New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-07
READY FOR BALLOTING.

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READY FOR BALLOTING.
he LATEST ESTIMATES OF THE STRENGTH OF THE
c.sD,DITFs IN THE cONvENTiON-BLAINE
STEADILY GAINING-THE GRANT FACTION DE-
PKTssEp-TIIE RUMoRS REGARDING ANTT-BlA1NE
COMBINATIONS.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBuNE.l
CHICAGO, June Cit has frequently been re-
marked to-day that the only way in which Blame
can be beaten is by uniting the bulk OF the Grant
and Sherman votes either on one OF the two caudl-
dates whose friends would join in the alliance or
in support of some outside man. For instance, If
the Sherman men could be induced to 90 to the
Grant men in great numbers, the ex-President
might he put in tho way of securing the
nomination; and. on the other hand. if
the Grant leaders could transfer their votes
to Sherman, the latter might be successful
Both of these conditions are impossible to be
realized. The Sherman men diSclaim all intention
of deserting their candidate under any eircum-
stances and if they did a large proportion of
them would choose Blaine rather than Grant. In
decd so strongly do some of them feel on the sub
iect that if during the ballOting it should appear
that there was danger of Grants nomination, they
would hasten to transfer their votes from
Sherman to Blaine In order to defeat the
third-term candidate. The transfer OF the
bulk of the Grant votes to Sherman seems equally
improbable Beginning with New-YOrk, for instance,
:he leaders of the delegation from that State could
never with any consistency support tho Secretary of
the Treasury Senator COnkling spoke of him i'll the
speech in which he presented General Grants
name last night in a very insulting way and next
to Senator Conkling one of the most influential
men on the delegation is General G.. A..
Author whom Secretary Sherman removed
from the COectOrship of the part Of
New-YorL The Grant and Sherman elements arc so
antagonistc that there seems to be no more possi-
blity of their uniting in the support of the SeCIe-
tary of the Treasury than for oil and water to mix
To unite tho forces in the support of any third
candidate seems also impossible. There are so many
men now marching under the banners of each who
would prefer Blaine to any one whose name has
been suggested. that when the present forces of
either break up the Senator from Maine seems likely
toproft more by the dissolution than any one else.
There has been an interesting rumor afiOat about
the hotel corridors this evening which is only i'm
nortant because it shows the Generalization in the
Grant camp. 1t NAV or it may not have grain of
truth for its foundation; it is probably based chiefly
on conjecture The story is that Senator COnkling,
having become convinced that the nomination of
Grant is mposs BILE. Is meditating coup detat by
bringing over the solid delegation of New-YOrk to
Blaine's support and Thus, by actually making the
nOmludtlOn, securing OWL pOSitiOH dHu III
iluemce in Blaine's administration and to this it
is added that Senator Don Cameron is mcditating
the same thing, and for similar purpose, and that
the two Grant Senators suspect each other of
thing of this kind, and are keeping aOof from each
other single sentence in Senator Conklngs
speech last night in which he referred to the Blame
and Sherman men IN the New-York delegation as
tramps jay-hawkers aud guerillas " was sufli-
cient to set at rest the first part of this rumOr At
the same time there Ia very good reason to believe
that Mr.. Conkling would be less di pleased with
the nomination of Blame than with that
of any one Of the other candidates if Grant
Is defeated. His enmity to Blaine, if it exists
at all, had its origin so long ago that with
nothing recent to give it new life it must become
more of a tradition than living fact In truth il
is we'll known thatin 1876 Mr.. COnklinG instructed
Ex-Governor WoodfOrd to move to make Mr. Blaines
nomination unanimous If he succeeded in getting a
majority of the votes Of the Convention. While,
therefore, the Senator from New-York cannot be
expected to take his delegation to Blaine. 1t IS
moraly certain that there are many other things
that might happen which would dispease him
much more than Mr.. Blaines nomination.
cAMERoN's RELATIONS WITH BLAINE.
The second part of the story has about it many
more of the elements of probability. Senator Cam
eron, from the opening Of the contest that pre-
ceded the National Convention, has repeatcdly as
serted that MIR. Blaine was his second choice,
and that If General Grant should for any
reason be withdrawn, or if his nomination
should turn out to be impossible, he
(Cameron) should vote and use his influence for
Senator Blaine's nomination. There IS not and never
has been any enmity between Senators Blaine and
Cameron. Socially they and their families are firm
friends Senator Camerons judgment in 1875. after
Governor Hartranfts nomination was out of
the question: was that the vote Of Penn
sylyania ought to be cast for Blaine,
and it would have been so thrown
but for the refusal Of other leaders of the delegation
TO agree to it. Now Mr. Cameron has far more rea-
son than lie had in 1876 to carry Pennsylvania over
TO Blaiue. Then the State had o candidate Of its
own whom the delegates felt In honor bound to
staud by and the popular sentiment in tho Republi-
can party of the State in Blaine's favor wos
not as strong as it 10 now. If Senator Cameron
ebould cast tho solid vote of Pennsvlvania
Tor the Maine Senator it would effect his nomina-
ton. The keystone State would then resume its
place of influence in the party which it held 50
long, and which it threw away at Cincinnati in
1876. The people of the State would be gratified
and Senator Cameron. who, unless he adopts some
such course as this, will have desperate fight to
retain his supremacy in the Republican party Of
the State would, by placing himself in accord with
the masses make hls position Of leader an imDreg-
nable one. While, therefore. there Is no authority
on which TO baee belief that Senator Cameron