New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01


fOrnia IL, Connecticut g. Georgia 8, Indiana 90
Iowa %. Kansas 10, Maine IA, Oregon 9, Rhode
Island 8, Texas aud the Territories 8, he has 140
Sherman has Ohio A, Georgia g. Indiana 2, North
Carolina 8, a total Of 80. Edmunds has IA from
Massachusetts,, 10 from Vermont and from Con-
necticut, % in all. Washbume has 8 from Con-
necticut, and possibly more, the latest reports
from that State indicate accessions in his favor
among the delegates.
Finley, like all his preceding coparceners, over
does tho innocent business, The public has long
ceased to take stock In the childke and bland pol
itician.
The Anti-Grant sentiment in the XVIII Penn
sylvana District has made itself felt in very
effective manner. This District was practically
unanimous for Blaine before the Harrisburg Con-
vention met and tho action Of that Convention in
sending!to Chicago two Grant men to misrepresent
the District so excited its Republicans that every
county in it has since held mass meeting to protest
against the Conventions action. On Saturday the
became strong that one OF the delegates
Mr.. Thomas Robinson, gave the county committee OF
Butler a written. pledge to obey the wishes OF the
Republicans of the district and vote for Blaine
without regard to the unit rule. The Philadelphia
Press thinks the other delegate will have to follow
snit or lind his seat contested by Blaine delegate
when he reaches Chicago
Tho Hancock boom can DO lald away. III was
always sickly.
HancOcE's fate will be a warning to the other
Democratic candidates who think themselves stall
wart enough to start boom without Tilden's CO.
operation. A similar disaster Is likely to happen to
Thurman when the Ohio Convention meets next
Thursday Mr. Tilden may he feeble, but he is still
able to smash the budding hopes Of any rival who
attempts to crowd him Oft the track.
General Grant IL not talking much he was.
Silence is his best hold especially when his shOuters
don't know what ho is going to say.
The Third Tcrmers seem to think that all the talk
about Grants solid Southern support is ST.
fenced because one or two Southern States
are for Blaine. This is O feeble delusion.
Two-thrds of the strength Of tho cOmb-
nation which was arranged to nominate Grant comes
from tine South. His nomination. if it is made at
all, will be made because States which cannot give
him an electoral vote will vote in a for his
nomination. This Is true of other candidate.
Furthermore, Grant il the only candidate whom tho
North has plainly said it does not want. The point
is that the South has picked out for the North to
elect the very candidate whom the North saysit
will have the hardest work TO elect. by supporting
any other candidate the South will be cooperating
with the North, rather than pulling against it and
cooperating with the Democratic party.
Here we are aganp That Seymour trouble has
had n fresh outbreak in spite Of the quletine effect
which the Syracuse Convention ought TO have had
on it, two-cOumn letter from Utica is published
in The st. Louis POst-Dispatch. with these familiar
headlines: Horatio Seymour. A visit to the
home OF the Decrslield Farmer. lie will not decline
q Cincinnati nomination" 1t is entirely safe to
say that he won't for no man can decline what isn't
offered him.
Randall is manager for Tilden to be proud Of.
IIo has earned front position among the second
choices.
voorhees, has closed his exodus inquiry. and the
total expense to the Government will he about
$4,000. That is good deal Of money, but as the
work has kept Voorfres quiet for several weeks
it is not an entire waste.
Wallace falls back on the coffec-pot. lie says, in
view Of his Harrisburg tusslc with Randall that he
wants no more wreStles with the barrel"
great deal of tho credit for tho exposure of the
bribery scandal in the Pennsylvania Legislature,
and the conviction of the guilty lobbyists and Leg
islators, is due to Mr. Charles S. Wolfe, of Union
County, who by persistent effort started the nycs
tgation and afterward carried it forward as chair
man Of the Committee and one Of tho counsel for
the State in the trials. Mr.. Wolfe has served three
ferns i'm the House, and has been courageous and
untring in his efforts for Legislative purity and
reform. An attempt is being made by the friends
of the parties he has exposed to defeat him for
election, but it will probably be OF no effect
Mr.. Tilden's health has now received a certificate
which ought TO last. Mr.. William MOller, who is a
rcativeof Mr.. Havemeyer, whoisa cOparcener of Mr..
Pelton, who acted entirely without tho knowledge
of his uncle-Mr. William MOller certifes as follows,
over his own signature. in The Herald: Therefore.
be It known to his friends, and enemies as well,
that tho venerable statesman of Gramercy Park
is moro than sufficiently strong. both physically
and mentally, to endure tho pressure and hard
ships of half dozen Presidential campaigns as tho
standard bearer of his party. No person. friend or
foe can truthfully contradict this statement.
Those people who SEQ him In daily life. as l
do, in his robust health, doing the work of
at least three men without seeming fatigue, and
then entertaining his friends. riding upon horse
back and enjoying recreation and amusement
through all OF which no proudly rides like a cen:
taur-they are my witnesses to these facts, and all
pronounce him to-day, q tower Of strength whose
fine physique will still withstand the foul blasts
from Ohio, where even now victory awaits him.
Respectfully. William MOllcr." Now let the re-
cacitrants look out for hard knocks from this
tower of strength whose fine physique. ETC., etc.
PERSONAL.