Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-09
JOLLY JIM.
,mator Perfectly Satisfied.

The Maine Senator ferJecttY SdttSte"'
Washington Special to the Chicago Tribune.
Senator Blaine's friends tonight express
great satisfaction with the result of the Har-
risburg convention. The moro they reflect
upon it the better they arespleased with it.
They say it would have been no assistance
to Mr.. Blaine to have Don Cameron stand
sponsor for him before the country, but that
to be known as Cameron's candidate must
be a source of weakness. Much stress must
be placed on the evident fact that there was
nothing spontaneous in the Grant movement
in Pennsylvania. Grants name was no help
to Cameron; on the contrary, 1t was a dead
load to carry both before the people and the
convention. The victory was Cameron s
alone, and won on grounds personal
to him. 1t is fact that ow-
ing to the short notice of The calling of the
State convention, but twenty-seven counties,
excepting Philadelphia, out of sixty -four,
had conventions of the people to nominate
delegates. OF these twenty-seven counties,
twenty-three instructed their delegates for
Blaine, and the other four adopted resolu
tions favorable to him. The Gran: strength
outside of Philadelphia came exclusively
from counties in which delegates were chosen
by the county committee and not by the
people.
Much unfavorable comment is passed on
the singular action of Gen. Harry Bingham,
of Philadelphia, in the convention. Pre-
tending 10 be friend of Blaine, he yet did
his best to check the cause of the Senator.
He assumed to speak by authority; bat there
are excellent reasons for saying that
he had no authority whatever. He had
himself substituted liz the place
of one of the Philadelphia dele
gates, and declared that there was no autag-
onism between the friends of Senator Blaine
and those of Gen. Grant. Some of the
Blaine men were much staggered by this
statement coming from supposed friend of
Blaine, and all looked for a letter or tele-
gram announcing the withdrawal of Blaine;
but Bingham, fortunately, was too dlplo-
matte, and asserted his friendship for Blaine,
too, after the suspicious of the anti-Came-
romans were aroused, and finally delegate
asked Bingham, point blank, whether he had
any authority to speak for Blaine. Bingham
was obliged to say that he had not, and
so the scheme was punctured. 1t was a
bold move and nearly proved successful. 1t
was the more unprlnclpleu from Tue Iact tnat
Bingham had privately telegraphed to Blaine
for authority to withdraw his name, and had
received no answer. 1t is said Bingham,
who bolted Cameron at Cincinnati, aud
voted for Blaine had since been severely
punished, and is now trying to make his
peace with Cameron. His treachery to Blaine
was his first token of fealty.
An episode of the convention not any
where reported was the appear ance in the hall
during the taking of the vote on the Grant
resolution of Gen. Harry White, to whom
Gen. Grant declared in famous letter that
he would not again be candidate unless
some unforeseen emergency, not likely to
arise, should occur. The contrast OF
these sentiments with the spectacle OF
Don Cameron's putting through Grant
delegation by r,achine-power was note
worthy.