The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-06
WASHINGTON GOSSIP,
rhe Illinois Convention POstpOncd--Ol,io
Indiana and Wisconsin Wcalen Badly.

Tho determination Of the Illinois
Republican Committee to put Off the
meeting of the State Convention until
tho 10th of May is felt here to be
very damaging blow to tho third term
movement. Tho plan of the third
term syndicate, formed while the OK
President was In Philadelphia, and
promulgated early in january, was
that Pennsylvania, New York, Indi-
ana and Illinois should hold their con-
vcntions very early and select solid
third term delegations for the National
Convention with a view to influencing
other States. Accordingly Senator
Cameron caused the PENNSYLVANIA
Convention to be called for tho 4th of
February, and when complaint was
made that the sudden call did not give
the people time meet in county con-
vcntions the order was given that the
county committees should appoint the
delegates to Harrisburg without the
intervention or action of the people.
Before The Harrisburg Convention met
Indiana Republicans showed so rencr-
al and formidable an opposition to tho
third term that the syndicate quietly
dropped that State from their list and
claimed thereafter that solid third term
delegations from PENNSYLVANIA, New
YORK and Illinois would be enough for
them, and that tho conventions in
these three States meeting early and
declaring for tho cN-Prcsi,lcnt would
give them all they needed to effect
their object. The Harrisburg Con-
vention proved disappointment TO
them, however, in spite of Camcron's
ctlorts. The third term proved very
weak; it was carried by a small ma
lorlty, 1873 to ll3, and Mr.. Came, on
is reported to have said since that it.
would have failed had not his friends
among the unti-thirtl-tcrmcrs stood bv
nm personally, cUncciving That the
real struggle was over the Cameron
prcdominance in the State. Not n
single county in the State had instruct
cd It's delegates for tho cX-Prcs;dnnt.
except Dauphin county, in " hich MIR.
Cameron lives, and it was ONLY bv
using his own and Governor Iiovt's
poltlcal influence to persuade sSme
delegates from anti-third-tcrm conn
ties, suclaS LrZcrnc and Lackawanna.
10 go over to the cN-Prcsidcnt that he
escaped an utter defeat. Next came
the New York Convention. There
the whole vast patronage Of the State
was III the hands of the thirl-tcrmcrs
and was openly used t, sc.urc the
convention. Mr.. Conkling himself
TOOK the most earnest interest i'm thc
matter. The Convention stood PIT to
lS9. only 81 majority for the tlird
term, smaller majority in propol ton
to the numbers Of the Convention thon
that which Mr.. Cameron sccu,cl in
pennsylvania; but an analysis OF this
vote shows that the third term strength
came to very great extent, and, iu-
dccd, almost altogether, from those
counties and parts of the State in
which the Democrats have a safe ma
lority. While the opposition to the
third term came from the Republican
Counties, thus showing that the Re-
publican part OF the State is opposcd
to the third term, and so strongly op-
posed fo it. that. not even tie most
sklttuland determined use of patron
age could overcome or silence the pco-
pies dislike.
The New York Convention met on
Wednesday, and on the same day the
Illinois State Committee assembled at
Chicago. \ large number of promi-
ncnt Republicans met with it, and
persons from every district in the
State expressed themselves freely and
fully on the political situation. Thcr. = !
upon late in the afternoon, and when |
the result in Utica was already known.
the committee went into private scs-
sion and determined to called the Slate
convention to meet on the 10th Of
May: Amendments setting the meet
ing for an earlier day were voted
DOWN, and the 10th of May, just fifteen
Gays before the a<s.mbling of Il Q
National Convention, was fixed. The |
meaning OF this is sufficiently clear.
The Illinois Republicans refuse to tic
themselves to the third term kite. They
have seen that the third term hove
ment has no popular strength.
Among the Republicans Of Pcnnsvl-
vania a careful and authentic inquiry
among county and township commit
tee men shows that Of ,63l who have
responded only 2SS favor the third
term. In Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin
and other Republican States the third
term movement is equally weak, while
IN New York most of the third tcrmcrs
in the Convention came from Demo
cratic counties and districts. The
third term movement has, therefore,
entirely broken down in two of the
States, which according to the origi-
nal programme were to be captured
early-namcly, Indiana and Illinois,
and it has carried two conventions by
patronage and machine manipulation
10y majorities of 22 on vote Of 256 in
one case and 81 on vote of S97 in the
o:her, these narrow successes causing
in each case immediate and open dis,
content and division in the party.
That is the net result of the third term
campaign.
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