The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-04
DON'S DELIBERATE. DEAL
Of the Cards After Stocking the Deck
The Pennsylvania Machine in Excel
lent Order.
And Garnished and Greassdfor Great
Grant.
The PIumed Knight Refuses to Throw
his Lance Into the Ring.
An Excellent and Appropriate Time
for the Delivery.
Of that Important Message to The
hmnrican PennIa "
Of that important Message to The
American People,"

HARRISBURG, TeuIudI1 4hoiV ~
more excitement over the State Conven'
ton to be held tomorrow than usual, and
much less cause for it, The hotels are
already crowded with delegates and their
accompanying friends, and on all sides the
talk goes on over the stand Pennsylvania
is TO take tomorrow. q.
The Lochiel House is the principal cen.
ter Of attraction. Here Mr.. Passmore,
candidate for Auditor General, arrived
and established his headquarters, on the
outside OF which he stands with watchful
eye, inviting in the county delegates as
they arrive, to pour into their ears the
story that Don Cameron takes no part in
this and ~ have sure field" The fact
is that to.morrow's Convention will be the
quietest ever held here.
Mr.. Hays, cousin of Mr.. Blaine's,
established himself in parlor at the
Lochiel House yesterday, and invited by
placards all friends OF the Maine Senator
10 call upon him. Seyenty-one votes
would have been Blaine's strength, and
this being discovered, Mr.. Hays exhibited
letter from the Senator, asking that the
State delegation be sent as unit and
Withdrawing from any contest for instruc-
tions.
The Convention tomorrow will, there
fore, instruct for General Grant, probably
without test vote OF any kind. Mr..
Herr, OF Dauphin county, will offer the
resolutions.
Hon. Russell Errett is to be Temporary
Chairman OF the Convention, which will
be permanently presided over by Judge
Fitzpatrick, OF Northampton.
The Delegates at large TO the National
Convention will. be N. S. Quay, @. l..
Magee, James McManus and Linn Bar
tholomew. From present appearances
the Convention will not be in session
more than three hours. Judge Green will
be nominated for Supreme Judge, and
John Lemon for Auditor Gereral.
The action OF Senator Blaine in refusing
to fight Don Cameron on his own ground
is considered a smart bit OF political policy.
PHILADRLPIuA, February 2.-There will
be 25l delegates in the Convention at Har-
risburg on Wednesday. Nearly every one
will be there by tomorrow night, and
caucusing for their delegates to Chicago,
which will be two from each OF the twenty
seven Congressional districts and four at
large. By noon tomorrow Senator Cam.
eron, who has been at his home in Har.
risburg since the middle OF last week, will
have decided whether he will listen to the
entreating voices OF the Blaine men, un-
der the leadership OF Congressman Birg-
ham, Of this city, not to bulldoze the Con-
yention intoan out and out instruction for
Grant, or whether he will follow his origi-
nal plan conceived when he was chosen
Chairman OF the National Committee,
which is to force the Convention to re.
echo the resolution OF his own county
(Dauphin) when It chose delegates on Sat-
urday last, viz: that they be instructed to
cast their solid vote in favor OF instructing
the delegates to the National Republican
Convention 10 vote as unit for the NOM
ination OF General Ulysses S. Grant for
President, As Cameron has at least one
hundred and fifty delegates who will vote
as he dictates, he will have the power to
force the Convention. II is not entirely
certain that Cameron will insist upon in
structions for Grant. A large majority OF
his own friends are more or less earnestly
ayerse 10 1t, but he feels that he is COM
mitted to It and hesitates to abandon it
even In the face OF the opposing sentiment,
because 1t might be regarded as q personal
defeat.
100 votes will be cast against the instruc-
tions for Grant, and all admit that so
strong a minority would be fatal to Grants
candidacy. Strong efortsare being made
TO change Senator Cameron's policy TO one
Of cancellation and harmony, and. they
may prevail. II he decides TO press the
Grant instructions, and the unit rule,
there will be bitter struggle in the Con.
vention. In that case John Cessna will
probably be made President, and Came
ron will 90 TO the Chicago Convention as
delegate from the Dauphin District. II il
snail be decided to abandon instructions.
Koontz may be made President and Cam
eron will receive nearly unanimous cleo
tion as the head OF the delegates.
The Blaine men will willingly held,to
make him delegate at large II he agrees
10 treat them fairly. It is generally under
stood that Blaine will be Cameron g choice
for President after Grant, unless he shall
be precipitated into antagonism with
Blaipe's friends. General Cameron is first
Of all against Sherman. aud he Is an in
superabIe obstacle TO the vote OF Pennsyl'
yapia eyer being cast for the Ohio candi'
date. When General Cameron was nomi'
mated as Minister TO Russia, in 1852, Sher
man voted against his confirmation, iac'
that the General did not know until he be-
came Senator, and thus got, access to
the secret records OF the executive session
That vote will be the lion in Sherman'!I
path to the Pennsylvania delegation, and
It may be set down as certain that Don