Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-06-04

{ The members Of the Massachusetts dclcga-
ton withou, exception feel much encouraged
| by the favorable disposition toward the can
didlte ii majority of them support every
where manifested. They believe that On
| the first ballot Mr. Edmunds will receive
more votes than lac has been allowed in
any of the estimates made. II is among
the probabilities that he will receive large
] prnportIon of the vote of Wisconsin at
/ start and the solid vote Of the State if it he
comes apparant after one or two ballots thai
Blaine is not likely Ia he nominated. Scna-
/ tor lIoar during Yesterday and to-day has
talked with many Of the more influential Of
/ the delegations from all parts Of the country,
4 and lac has the same conviction of the grow
/ ing strength of Mr.. Edmunds as candidate
/ able to harmonic all the contending factions
! OF the parly.-BostoA -1dcertiScr.
! Judge Edmunds, however, stands the best
| chance for receiving the Grant support if
| the great captain cannot lie nominated. If
/ he can get that with Massachusetts and
/ Vermont his nomination will be certain.
/ Some of the friends of Was iburne prophecy
| that the fight in the convention will narrow
down 10 Washburnc and EdmunCs, and that
| whichever Of them is beaten for President
will he put on the ticket as Vice President,
. SO llliI lllt lltkfl W III wv 'ltlti
and Edmunds, or Edmunds and Washburne.
This may be a happy solution Of the present
| difficulty. 49," Perky.' 10 Boston Journal.
THE TOWN AND The CROWDS.
/ The streets are gay with flags, and gaycr
with fitting delegates. The delegations have
many Of them, especially from the West and
/ South. come IN with brass bands. The shop
windows are full Of pictures of candidates, -
at least. full of Grant and Blaine portraits
4 There is no picture Of Edmunds 10 be seen,
nor are any delegates labeled "Edmunds,"
though there are some that read Sherman"
few that bear the legend mo Tlird Term"
and "A great many that are inscribed
respectively "Grant' and ''Banc ="
The flaming red badges of the Sherman men
are prominent in inverse ratio to their i'm
pnriancc. showing in the crowds like signals
of war The sound of martial music has
/ been almost constantly hS'rd in the streets.
I II il the npiscst and most ohtrlsivc cOnven-
/ ton old politicians aver, that they can re-
/ member The mass meetings, with blazing
/ illuminations Monday evening, drew not less
4 than ~. 000 people everything is at fever
heat. and ii is difficult to make any cool
/ judgment In the evening, and way into
/ the night the bands plny, and electric lights
make dazzling all the principal hotels, where
/ the sqllabllc goes on continually. the CORR
doris being filled by anxious inquirers, and
the parlors occupied with ''cot beds, let at
80 night
THE LEADING NAMES TO RE rrT ASIDE.
Mr.. Hudson, the wrll-informcd Chicago
/ correspondent of the Boston UcJuH, tcle-
I graphs that paper that probably the three
/ mos, prominent candidates will he with
Drawn. lie says: The Blaine men assert
positively that they Hill l'ad Grant on the
tir-i ballot, and it il probable that they will
~ al"r cvyn. The opinion 81 car-headed
. ,crv, - &c that I'll three rt The leading can
riida,e are likely to he lui aside, Wclliu-