Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-08
the aARRIssuRa CONVENTION.


Harrisburg Dispatch to the New York Sun.
This eve of the Republican state conven-
tiOn is the quietest ever observed in our
no excitement whatever, and. save for a
publican headquarters, there would be no
visible signs of any unusual occurrence.
Delegates straggle in one by one, and
ayers, to be made acquainted with what
is going on and what part they are to take
in it. The canvass for state treasurer is
practically restricted to Senator w. T.
Davies, of Bradford county, and Gen.
Silas NJ. Bailey, of Fayette. The
first is well.known state senator
Of long public service, not distin-
guished for brilliaucy, and generally relied
upon for Cameron work. Last winter,
however, force of circumstances and con
siderations of locality made him a leader
in the anti Cameron bolt for Grow, which
was compromised by the election of Soma
tor Mitchell a colleague not altogether
distasteful to Cameron. For time it was
believed that his only opponent for the
nomination for state treasurer would be
Senator Geo. V. Lawrence, Of Washing
ton, who occupied much the same relation
to the senatorial canvass as did Davies.
Lawrence suspected that it was tho Car
erOn design to throw the state this fall,
and declined to run. The political interest
and Republican sympathy, quickened by
the assault upon the president, induced
belief that the state would be carried, and
the Cameron faction feared to let a bolter
be elected to state Office and the organic
zation pass into the hands of his friends the
year before a governor was to be chosen
They therefore selected Gen. Bailey, a
gallant soldier, who had been . Pennsyl-
vania delegateto the Chicago convention
and had stood up and gone down with the
Conkling- Cameron 306. The lines, there.
fore, between Stalwarts and Half. Breeds
have been clearly drawn, and the eve of
the convention finds Quay, Magee, and
other Cameron managers here determined
and we'll equipped to put Bailey's nomina-
ton through as a rebuke to the boilers.
They carefully avoid the administration
issue, and. conscious of the popular SYM
pathy for Garfield. they already give out
their design to offer the most advanced
in sympathy and in approval
of his administration.
Davies is hero, surrounded by those who
made the bolt against Oliver successful
last winter, but they do not seem to be
able to count many delegates. Philadel
phia nearly solid, Allegheny, Schuylkill
and other regulation commercial districts
are in the hands of the Cameron managers
and they claim to be entirely confident of
success. In proof of this thoy will name
Quay, the most Objectionable man to the
opposition, for temporary chairman, and
he will organize the convention. The
stalwarts talk of Gen. Harry White for
permanent chairman, and claim anywhere
from ono hundred and fifty to two hun
dred delegates forBailey out oftwo hundred
and fifty one. The better posted of Davies
friends cOncede his defeat. They will likely
run ex-Attorney General Lear for perma-
nent chairman The platform will have
no distinctive features, except the most
advanced pro- Garfield utterances. Bal
ley s friends will meet tomorrow at 10 a.
NJ, and cut out the work for the conven-
lion. The only decided diversion in Da-
vies's interests is by tho Philadelphia
Press, represented here by a half dozen
of its editors, whose presence has provoked
q stalwart assault upon the present editor
al management of that paper by the local
Cameron organ. 1t denounces the Press
staff as composed of Democrats, ex rebels,
and copperheads.
The Cameron people claim 1871 delegates
for all the purposes for which they may
need them, and the certainty of Bailey's
They 60 so far as to say that
if Senator Don Cameron gets here in time
they will emphasize his mastery of the
by making him permanent
chairman. 1t is not likely that no will
seek or accept the embarrassments of that
position, although his friends are flushed
with control of the situation. Davies's
friends cannot count over 100 votes, and
ire talking significantly of the prospects
IF Democratic success.