Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-31
AFFAIRS AT CHICAGO.
The General Outlook.
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| CHICAGO, May 27.-Thc rotundas Of the
Grand Pacific Hotel and Palmer House be-
gin to wear . convention look. This evening
of course only few Of the delegates have
vet arrived, but every train brings two or
three, and the managers for the lead
| ing presidential candidates are on
hand at their several headquarters con-
sulting in regard TO the contest
which is now opening, and receiving their
friends as they arrive. The Blaine and
| Sherman managers are at the Grand
Pacific Hotel, where each have suit of
room. on the parlor floor. The third-term
| men have chosen the Palmer House as their
Headquarters and the national committee has
rooms there.
The Grant men do not seem to care tn talk
much for the newspapers. They still continue
TO claim everything, and to assert with
vehement pOsitiveness that their candidate
will receive more than 400 votes on the first
ballot and will be nominated at the same
time. The free expressions Of indignant
feeling over the proceedings of the Spring
field convention displease them and make
them feel anything but at their ease.
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the anti-Grant sentiment has been growing
during the last day or two. In the city of
Chicago it appears to be simply overwhelm-
ing. Governor Dennison says that many
merchants and business men Of the city. who
have called upon him to-day, describe the OPP
position to a third term here as almost uni
versal. Under these circumstances. Chicago,
which was selected as the city likely to be
most favorable to the ex-President, becomes
the worst possible place in which to secure
his nomination The Grant managers would
to night undoubtedly prefer to have the con-
vention meet anywhere else than here.
ASrr-rHIRp-TERMERs UNITING.
| Mr.. Sherman's friends recognize the neces-
sity of cooperating with those of Messrs.
Blaine and Washburne in order to prevent
the third-term managers from capturing the
organization Of the convention and riding
roughshod over their opponents rs General
Logan and his followers did over their Oppo
nents at Springfield. There will be no mis-
understanding among the Anti-Grant men as
TO the prelimnaries. The Sherman and
Blaine men will undoubtedly agree upon can
didates for temporary and permanent chair
men, and in resisting any attempt to gain an
advantage for Grant through unfair rulings
or violations of the precedents of republican
conventions. Indeed it is thought by some
that the Indignation over the Springfield per-
Torrance which seems to be growing, and
the universal distrust with which every move
of the Grant managers will be received
will gain such proportions by the
time the convention meets that Senator Cam
eron and his associates will be almost power
| less.
| The DIN OF PREPARATION.
| The Unusual action of the Commit
tee of Arrangements for the National Con-
ventiOn in demanding of the local committee
on Tuesday immediate possession of the Con-
vention Hall in the Exposition Building prob
ably has no significance, and yet. under the
circumstances, is sure to cause comment and
| to be considered suspicious. In 1876 at Gin
cinDati, the building in which the National
Convention met was held by the local COM
mittee until the morning hen the Convention
was to assemble. This year the National
| Committee of arrangements made formal
demand for the possession of the hall on
Tuesday, eight days before the convention,
and obtained it. 1t may be that there is no
intention of packing the galleries with Grant
shouters, hut the personnel Of the committee
and its unusual action have excited a fear in
the minds of some that they do intend some
thing Of the kind.
CoLoRED DELEGATES ARRIVING.
last twenty-four hours are several colored
men from the South, delegates and members
Of the National Committee. A party which
arrived last night was headed by the Hon.
jeremiah HARRISON, ex-member of Congress
from Alabama, negro without polish but
remarkably original and witty in his way.
The colored men. on reaching the Grand
Pacific Hotel, inquired for the Sherman
headquarters, where they were received hos
pitably.
As soon as the arrival of these men was
known swarm of local reporters fell upon
them to secure interviews. These were fol-
lowed by an agent of the Grant faction. who
offered them free rooms at the Palmer House.
which they declined. 'Jere" HARRISON told
all those that talked with him that in his
opinion the States which will have to furnish,
the votes'for the republican candidate for
President ought to be allowed to select him.
In conversation with some of Senator
Blaine's friends to-day one of two of the
colOred delegates from the South who are
| instructed to vote for Grant, expressed con-
siderable concern in regard to the situation.
| They think that their lot in the South will be-
come very much harder than it is now if
democratic President should be elected and
they are afraid from what they have heard
lately, Grant would be defeated if he should
be the candidate. Under these circumstances
they are at a loss what course it is best for
them to pursue. 1t is safe to say that some
body will be disappointed in the vote of the
Southern delegates. 1t will be unsafe to
predict for whom many Of them will be cast.
The record alone will show.
1t is considered fortunate by many of the
| older republicans who have already arrived