Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-06-02
The National Convention.
cAMERoN's PLANS AT CHICAGO.

cAMERoN's PLANS AT CHICAGO.
Of course Senator Cameron, when
he calls the convention together, will
be obliged to nominate for temporary
chairman whomsoever the national
committee selects; but it will be ar
ranged to have some leading Grant del
egate move to substitute the name of a
Grant man for the place. On that there
will have to be vote by the conven-
ton, and an attempt will be made to
enforce the unit rule when that vote IS
taken. Naturally some delegates from
Pennsylvania, New York and other.
States will insist on voting differently
from the majority of their delegations
from those States; but Senator Came
ron, who will decide that the unit rule
is binding upon all delegations repre-
senting States in which it was adopted,
IF the anti-Grant men appeal from this
decision and vote is taken upon the
appeal Senator Cameron will decide
again that the unit rule must be en-
forced in this vote also.
The Grant men have been talking
about this programme freely and as
sert, with the greatest apparent conf
dence, that by the help of Senator
Cameron and the unit rule they will
not only get temporary chairman,
but also that when it comes to the
choice of permanent chairman they
will secure him likewise by the same
kind of tactics.
A BLAINE PROGRAMME.
The situation here is unchanged
The Grant men are confident, the
Blaine men determined and the Sher-
man men are hopeful The leaders are
coming in, and when Conkling arrives
the men who will dictate the proceed
ings of the Convention will all be here.
The KEY to the situation lies in the
unit rule If that can be abolished
Grants nomination is doubtful. If it is
sustained his nomination is certain.
The fight over the unit rule will begin
in the national committee on Monday
next, when the temporary chairman
will be named. The Blaine and Sher-
man men will combine upon a man,
who being in the chair, will not decide
against the right of individuals to vote
as they please. Further than this there
will be no coalition. The Blaine men
propose to put up Gov Charles Foster,
of Ohio, for temporary chairman. He
is at heart Blaine man, but is work
ing for Sherman, and will please both.
Blaine has majority of the national
committee, but Don Cameron says he
can break it. Cameron says that the
Blaine men will be surprised when he
shows his hand, but to disinterested
spectator it looks as if Blaine and
Sherman together would have ten ma
jority.
The Blaine men made proposition
TO Sherman's managers tonight to
combine on all questions against
Grant, but it was refused. Sherman ex-
poets to get most of Grants votes when
he retires, and so he cannot afford to
antagonize him. The Sherman men
will vote with the Grant men on all
questions except that involving the unit
rule. The Blaine men will prepare the
way to elect temporary chairman by
contesting the forty-two Grant dele
gates from Illinois, and will insist that
the contested deleg ates shall not be al
lowed to vote. But the Sherman men
will not unite with them on this ques-
ton, and it is scarcely possible that
| the scheme can succeed.
HIS TOTAL CONCLUSION
WASHINGTON, May 26-An intimate
| friend of Senator Blaine represents
him as sanguine of success at Chicago.
He takes no stock in the stories that
the Grant men will seize the Conven-
ton as they seized the Illinois State
Convention. Indeed, he does not be-
lieve that they have strength sufficient
to carry through a single Independent
proposition that is. the third termers,
/ when the test votes are made, will
find themselves in the minority. As all
the State Conventions have been held,
Senator Blaine thinks he knows ex-
actly where he is to stand on the first
ballot. He counts upon 306 votes, or
only 73 less than required to nominate.
These he expects to get on the second
ballot, as he looks for the Grant forces
to fall to pieces after the first ballot
and their strength to scatter. 1t has
been said all along that unless Grant
was nominated on the first ballot he
would not be longer before the conven-
ton. In this view of the case Blaine's
nomination looks probable, and his
friends are very confident Blaine
claims 1S votes from Pennsylvania and
Is from New York on the first ballot.
These are incorporated in the estimate
given above. His friends say that he
knows just what he is talking about as
regards these two States, and that he
is positive of these 33 votes on the
first ballot. If this is correct it will
beat Grant beyond all question. Even
his friends cannot figure out his nomi-
nation if 33 votes are lost from New
York and Pennsylvania.
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