The daily gazette., 1880-06-07
Fourth bay Of The Chi
eagO Convention.
Devoted to B un co m be.
Anti-arant Gain Ct Eighteen on
Contested Seats.
ADJOURNED AT MIDNIGHT UNTIL
ADJOURNED AT MIDNIGHT UNTIL
MONDAY MOlNIN0.
From the n. Y. Herald.

The Republican National Conven-
ton closed its fourth day without
reaching ballot for President. The
greater part of the morning session
was consumed in passing upon the
reports from the Committee ON Gre
dentials, the delegates admitted add
ing 81 to the anti-Grant forces and
l3 to the Grant men. An attempt
from the Grant side to begin the
nominations before the rules had
been agreed on was defeated. The
platform was adopted, q civil service
plank being added by the Conven-
ton. AT the evening session, which
began at seven O'Clock, the National
Committee for the next four years
was named and the report Of the
Committee on Rules adopted, the
unit rule being absolutely killed.
The nomination Of candidates was
now proceeded with. A ten-mlnute
rule was adopted for nominating
speeches, but il was persistcntly dis
regarded, and after Blaine, Win
dom, Grant, Sherman, Edmunds and
Washburne had been put in nomina-
ton the Convention, at a few min
utes before midnight, adjourned until
Monday at ten O'Clock, when the
first ballot will be taken.
BITTERNESS OF THE FIGHT.
1t Is conceded by many, on ac-
count of the personal feeling exist
ing between the leaders of the re-
publican party, that this is its last
Convention Of any national import
ance. The nomination Of either
Grant, Blaine or Sherman no longer
promises the unanimous and enthu-
siastic support Of the party. 1t
would be impossible to overstate the
personal prejudice which enters into
and controls the action of the lead
ers of the different candidates. 1t
has been conspicuous in the methods
of Senator Conkling. 1t has ap-
peared in the influence welded by
the Blaine men upon the National
Committee and in the organization
of the Convention. 1t has governed
the Sherman men in their intrigues
The principle actuating the minds Of
the giants, if it can be regarded a:
principle, is that everything is fail
in politics.
Believing, as they do, that Grants
nomination will be the death OF the
Republican party, they Will not Tor
give his friends for forcing and keep
ing the name of General Grant before
the Convention. Neither will the
Grant men give Blaine the slightest re
, cognition. Both are agreed that eth
, er nomination will be fatal to the par
ty, and. as for Sherman, it need no
be repeated that New York, particu
larly the State administration, owes
the Secretary of the Treasury every
thing but good will.
' SHERMAN UNDER STOLEN CoLoRs,
Within the last two days repor
! has been ac lively circulated that Sec
retary Sherman is banking on borrow
5 ed capital and that his being Secre
L tary of the Treasury when the Speci
Resumption act went into effect wa
an accident purely of a political ma
u ture, The report is also circulate
0 that when the draft of The bill was pre-
q pared for The Republican caucus, MI
y y Sherman was opposed to liking tn
time, and that Mr.. Edmunds rs lii
Senator to whom the honor OF shaI
ing the Resumption act is entlrel
due.
v EpMUNDs THE FATHER OF REsUMl
q TIoN.
10 The Edmunds men claim for thei
a candidate the honor of framing their,
If sumption act and carrying it Jhroug
s. The Forty-third Congress. Nasoni
prosperity OH one side of the water an
drought on the other gave us the ba
D. ance of trade and enabled the Ire;
Df sury to faithfully carry into effect Jl
NJ provisions of the act. The Sherma
men defend their candidate as an oril
inal advocate of early resumption, an
that if he was not i'll favor of the dat
of January !, 1879, it was becaus
there was nothing upon which to bas
the probability of the Treasury beln
able to resume on that date, and thi
Mr.. Sherman's views, if they had bee
incorporated in the act, would hay
been lust as good as Edmunds' pla
inasmuch as without the coin al
balance of trade the act would hay
been fulfil, and that Providence al
not Sena or Edmunds is entitled
the credit of the success of resum
ton. The Sherman men speak of E
mupds as a luckless lawyer, hone
'st and Just, but captious and trivial in h
judgments and criticism, who, if ele
lar ted Presidenr, would not know an
body fit to be trusted in a high poi
MIA ton unless he was identified with We
" mont either by residence, nativity
of family relations,
his OVER A HUNDRED BALLOTS PREDICT
Mr.. Clisbee, the reading clerk, sa
,lv in all seriousness this morning til
Mr.. Hoar, the presiding officer, expe
ted the Convention would ballot mo
oy than one hundred lines before choi
was made.
.., The platform as amended by t
run run civil service plank was adopted.
'eu A recess was then taken until sew
o'clock.
:. THE EVENING SESSION.
rm OPENING THE NOMINATIONS. -
ere At five minutes Of eight Tr. Hale nj
the ed tl.at the States be called and u
hey nominations be then III order