The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-17

committee Is divided between Sherman
and Blaine, Sherman being the stronger
OF the two. Outside OF Grant, Sherman
and Blaine, nobody Is talked about. Don
Cameron will undoubtedly be elected
Chairman Of the committee.
William E. Chandler was at the rooms
OF the National Republican Committee to-
night. He didn't like the idea OF making
Don Cameron chairman Of the committee,
and said It was an ''impertinence." Il
looked to him as though the Grant men,
the Administration and the U. s. Senators
were going 10 run the committee. It was
wrong and improper. There were men
on the National Committee who had been
members Of 1t for four years, but they
were to be set aside for man who had
not been on the committee at all.
Chandler said that Cameron was
Grant man. He told him three days ago
that the nomination was already settled.
Grant was going in with q rush. Blaine
would get 1t itGFant were out Of the way,
but Grant was going to have 1t anyhow,
and 50 Blaine stood no chance. Mr..
Chandler seemed greatly dlsgusted with
this sort OF talk. He said he was not for
Grant, but he intended to do oil his talk
ing against Grant before the Convention,
aud not atterward. II Grant should be
nominated he intended to support him.
It didn't require half so much courage to
bolt nomination after it was made as 1t
did to oppose 1t beforehand, In his opinion.
1t Is now admitted that the Grant men
are in the majority on the committee, and
that they will control It's organization.
Don. Cameron will be made Chairman, as
q Grant man. The Blaine men are dis
heartened at the development Of opinion
in tayor Of Grant
CINCINNATI COUNTED OUT.
A majority Of the members OF the COM
mittee have arrived, and from what can
be earned tonight OF their preferences, 1t
is almost absolutely certain that wherever
the convention may go, it will not 60 to
Cincinnati. The delegation which arrived
tonight from Cincinnati had as well re-
mained at home and saved their railroad
tickets, so far as influencing the result Is |
concerned. A dozen delegations could do |
nothing. The opposition is Us pnyielding
as 1t is absurd. The battle cry Of the
Blaine crowd is, Anywhere but Cincin-
natl"
Add their distinct and marked hostil.
ity to the preferences Of others on the |
Committee, for other places, and Cincin.
natl is left far in the rear when noses are |
counted. The hostility to her is more
marked than is the preference for any
other place. The objections assume all |
shapes. It is complained that at the last |
Convention in Cincinnati the weather was
so awtully hot that delegates from the
breezy Northwest and braeing New Eng.
land perspired their strength away, and
that even colored delegates from the sun
ny South were iniuriously affected. The
argument that the days Of the Convention
fell in peculiarly hot spell, which has
hardly been equaled since, does not an
swer the objection. Second-That hotel
charges were too high. Third-That To-
cal sentiment, being largely for
Bristow, attempted TO oysrawe
the Convention. Fourth-That the gal
leries were packed against Blaine, and
that he had no fair show. Fiith-That |
the newspapers abused all other can
didatesexCept their own, like pickpockets,
smotheting outsiders with doubled.leaded
paragraphs, as to the virtues OF their own |
tayorites and the depravity Of others. Add
10 this indictment, the prevailing express
sion among Blaine's friends that he would
have had the nomination had the Conven-
vention been held elsewhere, and the
prospect Of the Convention going there
again next year is found to be slim. To-
night the chances seem very favorable to
Chicago. There is strong preference for
that city from the West and Northwest,
and no active hostility from any quarter.
Chicago men have twenty-sixr rooms at the
Arlington. They are putting in good
time with the committeeman. They as
sumo that the question is already decided
and that other places have no chance.
The probabilities are that the Conven-
ton will go to Chicago or Saratoga, with
the chances largely in favor of the former
The delegation from Cincinnati, headed
by Richard Smith, arrived tonight. Their
object Is 10 have the National Committee
select Cincinnati as the place OF meeting OF |
the next Republican Convention. They
meet with little encouragement, however. |
The Blaine men are full Of reeollections OF
their alleged bad treatment there, and can.
not be conciliated.
WASHINGTON, December l6.-An infor-
NAL meeting Of the National Republican |
Executive Committee this afternoon re.
suited in virtually disposing Of the main
business Of to-morrow's meeting-the Sc.
lection OF Chairman and the time and
place of holding the Convention. As soon
as it was positively known that Cameron
would have place on the committee,
Chandler and Frye, who had been con.
sidered strong candidates for chairman,
announced that they would not make a
contest with him fer the position. The
general impression tonight seems 10 be
that this will result in leaving clear field
for Cameron.
A general canvass Of views as to the
availability Of various cities suggested, de-
yeloped unexpected strength among the
advocates OF Saratoga, but Chicago seemed
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