The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-06-05
A LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
CONVENTION NoTEs-KIGHTY THOUSAND WIS.,
TORS IN THE cITY-BITTRRSEss OF FELL
ING AMONG CANDIDATES.

CONVENTION NoTEs-ElGHTY THOUSAND Wis
IToRs IN THE CITY--BITTRRSEss OF FELL
ING AMONG CANDIDATES.
CHICAGO, Ills, June Sd, 1880.
Friend Burnett:
The Republican convention met yes.er-
day. and about one o'clock p. n, perfected
a temporary organization, with Hoar,
Blaine man, q. temporary chairman, and
then adjourned.
The city has put on holiday appear
ance. Flags and streamers float from every
hotel and at nearly every street-crossing,
and the jam of human beings is simply
fearful, unparalleled. Besides the fifty
thousand citizens that crowd about the ho-
tells and the headquarters Of the different
delegations, there are, II is estimated, not
less than eighty thousand strangers here.
The streets, for dozen blocks, in every d.
reciion, taking the Palmer house as a cen.
ter, are so crowded with surging masses,
liiat Ht 10 d DOIi IIIu !uuttu WIZ essays a
passage through them. Every hotel is
crowded, and the street cars are constantly
packed with those who are seeking or have
secured, TODD and shelter IN the suburbs.
And need not add, (this being Republi-
can convention), that the saloon keepers are
reaping rich harvest From the fashion
able bar-room, with lis two thousand dol
lar fittings, to tie low, under ground beer
hole, the sounds of clinking glasses and
mingled voices, greet the ear OF the pass
ers-by, from sun rise TO midnight and
from that hour until daylight, the bawdy
houses-a thousand in number, apparently
give out the sounds Of revelry continu-
ously. For verify, Chicago is Just at
this time, lively city; and not less than
5000 Of the strangers who are now con-
tributing SO literally TO the support Of its
hotels, dives. dens and brothes, will be
here, week hence, fiat broke" awaiting
remittances to enable them to get home 1t
is safe to calculate that at least a thousand
of these will excuse their applications for
help, by the plea that sudden sickness"
has fallen upon them, and that sickness, in
Chicago, costs enormously.
At this writing the indications are that
Grant will not be nominated. The revolt
in the New York, Pennsylvania and vlr.
ginia delegations seems to render his de-
feat fixed fact" and one
that Democrats deplore sincerely,
The snti,Grant pressure here, is ire.
mendous, and must have its effect; but
Grants losses cannot, by any means, be
considered Blaine gains The bitterness of
feeling between the two factions will lead
to concentration of the Grant strength on
some other man, in the event the nomina.
ton of Grant is found impossible, and,
possibly, nay certainly, compass Blaine's
defeat. Information in this particular,
however, you will receive by telegraph be-
fore this studied and elegantly contracted
epistle reaches you. The Democrats Of
Cairo and elsewhere, "builded better than
they knew" for the Republican party,when,
by making toadying asses Of themselves
they "hurrahed for Grant" and thus, by
creating a distrust Of his stslwartism,
weakened his strength among the stawarts
Of his party everywhere,
Fred Grant is q consummato and uncon-
scionable ass. His personel appeals to del
egates to "vote for father and save their
regulations, for father will he nominated
anyhow" and his efforts to bulldoze the