, 1880-05-31

ana me State will 60 Republican anyhow; but
we 1eel that we. would be even more certain Of
success than ever with Grant and Settle at the
PIE IN prison for election frauds, and it VIC have
a. majority h no Returning Board will deprive us
OF ne elections results"
Do you believe Grant could carry any other
Southern Statey'
Yes, believe he could carry Virginia, North
Carolina. and Louisiana. There is no doubt
about Florida It viii be Republican no mat
ter who Is put up
Mr. J. E. Hamilton, delegate from the Sixth
District of Kentucky, was seen ut the Palmer
OF split in the Grant column in his State. Said
he: THE delegation is certainly not solid for
the twenty-four, are anti-Grnnt- OF these three
are for Sherman and one or two for Blaine. I,
myself. am anti.Grant These Blaine and sher-
admission Of the Illinois delegation. We were
elected By cur districts, but the record reads
that we were appointed By the Convention. This
WIS wrong. and was done to compel us to abide
by the Instructions It won't succeed. PUT that
down sure
The reporter "put it down and retired,
4 TRIBUNE reporter ran down
CoLoI.ED SOUTHERN DELE0ATE
yesterday, who was said to BIO well posted and
able to impart point or two Of interest, If his
that he had deserted the Grunt standard On ac-
count OF the opposition In the North to him.
We came here, :, said he, respecting to fiud
the Northern people almost unit in support Of
Gen. Grant--not looking for anything more
than the frotn which usually precedes conycn-
ton, and amounts to nothing; but we have met
earnest in their statements that Gen. Grant can
not be elected that we cannot ignore what they
say me ~ }hs Of sGpte depends
Democrats get control Of the whole Govern
ment, we know they will upset all tho legisla-
ton which Is benetcent to our raee, aud that we
InAt11A has n =, nr,ar
comfort: 1ti bad enough down there now, God
knows. if coiored man attempts to assert his
~ With %has 'nf OF esasnt rhnEs would
we'll as Democratic Congress and Democratic
Supreme Court, don't like to think of. The
delegates, especially the co1ored men, me THAT that It It
would be suicidal to nominate Gen. Grnnt, and
as he cannot get the nomination without our
votes. some who were instructed for him say
openly that they are not going to cut their own
throAts, and have gone to work to beat him, and
l tell you, they will succeed in doing it. Mark
votes by fifty as they think they have from the
South. am doing what Gun against him, and
50 are other original Grant men, simply for the
reason that We want tho strongest man nomi-
nuted, and that isn't Grant,"
The reporter also saw
TWO OF TEE GRANT DELEGATES FROM KENTUCKY,
". Q. Bradley and Logan Mckee, who admitted
that there would certainly be twenty votes for
Grant out Of the twenty-four, which was as
much as to say that four wouldn't regard in
Sa1 aneE nad nurper
would vote US they chose to, though on that
subject they had nothing in the way Of detinit
information. For themselves, they regarded
the whole delegation us trebiy instructed to vote
for Grant and to act rs Il unit on all questions,
and twenty of the delegates would certainly obey
thought it barely possible, figuring on the vote
Of l61s that Grant might carry Kentucky, This
depended. however. on the strength Of the al-
admitted, had probably been exaggerated and
wouldn't do to count on.
AMONG TIE NEWLY-AnH1yED LOUISIANA DELE
GATES
at the Gardner House are Senator Dumont, a
Of Concordia, La. The reporter had brief chat
with Mr.. Dumont, who told the story Of the
Pinchbnek- -Beattie bolt from the Louisiana Con-
venhOn, and expressed the belief that, II the
Chicago Convention were to seat the bolters and
be most disastrous to the interests Of the Repub
lican party III his State. Senator Dumont. who
is one Of the seven Sherman men in the delega-
ton, stated that he believed Blaine was the SEQ
ond choice Of the sherman delegates.
Mr.. David Young. a colured gentleman bear
Ing evidences Of considerable education sec
count Of the Louisiana delegation made seven
Grant men, seven Sherman, and two Blaine 4
Grant man himself, he acknowledged that tho
outlook in Chicago was not nearly rs favorable
for his candidate as he had expected to tlnu II,
md this aspect he attributed purity to the prc5u-
dice against the unit rule and partly to. to he TIE
0o~%A %~~eA~~A
leaders Of the Grant forces He was directly
opposed to the unit rule himself, and SO, he be-
on As 70 the steal es 81 81 the state Of nois he
sSeoe@asa Se as ate@pt e9n s Being made
bolters upon the Chicago Convention. He was,
however. for Grant, and would support him as
long as there seemed any chance 70 nominate
Blaine.
NORTH CAROLINA.
"How does the North Carolina delegation
really stand?' s'.id Tlt1BuSE reporter to Judge
AT least fifteen are for sherman: the other
five ure for Gralnt."
THAT doesn't accord with the Grant estt-
II know. They claim twelve for Grant, and
give Sherman eight; but their figures arc
sAre. you instuetedT'
..Who is the second choIce7'
"wc haven't decided but it lies between
Grant and Blaine. The delegation. think,
would divide on the two. Al will. Of course:
them are opposed to Grant Oh account OF the
"Could Grant carry North Carolina?'
"I have IN opinion about it. Some agTeo
With me that he would be the strongest man
there"
"He could now: but the Democracy would
bring to bear the third idea, and there Is
knowing what ideas they might put into the
minds OF 1Uu35ES dUOQL IL IuOIAIEuts uCSFnt@
isa, ETC.; and fear they would succeed iu ulak-
ing u pretty damaging impression II q vote
were taken now, Grant would curry North Caro-
lima, but there is no knowing what four or tive
months Of Misrepresentation will do. am sat
isted myself that Gen. Grant has no ambitious
designs or motives. l have confidence in him,
vet don't know but some bad man might make
use of the precedent and involve the country in
danger
What other Southern States could Grant
carry?" ~ .-.---
Any Republican they nominate here can
carry South Carolina If there Is u fnir election
!" nut will the Democrats make q fair COUNT"
"Thut is another thing am not prepared to
say whether he could with their batlot-boA stuf-
ing buIld0zing, shotgun policy and intimlda-
tion by mild means where It answers the pur-
puse and emphutic-killing negro<=-if neccs-
us Grant popular in the South7"
ayes Tho illiternte people there know no
one else. and that makes him very strong among
them. They would have to be told who other
men arc.
ANOTHER NORTH CAROLINA DELEGATE.
Mr. O. H. Blocker, of Fayetteville, was also In
tcrviewed. He said the delegation stood as
Judge Starbuck had stated.
=. Think" said he, with a good nom1nanon
made here we could carry our Suite. Any prom
incut Republican that is nominated earnestly
could do it"
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