Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-28
CONKLING'S COLLAR.
1t Is Worm CheerfwIiy by the Entire NetU
York Delegation to ChicGgo-A Undni
fnOns Vote to be Cast for Grant.

1t Is Worm Cheerfmliy By the Entire NetU
York Delegation to ChicGgo-A Unani
nous VOte to be Cast for Grant.
New York Special. April 24.]
Some weeks ago it was claimed at the Blaine
headquarters in Washington that the Senator
from Maine could count upon receiving at least
fifteen votes from the New York delegation,
which is pledged to support Gen. Grant at Chi
cago. The report was received with general
incredibility here, but the parties who are most
active in managing Gen. Grants campaign
thought it worth while to set Inquiries on foot
to ascertain the present feelings and intentions
of the delegation. The investigation has been
made, and the results reached justify the as
sertion that there is not the slightest reason to
doubt that Grant will receive the united vote
of the New York delegation, for the first three
ballots at least, and that with one or possibly
two exceptions he will receive their undivided
support as long as his name is kept before the
convention as a candidate. OF the seventy del
egates elected at Utica, twelve were originally
Blaine men; all the rest were simon-pure disci-
pies of Conkling and hence reliable and un-
failing workers of his will in the matter of
supporting the ex President. Within the past
fortnight all the original Blaine delegates have
repledged themselves to carry out the Utica in
structiOns. Their committal to this course is de-
cisive, and in the main perfectly satisfactory to
the Grant managers. Senator Schroeder says he
consideres himself in duty bound to vote with
the majority of the delegation. Judge Robert
son, of the Twelfth assembly district. says that
although he was not personally pledged at
Utica to support Grant, he consideres his ST.
lent acceptance of place on the delegation
under the instructions imposed as equivalent
to pledge, and he will start in by supporting
Grant. Hustled and Woodin distinctly pledged
their word to vote with the delegation, and say
it is ridiculous to suppose they would be false
to their word, although their districts original
ly instructed them to vote for Blaine. Robert
son, Hustled and Woodin make their living out
of politics, and even if they felt inclined to act
independently of the instructions of the con-
vention it is not likely they would care to op-
pose themselves at the onset to the will of the
majority, and thus destroy the unanimity of
the delegation. Delegate Stivers, Wales, Dick
inson, James, Murray, Allen, and Sessions
have also reafirmed in the most positive man
ner, their intention to stand by the instruc-
tions. The doubtful sheep In the flock seems
to be Albert Daggett of the Third district, who
happened to be absent from the convention
when the Chicago delegates were pledged, and
who few days after asserted that he would
not vote for Grant under any circumstances.
It is understood that he has so far reconsidered
this resolution as to consent to vote
for Grant on the first ballot, but he
CONSIDERS tlaG thereafter ne is at liberty vote
for Blaine, according to the expressed prefer
ence of the district he represents. The fact is
these men, excepting Daggett, made haste in
the convention to accept the decision of the
majority, under the belief that if they did not
do so they would Immediately be voted off the
delegation. Having thus committed themselves
they don't intend to perpetrate political hari-
kari by going back on their word and incur
ring the eternal enmity of the machine mau-
ayers in the State. How long the delegation
will hang together on Grant cannot be stated
now, but the Grant managers profess to believe
that with the exception of Daggett and prob
ably of Sessions, the delegation will support
Grant as unit as long as he is a candidate,
and of course, claim that he will be nominated
on the first ballot.
Gen. Woodford, Chester A. Arthur and other
prominent propellers of the Grant boom, pro-
fess to have great contempt for the anti |
Grant movement in this State. They deny
that it is making any dangerous Roadway
among the people, and think that so long as its
only standard bearers are political theorists and
ambitious but vealy young men like the indie
pendent scratchers. it won't attract many de
serters. They call attention to the fact that
the anti-Grant conclave which met in Albany
this week attracted very little attention.