Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-05-31
THE SITUATION TODAY.
GRANT, BLAINE AND SHERMAN.
CONFERENCE OF THEIR FRIENDS,
FAILURE TO AGREE.
IMPENDING TROUBLE
BEFORE THE BATTLE.
The Contestants at Chicago.

hotels this morning are almost impossible and
the police are required to preserve order.
Grant Losing Ground.
Some OF the real preliminary work begun to-
day. The national committee met and several
state delegations have also held meetings.
The raid against Grants nomination is begin
ming to show itself among the southern dele
gates, Who are piled with the declarations Of
leading republicans like Governor Foster and
General Garfield that Grant cannot carry Ohio.
In tie Texas delegation this morning six men
who have been counted for Grant,
Declared for Blaine.
Inc Florida delegation met at noon and
though for Grant, showed willingness to sup
port sherman.
Only Two Votes in New England.
A canvass Of the New England delegations
show but two votes, Boutwell, and Worden OF
Massachusetts, for Grant. Connecticut is solid
for Sherman or Edmunds. The Grant leaders
have
Virtually Abandoned the Unit Rule.
They say that they Will lose as much as they
would gain If they adhered to it. Some of the
Grant men in the New York delegation oppose
the rule Senator Conkling has agreed thar It
shall not be enforced in the preliminary organ-
zatlon OF the convention, which Blane's friends
claim as decided triumph.
Elaine stock sp.
There Is no longer any doubt that Blaine has
majority OF the national committee. Secreta-
ry keOgh admitted that to-day, and they will
therefore secure the temporary organization.
has rejected HOar. but may accept Harrison, OF
Indiana. The Blaine men still
Threaten to DepOse Cameron
II he does not pledge, in writing, his course Oh
opening the convention.
Cameron Has Been Sick
in bed for two days. Every effort is being made
10 n0ry the bitter feeling, for it is regarded as
dangerous for 1t TO manifest itself on opening
the COW Vent10n. TO this end an effort has been
made to abandon the Grant and anti-Grant
mass meetings called on the lake front this
evening.
Garfield and Foster decline to speak at the
anti meeting.
Conkling and Carpenter are announced at the
Grant meeting, which is called by 500 repub-
Leans CT this. city, and which promises to be
largely attended.
A Boston View.
Mr. Beard collector OF the port Of Boston,
thinks the method by which a national ticket
shah be selected by the convention will have
more to do with its strength before the people
the force rule is observed he believes that Ii
Will be difficult to elect even the most popular
men; whereas if the convention shall move On
harmOniOuSly the chances are that even the
most unpopular man can be elected.
Senator Carpenter on Instructions.
Senator Carpenter is against the Illinois con-
teStantS, and says that IL man is appointed
delegate AID commissioned by congressional
district he Is bound to obey the Instructions OF
that district, but If he Is elected by state con-
Vention and gets his credentials from state con-
Vent1On he must obey the mandates or that
eouy. The minority Is always practically dis
franchised in government like our own and the
unit rule is nothing more than the enforcement
OF the rules OF the majority.
What ex-Treasurer New Says.
John c. New says Grants forces In Chicago
are magn1flcently organized. Their discipline Is
perfect, and their confidence sublime. They rely
Oh the inability OF their opponents to combine
and predict that by tomorrow evening they
Will be knifing each other.
Tx,un
On the other hand Frye and Hale say Grant
VIII fail on the first ballot, and that they Will
gain thereafter.
Present Indications.
A revision of the count, at noon to-day, gives
Grant, Oh the first ballot, 325; Blaine 215; Sher-
man lO2 the rest scattering. The Grant men
claim 405 Oh first ballot; necessary to choice
SO
"Being Dead Yet Spcakesh."
Jessie Spalding, who spent the last moments
with Zach Chandler. publishes card to-day,
saying that about the last words OF the latter
were tor Grants nomination.
Three Southern States for Grant,
General Wickham and all the Virginia men
who are here agree that Grant can carry that
state, and they add that those who have con-
Versed Win virginia democrats say that they
concede IL. The same assertions are made by
delegates from South Carolina and Florida.
What Senator Csmkling Thinks.
In an interview today Mr.. COnkling says:
MY Judgment to-day Is clearer than ever that
VI all tne C1nQlQaUeS zen. Grant Is the STRONGEST
man that can be nominated. With reference
TO the state OF New York. don't think any
Candidate even II chosen from our own state
cOuld pOil more votes there than he. His pop
ularlty is unbounded, and although desperate
effort has been made, by methods not entirely
leg1tlmate, to prevent his receiving the vote OF
The New York delegation, he is to-day the man
that the republicans OF New York want for
President. He can carry that state against any
candidate that the democrats can nominate,
nave heard these reports of defectionSn said
the Senator, "but do not believe that any In
tell1gent citizen of my state would be sincere tn
denying what have said"
Gov Cornell Oh the Situation.
Senator Conkling here pulled from his pocket
letter he had just received from Gov Cornell
OF New York, Which read as follows: at seems
almost certain that the result of the next preS
ldential election will be determined by the vote
OF the state of New York; hence, it is my firm
conviction that Gen. Grant is by all odds the
most available candidate to insure success He
Will be stronger In the state by many thousand
votes than any other possible candidate"
A Raid Oh Window.
some opponents of Window, who fear him as
a dark horst, are circulating document that he
favored reputation in Minnesota.
john Russell Young, an earnest Grant worker
stated 10 your correspondent this afternoon
that while he did not think Grant had lost hr
had not gained anything since Saturday.
G. w. A.
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