, 1880-08-29
PRESIDENTIAL.
What Is Being Done by the
Rival Committees at the
National Capital.
Gen. Chalmers Acknowledges
that Maine Is Lost to
the Democracy,
And that the Greenbackers
Will Make Little if Any
Showing.
The Southern Army of Claimants
Preparing to Move on the
Treasury.
Wisconsin Democrats Called On for
100000 to Be Used in
Indiana.
The Democratic Factions in New York
Still Pulling in 0pposit
Directions.
Tammany Jubilant and the Irving
Tammany Jubilant and the Irving
Hall Faction Rebellious.

AT THE FRONT.
TIE OPPOSING COMMITTEES IN WASHINGTON.
Special Dtspatch to The Chicago. Tribute
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2s.-The rooms
OF the Republican Congressional Committee e
present a very animated scene. A great
number Of clerks, paid by the Committee
and not by the Government, as in the case Of
the Democratic Com mittee, are at work
sending away documents and attending to
the details Of the campaign. Maine is at
present the objective point. The recent
speech Of Wade Hampton ut Staunton has
been printed in pamphlet form, and is being
sent out in large quantities, as well as a now
pamphlet on the record Of homc-rule in the
South. News daily received by the Repub-
lican Committee is very cheering.
Attorney-General Devens, who is not a
very enthusiastic man, says to-day that he
has not now doubt Of Garfeld's election.
Mr.. Devens, by the way, denies the reports
that lie has prepared speeches for delivery in
Indiana, saying that he. never prepares
speeches, as lie speaks best esteXtemporaneously
lie will leave next week for the west. An
effort is to be made to have him speak in
Chicago later in the season.
At THE DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS
there seems to be much less activity, al
though in the committee-rooms at the Capitol
thousands Of documents are being sent away.
They are Of the old hacKneyed campaign
character, and do not reach tie broad issues
Of the canvass. A great portion of the mat
ter is rehash Of newspaper publications Of
the testimony taken before the Committee Of
Congress. It has, for the. most part, been
prepared by Democratic journalists. many Of
whom about town are complaining that they
have not been paid for their labor.
The report that the Secretary of War has
discharged a large number of clerks
because they are Democrats is not
true. One or two clerks have been dis
charged for drunkenness, and it Is very
probable that they were Democrats: but
there have been no wholesale removals, and
there will be none.
TIE DEADLOCK
in the Congressional nominating Conven,-
ton i'll the Alexandria, Va, District is ended
By the withdrawal Of Neal, the wealthy call
didate, and the nomination By the Neal party
Of John 5; Barbour, Receiver Of tae;>,+ the nlr-
OF Washington CITY,. although legal voter
at Alexandria, and is pronounced Demo-
crat- The Keadjusters confidently expect to
carry the district
MUST STAY At THEIR POSTS.
It is said that tSecretarY Evarts has declined
to grant leave OF absence u AlutS1cl NU4cs,
ut Paris, aud Fairchild, Consul-General, to
take part Ill the campaign.
MINNESOTA
Representative Washburn, of Minnesota.
who has been spending a day here, says that
Ignatius Donnelly has been permanently
retired from politics; that there will be
gain Of u Republican Congressman from
minnesota, as Strait viii defeat P0el,er, and
that DannejI, notwithstanding the Republican
spIit ia his district, will be reelected.
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USFoUSDED.
Thorp Is M frt1t1l In the Democratic report