New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-27


and the vote remaining in the affirmative
column passed the bill. An effort to change
the journal was defeated, as it ought to have
been. Members of legislative body VINO
vote on both sides of q question should take
the trouble to see that the vote gets recorded
which represents their latest views.
The news from Chicago begins to grow in
teresting. The leaders of the rival facuohs
are already on the ground, and the preliminary
contest which usually determines the result
in n Convention has begun in earnest. 1t
seems to be pretty we'll settled that the anti
tbird-term men will control the National
Committee, matter of considerable i'm
portance, inasmuch as the Committee will
name the temporary chairman of the Con-
vention and make up the roll. 1t Will nave
power to put on the district delegates whom
Logan Overslaughed in the State Convention.
These delegates are prepared to make a
determined fight for their rights. The only
chance for the nomination of Grant hes ID
keening them out and in holding the New
York and Pennsylvania delegations to the
unit rule In defiance of the precedents OF
previous Republican National Conventions
1t is as plain as the simplest demonstration
in arithmetic that majority Of the Convention
Is determinedly hostile to the third term scheme
even if the stolen seats in the Illinois delega-
ton be accorded the Grant men. The question
to he settled at Chicago is therefore narrowed
down to this-will the Grant managers
succeed, as they did at Springfield in dis
franchising enough of their opponents to get
the control of the COnventiOnR Their tactics
are now known and understood and will be
resisted by every man inside and outside the
Convention who has the success and perpetuity
of the Republican party at heart
1t has been repeatedly stated that the NOM
ination of General Grant, if made at Chicago,
would be made by delegates representing
constituencies which are pOweress to
aid in the election of any Republican
candidate this year. The tables we
publish on another page demonstrate the truth
of this statement. Grants chief strength comes
from the sure Democratic States Not single
Northern State which voted for Hayes in 1875,
except Colorado, has of its own free will sent
a Grant delegation to Chicago. He has only
four Northern States in ALL OF these New
York was Democratic in 1876, Pennsylvania
was captured by refusing to allow the people
to choose delegates to State Convention, and
Illinois was secured by the bold fraud OF
excluding nearly half of the Cook County
delegation and putting men in then
places who were not elected. dt
is equally plain from an analysis OF
these tables that in neither of these three
States could delegations have been Sc
cured for Grant even by the means adopted,
except by the support of the Democratic
counties, which help make candidate but
can do nothing to help elect him. These
tables should be carefully scanned
The exhibit they make is unanswer-
able because there is no cOntending
with the logic Of facts. The great
Republican constituencies Of the North,
which must elect the Chicago nominee ii
he is elected at all, have spoken against Grant.
To stihe their voice with irresponsible votes
from Democratic States and districts is to run
headlong toward defeat.