The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-01
And the Majority Decides
that Don Must Go.
important Meeting Of the Com.
mittee To-day.
Formidable Bolt in the New
York Delegation.
Hpecial to the Star.

.4 CHICAGO, June 1.-The day before the
battle brings no material change in the sit
nation. That which been from the
first the biggest and the biUterest fight ever
known in the history OF political parties
grows greater in magnitude and more in
tense in bitterness as the end approaches.
This is the last day before the opening OF
the fight and each faction has about re ched
the climax of its engineering ability. The
fight of each faction appears to be made
after the characteristics of its chief.
The Grant men are stolid, energetic,
earnest workers who leave no stone un-
turned and no sentence unsaid that can
probably help them. 1t is with them a
kind of succeed if it takes all summer
contest and they neither endeavor tC
buster nor conciliate but 60 straight on as
If the victory was sure to the party that
never finched
The Blaine campaign is managed with q
dash and brilliancy worthy OF the ''rlumed
knight to whom his followers are s
warmly attached. They antagonize any.
body and claim everything, fighting their
battle upon the theory that "Mr. Blaine is
the gallant leader Of the Republican party
whom to desert now would be as though an
army should desert their general upon the
field of battle"
The Sherman managers are as ably calcu-
Iat,,g and unexcitable as the head of the
financial department of the Government
himself. They figure out their chances and
discuss their possibilities with an attempt
at the same kind OF mathematical exact
ness to be found in monthly statement OF
the Govern ent debt.
They are anxious to offend none, and
when new delegation arrives they modest
" present the claims Of their chief as ''sec-
ond choice" To quiet observer there
has been altogether TOO much Second
choice" in the management of the Sherman
campaign from the first. If Sherman is
nominated it " Ill be done by the Blaine or
Grant men and will not be done by the
ability of the Sherman managers The
Washburne men are modest in their claims
and quiet in demeanor. They say nomin-
ate Washburne and we have unity and
strength, nominate either OF the three &C.
tive contestants and we have disruption
and defeat. In proof of the latter state
ment they quote the testimony OF the par
ties themselves to the contest.
The Grant men can tell you of the disas.
ters that Sherman or Blaine would bring to
the party, the Blaine men will assure you
. that Grants nomination.will be the death
knel to liberty, and Sherman would bring
the Republican party inevitable ruin, and
. the Sherman men are willing to testify
quietly that Grant could not possibly be
elected, and that Blaine is worse than Grant,
but as they don't want to antagonize any
body, <.hey will ask you to not to quote
them on the subject.
There are two classes of followers in each
faction-the workers who are in the secrets
Of their party and dispense the groceries
and finances, and the clacquers on the out.
side who are furnished transportation and
lodging for the noise they can make.
Whatever may be said Of the former it is
safe to assert that no one will accuse the
clacquers OF not earning their pay. Among
the outside workers the Ohio man is par
ticuIarly conspicuous, and harangues his
circle for Grant, Sherman or Blaine, ac-
cording 10 inclination or the quarter from
which he draws board, lodging and trans
portation. L. A. L.
JUDGE TAFT AT THE SHERMAN.
CHICAGO, June Judge Taft OF Ohio, is
st the Sherman House. He is nota dele.
sat8 to the Convention, as he remarked to
q representative Of the Chicago Times that
..Ohio sent no Grant delegates to the Chi,
cago Convention"
He says the Ohio delegation will vote
solid for Sherman on the first ballot or two,
but in case Of break from Sherman then
the delegation would be divided between
Grant and Blaine. He believed that Grant,