The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-01
plaIne's Peril.

A Chicago telegram IN BLAINE organ 10
Philadelphia tells the peril In which the
ri. ArSE men ind themselves at Chicago In
the following expressive words;
eff General Grant is nominated It VIII
h through the cerruptness OF Shermnn's
nrcfe,sed friends IN the South or the cow
ardice OF dis real friends In the North"
Mr.. swxRMAx is so anxious not TO offend
the GRANT men, very foolishly supposing
that they will come over to his support
should GRANT be dropped, that he Is in a
| fair way to ruiu himself by his folly. We
are surprised that so shrewd man as Mr..
SHERMAN should be so easily deceived by
he GRANT managers. The methods which
lCaxERox, UoNKLNG & Co. have resorted to
| IN order to secure the nomination for Gene
raj GRANT are indicated clearly In the fol-
lowing paragraph from Washington letter
in the Alexandria Gazette OF Saturday
.Ftye celored delegates instructed to
vote for Grant arrived here last week, and
we're Immediately nabbed by the Sherman
men. who made proposals which induced
them 70 change their opinions about the adj
visibility OF nominating the ex-President.
The Blaine men soon afterwards took them
In hand, and in way peculiar to the magnet
jsm1pf the plumed knight soon imbued them
with the idea OF the superiority OF that
gentleman's fitness for the presidential Of
fee. Mr.. Don Cameron, hearing OF this, sent
for and had talk with them. the result OF
which was that they started that night for
Knoxville In charge OF one OF his agents TO
influence n delegate who lives there. and
that from Knoxville, still in charge OF Mr..
Cameron's agent, they will travel from one
Mace 10 another until the day the National
1,onyentjon meets, when, without having
had a chance to be seen by anybody else,
they will arrive ut Chicago Just In time to
be marched to the Convention and cast their
votes for the man on horseback"
1t is the delegates Of this sort that BLAINE
has to fear. His northern friends will be
true to him. They are men OF standing
and character. as a rule. But the negro del.
egates from the South, and not few OF the
white ones, can easily be influenced to trans
fer their votes to the winning horse. There
Is no other danger ahead OF Mr.. BLAINE. III
this one were removed he would have clear
sailing. But this one cannot be removed;
and so he must needs take his chances with
the rest OF the asprants. We do not think
that his managers at Chicago are equal to
GRANTS. Nevertheless they may be able to
kill GRANT whilst GRANTS managers are
killing BLAINE. A few days more and the
tale will be told.
P. S. Later news shows that Mr.. SHER-
MAN did not approve the trimming OF his
friends. A telegram in the Washington
Post says:
When General Garfield arrived here, he
found the Ohio men and other friends OF
the Secretary Of the Treasury were holding
back and declining to take any very pro-
nounced position on any OF the important
questions that are certain to divide the Con-
yention, in order that Mr.. Sherman might |
be in condition to become the residuary !
egatee of either OF the other leading candi- |
dates.
He at once declared that such policy as |
hat would be suicidal; he believed that it |
was more important that the Republican par
y should not adopt any unit rule than that |
any particular candidate shall be nominated. |
Every true Republican, he said, was more
in preserving freedom OF con-
,ultation and district representation, and
n preventing the introduction OF Tamma-
~ methods into the Republican party, |
han in the success OF any one man. His
advice, therefore, was that the Sherman
men should cooperate heartily with others
who were opposed to these innovations.
md that instead OF allowing others |
o stand the brunt OF the fight, the Ohio
people should take the lead. Such a course,
General Garfield thought, would promote
'ather than endaDger Mr.. Sherman's candi-
lacy. At any rate, it was the only proper
policy to pursue. General GarfieId's earn
,stness in this matter has already had a
beneficial effect upon the other supporters
II Mr.. Sherman, and there is now no doubt
hat, led by the Ohio men, the friends OF
he Secretary of the Treasury will be as az
sressive as any in the fight against the as
OF the Grant party. General Gar.
ieid's advice has also been supplemented by
dispatch from Mr.. Sherman In which he /
lrges the same policy.