New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-28
GRANT MEN CLOSELY PUSHED.
TIE GRANT FACTION FIND THE CONVENTION CALL
IN THEIR wAY-PROsPECTs OF BITTER FIGHT
TILL. .A-r1 q At AtEN PIuCK.


IN THEIR wAY-PRosPEcTs OF A BITTER FIGHT
THE ANTI-GRANT MEN FULL OF PLUCK.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNE.l
CHICAGO, May 27.-Nothing that has happened
since the Springfield Convention has seemed to an
nOy the third-term managers, many OF whom are
already gathered at Chicago, as much as the re-
peated quotation by the ant-Grant men OF the Ian
guage of the call for the National Convention ana
the emphasis which they place upon the fact that
Republicans were invited to choose two delegates
from each Congressional district. The Chicago inter-
Ocean, the Grant organ in this city, taxes hoid Oh
the subject to-day and strives to show that the
words quoted above actually mean nothing and
that if they are susceptible of the Interpretation
which the anti-Gramt men seek to place upon them,
they would make invalid the credentials OF nine
tepths of all the delegates to the National
Convention. OF course, the obvious an
swer to this is that no question has been
raised In most of the States in regard TO
the method of choosing delegates and that when
the right of any given person to represent district
is not questioned by anybody, the National Con-
vention has no right reason to raise objections.
II Senator Don Cameron could have foreseen that
this question would arise on this occasion he would
probably have taken pains not tohave placed in the
hands of the anti-Grant men so effective weapon
as the language of that call furnishes But the
Of that document No friend of Senator Blame or
Secretary Sherman had any hand in tho preparation
of IT, 1t was written by that veteran, uncompro-
missing dyed-in-the-wool thiTd-termer, George c..
Gorham, and signed by Senator Cameron and Col
Onel Keogh the Chairman and Secretary Of the Ma
tonal Committee.
1t is considered fortunate by many Of the older
Republicans who have already arrived in Chicago,
and who desire to see that fundamental doctrine Of
Republicanism, the right of the people to rule.
prevail, that this question is 10 be brought to n
sduare issue here next week and settled probably
forever. They look upon the attempt Of q few
Grant leaders to control the party machinery, se
lect its candidates and dictate its policy regardless
of the wishes of the great mass of the voters upon
whose support its very life depends fraught with
the most serious danger. The Democratic party in
the days when power was about to pass away from
it had fallen into just such condition. The
" bosses treated with contempt the wishes Of the
voters, and depended on their fidelity to the party
and to frauds for success at the polls but such pro-
ceedings would very sOon destroy the Republican
party. .,c. , -
adjoining States, aroused and express Their IN,
| diRnation without reserve. The "bulldOzlng"
tactics of General Logan at the Springfield COnven'
tion are denounced on every side, and the popular
feeling well expressed by an ONO farmer, who
i'm conversation in the city Yesterday declared that
| it would never do for the Republican party to APP
| prove the proceedings of the Springfield Conycn-
ton. If it does, and General Grant is elected by
| such MEANS" said he, three men-SenatOrs COnk-
| ling, Cameron and LOgan-wll have more power ~
the party than two milliO of voters and that wil
never do IN the n te ha %G
delegates to National Conventions shall he chosen
by the direct votes of the Republicans OF the dis
trcts il will have done much to deserve and secure
| the confidence of Republican voters all over the
| country.