Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-10
cincinnati Enquirer, May T.

ventlOn good deal depends on the stanu-pOlnb
that one takes Tonight every one of the fac
tions affect to feel that it has been victory
for their individual candidates. The Thurman
men point to the instructions and the unit rule
adopted by the convention, and call it VIC
tory. The Jewett men say Of these that they
were willing to have Thurman instructed for,
as Jewett will not antagonize Thurman in his
candidacy. and will only seek to get support in
the event that Thurman can not be nominated;
and that the unit rule is favorable to them, in
asmuch as it will keep the vote of Ohio
together for Jewett after Thurman is out of
the race, and when Jewett looms up as a can
didate. As for the Tilden men, they also affect
to feel that the instructions and the unit rule
are in their favor, it makes Thurman the
only Ohio candidate, and when he is defeated
leaves the way open to them. This much
for the manner in which the different factions
appear to feel.
THE REAL FACT OF TIE MATTER
is that the result of the convention may be set
down as black eye of the very darkest hue for
Senator Thurman. In the first place, the reso-
lutions sdopted-wbile on their face they may
appear entirely favorable to bim-are not so,
and they are not what his immediate friends
wanted. To prove this, little of the inside
history of how they were got will suffice. AS
they stand as adopted by the convention, they
are the work of Judge Bingham, who has acted
throughout as Thurmans personal friend and
confidential agent. They were drafted yester
day, and submitted to two or three of Thur
mans friends, among others General Durbin
Ward and were approved. Plans were then
laid to have them adopted by the committee
on resolutions to-day, and they We're given to
Ward to introduce into the committee. The
whole matter had been carefully planned. 1t
hads been fixed that Durbin should be on the
committee, and that the roll Of the COM
mittee should be called by districts for the
presentation of resolutions. As the First and
Second districts were for Tilden, it was arrapg-
ed, as Ward was from the next district, he
should introduce this set of resolutions. In
the meantime, however, Bingham had either
changed his mind or received other instructions
from Thurman, for he had gone to work on
ANOTHER SET OF RESOLUTIONS
and when the districts we're called afterward
he presented the approved resolutions. When
it came to the call of the Twelfth district,
Bingham presented an iron-clad set, modelled
from;the Pendleton resolutions of 1868. These
not only Instructed the delegates at large to
vote for Thurman, but also instructed the
district delegates TO do the same, and bound
the entire delegation to vote as unit, but
only for Thurman, leaving them to act as they
pleased in the event of his being put out of the
race There was a fight ON the other side i'm
mediately. Judge Meuser, of Craw-
ford, opposed them as being undemocratic
and wrong in principle, and announced his de-
termination of opposing them in the conven-
toon if they were submitted to it. Others ia
vored them, among these being J. l.. Vance, OF
Gallia; Milton Southland, of Muskingum, and
Bingham. Ward did not offer very active
opposition to them; but finally all the resolu.
tions introduced were referred to sub-con.
mittee for consideration. Three of the i've of
which this committee was composed favored
the resolutions, but they were evidently afraid
that any opposition to them in the convention
would be disastrous, and hence they reported
adversely to them and IN favor of the original
set, instructing the delegates at large and re-
questlng the district delegates 10 vote fol
Thurman, and adopting the unit rule without
any restrictions to candidate. These latter
were adopted, and were the ones which were
presented to the convention and adopted by
them. So much for the resolutions; now
AS TO THE DELEGATES SELECTED.
Last night, as telegraphed the Enquirer, the
Thurman men came to the conclusion that Til
denis friends were strong element, and were
laying their plans to capture the Ohio delega
tion at Cincinnati through the medium of
the delegates selected here. They accordingly
sought about for timber for delegates that were
straight Thurman and had no leaning toward
Tilden. They made up the slate, consisting Of
Generals Rice and Warner, Frank Mckinney
and John Follett-all staunch Thurman men
and these were represented to the convention
to-day, and every one defeated. As to the
ticket which was selected, it speaks for itself
Ward is the only Thurman man on it, and he
was put there through policy, because it was
felt that he was invincible. As delegate said
to me tonight "a staunoh Thurman man, too)
s'Wsrd could not have been beaten, because OF
the feeling among Democrats that he
deserved some recognition fol
his services, and here was
position into which he could be put without
harming any one" Wade is well known as
strong Payne man. The Cuyahoga delega-
tion, instructed for Payne, were also instruct
ed to use every effort to have him elected as Q
delegate, and then succeeded. Steedman is q
Fhurman-Payne man. He said in his paper
some time ago. and repeated the statement
afterwards in an interview at Toledo with your
CORES pondent that he felt Thurman could moi
be nominated. To-day he said in his speech
to the convention that after Thurman was out
of the race he would be for an Ohio man. The
last of the four, John McSweeny, while sup.
porter of Thurman. is for Tilden or Payne for
second cholce-Tilden, if he is in the race and
| Payne if he is not.
THE TICKET ELECTED is THE SLATE
made up last night by the Tilden-Payne com
bination, of which your dispatches spoke. Al
half-past O. clock this morning the dispatch
was sent to the Enquirer statidg that
this combination had slate made up,
consisting of Wade, Mes Seeny, Steed-
| man and Banning. At that hour Ban
| ning's name was on the slate, but it was with
drawn shortly afterward as he refused to be a
| candidate The slate was held open until
o'clock this morning for General Rice, whose
name would have been placed on it if he had
| only consented to concessions to the combina
| tion. He stood, however, for Thurman first,
| last and all the time; and at the last moment,
| by master stroke of policy the name of Ward
was put on to ELL The vacancy. This ticket ii
| is which was elected to-day. To show the ele
| ments which composed the combination it
need only be said that it was organized by Alex
Long, Billy Armstrong and Bill Bishop,
AN UNHoLY ALLIANCE
whose coalition against Thurman could hardly
have been anticipated. Thurman's friend:
knew of it, however, but only got an inkline
of it too late to. do any good. At half
past three o'clock this mornin, John G.
Thompson called one of the supposed movers
in it aside and asked for information. A direct
answer was evaded, when Thompson said. pet
tishly: 81 amt no d-n fool. Do you think
can't see that game is going on?" He failed
however, to find out what he wanted. The
combination was