Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-01

l slightest anxiety does not talk of the con- | test for the nomination and is calm as a sum l Grants nomination. He claims he has 400 1 votes. He of course counts the New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois delegations solid Ex-Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, says that
 his State has not got so far as second l choice but if they break from Grant Blaine | will get some votes, but Sherman none, and that the main strength of the State would l go for Windom, as would also 1 Missouri, Tennessee, Iowa and Missis- sippi. General McMillan, of Louisiana, says
 his delegation will vote seven for Grant, sev-
 en for sherman, two for Blaine, with prob able break for Sherman if he stands good chance for the nomination. There is some l bitter talk at the Sherman headquarters of 1 the use of Grant money among Southern negro delegates. Virginia, in case of a break for Grant, will go largely for Blaine. Texas 1 is divided, with Grant in the majority, but l the Sherman men on the delegation say they l will vote for him in defiance of an attempt to i enforce the unit rule. Tennessee is eight for
 Sherman, eight for Blaine and eight for Grant. l The latter men claim that if he is nominated l he will get a heavy Democratic support in
 Tennessee, and that the Memphis Avalanche | will advocate his election and carry with it l the conservative Democrats.
 After two or three attempts of the New i York delegation to meet during the afternoon l the boiling members completed their plan and put themselves on record Twenty-one 1 of the regular delegates and Elliott, an alter ] nate who represents MT. Schroeder of Brook l lyn, signed a mutual pledge that they would not follow their instructions and will under no circumstances vote in the conv ention for Grant. The boiling delegates are 1 Birdsal and Hawkins of the First, Dag gett of the Third, Robinson and Husted of the Twelfth, Butcher of the Thirteenth, | Stivers and Walsh from the Fourteenth, AbeI and James from the Nineteenth Wagner and West from the Twentieth, Jacobs from the Twenty first, Douglass and Sylvester from tae Twenty second, Woodin and Murray from the Twenty y-sixth and Allen and Sessions from
 the Thirty third districts. That one-third of the delegates should join the bolt surprised the Grant men, who were prepared for much smaller defection. The bolters had only an
 hour previously placed the number they counted on at seventeen. They now claim that other signatures will probably follow
 The New Jersey delegation organized with General W Sewen as chairman and A P Condit secretary and carried out it's threat of taking stand as a unit against the unit rule. They will vote against the Grant managers on every measure. This stand will cost Blaine eight votes in the delegation on the
 first ballot. If the unit rule is abolished the vote on the first ballot will be Blaine 10, Sherman and Washburne 9 Senator Conk- ling is serene and confident and says the anti Grant talk will spend itself before the con- vention meets. He says, 'Let them talk; we will lie on the beach and bleed awhile and then get up and fight again"
 The Blaine and Sherman men say that the unit rule will be abandoned, and 1t was asserted tonight that Cameron, Logan and Conklng had signed an agreement to that effect Judge Pierrepont is in favor of drop ping the rule, and says that Grant can be nominated better without it and elected much easier. Colonel Stanton, of Connecticut, says his State cannot be carried for Grant. The Minnesota men are full of talk for Windom and boast of what he has done for the coun- try as chairman of the Committee on Trans portation. General Tyner says Indiana is the worst mixed of all. Matt Carpenter says Wisconsin will go for any man who is agrSe- able to the other States.
 The great Grant demonstration began in Dearborn Park at 8 o'clock with speaking from two stands, one at the south and one at the north end Ex-Governor Beveridge pre- sided at the main stand, which was just op- posite White Stocking Park, where the Blaine people were holding forth. The crowd in front of this stand was estimated at 5000 persons. The stand was an immense struc- ture and contained several hundred ladies, reporters and speakers, and away to the front and on as far as the voice of the best speaker could reach. All were packed together as closely as possible. It was a most enthusiastic crowd, cheering the speakers frequently, especially any mention of Grants name, so that it would be several minutes before they could proceed Stephen A Douglass spoke briefly twice at the main stand and once at the other, declaring strongly for Grant as the only Republican who could carry any of the Southern States and the only one for whom the colored people would soidly vote. Sen ator Logan was the second speaker. He touched briefly on Grants record as soldier and President. The third term of Grant, he said, meant peace and prosperity for the country. With majority of the convention we are going to nominate him.
 Fifteen thousand persons attended the anti Grant meeting at Base Ball Park. Lieutenant Governor Shuman, of Illinois, when intro duced as chairman, said the meeting was to protest against the fatal blunder liable to be committed by the Republicans. If the third term horror be removed 8 sense of relief would be experienced as if frightful phan- tom had vanished o Moore, of New Hampshire, thought the meeting was on the line of perpetuating the government. Every disinterested patriot should protest against a third term. He denounced what he termed the ''grand larceny' of the Illinois delegation and declared that Grant, if nominated
 was doomed to defeat His mention of his preference for Blaine elicited prolonged ap- plause. Washburne's name also evoked con siderable cheering. The Blaine men crowd ed around the grand stand and the Wash burne men were near the speaker. The names of Edmunds and Sherman were about equally applauded. MT Moore argued against third term President Hon Fred Nassau rok of Cincinnati declared his opposition to a third term. He wanted statesman. He was for Sherman, but could vote for Blaine, for Edmunds or Washburne. Wayne Me
 Veagh of Pennsylvania stirred up much en- thusiasm. The political trio of ''bosses," he said, regarded this as rice plantation where masters voted for slaves. Delegates voting
 by proxy had perished. Lincoln never packed convention. Sumner never gagged con- stituency. He would never yield to a third
 term or the unit rule, and to advocate either
 was political suicide. He preferred Blaine
 but would yield to any acceptable man. The
 party could not enter the campaign burdened
 with the corruption of two of Grants terms
 and the trickery by which he might get the
 nomination for third. Others followed in @ similar strain.
 This evening the New York delegation or
 ganized by the choice of Conkling as chair man and O w Chapman as secretary and the appointment of the following representatives on the committees in the convention Ed
 wards Pierrepont on resolutions George H Sharpe rules Tracy on
 credentials and H R Pierson on per manent organization. During the meeting
 Pierrepont said he had heard that compact
 had been entered into by certain members of the delegation, and that if true he thought
 the delegation should know it. He had no doubt some of the gentlemen would explain. All but one of the reluctants were present. There was a dead silence of two
 minutes, but not word of reply. MT. i Conkling said 1T can't suppose that any gentlemen have violated their obligations i to the State convention or courtesy to the delegation" There was another pause, but | no one had any explanation to make, and an l adjournment was had until tomorrow morn ing at II o'clock. Serious trouble seems 1 likely to grow out of the bolt, but the direc- 1 tion 1t may take is only rumored.
 The Republican National Committee met 1 tonight at o'clock in the headquarters of ! the committee and began at once to consider
 the important questions which must be set
 tied before Wednesday. Every member of
 the committee was present in person or rep
 resented by proxy. A fight over
 the unit rule was precipitated by 1 motion.that the Chair be instructed to enforce
 it in the preliminary organization of the con- I vention. To the surprise of all not in the se-
 cret of the Grant programme Mir Cameron