The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-06
T1EL!EGRA!.P1E!HE!.IC. A!.P1E EFT
SOME OF THE CLAIMS
Made by Friends of Men Who Want
the June Nomination.
Ef6W EiaTne's Pulse Beats-Edmunds
Obnoxious to Eilden-New Move
ia Tcxas-Randall AntagO-
RfZeI-0ther Notes.

CINCINNATI, May 6.-The Enquirer's
Washington City correspondent remarks:
All Of the state conventions having been
held, the candidates for tie Republican
presidential nomination are now busy sum-
ming up the vote. There is reason to believe,
If The newspaper reports of the convention
proceeding have been accurately approx
mated that Blaine is well in the lead, with
Arthur a good second, Edmunds bad third,
ana diversified and scattered field.
A gentleman direct from the White House
said that the president claimed SOL votes on
the first ballot. This is within fifty of NOM
hatun, and includes the 300 solid votes OF
the southern states aud sixty y-one votes in the
north. The friends of Blaine do not figure
his strength as large as the president puts his
own, but they are confident he will lead in tho
race from the start. The anticipated return
Of Senator Don { ameron to this country from
Europe within fortnight, the politicians
say, bodies no good to either Blaine or Ar
thur. A dispatch from Harrisburg to The
New York Sun coHStrueS his return in ad-
vance Of the time originally set as a move
?or the nomination of John Sherman. Mr.
Cameron was prevented from going over to
Sherman in 1850 because his sense of honor
forbade iiis leaving Grant, especially for a
man who was slightly related by marriage
To him. There is nothing of that kind in the
way now, and his return home is thought to
mean an effort to carry the Pennsylvania
delegation over to Sherman.
There is something in this which has at
least the air Of probability. Don Cameron
ard the ultra stalwarts would doubtless pre-
fer Sherman to either Edmunds or Lincoln,
who will be used as administration dark
horses, should Blaine and Arthur destroy
each other. If the Ohio delegation is as
earnest i'll John Sherman's behalf as was the
Ohio delegation in 1876 for r. B. Hayes,
there seems to bo the same contingency
which should send the nomination to Sher-
man as it was sent to Hayes.
Although Elaines friends have every rea-
son to feel encouraged touching the outlook
the cold caiCuIators say he will never get
over .',5 votes; that, while he can not himself
get the prize, he can destroy Arthur. Again
tho Sc who predict his nomination say that tht
key of the situation is now in the hands Oi
the southern delegation, and that with
Arthur ont of the way, Blaine viii gel
enough votes from south of Mason anG
Some of these would 60 to him in natural
course while those more venal could be pro
| vided for
! There is reason to believe that the friend
Of Blaine Logan and Sherman will combine
to keep the Mahone Virginia delegation ou
of the convention. This, if it succeeds woulC
lose Arthur twenty votes.
Congressman Bayne of Pennsylvania, win
| is Mr.. Blaine's most enthusiastic advocate
says that none of the estimates Yet made Civ
| Blaine strength enough He says Blaine vii
get ten delegates from Alabama, at least tw'
in Florida, twelve in Georgia, four in Ken
lucky, all the Louisiana delegation tsixteen)
and two from Massachusetts, though by tn
highest estimates he is given none in eithe
of these States. In Maryland he will &c
fourteen instead of the thirteen allotted hin
by the conservative estimates; two instead 0
one in New Hampshire; in Ohio twenty-eigh
instead of twenty-seven; in Tennessee seve
instead of four; in Pennsylvania forty-eigh
or fifty, and in the territories twelve. II
thinks, he says, that the Straighouts iron
Virginia will be recognized at Chicago, thu
making a solid delegation of twenty-fou
from that state for Blaine. This would giy
Blaine something Ike 425-more than enoug
to give him the nomination.