New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-04
WHIT TIE CAMERON MEN SAY.


THE CONVENTION To BELONG To THEIR CHEF
THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR GRANT. AND.TnE VOTE
OF THE DELEGATION AS A UNIT TO BE INSISTED
on
HARRISBURG, Penn, Feb. 3.-The Cameron
Grant delegates to the convention have claimed
throughout the day that it will belong to Senator
Cameron belonging to Cameron, 1t Will indorse
General Grants candidacy, and will send delega-
tiOn to Chicago instructed TO vote for him. IL ~
impossible to separate by accurate dividing line
the Grant and Anti-Grant elements, for the reason
that the fight against Grant was started and pushed
throughout the State by the opponents OF Cameron
and that successful political chief, in raying his
caiismen to his defence has gathered under his
banner many local politicians who prefer Blaine to
Grant, but whose first allegiance is due to their
State leader. Thus, while the Anti-Cameron men
are all Blaine men, the Blaine are not all Anti
Cameron
From this fact arises q curousy complicated
situation The candidate selected by the Anti
Grant element to as rallying point for their
assault upon the third-term project is the second
choice of nearly all the Cameron men, and would be
the first choice of many If they felt at liberty to ex-
! press such preference. Probably the pronounced
Blaine men number about third of the conven-
ton the other two-thirds being wholly submissive
to Senator Camerons leadership, and entirely ready
whether they personally prefer Grant or not.
Having the convention in his hands, and being by
no means unfriendly to Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Cameron
can afford to be magnanmous. His position Is
this: He will permit the Blaine men to name the
district delegates from districts whose representa-
ton in to-morrow's convention they control, pro-
vided 1t is understood that their men VIII obey the
Grant instructions of the convention. He Will ac-
cept Blane's cousin, Mr.. Hayes, Of Cumberland
County, as one of the delegates; and will himself
ask that MIR. Blaines uncle, Mr.. Ewing, OF Wash
ington. be upon the delegation. The Blaine people
may name their strong representative men, so that
| in case Grant should not be candidate at Chicago
| they will be in position to sway the whole Penn
sylvania delegation by their influence but instruc-
| tiOns and unit rule Mr.. Cameron will have
| Why does Cameron insist upon instructonsi The
answer bis close political friends make to this
question Is that he can in other way demonstrate
his control over the party. When he called the
convention for an unusay early date, his opponents
said that he meant to forestal the judgment OF the
| party on the Presidential question and that they
| would balk his scheme. They declared that If he
tried to put through Grant instructions he would
be beaten: and, as one county after another chose
Blaine delegates, while only two in the whole State
| passed Grant resolutions they set up shout that
| Cameron was unh0rsed.
| Now Don Cameron is not man TO be drawn from
his purpose by opposition. His father, in his day,
was much more diplomatic. and often captured his
| adyersaries by appearing 70 yield to them. Inc
Young Senator's method IN politics IS to make an
omen fight against all opponents and beat them
| down before offering any terms. he never stoops
| to CONQUER; so he said to himself: 81 must show
| my power in this convention or be deposed from
nv positon Of leadership; and can show II III no
| other yvay than by forcing through the Grant in
structions which my opponents have boosted L
| could not get adopted"
The proQamme for tomorrow is, therefore, first a
sonare-toed Grant resolution. coupled with nstruc-
| tions: second the adoption of rule requiring the
delegates to Chicago to east the vote of the state
| solid and TO these two points a third Is added
which is a unanimous convention and 10 division 10
show the real strength of the Blaine element.
| Meanwhile. what do the Blame men say TO this
nlon for muzzlDg them in the convention, and in
dnc;nr them not to make a fuss by allow
ing them to name perhaps a dozen dele
gates who will only be able to vote for
their candidate in case Grant withdrawsF They are
| in q ouandary They lack organization and resoute
| leaders who know exactly what 10 DO Ihey are
| embarrassed bV the assertion OF Blalnes cousin,
HAYES, and General BinghamS an Il old ana warn.
| friend of the Maine Senator that Blame does not
| want a fight with Cameron. ~,
| So there are two factions tonight. The members
fhey had better accept Cameron's offer
on the principle that half loaf is better thaI
| no bread and keeping III view, 100, the pOsslDle
advantages to accrue to their fovorite from
the friendship of the victorious Cameron wing wing
The members of the other declare that III j. tlell
dntv to their constituents, and TO the antl-third
term movement throughout the country. to make
an issue in the convention and demonstrate mat II
| s not unanimous for Grant. Ihere are among tn'
RIaine delegates men vino less for his lnterest
than they do to have a whack at Cameron ana thes
men are bitterly opposed to any scft Oh cohcilia
ton programme.
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