, 1880-05-23
Total,



Number to be appointed. ed........-.............A A
The above table requires but little explana-
ton. 1t comedies to Gen. Grants supporters
every delegate they can claim with anything
like confidence, and it leaves them gust 100
uotes short OF q majority. Their position is
such that they will never gain, hut lose, after
the first ballot, If they 60 into the struggle
at all. It may be safely assumed, therefore,
that the third-term issue has been rejected By
the Republican party, and that the single can-
didate who represents it will not be nomi-
mated.
The third -termers, whistling vigorously to
keep up their courage, are in the habit OF
printing very ridiculous tables, in which they
claim everything. They pretend, for in
stance, that the result of the Illinois Conyen~
ton has settled the struggle IN their favor,
and will assure them the solid votes Of New
York and Pennsylvania even though d.
vision in those delegations was imminent be
fore. The fact fs,-and it will be apparent to
every man who takes the trouble to feel pub
lie sentiment In an impartial way,-that
the Illinois Convention has struck the third
term issue harder blow than it has ever be-
LUG 1EEC1fEus 4uC A4ELlVNo CH1PlU5EA UJ
the Grant managers In that Convention, will
not only ALLEVIATE from them every vote in
New York and Pennsylvania that was before
considered doubtful, but will also drive
away other delegates who would have voted
for Grant On the first ballot if they had not
been choked off by the Illinois garroters.
It is just as certain now that the twenty
anti-Grant delegates representing ten anti
Grant districts in this State will be admitted
to the Chicago Convention US it is that the
Cook County boilers were admitted to the
Springfield Convention. First, the Chicago
Convention will recognize tho rights Of the
districts to appoint their o,c7s delegates, just
as they elect their own Congressman, and
will refuse to permit them to be swinded out
of this right, at Boss dictation, by bogus
majority Of State Convention. That reason
involves the merits of the case, and might
not avail if the thi1d-termers were able to
override it,
But the second reason Is c1incher. The
third-termers in the Chicago Convention will
be in the minority in voting upon the Illinois
contest. No unit rule will apply in this case,
and if it did it would not give the third
termers majority. The National Conven-
ton will decide the Illinois contest exclusive
of the Illinois vote, just as the Illinois Con-
vention decided the Cook County contest ex-
elusive Of the Cook County vote. If major
ity could prevail to perpetrate wrong in
the Illinois Convention, it cannot reasonably
be doubted that majority in the National
Convention will be able to right that wrong.
The antiGrant delegates will hold the
same power in the National Convention
which the Grant delegates held in the lli-
nois Convention, and their case will be won
the more easily because it will have justice
and party usage, Republican principle, and
the popular sentiment On its side, while
justice, usage, ,Republicanism, and the popular
sentiment were opposed to the bogus major
ity in the Illinois Convention.
Decentralization will set In among the third
termers from the moment the Illinois co1l-
test begins. Every delegate from an In |
structed State who feels that he represents |
an anti-third-term district will be impelled |
to vote against the Illinois bu1ldozers and the !
cause they represent. Every delegate from |
the Southern States (where the third-term
candidate has found his chief strength) who |
desires to be on the winning side or feels the |
slightest interest in the success of the Re |
publican party will hasten to join the ma
jority against the third-term fraud in Illinois. |
Not single solid delegation for Grant can |
be saved from fracture on this question.
The idea that the result In the Illinois |
Convention has aided the third-term cause |
elsewhere is so fallacious that one or two re-
Elections will completely dispose OF it, Would
Afr. Blaine's cause have been helped If
he had been obliged to disfranchise the
City Of Portland and ride rough~shod
over half the districts in order to obtain
the ''solid" delegation from Maine? Would
Mr.. Edmunds' friends have claimed new
strength throughout the country II they had
been obliged to throw out regular deiega-
tons and admit boilers in order to carry Yer
mont for their favorit? Would there be
ghost of chance for Sherman ii his man.
agers had been obliged to disfranchise Gin
,innati and kick out the selected delegates
to Chicago of ten Congressional districts and
substitute others Of the minority faction as
n1eans to obtain the Ohio delegation? Would
Mr.. WINDOWS name ever have been pre-
sented by Minnesota il his friends had been
obliged to admit boilers from St Paul or
in order to achieve such re-
suit? The questions furnish their OWL an |