The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-07


bitter prospect for humiliation. Th,
newly elected chairman OF the Nationa
Republican Committee and the chairman
OF one State committee was In deep dis
: tress, so he appealed to bis friends to lie
!. him down easy and save him from the hu
: initiation which actually threatened him
. Now the truth Is the Harrisburg Conven
ton was never for the ex-President. AL
that can be said Is, 1t was gentle toward
the respected leader Of the Republican
party In Pennsylvonia, and gratitied him
10 the extent OF allowing 1t to appear that
he was triumphant. There was, how.
ever, a pToyiso TO the bargain At Harris
burg, and 1t will perhaps appear that MI
Don Cameron is, alter all, much more ot
Cameron man than anything else. Not
that he would not be glad to have the ex'
President lead the party in the
Presidential campaign, but because be
was compelled 10 act wisely in his own
defence. That proyiso not only implied
that the sentiment OF the Convention was
not for the ex.President, but that sooner
or later IL would publicly appear that such
was the fact. 10 make the triumph oi
the young Senator more conspicuous 1t
was agreed that the delegation should be
instructed as unit, andy then 1t was re-
solved that the ex.President was the
choice OF majority ofthe convention. 1t
may be charged that 1t was disgraceful on
the part VI the majority Of the convention
to have acquiesced in any such bargain, but
1t will appear upon close examination that
such was not the case. The resolution
adopted favoring the ex-President was
merely the expression OF sentiment; the
adoption OF the rule that the majority
should govern the vote OF the delegation
was an agreement. To this part OF It.,
then, Senator Camden was as much COM
mitted as any member OF the Convention
or the delegation selected.
ANOTHER PART OF THE AGREEMENT.
"But there was another part OF the
agreement which has never been publish
ed, and 1t is this: Senator Cameron agreed
that il 1t should appear before the Con-
yention met that the sentiment OF the
State was against pledging the vote Of the
delegation for the ex-President, he would
act with the majority: 1t Is therefore
sheer nonsense to say that there is split
in the Pennsylvania delegation. It was
never anything else but anti.third term,
and II reason is now sought why there
is so much public expression in Pennsyl.
yania against the committal OF the dele
CATION 70 the support OF the ex.President
It is because the people OF the State
have called a halt. It was per-
haps well enough to gratify the young
leader at Harrisburg, but now it is
serious business, and. the Masses do not
proprose to have the Republican party
sacrificed to please any body. There ia an
other phase OF the business which per-
tains TO the State OF Pennsylvania ex-
clusively. II the delegation selected at
Harrisburg must go for the ex-President,
then the will OF the people OF the State
will be thwarted to such an extent that in
many OF the senatorial aud legislative dis
tricts there would be such indifference at
the coming election as would give the
State TO the Democracy and insure the
return TO the United States Senate OF a
Democratic Senator to succeed Senator
Wallace. 1t may be verv well Tor SEN
ator Cameron to gratify his personal am
bition, but the people OF Pennsylvania
have also an ambition which no individu-
al can hope te subvert."
ATTITUDE OF THE OBLIGATION.
This statement Is the substance OF con-
versation held by your correspondent this
afternoon with a majority OF the Repnb-
lican members OF the Pennsylvania dele
CATION. The result may be better ex-
pressed in the declaration that OF the fifty
eight delegates composing the entire dele
CATION It Is positively known that thirty
one are already opposed to the
reorganization OF the ex-President, and
the assurances are that seven more names
will be added to the list, making the total
thirty.eight. Senator Don Cameron has
said this week that while be is concerned
over the situation in Pennsylvania, still 1t
will be impossible for those trying TO carry
| It away from the ex-PTesident to iniure
any one but themselves, and in this re-
mark he included the delegates who are
threatening to bolt the instructions. His
concern over the Pennsylvania delegation Is
mainly for the'efiect even partial break
may have upon his personal fortunes in
the State, or, in other words, in the pi es.
ent threatened emergency he Is more oil
Cameron man than third term man.
MUST DROP THE THIRD TERN.
He has been notified within aiew days
by one OF the most prominent delegates
oi the State delegation that unless he
(Cameron) is willing to suffer disastrous
defeat at Chicago be must drop the third
term movement, and that he cannot save
himself with his State delegation in any
other way. This gentleman, who came
over to insist that he shall drop the ex-
President, declared that II he did not the
Blaine delegates in the State would, when
they met at Chicago, bein majority, and
would insist on the enforcement oI the
unit rule adopted at Harrisburg, and then,
as majority, cast the vote oil the State lor
Blaine.