New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30
AN ANTI-GRANT IPr SING.
THE GRANT MANAGERS TRYING TO DELUDE pELE-
GATEs-THE OPPOSITION To THIRD TERM
ALMOST RWHEIMING-sIGNIFICAN ANT FACTS.
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THE GRANT MANAGERS TRYING TO DELUDE pELE-
GATEs-TnE OPPOSITION To THIRD TERM
ALMOST NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FACTS.
lBY TELEGRAPH To THE TmBuSE.l
CHICAGO. May 29.-If the figures made by the
Grant managers are accepted. the cx-Presldcnt will
be nominated on the first ballot. Senator Don Cam
eron made up an estimate yesterday. which he ex-
hibted privately 10 somo of the leading Grant dele
gates who have already arrived in Chicago. and
cording 20 which General Grant will receive 403
votes on the first ballot if the unit rule is broken
and 433 IL il is enforced. The Hon. L. p Norton
who examined the table, says that it looked to him
like a conservative eBtimate, and he had no doubt
that Mr. Cameron honestly expected 1t TO be justified
by the vote of the Convention. In Mr. Cameron's
table he puts down ten ant-Grant votes from each
of the States OF New-York and Pennsylvania
Illinois is claimed as solid for Grant, but New
Jersey is conceded to Blaine. The votes OF the
Southern States Mr. Cameron expects to get pretty
solidly for the ex-President.
The third-term managers have a single advantage
over tho friends Of other candidates in tho lead
which General Grant is conceded to have over Mr.
Blaine and Secretary Sherman at tho start. That
lead may not be very great but the simple fact that
the ex-President will probably have moro votes
than else on the first ballot and that no one
knows just how many more he will have, enables
and influence some of the men whose minds are not
fully made up, but whO in the end desire to be on
the winning side. If the third-term managers
could make the delegates, as they arrive, believe
that General Grant is certain to be nominated on
the first ballot. they would probably succeed in
forcing him upon the party. To inspire such 6o-
lief in the minds of men who can be influenced Is
tho task that Senator Cameron and his associates
have set for themselves, and to tho accomplishment
Of which they are now bending all their energies
The one thing moro than any other that is weak
enlnR the Grant movement among the delegates
who have already arrived in Chicago is the growing
fear that the ex-Prosident cannot be elected. The
promnent tbird-term leaders very generally refuse
to discuss this danger: or to admit it. They say
that the opposition to Standardization was equally
great in 1872, and that during the first two months
after his denomination at Philadelphia many of the
hest politicians in the Republican party really
feared that he wOuld be beaten at the polls. so
strong did the drift Of sentiment against him
seem to be. After that there came reactions the
great mass of the Republican voters walked up to
the danger that threatened the party, and they
elected him by an overwhelming majority. Just so
it will be now say the Grant leaders. There may
be at fret some dissatisfaction. but 1t will not
amount to much, and when the people wake mp to
the importance of the election they will rally to
Grants support with hOIo ehIhu9l"9H Vh@u ""0J
did in 1872.
But this kind Of talk does not satisfy those who
have not staked their entire political fortunes on the
auccess of the third-term movement. Men who came
to Chicago inclined to support Grant staggered
by what they see and hear. The opposition 70 the
nomination Of the exPresdent In this city aud State
is of such proportions that 1t cannot be ignored 1t
not only makes Illinois O doubtful State should
Grant be nominated, but with popular opposition
candidate in the field 1t makes IL almost certain to
be Democratic. A member of tho Chicago Ex-
change told TRIBUNE correspondent, to-day that
n 200 Republcan members Of that organization
should be selected by lot, not moro than fifty Of
them would be Grant men, and at least 100 would
declare their intention not to vote for Grant If he
should be nominated. A practising attorney said
that he lived in short street in this city
in which there we're about forty voters,
nearly all RtDGS.:esss. and that ten Of the