New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-25
PREPARING FOR CHICAGO.


TioN AGAINST GRANT.
The illusive campaign Of the Grant man
ayers is conducted with a design to capture
unpledged delegates from the South; but a
TRIBUNE correspondent shows in letter
below that it is failure. The control OF the
organization of the Chicago Convention
will be entirely in the hands of Grants
opponents, and all District delegates will be
admitted. The Louisiana Republican Con-
yention Yesterday elected seven Grant
and seven Sherman delegates. 1t also
elected as delegates Ex-Governor WarmOth,
who is for Blaine, and Senator Kellogg, who is
undecided. A small Grant faction boted and
elected solid Grant delegation. 1t is said
that the bolt was at the instance of telegram
from General Logan.
THIRD-TERM CHINESE GONG TACTICS.
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHICAGO CONVENTION IN
TIE HANDS OF THE ASTI-GEANT MEN-plSTRiCT
DELEGATES TO BE ADMITTED FROM ILLINOIS
AND ELSEWHERE.
JrRoM THE REGULAR CO ORREsPoSDENT OF THE TRtBUNFl
WASHINGTON MAY 24.-" Now for Chicago" is
the exclamation that IA upon the lips of everyone
in Washington to-day AS long as there renamed
single one of tie great Northern States whch had
not spoken through its convention as long as there
were delegates to capture, all eyes were tuTheu 10
the local contests, and people were anxious 10 eaI
the latcs: news from Maryland or Minnesota from
Ncw-Jerscy or Illinois but when the SprlnGnelu
Convention adjourned. and the politicians OF the
Copital footing up the columns of their tabular eS-
trrnates found that neither of the candidates had
secured in advance majority of all the delegates to
the National Convention they realized rs they had
at 10 previous time since the contest began, that
the great battle-ground after all was to be IN the
Exposition Hall IN Chicago. and began to review
the forces that are to gather there next week. aud
TO tell them off as likely to be found on the one
side or the other in the preliminary struggle upon
which 50 much is certain to depend
1t is true that the third-term managers since the
Logan machine did such effective work i'll Spring
field have been asserting with ore voice that
their triumph in Illinois has made the nomination
of General Grant on the first ballot certain. Sena-
tor Don Cameron the day before he left for the
West, had the assurance to tell very near frlend
of Mr. Blaine that the contest was already decided;
that the nomination of the exPrcsdent, on the first
ballot, was inevitable, and that the only question
which remained for the other candidates 10 decide
was whether or not they would withdraw their
names before the convention met and allow General
Grant to he nominated by aCclamatiOn, thus secur-
ing for themselves the influence with the new Alt
ministratiOn to which their position in the party
entities them. But Mr.. Cameron knew better than
this; the third-tern leaders are very well aware
that they have not secured majority of the dele
gates on the first ballot and they have definite
and wel-settled purpose in the boastlug IN which
they indulge.
The most uncertain element in the Chicago Con-
veItion will probably h. tho delegations from the
Southern States. The Republicans from the South
have nothing to lose gain at home; ther local
governments are in the hands of the Democracy and
will remain sO matter who Is nominated or
elected TO the Presidency. The General Govern
ncnt can do very little to assist the Republicans of
the South politically or otherwise; but Republ-
can Administration can and viii distribute good
many offices among the more active members of its
iarty in that section of the country, and as Pres-
dents are supposed to look with more favor upon
The claims of those who advOca their nomina-
ton than upOn those of opponents il is conjecturcd
that tic Southern delegates especially will be anX-
ious to cast their votes for the who is to win.
If the managers for General Grant, therefore. can
create a popular impression that the ex-PTesdent IS
certain to be nominated, they hope to the
votes of delegates who are now pledged to other
candidates From the DAYS Of XenophOn to the
present time military commanders have hidden the
weakness Of their force, when confronted by pow
erful enemy by dragging bushes in the road to raise
great clouds of dust. Bat sach tactics never de-
ceived great general, nor CAUSED panic among
brave soldiers.
In spite of their numbers and the recognized
skill and experel of their leaders, the third-term
people go into the Chicago Convention under the
most serious disadvantages. The first condition Of
success for either of the other candidates, is that
General Grant shall be beaten. Secretary Sher-
mans friends and those M Senator Blaine may
stand face to face in a desperate struggle for
the mastery before the Convention adJouIns
hut until General Grants line is broken neither will
have any chance of securing majority Of the votes
of the delegates. This fact makes alliance often
sve and defensive between the Blaine men and the
Sherman men al absolute necessity, which both
will realize and each will be the other
to preserve until Grant is defeated ami the Wash
burnc Edmunds and Window manlloys viii have
TO attach their forces to this alliance unless they
are ready TO give up the contest before it fairly be-
gins. This alliance will control the Convention
and manage its machinery from the moment il Is
called to order by Senator Don Game on. the chair
man of the National Committee, until the nOmina-
ton is made.
This is fact that the tbirl-teTm managers con-
ceal from their followers, although 1t is ono of the
most important bearing on the outcome Of the Con-
ventOn.
VIXEN the delegates come together in thu Ex-
postion Hall in Chicago On the Sd OF June, they
will be called TO order by Senator Cameron, and a
temporary chairman selected by tie National Com
mttee will at once he chosen II is safe 10 predict
that that chairman will not he a Grant man.
When the National Committee met in this city
last December for the purpose of selecting the time
and place for holding the National Convention, and
choosing chairman in the place of the late Senator
Chandler, the Grant and Sherman men together had
majority of only one over the Blaine men in the
committee, and the latter believed then and believe
aOw that they could have elected their candidate
for the chairmanshp in spite of the combination if
it had been thought wise to make the attempt. At
Chicago General Grants friends will be met by the