Omaha daily bee., 1880-06-01
H BAWL BEGINS.
The Garden City Trans
formed into a Political
Babel.
COMPOUNDED Confusion Char
acterizes the Various
Headquarters.
Intensified by a Constant Stream
of Frenzied Friends of the
Favorites.
The High C.is Of Hiram's Host
Forced to Come Down a Peg.
And Surrender to the OPPOSE
ton the Temporary Chair
manship.
Black Jack "Sees" the Ad.
vance Guard of the Me-
braska Delegation,
And is Promptly and Politely
Snubbed by the Sage of
Calhoun.
A Field Day for Delegates and
Leaders.
Black Jack "Sees" the Ad-
vance Guard of the Me-
braska Delegation,
And is Promptly and Politely
Snubbed by the Sage of
Calhoun.
A Field Day for Delegates and
Leaders.
PALMER HOUSE PACKED.

Special dispatch to THE BEE.
CHICAGO, May 81 p. m.-The
arrivals at the Palmer house this
morning were literally too numerous
to mention, and at 10 o'clock the
clerks we're still busy registering and
assigning rooms to fresh arrivals, 30
that at that time it was almost a phys
ical impossibility to get within shout
ing distance of the register, much less
to obtain a glance at it. The delegates
from Georgia, Alabama and other
states came in full force, adding great.
ly to the numerical strength of Grants
forces on the ground. The Alabama
delegation, composed of twenty men
solid for Grant, took possession of
room No. %, in the Palmer house,
and formally opened their headquar-
tiers. They say they are for Grs mt
first, last and all the time.
AFoRsAKEN BIBLE.
Visitors at the republican national
headquarters this morning were con-
fined mainly to delegates who dropped
in to register. Some benevolent party
has placed . bible on the center table
in the room, but it is very rarely refer
red to by the political army of saliva
ton.
CHE NEBRASKA DELEGATES.
Several of the Nebraska delegates
arrived yesterday, and there are o
on the ground Judge l.. Crounse, J.
w. Dawes, j. L. Mitchell, and w.
R. Persinger. Judge Croupse, who
is q warm admirer of Blaine, says the
delegation is for the man from Maine,
snG that it has no second choice; that
is il 1T has second choice it don't pro-
pose to tell anybody about it until the
first choice is out Of the race, if such
. contingency should arise.
"What is the sentiment of the peo-
pie Of your state" asked a reporter;
sis it e. extremely hostile to Grant as
has been reported?"
81 cannot say that it is exactly hos
tile to Grant, but there is q
STRONG PREJUDICE AGAINST THIRD
TERM,
especially among the foreign element
which 10 quite a factor in our politics.
The Germans heartily espouse the
cause of Washburne and insist that he
is the coming man. Republicans
generally do not believe Grant to be
the most available candidate. They |
recognize the fact that he would en-
counter stronger opposition in his own
party than any other man named for
the place, and for that reascn they
want another man."
SIN our convention" said Dawes, |
"the issue was not raised on the ques-
ton of hostility to Grant. Blaine was
simply a question of preference, and
Blaine's friends were in the majority
that is all. Nebraska is for the
nominee, and it will give him from To-
600 to 20, 600 majority in November"
"Judge Crounse, how do you think
your delegation will stand on
THE UNIT RULE!"
81 think it will oppose the enforce
ment of that rule as q measure calcu-
lated to engender needless bitterness, |
and arouse suspicion in the minds of
thepeople, that's certain set of men are
trying to prevent free expression of
opinion by arbitrary and unfair use
of force, and resort to party machin.
cry. The masses will not relish such
business. Theycan not be forcedint
the adoption of a distasteful measure,
and neither can they be driven to sup.
port a candidate they do not like. If
they are outnumbered and overcome
fairly they willsubmit with good grace,
but there is prejudice against any
thing that smacks of b~ulldozing. We
have not consulted together as to the
course we shall pursue in regard to
the admission of the
ILLINOIS CONTESTANTS,
and l have not wholly made up my |
mind. 1t would seem, however, that
the congressional districts should b.
permitted to exercise the right to Sc
lect their own delegates and instruct
them. The call of the national com
mittee is an apparent recognition of
the rights of the districts to act indie ,
in this matter"
~he Nebraska delegates immediate.
ly ON their arrival were
SEEN BY GEN. LOGAN
md invited to enlist in the Grant
army. The fact that Grant men were
in considerable minority encouraged
the Illinois chieftian to hope that the
delegates from that state, though elect
ed . Blaine men, might cast in fheir
lot with the GRANTEES. The general
wa disappointed at being assured by
the Nebraska delegates that they
would on no account vote for Grant,
but that if he would withdraw Grant
and substitute Washburne he could
have their votes. That looked to the
representative of jackson county like
asking for bread and getting a stone.
NOISY CROWDS.
The arrivals during the past forty.
sight hours have been very Large. The |