Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-04
News Dy Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GRANT OR BLAINE. A Lively Struggle at Harrisburg To-Day. BOTH PARTIES WORKING HARD. Blaine's Friends Resolved on Wig
 0rOus Fight. FIERCE GALE AT LONG BRANCH PerilOuS Adventures OfShip.
 wrecked Mariners.
 PENNSYLVANIA
BOTH PARTIES WORKING HARD.
Blaine's Friends Resolved on a Wig.
 0rOus Fight.
FIERCE GALE AT LONG BRANCH
PorilOuS Adventures OfShiD.
 wrecked Mariners.
PENNSYLVANIA.

T0.Dayss COnventiOn-A Lively Con.
 test in Prospect Strength of the
 Elaine BO0m-Grant Likely to Cap- 1 ture ahe Delegation.
 l HARRISBURG, Feb. 3.-There is now every
 indication that the Republican State Conven- l ton tomorrow will be the scene of a lively l contest between the friends of Senator Blaine
 and Senator Cameron. Notwithstanding the | desire of Blaine, as expressed in 8 letter to | his representative here, that harmonious con- 1 currence should be effected looking to his se- lection as the second choice of Pennsylvania l at Chicago, his friends among the delegates this evening decided to go into the contest | and attempt to wrest an endorsement of their l choice in the convention. At the Blaine cau-
 GUS, held in one of the parlors of the Loehiel House, one hundred and nine delegates de-
 clared him their choice, and then adjourned to the general caucus or delegates, held in the dining room of the same hotel At this meet ing test vote was pressed as an endeavor by his friends to defeat the programme proposed by the Grantites, which consists of choosing delegation to Chicago by the convention at
 large, and which should act as a unit upon this question. The vote stood for the unit 123, against no. The caucus adjourned with out harmonizing, and it is expected that to- morrow the fight will be continued on the floor of the convention. The vote indicates that the Cameron men are in majority, as the lower vote is by all parties understood to be the full strength of the Blaine men. The prospects are that the delegation to Chicago will be instructed to vote for Grant by ma jority of about 50 votes It is said here that the action of the Blaine men has antagonized Cameron to such an extent that he will use all the influence possible to defeat Blaine's nomi- nation, even should Grant not prove the can didate.
 Mir. John Hayes, who has succeeded in be- ing substituted 8 delegate, has letter of authorization from Senator Blaine, but he de- nies that it directs him to withdraw from the fight. Hayes believing that it would be grave indelicacy will not allow publication of the letter, but is emphatic in saying that it simply directs him to use all honorable efforts to secure instructions for Blaine. He, however infers from it that he is not to make hope less fight, which would simply intensity antag- onism and destroy the possibility of Blaine's chances as second choice of the delegation. The Cameronian people have given this letter, of the existence of which they are fully aware, their own construction and industriously re- port that Hayes is authorized by the Maine Senator to withdraw from the fight. There Is 8 general acceptance of this withdrawal and the result is the same apparently as though the withdrawal had been publicly announced, for it has knocked the bottom out of the Blaine boom. MT. Hayes in conversation de- clared that if after the caucus tonight there was the appearance of possibility of break ing down the unit rule, he and his followers will, however, make an effort, but he is not at all sanguine.