The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-25

|COnvention from tue SEVERN Sooh, 49,
districts. They hold their credentials iron
their several districts, and these cfeeen.in,S
they will present to the National Consen.
ton, and that they VIII ee admi''eo '"'''
can be no question"
"Tbey hold their credentials" mind you.
So the BLAINE delegates to Chicago are ai'
ready appointed, as the reader VIII see from
the list Of them given elsewhere in this ar
ticle.
Again:
q Illinois has AZ votes in the National Con.
ventlon. General Grant will receive ~ Oh
them. The other 20 will certainly DE OPP
posed 10 General Grant. This VIII DC the
result.
at is true that packed committee OF
the State Convention nominated az uran.
delegate, and that their report was auopteu.
But 1t is equally true that the 30 Dolcrs WHO
core admitted from Cook county furnished
the ANAL majority, and that, II the regular
Cook-county delegation had been admitted
the report would have been defeated"
ait Is equally true that ten districts flied
n nrotest against the uuwarranted ana I'M
nrecedepted attempt to deprive them OF
their rights, and their constituents OF their
representation. Neither the report OF the
hacked committee nor the instructions and
unit rule, rushed through bya 'risng vofe,'
will avail to disfranchise the ten congress
sional districts in this State which have de-
clsred at the primaries their determined
and overwhelming opposition to the third
term ISSUE"
"This means that the dsfranchised dis
tricts will appeal TO the National C0nven-
ton for protection Of their rights.
"Such an appeal will not be in vain.
I" The district delegates had met in Sepo-
rate conventions and appointed their dele
oates to Chicago before the packed commit
tee ,cas intrusted 10Th reporting selections
TO the Convention. Their names have been
published. Tie Grant districts, as well as the
anti. Grant districts. had taken this course.
That action determined the appointment OF
district delegates. 1t remained only for
the Convention as whole to appoint the
four delegates at large, The State Conven-
ton might as well undertake to appoint
congressman for all the districts as to ap-
point the national delegates for all the dis
tricts. 1t was usurpation which the Ma
tional Convention viii never recognize"
"There will be but twenty-five uncoutes.ed
Grant delegates from Illinois In the National
Convention, and four OF that number Qhe
delegates at large) were appointed by bo-
gus majority, procured through fraudu.
tent conspiracy.
"The contest in the National Convention
will revert to the original Cook-county 0olt
The National Convention will be called
upon to decide whether the boilers from
honest majority rule can be used to enforce
dishonest majority rule. The National
Convention will pass upon the question
tot n f.o aft nj
delegations in ffty-one counties, can bolt
against two.tbirds majority in one county,
and thereby reverse the regular majority OF
the State Convention. This will be decided
in the National Convention outside the
votes of the Illinois packed delegation"
Again:
CHAD there been no bolt in Cook county,
or bad the regular Cook-county delegation
been admitted into the State Convention,
there would have been an aDti-Grant ma
iority of ffty-four votes in the Illinois Con-
vention entitled to control the appointment
of the four delegates at large, together with
the pro rata representation OF the district
delegates which would have given them
twenty -four anti Grant votes In the Ma
tlonal Convention"
1t seems to be very plain that BLAINE was
cheated oat OF the vote Of Illinois. The
reader will understand how this was done
IL he will read the following. There were
sc OF the Cook-county delegates whose seats
were not contested at all. These sc were
entitled to vote, therefore, upon the ques-
ton OF admitting the SO whose seats were
contested. We quote:
"But whoa this demand was made,
. Boss Logan's imported Washington Office.
holder, acting as temporary chairman, sum-
marily overrused the point, and the Con-
vention, even with its bogus majority, was
given 20 opportunity TO pass upon it. Had
the SO unconteSted delegates from Cook
teen permitted 10 vote at this point, as they
lad the unquestianable right to do, the en-
tire Cook-c0unty delegation would have
been admitted by a majority Of IS, for the
bogus majority (exs;luding the votes Of the
80 Eucontes.ed delegates was only 3S against
this proposition"
Was ever such triskery heard Of before !
TIE following are the delegates selectsd
by the anti-G congressional districts:
First District-W. j. Campbell and Z. G..
Keith.
Second District-H Hermann Raster and LIE
Grande iPerce.
Third District--Elliott Anthsoy and
Washington Hesing.
Fourth District--C. w. Marsh. Of De
Kalb; Lot NJ. Smith, Of MeHenry.
Fifth Distrct-Robert x. Logsn, OF
Waitesides; W. II. Holcomb, Of Ogle.
Sixth Distriet--James X. Edsail, OF Lee !;
John p. Land, Of Henry.
Ninth Distriet--W. Sheldon Gale, OF
Knox John Gray, OF Fulton.
Tenth District-IIenry Tubbs, OF War
ren; John Fletcher, of Hancock.
Thirteenth District--E. b. GIynn, Of LO-
gan; Francis Low, Of Mason.
Seventeenth District W. G. Kuefner, Of
st. Clair; DR.. E. Guelieh, Of Madison.
That is a formidable list They will make
1t hot for GRANT and LOGAN at Chicago, IL
they 90 there.
The New York Post, Republican, says:
"The course OF the Illinois politicians is
indefensible on principle and uniustifable
by the preeedents Of the party which these
politicians assume to represent. The result
OF the proceedings gives General Grant AZ
more votes, but il will scarcely strengthen
him In the opinion OF independent and fair
men. These will be inclined to insist more
urgently than ever that there shall be free
deiberation at Chicago"
The Boston Transcript, Republican, says !:
"The Logan crowd have played most
foully TO obtain solid delegation for Grant.
In order to do It they will disfranchise the
congressional districts. Illinois is General
Grants State, and yet on test-vote declar-
ing him the choice OF the Convention, 307
delegates, representing most Of the Repub-
lican counties Of the State, voted against
him, and $3.50 ia his favor, beggarly ma.
iority OF 70 out OF total Of 693 In his own