Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-06-02
The Republican Campaign

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 31.-Since the
arrival of Senator Conkling and the
other New York leaders the manage
ment ofthe Grant campaign has been
by common consent handed over to
New York exclusively, The New
Workers are considered the boss mans
ayers, and they show that they deserve
the application. Everything is con"
Quoted by them on grand scale. They
have immense suits Of rooms on the
second floor of the Grand Pacific, for
which they pay five hundred dollars a
day. They have an abundance OF re-
freshments, which are dispensed With
a liberal baud. Their sentries are
stationed at all stragetic points, and
their commanders are constantly en-
gagged IN dispatching orders and receive
ing reports. They have in twenty"iour
hours so systematized things that they
have not only got down to q fine point
the status Of the national committee,
but they profess to have diagnosed the
entire convention, and to have arranged
the Grant, the antisGrant, and the
doubtful members under different heads.
They claim 40l members OF the con,
venlion, and so satisfied are some OF
Grants warm friends Of the correct
ness Of the calculation that several OF
them have left for other points, declar'
ing their conviction that the whole
thing is settled and it Is not worth while
for them 10 remain any longer.
Col, Bob. Ingersoll, who is as warm
for Blaine as he was in 1876, was shown
the figures ofthe New Workers. lie
said that Grant would get 300 votes Oh
the first ballot and no more. The New
Workers are not altogether satisfied
with Don Cameron's management, and
say that he has not been doing as good
work as they had right to expect, and
they say that he has made no etior: to
have things attractive and stylish about
the Pennsylvania headquarters. In
slang parlance not only the New York
srs, but many Of the delegates from
Pennsylvania and other States, COM
plain that Don puts on too many airs,
and will not come down to a common
level. The New Workers say that it Is
rather unfortunate that the dnty OF call
ing the convention to order and decd
ing upon the intricate and difficult Ques'
tons which may be sprung devoiye'
upon man who has no will, and Is
very inexperienced In parliamentary
law, and it Is understood that DOL
feels somewhat uncomfortable abou
this himself, as he did not realize wha
he might be called upon to do at Tho
time he had himself elected chairman
Of the committee.
Gov. Boutwell,, Of Massachusetts, IL
conversation this morning said that NJ
was convinced Grant was the only maj
the republicans could elect, and ex-At
torney-Gencral TAFT. Of Ohio, concurre'
in the opinion. Nearly every on
around the hotels to-day, delegates ant
others, had on Grant or Blaine badges
and many were decorated with larg
silk badges, on whichwere INSCRIBED
Anti Third-Term." All bets wer
made with Grant against the Held
Some of the colored delegates iron
the backwoods who arrived to-day woul'
neither talk Grant, Blaine or Sherman
until they had spent several hours Il
riding up and down in the hotel eleva
tors. After that they put on Grant
sherman and Blaine badges, accordln
] to their predictions, promenade
around as magnificent as peacock'
Some of the colored citizens OF Chicago
discovering what big men the colore
delegates are, dressed themselves u
IN store clothes, circulated among til
Blaine and Sherman managers, pre-
claimed that they were delegates, an
announced their willingness TO be seen