The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-08
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The English Papers Of This Morning.

A'6 yNSU ~ uSSdus VI Will 81 llIIl0
variation that it has no significance or in
tuence. The contest is to see who can
hold out the longest. The Grant triumvi-
rate will not ield and they APP ear to hold
their number firmly. The Blaine men are
enthusiastic and determined. The chances
OF Sherman, Edmunds, Washburne and
Window have from the start depended on
tLeir holding their several forces together
until the rec OF one or other of the chiefs
shall break; for either of them to yield is
to confess that their original plan was
failure. For any one to yield is to confess
defeat-a thing which no one will do so
long as he can keep up the form of fighting
All the contrved delay prior to the voting
and all of this prolonging of voting, is
making the question of supplies a serious
one to many delegates. The candidates
will find it necessary to supply the dele.
gates with means to pay hotel bills He
hose prom nters shall subsist his delegates
will have tremendous ad vantage over his
rival who omits this essential part The
good but shallow persons who said that
General Grant would retreat from the Con-
vention at the first sign of opposition, or
at the first Intellectual ballot. ignored and
dispar ged his whole character and history.
The voting dissipated all this folly, and de-
veloped General Grant contendng for
the nomination with his habitual
stubborness, and on level with
the other honorable candidates. The
voting also condensed the frothy claims
of numbers for the other candidates. Cor
respondents had come to be impressed that
Blaine would lead at the start The voting
showed Grant ahead, though rot so largely
as was estimated before the convention as
sembled; yet Blaine had more than was
generally estimated for him before the
time of the convention. Mr.. Sherman's
supporters were considerably less in nam
Der than were claimed by his bureau mall
ayers and his friends in general. Thus the
situation was developed, the several forces
deployed, and they went hard at work in
a contest to see which could stay longest in
the voting. As this refers only to the yot-
ing up to the time of the recess and to the
beginning after the recess, we shall not at
tempt to forecast the end of a cont, st
Which thus far has likeness to the 20 as
you please pedestrian tests of endurance.
The Enquirer says: The grand defect of
Garfield's speech however, is that he did
not, from the beginning to the end, do the
thing he was appointed to do--nonlnate
Jo!ill DllCi lNO OIlc uOuUIS JllhJ OOllk-
ling nominated Grant. That was the thing
he had talked prettily about his emotions
and about the ocean, did no more than to
nominate tte Republican party. This was
not to the point. Garfield's argument was
merely that the Republican party was a
been identified with it from the
| l,au nj p,t GorGolJ
selected to defend or 10 give a history of
Convention, which he did, but for some-
thing else, which he did not do. And
Garfield killed his own and only argument
at the close. Having nominated the Re-
publican party, and John Sherman only
indirectly, as being Republican, he says
in conclusi IN that he does not present
Sherman as better Republican than thou
sands of others. He simply presents his
name for the deliberate consideration of
the Convention. The speech as whole, for
the purpose for which he was asked
to make it, was not great speech. In our
Judgment, the commanding speech of the
Convention, in every respect. was that Of
Senator Conkling in placing General Grant
in nomination. 1t had most directness,
ilOcp iOiNSl h'OoV SiOJuOiiSOs - " WtbS oLIOlS
and rich in diction, and the orator did not
waste sentence or word. Evidently the
Convention and the audience thought it
the best speech, for the applause was three
times as long as the speech. Speeches were
limited 10 ten minutes each, and the Sem
ator plunged at once into his subject:
When asked whence comes our candi-
date, we say, frYm Appomattox."
n.
with the figures of yesterdays ballots be-
fore us. is that Washburne's name is en-
ployed by portion of the Blaine force,
and that if Blaine can not himself ba nom.
mated, and finds it out in time, lie may
beat the Third Term by going over in full
force to Washburne. 1t should be remem-
bered that while the latter has been the
strong friend of Grant, the Blaine men and
Washburne men have been working togeti,-
er in Illinois. In thissense Blaine and Wash
burne have been comrades in arms. They
gained the Cook County victory and suf-
fered the Springfield defeat together.
Washburne's friends and Blaine's friends
are identical in Chicago. They crowd the
hotels in sympathy. The Chicago mer-
chants very LARGELY are for Washburne or
Blaine. Two of the most important pa
perS OF CnlCdSO, tn0 tribune anu journal,
are Blaine and, Washburne papers.
Herein is the local atmosphere for
co operation, and the recent political
history of Illinois warrants it. The NOM
nation Of either would be the overthrow
of the Senatorial Triumvirate, who are
Blaine's enemies. 1t is universally known
and appreciated that Washburne would be
very strong, perhaps the very strongest,
possible candidate. Above all, there is the
certainty that with Washburne, Blaine can
smash the Third Term, and perform the
act of poetic justice and dramatic pro-
priety, Of ending Grants public career in
an overthrow by the man who opened to
him the world which has been his oyster.
The German Papsrs.
The Volksireund says: Tilden must not
be as sick as several anti-Tilden men have
said he is. Judge Menser, OF Gallon. Ohio,
who was in New York recently, and passed
through Cincinnati Saturday en- route for
home, says he saw Tilden driving, in sound
health, through the Central Park, in New
York.
The Volksblatt says: Outside Of its
largeness, the Exposition building in
which the Chicago Convention is being
held, seems to have no special advantages.
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