New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-28
GATHERING AT CHICAGO.
A MEMORABLE CONTEST AT HAND.

A MEMORABLE CONTEST AT HAND.
TIE SUPPORTERS OF THE ANTI-THiRD-TERM CANDi-
DATES MAKING COMMON CAUSE TO SECURE FAih
pIAY-GREAT ENERGY DISPLAYED ON ALL SIDES.
The HEADQUARTERS of the leading candi-
dates in Chicago are busy with prepara-
ions for the Convention. Several cOlOred
delegates have arrived. Public senti-
ment in Chicago is strongly against the
tb;rd.term movement, and suspicious of
foul play are freely expressed. The support
ers of the anti-third-term candidates are grad
ualy uniting. Ex-Governor DennisOn, OF
Ohio, says Grant will not be nominated.
THE GENERAL ASPECT AT CHICAGO.
THE LEADING MANAGERS HARD AT woRK-A LARGE
CROWD AT THE SHERMAN HEADQUARTERs-THE
BLAINE MEN SHOWING GREAT ENERGY.
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
CHICAGO. Nav 27.-The rOtundas of the Grand
Pacific Hotel and Palmer House begin to wear
convention look. This evening OF course only
few of the delegates have yet arrived, Out every
train brings two or three and the managers 1or INC
leading Presidential candidates are on hand at
their several headquarters consulting in regard 10
the contest which is now opening, ana re-
ceiying their friends as they arrive. Inc
Blaine and Sherman managers are at the Granu
Poci6c Hotel. where each have suite of rooms on
the Palmer House as their headquarters anu tne
National Committee has rooms there
The Grant men do not seem to care to talk mucn
for The ne ewspapers. They still continue to " claim
everything and to assert with vehement posi-
tiyeness that their candidate will receive more
than 400 votes on the first ballot and VIII De
nominated at the same time. The free expressions
of indignant feeling over the proceedings OF
the Springfield Convention dlsplease them
and make them feel anything but at
+ba;r ease Some of the Illinois Grant
managers denounce those who were active III ar
ranging for and organizing the meeting of last
night as chronic grumblers-men whose loyalty to
the party has always been doubtful, and
some of whom went into the Liberal Republican
movement in 1872 IF the Convention listens to
those men, said one of the stalwart third-termers
to-day, the Republican party might as well shut
nm shop at once. They never satisfied unless
thew have their own way, and If they cannot
rule in the Republican party, they Will not hesitate
to help the Democrats" This kind of talk and the
tone of it show that the Grant people are worried
The largest crowds are gathered Tonight at tie
Sherman headquarters, where Governor Foster
and Ex-Governor Dennison, OF Ohio, have
quite levee. Governor Dennison thinks
that tho anti-Grant sentiment has been growing
during the last day or two. In the City of Chicago
IL appears to be simply overwhelming. Governor
Dennson says that many merchants and business
men of the city, who have called upon
him to-day, describe the opposition to a
third term here as almost universal. Under
these circumstances. Chicago. which was selected
as the city likely to be most favorable TO the ex-
President, becomes the worst possible place in
which to secure his nomination.. The Grant man-
ayers would tonight undoubtedly prefer TO
have the Convention meet anywhere else than
wBAT EX-GOVERNOR DENNIsON SAYS
Ex-Governor Dennison, who takes very judicial
view OF the situation, does not think that Grant
can possibly be nominated. Giving him all the
chances and according to him all the doubtful
votes that his friends claim, the Governor thinks
he NAV secure 324 on the first ballot. On the
second ballot he may get $50 354, and the latter
s the largest vote that Governor Dennson thinks 1t
possible for him to get unes5 one OF the candidates
should be withdra wD II MS favor. When Grants vote
has reached its maximum The Governor thinks that
that fact viii be perceived by the Convention, and
the delegates who are not very strongly bound to
him will then begin to fall on, and to distribute
themselves among the other ca canhIditet hiu g.
gain and being more cceptable to majority OF
the Grant men than Senator Blaine, will finally be
nominated
ANTI-THIRD-TERMERs UNITING.
Mr.. Shermans friends recognize the necessity of
cooperating with those Of Messrs. Blaine and Wash
burne in order to prevent the third-term
managers from capturing the organiZa-
tion of the Convention and riding rough
shod over their opponents General Logan
and his followers did over their opponents at
Springfield. There will be no misunderstanding
among the Anti Grant men as to the prelm-
inaries. The Sherman and Blaine men
will undoubtedly aereo upon candidates for tenn
porary and permanent chairmen, and in resistngany
attempt to gain an advantage for Grant
through unfair rulings or violations ioi
the precedents of Republican conventions. Indeed
it is thought by some that the Indignation ovel
the Springfield performance which seems tC
be growing, and the universal distrust with
which every move of the Grant managers will u,
the time the convention meets that Senator Cam
eron and his associates will be almost powerless
The advance guard of the New-YOrk dele
CATION arrived tonight. Among them were
General Chester A. Arthur, ex-Mnister Pierrepont
James d. Warren, of Buffalo, Police Commissioner
French and John +. Smyth.
THE DIN OF PREPARATION.
Suspicious THAT THE CONVENTION HALL is Tc
BE PACKED WITH GRANT MoB-COLOREp