Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-06-18
OUR sPEoIALTELEaRAM.

\ Large Crowd Already on tho Ground
Toe Interest Dsepeaing Evory Hour
TIldsu will surely Come before the
Convention Thurman Men Rolling up
their S,ssvss-kyoryono Confident OF
Suoeoss
pO,lA Dispatch 10 the Register,
CISCiSSArI. June ~,
Notwithstanding mat IL Is hvc days
ut until the assembling ot the Demo
ratio National Convention In this city,
4, ,arvo number of those who are inter
sIed in iIs proceedings are already on
he grounds. No ~ many, perhaps, as
yere la Chicago Ave days prior to the
ieeting Of the Republican Convention,
nut that IL accounted Tor on the
-nund that there ~ no such bitter
w ot faction in the Democratic ranks
Q ragged In tie opposition. The pre- -
,he country is already fully represent
her, 8 ,yeral hundred members hi'-
,ng alrsa ly reported themse.v .ves at head
Iuarters Provisions will be- made tnr
~ hundred aud fifty daily papers and
he thousand weekly papers will have to
IKE their chances. Delegates and those
,ho shape the work ot the convention
nme in rather slosly.
What Secretary Prince Thinks.
MIR Barnum, Chairman oi the National
Committee, will not arrive until to-mor
~ night Prince, the Secretary, Is on
,and, as 10 several Of the members. l
'aught Prince at the Grand Hotel at
upper. lie says Tilden is a candidate
,ut that he cannot he nominated, thinks
,rymour will not accept the nomination
,nd Is iayorably impressed with Jeweu's
,yailabiliIies.
TiIden VIII Massthe Contest.
John q. Priest, member ui the Ma
ioual Committee from Missouri, arrived
o.night tie recently had con
terence with Tilden aud says
- Is a candidate; that he
10 in good condition physically, and
Soud likely live to serve two terms II
elected.
The Buckeye Boys
Thurman will reach Columbus to
morrow morning, and in the afternoon
vi have q conference With tho Ohio
delegation. lie Is a candidate In earn
est. and both he aud his friends believe
he would rather carry Ohio in October
A. Garfield reduced Fosters majority oi
last year, and that in November he
would sweep the country, The Colum.
nus Democrats will come down
IN force on Saturday afternoon to
sork Tor Thurman. The OHIO delegates
Sill be given a reception at Clifton by
leading Uincinnstians Saturday night.
The situation.
As il looks tonight, may be summed az
a. follows. nlden is "a candidate In dead
earnest on the 'raud issue, aud Henry
q Payne, Of Ohio, is his choice Tor Nlce
President. The objection urged is that
nLlen cannot carry New York, having
lost il b, thirty thousand last year when
the prestige Of success vas with him. IL
.o. how can he he expected to carry Il
this year with the wet blanket OF
that defeat about him' Field Is a
candidate also, and promises to be a Ia
yorable one, but he is objected 70 on sc-
count Of his Chinese record, his Pacific
rsilruad decision and his recent political
d,cision. With him IL Is argued the
party would be liable to the charge that
IL intends To mar all the war aud recon-
structiou legislation and reyoluIiOnlse
and bourbOni1e The country,
Thurman is a candidate, and the OBJ
lection to him is that he cannot carry
Ohio over Garfield, and that a dsmper
would then BE- put upon his campaign.
Bayard is q candidate and 10 champI-
onsd by the Wsrid. August Beiuont
and other oi nldsns sasniss say be