The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-17
Grant IN Illinois.

wo or three days thrown little or no fight
upon the situation in Illinois. we Ii'ude OF
course TO the fight going on In that State
between BLAINE and GRAsT. we INFER
from the silence Of the BLAINE organ, the
Tribune, as to the relative strength OF
GRANT and BLAINE among The delegates
already elected to The State Convention, as
nearly ais Of the delegates have now oeen'
that General GRANT has been gaining upon
Mr.. BLASg this week. The Tribune Is
none the less jealous N its advocacy OF Mr.
BL,.rsy,s claims, however. The following
Is Its note Of warning addressed 10 Tue
State Conventioss
OF the thirdterm boilers, conscious that
thew have no rights In the SprInste'd CON
vruriop. still count upon possible thiro-
tsrn ms,ority outside Of Cook county TO ao-
nit them. or a part of them, they are SOW
| NO the wtrrx only to reap the whlriw'n9'
! Not single Cook county boiter can De aa'
mit,ed into the Springfield Convention WIN
ON transferring the whole question 10 tue
National Convention, to which the anu.
third term sentiment OF this State, backed
nm by su outraged party in wbich Doiters
are given rights over regulars, VIII appear
with irresistible force. II single COOK,
county boIter be admitted TO the Springfield
Convention, In defiance OF all right ana
precedent, the scramble Tor state once
NAV as well cease, for the prospect Tor eiec'
ton will be too dim to be attractive"
che above hints of what is fact-namely,
that the GRANT men have ceased claiming
1.-THE right to send ninety-two delegates from
Cook county TO the State Convention. They
are now willing to put up with their ia'r
proportion, (forty -one, we think;) but the
R1II men are unwilling to allow any dele
gate sent By the boiling Convention OF the
GRANTEES to be seated. The above para
graph LAYS down the law. II single bolter
is seated, the BLAINE men will send their
own delegates to Chicago and defeat all the
Republican candidates for State offices next
November, Cook county having $4,000 Re-
publican voters. We enjoy the battle very
much.
In their determination to beat the combi-
nation between the BLAINE men and the
WAsHBURNE men in Illinois, the GRANTEES
have induced Mr.. WAsBBURNB to publish
the telegram which we print elsewhere say
| ing that he is not in favor Of that combna-
ton. But he is as powerless to control bis
Republican friends as Mr.. SEYMOUR is to
control bis Democratic friends. Here is the
answer to Mr.. WAsHBURNE's manifesto:
CHICAGO, May IA The Evening Journal
announces that the Portland dispatch, CIV
ing what purports to be declaration from
Mr.. Washburne, will have no effect here
whatever; that Mr.. WashburDe's friends un-
derstand his position to be that he does not
consent to be candidate against Grant. but
that they are resolved to push him for the
nomination to the very last.
This contest is highly interesting. The
Yri6une'S threats seem to prove that the
GRANT men may, honestly or corruptly,
have become strong enough to control the
State Convention. That paper says that over
100 delegates have been added to GRANTS
strength in that body by sending solid
GRANT delegations from the counties in
which GRANT has maiorities, whilst in the
counties in which BLAINE and WAsHBURNE
have majorities, the GRANT men have claimed
and been allowed their due proportion OF
the delegates. This fact proves that LOGAN
Is as INSCRIPTIONS as CAMERON or CoNK-
LING, and proves also that if GRANT gets a
majority of the delegates to the State Con.
vention, it will be by trickery and decep-
ton. Next Wednesday will tell the tale that
being the day for the meeting OF the Spring
field Convention.
In the mean time the following from the
Cincinnati Commercial will throw some
light on the subject:
CHICAGO, May 13.-Ninety-twO out OF the
l0l counties have now held their conven.
tions, and a careful review OF the figures,
giving Cook county her delegation as in
structed. and as it stands (Which has been
done in all other counties in making up this
summary Grant will be found to have 800
votes in the State Convention, Blaine 239,
and Washburne 103. If Grant gets all the
remaining votes but one (Which Of course
he will not do) be will have bare msiority
IN the Convention. If be fails in that, then
the anti.Grant combination will be in the
majority.
AS regards the boilers in Cook county, 1t
has transpired that three Of them have re-
fused to 20 to Springfield under existing
Both delegations held meet
ings to-day, but so far as known nothing
lranspired, and no compromise IS now
likely, as both are stubborn.