Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-01
CHICAGO.
Organization of the California
Delegation.
GRANT AND BLAINE MEETINGS.
Speculations as to the Result Of
the Convention.
EDM0NDS not A CANDIDATE
Pixley aof Calaveras Complimented
by the Blaine Managers.
THE CANDIDACY OF WASHBURNE,
Evident Weakening of the Grant Boom
Blaine Stock Rising.
Evident Weakening of the Grant Boom
Blaine Stock Rising.
The CALIFORNIA DELEGATION.

THE CALIFORNIA DELEGATION.
CHICAGO, May 3lst.-The California dele
cation met this morning and organized by
the election of Frank NJ. Pixley Chairman.
A. D. Sharon was absent, and Benson, al
ternate was elected to act in his place. d.
G.. Payne of Santa Clara was selected as the
choice of the delegates for a place on the
Committee on r esolutions, with instructions
to work for the insertion of an anti-Chinese
plank in the resolutions of the Convention
Raymond for place on the Committee on
Credentials, and Mansfield for the Commit
tee on Organization. The delegation are
unanimous against the unit rule, and will
probably be for Washburne if Blaine drops
out Of the contest.
The Pacific coast States will select their
headquarters to-day.
ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES.
CHICAGO, May 31st.-Large numbers of
At the Grand Pacific Hotel 400 were newly
registered, among them Colonel r. @. Inger-
soil, who will speak tonight at the anti
Grant meeting, provided the weather clears,
which now seems improbable. It is believed
four-ffths of the delegates are now on the
ground, and a considerable number of the
alternates. The New Jersey delegation and
most of the Illinois delegates arrived this
morning.
STREET RUM0RS.
Nothing definite has transpired as to the
action of the National Committee to be taken
this evening, but the streets are full of
rumors, which mention compromise, the
abolition of the unit rule, the deposition of
Senator Cameron, and many other expedients
for settling the question of the unit rule.
ESTIMATES OF VOTES IN THE CONVENTION.
CHICAGO. May 31st.-Following are the
estimates of the more ardent friends of the
several Presidential candidates of the votes
in the National Convention Blaine men
estimate for Blaine 324 votes, for Grant 276,
for Sherman 101, for Edmunds 49, for Wash
burne IL. The Grant men estimate for Grant
All, for Blaine 169, for Sherman 1o3, for
Edmunds %, for Washburne 13. The Sher-
men estimate gives him 227 votes.
1t still seems to be regarded probable that
Grant will be nominated unless the unit rule
is smashed.
THE AETI-THIRD-TERMERS
Amorg the speakers at the anti third
term mass meeting this evening will be
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Eugene
Hale and Governor Daniel T. Davis of
Maine, and Hon. Lewis Parker, who has the
reputation of being the sharpest and wittiest
public speaker in the State of Maine. If the
weather is rainy it will be held in Faneuil
Hall.
BLAINE AND HIS LIEuTENANTs.
CHICAGO, May 31st.-The Journal says {:
The Blaine managers are in close and con-
slant communication with their great chief
tain. The telegraphic instrument in the
rooms occupied by Chandler, Hale and Frye
is in constant use. sending and receiving ois-
patches from the Senator, who sits in his
parlor at Washington alongside anotherinstru-
ment, and is kept thoroughly informed of
everything that is going on. His friends
continue enthusiastic, and his shrewd mana
gers are leaving no stone pnturned to increase
his chances, and if possible bring about his
nomination. They claim that his forces are
stronger, numerically and every other way,
tban they have ever been, and that the pros
pect OF his nomination is encouraging and
bright. They assert that the delegations sent
here with him as their preference will stand
as firm as a rock and a solid and immovable
phalanx in the Convention. 1t is not surpris-
ing to hear the Blaine men state that Grant
is already beaten, and they now have mere to
fear from Sherman or Edmunds or Wash.
burne than from the conquerer of Lee. This
may be brag, but there is no doubt many
Blaine men sincerely believe it. His mana
gers state that all they ask is fair play and no
favors in the Convention.
EDMUNDs NOT a CANDIDATE.
CHICAGO, May 31st-A letter has been
received by Judge Hoar from Senator Ed
minds, declining absolutely to all the use of
his name as candidate for President The
friends of General Grant believe this will
ueip tilClii, HHliS biC eIIlObL uGieSdIts, al
though refusing to stnte who their second
choice will be, say they will not vote for
Grant. A Massachusetts delegate said to-
day that Edmunds' withdrawal would add
twenty votes to Sherman's score
THE SOUTHERN DELEGATES
Have been an object of great solicitude and
devoted attention for forty EIGHT hours past.
1t is claimed by the Grant men that they
have gained in that quarter-a claim which
the friends of other candidates refuse to
allow. The principal candidates have very
active and very confident friends, and so far
as can be learned there is no giving way in
any quarter as yet.
A large delegation from Philadelphia with
white hats arrived to-day, and were received
with band and other demonstrations of well
come. Cincinnati furnished another large
delegation, which was received in like mar.
ner.
GRANT AND ANTT-GRANT.
The evening proved to be a fine one, and
at an early hour large crowd of people
poured from the trains and street cars, and came
from the extreme parts of the city in masses
to attend the two meetings on the lake shore.
The meeting of Grants supporters was held
in Dearborn Park, and the anti Grant meet
ing just across the street, in the base ball
grounds. The speakers announced for the
Grant meeting were Senator's Conkling,
Logan, Carpenter, S. l.. Woodford of New
York, Leonard SWEET, Emery A. Storrs,
Robert L. Lincoln and S. A. Douglass. At
the anti-Graut meeting the speakers were
Colonel E. Ingersoll, Dawes of Maine, Fred.
Hassaurct of GincinSatti, Wayne McVeigh,
Louis Parker. Gibson of Ohio and Others.
wAsHBURyEs CANDIDACY.
CHICAGO, May aiat. The Eseaing Journal
a Washburne paper, says: A free convefsa-