Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-31
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.

THE OhlCAuO COM hNTlON.
Tho City Delugsd with Politicians The
Desperate Expedients OF the Anti-Third
TsrmoTs-A War on Cameron. tho Unit
Rule and tho Bosses sherman Mon
Dicksripg with arant-The Forces OF
the Empire still Unbroken aud Full of
Confidence.
Special Dispatch to the Register.
CmCAGo, May 30.
The thickcning crowds at the hotels
nd the arising excitement throughout
he city marked the whole Of to-day.
hll day long the Palmer House and
Grand Pacific Hotel were filled with
men more or lcss wild and more or lesS
"a earnest, aud from these centres the
interest radiated To the edges Of the city,
leaving very lew individuals untouched.
A Deluge of Politicians
poured into the city yesterday and to-
lay. The most important events in this
lluc were the arrival oi the Maine del
rgatys, with their iriehds, numbering
.wu hundred, and the arrival of Roscoe
Conkhng aud his party OF New York
statesmen.
The Grant men adhere to their claim
IT a clear majority on the first ballot.
S-ss $3.50.
The chief oi the anti Grant parties
have met aud made definite agreement
Tor united fight against the unit rule
aud in favor ot district delegates. As
the unit rule cannot be enforced till II
~ adopted the anti.Grant men claim
that II will be defeated by large ma
Iority, aud that the anti-Grant contestlns
delegates will be admitted aud the third
term buried out q. sight
A Sherman Dioser.
Some Sherman men have been trying
a make an arrangement with the Grant
men ior the sale Oi the Sherman
vote to them. The consideration
hring the Vice Presidency Tor Cen.
Garfield, Goy. Foster, Dennlson or
John Shrrmau-Sherman to have the
preference ii hc will take it-but the
Grant men question the power OF the
ncgntialors to deliver the goods.
War on Cameron.
There is serious talk oi removing Don
Cameron from the chairnanshlp oi the
National Committee, at its meeting to-
morrow, the reason being his action and
that 1T the sub committee in charge oi
lac convention hall, IN arranging every
hing in the interest of the Grant boom
,nd also as to his probable ruling as
.hairman oi the National Convention
hat the unit rule must prevail when all
votes are taken. Gen. Gar
held and other prominent pol.
lticians recommend that Boss
Don be dropped temporarily, and that
the National Committee, which Is anti
,irant, appoint man Of their stripe To
call the convention to order.
A False Alarm.
Reports were in circulation during
his afternoon that the Grant men were
Weakening, anil that they had begun to
ralk of "A second choice, notably Ei'
munds, hut inquiry developed the Ia ct
that the spinal columns ol the more
prominent Grant men were as rigid ~
ever. and that they had made uPtheir
minds to hght it out to the bitter end.
Fishting the Bosses.
Their. will b. an "anti-Boss meeting,
81 called, at the base ball park to-m"r'
row evening, which will undoubtedly he
a biG success u,,,. p,..
The Grant men are not 10 be outdohe,
and thev hold mass meeting on grounds
Just opposite the other crowd Cons'
ling, Logan, Carpenter, aud other b'S
bosses will speak,
West virginiA soh' mers.
Oi the West Virginia delegation only
J. NJ lIagans, aud A, W. Campbell are
here. The rest are expected tomorrow,
Archie. IIagans aud Mason, the mem
bar OF the National Committee IRON
West Vinyiuia, aud lew friends spent
the holy Sabbath at their headquarters
in Potter PalmeT's tavern, talking poll
tics and scheming in quiet way.