to drive the
past ont of sight in its platform appeared to-day in
its treatment of candidates. Gov. Hayes Is very
recent discovery. He has had no responsibility for
the bad or the good acts of the party, and his
strength is i'll his 0bscuri'y. II was doubtful, up
to the last moment before the seventh and
final ballot, whether a combination upon his
name could be made; but the fight against
Mr.. Blaine had been so bitter and prolonged, and
the danger of his nomination so imminent, that
when Michigan made the first break and gave him
her solid vote, the result was assured and the
strange thing accomplished. The number of ballots
exceeded the expectations Of every one. No
one supposed last night that there would
be more than three or four ballots, ana
the Blaine men confident of nomination
on the third ballot at the furthest. When the see
ond was passed and their candidate had not reached
the three hundred which had been hoped for on the
first their spirits began TO sink. Then there were
fluctuations for the next three ballots that
were not by any mears encouraging, but
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ments from Pennsylvania. Tie laundering of
Mr. McPherson who was really about the worst pre-
siding officer that ever held a gaycl in deliberatine
body brought on a collision, and almost row."
i'm the PENNSYLVANIA delegation before the event
ripe. and his decision as Chairman was the utmost
cause of Mr.. Blainos defeat II happened sngularly
enough that the decision made by Mr.. Mcpherson
upon the right of each delegate to cast his own vote,
although at the time il made it seemed 10 bc for
the benefit of Mr.. Blaine in the end was fatal to
him. Had the decision Of the Chair, which was sup
ported 10y the Blaine men, not been sustained the
rule providing for the casting OF the vote vi the state
as unit would have been enforced, and tie 80 Blaine
votes cast on the final ballot would have carried the
whole 5S TO Mr. Blaine and given bin the nouina-
ton.
Throughout the first six ballots there was scarcely
ANYTHING 10 indicate the final result. The issue
seemed all the time narrowing down 10 two candi-
dates one of whom was certain TO be Mr.. Blaine.
Whether the other would DC Mr.. BrIstOw
or Mr.. HAYES one could forctcll. Tor
some time the Bristow men were confident,
and at Others the Hayes men were the more
hopeful of the two. and whether either of them
could win when the struggle should come 10 be
hand 70 hand was a matter Of the greatest uncer-
tainty. The change Of Michigan on the fifth ballot
made the HAYES men momcntarily juhiiani, but the
remainder of the States did not justify the expccta-
tion of break in his favor; nor did the south.
II was quite apparent before the beginning
of the roll-can on the seventh that the event was
nj hand, and that the Convention stood on
the edge Of a decisive vote. There were periods
of 10 and II minutes during the final roll
call in which the Convention was a bowling
mob, without order, method, or purpose. The
delegations were IN the utmost confusion. Ia many
of them there we're loud wralgng aud bitter alter
cations and in all state Of disorder and tumult,
which tho gaycl Of the Chairman was poworless
either 10 still or drown and in which there was not
dignity and scli-restrdint enough among The dele
gates themselves 70 quiet or control
The changes Of votes TO Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Hayes
were accompanied by all the usual demonstra-
tinns of delight with which the American people
mark such an occasion, and FOR full
haf-hour the bUidng seemed peoplcd with n
multitude of howling lunatics and given over
10 manifest atoms OF insanity. IL is an uncommOnly
oueer exhibition al a National Convention any way.
IL makes no difference who is nominated There
arc the same wild performances and the same
rampant idiccy. do not know whether II i anus
ing or melancholy. The audience and delegates
lifted up their voices in the mad chorus of yels
and cheers, and waved their handkefchiefs and
their hats and did other ridiculous things Just the
same to-day when Gov. Hayes was nominated as
they did Yesterday when Nh Blaine was named
Geo w Curtis was one OF the most aIduOus and en-
thusiastc of the demonstration, and 1t was really
pleasing and deyiating spectacle To see that
gentleman shout himself red IN the face
and shake the rim of his hat over
the nomination of a man for President whom he
did not vote for until il came to what he Thought
was choice Of evils. Ii was pleasure to see sew
eral thousand people SO profoundly excited, and so
carried away with delightful emotions over the
nomination of the man who was the first choice
Of only siXty-Orc delegates, and possibly
NOT the honest first choice of all of these
THE Nav York delegation seemed very much pleased
with the result even before their " favouie son
had been nut on the ticket for second place. II
would be wrong / suppose, to attribute any selfish
ness 10 that band Of patriots, but one could
not help thinking that there was "A CON
ucctIon not very remote between Their
relations TO the nomination and their propa-
bio relations with the appointing powers uhder
the next Administration. If it shonld happen 10 De
RepuLlican, the friends of Mr. Blaine though nat
praly somewhat cast down by the result, dad not
whine over il or make any complaint.
The ucrsistcnt assertions of the anti-Balne men
that ne could not he elected had begun TO have some
of,ct upon them before the balloting began ana
Thought detected in the conversation OF some oi