The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-04
rn,.,rrn.t nnle.

TIE Unit Rule. :.
n has not been easy TO understand ~ tus-
v~ovements at Chicsgc, nor to guess tue
-eauIpg 81 a, Of the many ststemenss
$500 nav besn sent out IN rcssticn to the
uult rule. For example, the telegraph mas
ga us that there wssa majority q ct least
: hundred delegates opposed to the enforce
.neut a the unit rule, whilst the same tele-
~r,ph told N the sssas dsy that Nc. CoSK'
suo nd declared It to be his parpose to
east the solid vote Of New York for Gene
raj GIANT, and that the New Ysrk de'ega.
zion had by q vote OF Is to 3s authorized
Nr. CoNKLIYa 80 to cast IL. These nppa-
reutiy conflicting statements somewhat stag
sered our faith In the success OF the anti
S,R.xr crusade against the unit rule; ana
vs have tskeu the trouble to seek Tor light
upon the subject.
II appears that Ia Mr.. CoNxLINe's declara'
sion on the subject he did not intend 10 say
that be would cast the vote OF New YORK as
q unit, expecting 1t to be so recorded put
that he, instructed rs he had been ny 'nc
New York Convention to cast the vote OF
Thar State as a unit, would not consent 10
announce It otherwise, but, having SO an
noupced IL, would leave to the aeiega.es
themselves, and to the Convention, the de-
cision OF the question as to whether the
vote should or should not be recorded as De
vould have announced il. The New YORK
TtiSwne reports Mr.. CoSKLING's remarks on
ahIs point rs follows. Mr.. CoSKLING said
MIf the resolution offered by Genersi
Hharpe was adopted be should deem u MS
SIufy-and ia that be should be supported
hv nreyjous precedents--to cast the seventy
votes Of New York for General Grant. TDe
question Of the nirority's right to break
away from the instructions OF the state
Convention was one which they must settle
with their own conscieoces. They must not
ash him 10 cast that vote In opposition
20 the instructions OF the delegation.
H., he said, 1wheu that announce
ment Is made, any delegate-my friend
Wagner. for instanee-sh0uld desire TO
cast his vote for William Window, he can
arise and state that he is one OF the seventy
delegates, aud that the chairman did not
announce bis choice. He can say that he
Desires to be recorded for Mr.. WINDOW
then it will be matter for the Convention
20 decide whether they will allow my friend
Wagner to record his vote for his friend
Window or not"
That turns the question over to the Ma
tioual Convention, which will probably de-
eide that each delegates vote shall be re-
corded as he himself requests it to oe.
The reference by Mr.. CoNKLING to the
resolution offered by General SHARPE re-
minds us that that resolution was most eau
-tiousy and most ingeniously worded so as
to surrender to the anti-GRANT men every
thing but their right to vote upon the ques-
fion Of nominating General GRANT. The
resolution reads as fellows:
Resolved, That in the record OF the votes
cast by the delegation from the State OF New
York the vote shall be announced by the
chairman, and in case Of division the
chairman shall announce the number OF
votes cast for or against any proposition, or
for or against any candidate, except upon
the vote for President, and on this question
the vote OF New York shall he cast for Gen
eral Grant until the further direction OF this
delegation.
The anti-GRANT men were to be allowed
to vote "ior or against any proposition
and "for or against any candidate except
General GRANT, For him, they were TO
vote whether they would or not. But the
BLAINE delegates, like JOEY BAGsToCK, are
{" sly evilish sly" When the wind Is
nor'.n west they know unit resolution
from an anti.unit resolution. They laughed
General SHARpE's sharp scheme to scorn,
and declared that they were not so verdant
q he had supposed. The resolution was
adopted; but % Of the delegates were OPP
posed to it, aud all OF these % will vote to-
day against General GRANT. In short, MIR.
Combines boast that he intended to cast
the solid vote Of New York for General
GRANT amounts to just nothing at all. 1t
Is bis nature to crow and strut, and when
he made that boast he was only acting in
character.