, 1880-05-16


The State Convention may be guilty Of helpint
70 Gonsummatc such dastardty scheme, but /
VIII pe sorEy Job for the party in Illinois. The
III Gfan5 ant nonsense has gone far enough and MAY
1t will not succeed.
| Peoria Ttanseript 01tp).
me d:-o seems to bc in favor Of 'sauee for
ssue Not aE n #,
Cook County who will deny to the 5000 Grant
voters Of Saturday their proportion In the State =
Isolated from all surrounding circumstances, no
one would care to dispute its force. Taken;
b1 N @ with 1he tha
country, and it contains sweeping condemnn-
don Of the 10. and those with whom the I-0:
to Cook County applies with tenfoid force to
| New York and Pennsylvania. There the Grant
| men have applied the screws to the anti-Grant
Of voters representing that side to have tho
1cast voice or vote in the ChcaGo Conven-
enforced % % up to to The % pres present time in thosc Two
States, there might be some justification for the
| complaint of the 10: about the action Of the
Farwell Hall Convention. AZ the mattcr stands,
| the plea OF that sheet is the baldcst Of I'M
| pudence. Men aud organizations which give
r 70 or
wardness to close down" on their opponents
at every opportunity, and then whine because
their x rsnss owa medicine. We trust. # there is a
single Grnnt delegate from CookCounty allowed
in the Springfield Convention next week, they
and voted BY themselves, condemnatory Of tho
unit rule in Pennsylvania, New York, and else
where: # the unit rule is not to be enforced In
then let those Grant men show their apprecfa-
ron Of the favor by the prompt passage Of a
resolution against the enforcement Of the unit
sas co1vpes ts essfyoeds sa sS or Il fae,e
s. ncSe iHs to 6n er 9a sna If sitea
the Springfield Convention, they would at once
turn about n:1d attempt 70 throttle the men who
:Farweii. MedI Co., tie 10. ut one once % trsii is
ta guns =. on NJ McaI1ieron, Gonkng $: CO, and demand
own States. Equity is equity, and no man is H.
lowed TO plead for equity IN our common-law
e5o Is %SS Seoc that bis hands
into the Republican court and show that they |
hnye acted with strict justice, they will be en-
County affair and not before. In saying this t
much, We do not want to be understoodra As ad- !
1nittlng that the Cook County and the Pd7fnsyl- |
vania and New York cases are analogous: One !
Is the case OF q county where convention was |
called as unity, and would have been.tfcated I
as unity had the Grant party carried it by ever
SO small u majority The others are the cases |
Of States where the voters Of each Congressional
district have always been allowed, and up to
within q few ycars expected, to select their own
delegates to the National Convention
VIEWS OF OTHER JOURNALS.
St. Paul Pion<er Press (Rep.).
me whole proceeding was one Of lawless
nority to override by Awlcss violence the popu-
[ar will which hnd rejected its candidate. Il is
utterly inexcusable, and IT is utterly preposter-
recognition from the State Convention.
Dubuque {Ia) Times {Rtp)
!, NOBODY doubts that majority Of the Cook
eegon dnans VT that tpRnsea s acon tS Of ehe
majority was ungenerous, shall the actual voice
of the County Convention be repudiated and the
Is Grants own State to be carried for him by
rulings on technical and non-essential
questions? The Genernl cannot afford this, if
The Grant papers have had great deal to say
Ibout the foolish talk Of Curtis, Schuz s; Co. in
g4;a egard to A Aboltng i1 case Grant should be nom
elves, led By Logan himself, have boted in the
principal city Of Grants own State, we suppose
rs a rest. Their own action at Chicago has
:ven to bolting their Endorsement, and, If any
olt shall , be made from the nomination at Chi
I'll pc quoted as ample justification therefor. | :
he St Louis Globe- Democrat. which is working {
9 or GIant with az the zeal and indiscretion Of
hjfd~te.m t,j9.l National Convention very wrath-
a'ls: But it,. that y pnwtse convention did not
irection Of bolt from 'd6e'ei the party thae Lat
he Grant bolt at Chicago has already !
one and will constantly do throughout the {
'hole hole campaign Indeed. this bolt, led BY
'ogan. IS likely to be at once the cause and tho
ustiticaton ct much injurious boltiug in the {
'utional campaign. II Gen. Grant should be{he t
o1nlnee, his own friends in his own Stute led !
y the Western member of the Senatorial Syndi- | F
ate. have put in the hands Of Grants enemies +
the party the justification Of Grants authori- t
: to bolt What could the Chicago organ Of the | t
hicago boilers say in denuncation Of the bolt t
rs OF the nomination Of Grant If it should come
,ere get the arguments, or the excuses for ar u
uments, which they. could plead in Endorsement G
>r their course. Indeed, it looks very like the Il
rant men OF Illinois have sown n tempest now Il
lat they will have to reap as q whirlwnd in b
use OF the nomination of Grant- Their action y
Ghlcagp lust Monday was the worst days n
inc In ten years.