The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1880-04-22
HOW THE SCOPE STANDS.

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OF the 756 delegates who will eonsti-
tute the Republican National COnven.
ton at Chicago, 3A have already been
chosen. They are distributed over all
sections of the country, from Maine to
Texas and from North Carolina to
Arizona. These delegates may be
divided into two classes. In one class
We place those instructed to vote for
particular candidate, and in the other
those who, though not directly ihstrlic-
ted, have made known their prefer
ence for President. Pennsylvania with
SO votes, New York with 20, Texas
with IL, Missouri with 80, Kentucky
with2 and Arizona Territory with =,
have instructed their delegates to vote
for Gen. Grant. This gives him 40
instructed votes. Mr.. Blaine ranks
next, 4S instructed votes, of which
Maine furnishes II. Kansas lG, Iowa
% and Washington Territory 3. Mr..
Edmunds pushes Mr.. Blaine hard thus
far, having received CONSTRUCTED votes
from Vermont, 26 from Massachusetts,,
and from Connecticut, making A in
all. Mr.. Sherman has been Less for
tunate, having only secured q instruct
ed votes from North Caroliua and 2
from Indiana, or 10 In all.
Thus 1t appears that 302 of the 3A
delegates already chosen have been
positively instructed, and Of these 900
are instructed for Grant, a for Blaine,
A for EdmuIds, aud 10 for Sherman.
The ~ delegates are distributed among
the candidates, according to their in
dividual preferences, as follows: Grant
will receive 10 and Blaine Is Of the 80
votes of Indiana; Blaine will receive
and Edmunds Of the SvOtes of Rhode
Island; Blaine will receive 4 and
Washburne 4 of the l. votes ofC0n-
necticut; Grant will receive ! and
Blaine Of the two votes IF the. Dis
trict of Columbia. Adding these fig
ures to those given above, we find that
Grant has 2ll, Blaine %, Edmunds ~,
Sherman 10, and Washburne 1 Of the
344 delegates already chn1en,
1t will take 80 votes to nominate at
Chicago, Grant will need but l6s OF
the 4l2 yet to be chosen In order to
have majority, while Blaine will
need 304, Ednunds 335, and Sherman
402. Ii il easy enough to see where
twice the number of votes will come
from, but the brightest arithmetic man
in the business cannot figure out half
the number for Blaine that he needs.
The other candidates menti0nedIare,a as
matter of course, wholly out OF the
race, Grant will receive " votes from
Virginia and % from Georgia next
Wednesday; week later he will re-
ceive II from South Carolina and II
from Arkansas. This will reduce the
complement necessary to give him the
nomination to 50 before the first of
May. In the first half Of that month
he win receive the p votes of Ten
nessee, the l6 of Mississippi, the Is Of
Maryland, the s of Florida, the AZ of
Illinois, the Is of New Jersey, the
of Nevada, and the 10 of West Virgin
in. These aggregate 40 more votes,
making q total for Grant OF AL, or ~
more than enough to nominate. In
making this calculation, we have pur-
pOsely omitted Wisconsin, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Oregon, not
because they will elect anti-Grant
delegations, but because they are claim
ed by the Blaine men. We have no
nesitancy in expressing the belief that
at the lowest calculation fully One-half
the votes from these United States will
be cast for the ex-President at Chicago.
1t is safe to say that before June Gen.
Grant will be sure of not less than 475
votes on the first ballot. In the face
of this certainty it would be idle to
speculate upon the strength or weak
ness of any other candidate. Certain
it is that Mr.. Blaine can not under any
circumstances receive more than 30
votes. The probability now is that he
will not receive $50 Gen. Grant has
twice been nominated by reclamation,
for the Presidency, and no one need be
In the least surprised to see the per-
Torrance repeated y third tin,e ut
Chicago. Neither Mr.. Blaine nor Mr..
Sherman will care to go before the
Convention with certain and over
whelming defeat staring him IN the
face