The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-01

New YORK, May 3l.--A Chicago special
says Messrs. Conbling and Logan for Grant,
Denison and Foster for Sherman, and Ham.
lin and W. L. Chandler for Blaine, held a
conference last evening lasting FIVE hours.
The object was to SEQ if all parties could
agree to a temporary organization Aftor
full explanations on ;he unit rule the posi-
ton ofeaoh IS TO thosaae and thcirstrength,
Of which each felt sine, Conklrg Yielded
the position Of temporary chairman to ,tho
md'Grant men, pledgipg himself that Cam
eron would carry out the agreement In good
faith. This extended agreement Is not 10
prevent the substitution of one name for
one proposed.
The committee Of anti-Gant men to So
lect y temporary Chairman will name George
+. Hoar and ex-Reptesentatiye Brandridee. of
Connecticut tonight. After Conking had
pledged Cameron and his associates to tho
yielding OF the temporary Chairman TO tho
antl-Grant men, representatives Of the latter
took the list Of names TO be submitted over
to Logan, Cameron and their associates, and
they promptly rejected the three names sub
mitted, by the Sherman and Blainemen, name
", Hoar Brandridge and ex-senator Mitch
ell, OF Oregon, and declared they would only
accept the name of, Morrison Harris, Of Ma
| Yland, substituted by Conkling, who youched
for him as Sherman man, and as against
the unit rule. The Blaine and Sherman men
will not agree to Harris, on the ground that
he had been opposed for years 20 the Repub-
lcan party and had declared when he was
candidate for Governor that he owed no ALE
glance to the Republican party.
FEMALE FIGuRERs.
Chicago, ILL.,, May Sl.--There is 4 large
number Of woman here, nearly every
State in the Union being repre-.
sented, who, under the auspices of the Ma
tional Women's Suffrage ASSOCIATION, have
established their headquarters at the Palmer
house. Their object Is to secure a plank in
the Republican platform fayoring womens
suffrage.
DELEGATES ARRIVED.
Large numbers Of DELEGATES and others
have arrived. Tits morning at the Grand
Pacific four hundred were newly registered.
among them Colonel Il. G.. Ioeersoil, who
will speak tonight ut the anti Grant meeting.
providing the weather Is clear, which now
seems improbable. II IL believed that four
llths OF the delegates and a considerable
number Of the alternates of the New Jersey
and most OF the Illinois delegation arrived
this morning. Nothing definite has trans
pred MS to the action Of the national com.
mittee to b. taken this ev ming. but the
streets are full Of rumors, which mention a
compromise, abolition of the unit rule. the
dlsposltonof Cameron, and many other ex-
pedients, Tor settling the question in dispute
EDMusDs pEoLLJEs a SoMl,;Ar1oY.
A letter has been received by Judge Hoar
from Senator Edmunds, declining absolutely
to low his name rs a candidate for presi.
dent The friends of General Grant beleve
this will help them, while Vermont delegates.
although refusing to state their secondary
choice, cay they will not vote for Grant. K
Massachusetts delegate said to-day that Ed
muuds withdrawal would add twenty dele
gates to Shermans score.
THE SOUTHERN DELEGATES
have been the object Of solicitude and de-
voted attention for forty.eght hours past.
1t Is claimed BY the Grant men that they have
gained in that quarter, claim which friends
OF the o'her candidates refused to allow.
PLUCK.
The principal candidates have been very
active, and are confident that their friends
will stand by them. So far as can be learned
there is no giving in any quarter.
i MUSIC, ETC.
A large delegation from Philadelphia ar.
rived today and we're received with a band
and other demonstrations Of welcome.
Cincinnati furnishes smother large delega-
ton, which was received in like manner.
MEETINGS.
AT an early hour this evening large
crowds of people came from extreme parts
Of the city in masses to attend the meetings
on the lake shore. A meeting Of Grants
supporters was held in Dearborn park.
An anti-Grant meeting was held just oppo-
site the street, In the base ball grounds.
The speakers announced for Grant were
Senators Conkling, Logan and Carpenter, S.
l.. Woodford, Leonard SWEET, Emory Storrs,
Robert T. Lincoln and S. A. Douglass.
The anti-Grant speakers were Colonel r.
G. lneersoll, Davis Of Maine, Fred Has
saurk, Wayne McVeagh Lewis Parker, Glib
son and others.
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