Omaha daily bee., 1880-06-01

and is as calm as a summer morning.
Young is confident of Grants nomina-
ton, and claims that he has 40 votes.
He, of course, counts the New York,
Pennsylvania and Illinois delegations
solid.
DETERMINED ANTI-GRANT MEN.
The delegations of the national re-
publican league of Pennsylvania, the
Independent Republicans of New
York and the Young Republicans of
Massachusetts met at the Palmer
house yesterday morning and elected
Wayne McVeagh, of Pennsylvania.
chairman, and A. %Schoenhof, of New
York, secretary. A committee ap-
pointed to obtain suitable rooms for
headquarters, reported that they had
found quarters opposite the Palmer,
at the Windsor house, 1t was voted
that meetings be held each day during
the convention, at ten in the morning
and four in the afternoon, and that
anti-term republicans from other
states be invited to attend.
ARKANSAS FOR WINDOW SECONDLY.
Elk Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas,
says his state has not got s, far as a
second choice, but if there is a break
for Grant, Blaine will get some votes,
but Sherman none, and that the main
strength of the state would 60 for
Window, as would also Missouri, Ten
nesee, Iowa and Mississippi.
LOUISIANA AND SHERMAN.
Gen. Macmillan of Louisiana says
that his delegation will vote sever for
Grant, seven for Sherman and two
for Blaine, with a probable break for
Sherman if he stands a good chance of
the nomination.
SHERMAN AND THE SOUTH.
At the Sherman headquarters there
is some bitter talk of the use of Grant
money among southern negro dele
gates. Virginia, in case of a break
for Grant, will go largely for Blaine.
Texas is divided with Grant in the
majority, but the Sherman men on
that delegation say they will vote for
him in defiance of any attempt to en-.
force the unit rule. Tennessee is
eight for Sherman, eight for Blaine
and eight for Grant.
Grant men claim that if he is NOM
mated he wilt get a heavy democratic
support in Tennessee, and that the
Memphis Avalanche will advocate his
election and carry with it many dem.
ocrats.
NEW YoRK's BoLTERs.t
Two or three attempts of the New
York delegation to meet during the
day failed, but during the afternoon
the boiling members completed their
plan and put themselves on record af-
ter many weeks of talk. Twenty.
d of the regular delegates and Mr..
Elliott the alternate who represents
Schroeder of Brooklyn, signed a pledge
that they would not follow instruc-
tions and would under no circum-
stances vote in the convention for
Grant. The boiling delegates are
Birdsall and Hawkins of the first dis.
trict; Daggett of the third; Robertson
and Hustled from the twelfth; butcher
from the thirteenth;Strvers and Wales
from the fourteenth; Abel from the
eighteenth; Dickinson and James
from the nineteenth; Wagner and
West from the twentieth; Jacobs from
the twenty-frst; Douglas and Sylves-
ter from the twenty-second; Woodin
and Murray from th3 twenty-sixti;
and Allen and Sessions of the thirty
third districts. That one-third of the
should Join the bolt sur
the Grant men who were pre-.
pared for a much smaller detection.
The boilers had only ar hour previous
ly placed the number they counted on
At seventeen, but they now claim that
other signatures will probably follow.
JERSEY BREAKS FROM BLAINE.
The New Jersey delegation organ
Ized and carried cat its threat of TAX
ing a stand as a unit against the unit
rule. They will vote together against
he Grant managers on every prellm-
nary measure. Tneirstand will, how.
aver, cast Blaine eight votes in the
on the first ballot for pres
dent, if the unit rule is abolished and
The vote on the first ballot will be
Blaine ten, Sherman six and Wash
ourne two.
RAMPANT ROSCOE.
Senator Conkling is confident, and
the anti. Grant talk will spend |
Itself before the convention. He says:
''Let them talk. We will lie on the
beach and bleed awhile, and then get
Up and fight again."
INIT RULE BROKEN.
The Sherman and Blaine men say
positively that the unit rule will
,e abandoned, aud it was asserted last
hight that Cameron, Logan and Conk- |
ing had signed an agreement to that
fleet. Judge Pierrepont is in favor
# dropping the unit rule, and says
Grant can be nominated better with
tut it, and elected much easier.
Col. Stanton, of Connecticut, says
lis state can not be carried for Grant.
The Minnesota men are full of talk
or Window, and boast of what he has
lore for the country as chairman of
he committee ON transportation.
Gen. Tyner says Indiana is the
worst mixed up of all the states.
Matt. Carpenter says Wisconsin will
70 for any man who is agreeable to
,ther states.
MUSIC AND TAFFY.
At least twenty b.. nds of music and
hub professions were parading the
treets last night and serenading the
lfsrent headquarters and shouting
or their favorites.
GOOD TOTAL ABSTINENCE PLEDGE.
1t is claimed by the Grant men that
he Justification of the New York del
numbers twelve instead of
wenty.one, and that strong efforts
re being made to get more to sign
he anti Grant pledge before the meet
ng of the convention on Wednesday. |
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
The republican national committee
net last night at 8 o'clock in the head
,usrterslof the committee, parlor ~
Palmer House, and began at once the
consideration of the important ques-
ions which must be settled before
Wednesday. There was afull attend
nee every member of the committee
present in person or represent
ID by proxy. Before the committee
lad been in session an hour the fight
yer the unit rule was precipitated by
The motion that the chairman be in
,tructed to enforcs it in the prelim-
nary organization of the convention.
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