Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-01
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. l SCENES AT CHICAGO. The Latest Survey of the
 Field. A BOLT FROM GRANT In the Delegation From New
 York. Meeting of the Committee. Nothing Decided Regarding
 the Unit Rule.
 PRTTTTCAT,
POLITICAL.

| York Delegates BoIt-A Compact to Dis ' obey Their InstruetiOns-The Unit Rule Opposition To It's Enforcement Spread. | ing-NIeeting of the Connecticut Dele gntiOn-Gsrant and Anti-Grant Demon ! stratfons-Meeting of the National Conn ! mittee = Senator Hoar Agreed on Fo1 Temporary Chair and Indications. CHICAGO, May 31.-The arrivals at the Palmer House this morning were too numer- ous to mention, and at l o'clock they were all ! busy registering, so that it was impossible to get within shooting distance of the regis ter, much less glance at it. The delegates l from Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and 1 other States came in full force, adding great ly to the numerical strength of Grants forces. A delegation of twenty for Grant took possession of room p, Palmer House, and formally opened their headquarters Some benevolent person placed Bible on the table in the room, but it was hardly ever referred to by the political army of salvation. Among the important arrivals this morning was Matt Carpenter of Wisconsin He is strongly in favor of maintaining the unit rule and he said he did not understand how any one would consent to become delegates under instructions and refuse to obey them Chauncey M Depew, of New York, registered at the Palmer, as also did Russell Brett of Pittsburg, and Assistant Postmaster General Tyner.
 A party of Blaine men called at the head quarters of the New York delegation at the Grand Pacific this evening and gave particu- lar attention to studying up things with the aim of bringing about a split. The apart Is of fla ment. W R Brown, of Iowa, opened the ball against Grant and talked half hour j; then Senator Farr, of Michigan, took up the argument for Blaine and put in another hour trying to win over some New York men. A number of others took part, and the excite ment became soon so Babel like that little could be understood. The Blaine supporters claim they are breaking up the New York delegation. This is emphatically denied by the Grant Ihen, who say the Blaine people can do nothing to hurt them. Senator Woodin is working for Blaine, and says that thirty members of the New York delegation are anti-Grant and will vote against the unit rule. Colonel Meade, one of the Vermont delegation, denies positively that there is an understanding among the members of the delegation to change their instructions for Edmunds to one for Grant if it is found that the following of their instructions will kill Grant Colonel Meade says Vermont holds to Ed munds with both hands, and says: We have hopes well founded that the issue will devel- CD into very favorable turn for our man. cannot speak any more freely or fully of our plans now but there are prognostications which seem to point to changes in our favor that are now entirely lost sight of by the many so intensely absorbed in moves between the Grant and Blaine factions. We have not had a thought of throwing over Edmunds under any circumstances and as things look now we have every encouragement to warmly espouse him.
 The committee appointed by the Woman's Suffrage Association to call upon the delegates and press upon them the necessity of plank in favor of woman suffrage in the national platform visited several of the State delega- 1 tion headquarters this afternoon, led by Mrs Zach Chandler. They met with varying suc- cess. The Pennsylvania men were cautious ! and non-committal in their expressions, as | were most of the delegations called on. The Blaine men are in close and constant commit nication with him. Photographic instrument 1 in the room occupied by Chandler, Hale and Frye is in constant use sending dispatches to l the Senator, who sits in his parlor at Wash 1 ington alongside. another instrument, and is 1 kept constantly informed of everything going 1 on in this city. Washburne is reported this l evening as the second choice of Indiana, l New Jersey Connecticut, Michigan, Califor- | mia and Ohio, and one of the compromises l proposed is that the fight in the convention !
 and that the one that is beaten for first place
 shall accept. The managers of Grant, | Blaine and Sherman maintain that this is | idle gossip and that the choice lies between | the leaders.
 l The Connecticut delegation held meeting
 at their headquarters in the Grand Pacific | this morning. Augustus Brandegae was chosen chairman and Joseph NJ Douglass sec
 retary. The following persons were chosen 1 to represent the delegation in the organiza- | tion Permanent organization of the con- ] vention, Joseph M Douglass credentials, l Samuel Fessenden resolutions, II Robin | son rules, Daniel Chadwick vice presi- 1 dent, Jeremiah Olney secretary, Taylor | Baldwin. There was some discussion in re- l gard to the unit rule before the convention l and thedelegation was found to be solid against 1 it's enforcement. The delegation will vote | for the admission of district delegates from 1 Illinois and ohter States. It will vote as fol 1 lows on tht first ballot Eight for Edmunds, l three for Blaine and one for Sherman. In 1 the event of Edmunds' name being with i drawn the Edmunds men will vote for Wash l burne.
 It is reported this evening that the Virginia men will disobey their instructions to vote for l Grant, and on the first ballot the vote will be Sherman ten, Grant eight and Blaine four. l Colonel R G Ingersoll, who has arrived, said 1 to an agent of the National Associated Press l that he thought the nominee of the conven- l ton will be either Grant or Blaine; and while l he would personally prefer the latter, he be- l ieved the Democrats could not put up man | that could beat Grant. The New York city I Sherman club has opened headquarters at the 1 Fremont. General Graham, surveyor of the ] port of New York, represents the business | men and bankers of New York, and while
 they antagonize none of the other candidates
 they will do all they can to secure Sherman'f nomination The Union Republicans of Phila- 1 delphia have secured three parlors at the Ire mont. In front of the hotel a large transparency has been hung out upon which Keystone" if
 painted in black with the words over and under, 'sPhiladelphia Republican Club. Delegations of the National Republican l League of Pennsylvania, the independent Republicans of New York, and young Re pubGcans of New York and young Republi cans of Massachusetts met at the Palmer
 House this morning and elected Wayne Nc
 Veagh of Pennsylvania chairman and Schaenhof of New York secretary. Int l committee appointed to obtain suitable rooml for headquarters reported that they hat l found quarters at the Windsor House oppo site the Palmer It was voted that meetings l be held each day during the convention at Il 1 A m and D m and that the anti-third tern Republicans from other States be invited tt 1 attend.
 A secret meeting of the Pennsylvania dele
 gates is in progress in the parlor on the uppel l floor of the Fremont House. There is a ful
 attendance of those delegates in the city l Blaine's friends assert that twenty eight O
 the delegates vii ldisobey their instructions t'
 vote for Grant. Well informed men on tht
 delegation say the disobedients won't numbe
 more than seven At the meeting now il
 progress a chairman will be elected and pro
 eramme mapped out. If the Blaine men ar,
 1 strong enough they will pass resolution no
 to cast the vote unit. The result, what
 ever it may be, will not be made known to tn
 public until after Don Cameron has beel
 consulted. Immediately after the meeting i
 over a special committee will wait on Dol
 Cameron and inform him of the action taken
 or the delegation may wait on him in 8 body
 As Cameron is engaged in the National Com
 mittee meeting the Pennsylvania delegation
 I may not be able to meet him until morning
 The course of the delegation in the conven zI ton hinges on their action tonight.
 II The Utica Republican Club of Philadel
 phia, one hundred strong and wearing whit silk hats, arrived by a special train at sI o'clock this evening under the marshalshil
 of William R Leeds, and created quite sen
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