Daily Republican., 1884-05-31
FOURTH EDITION,
Chicago.

| Washington Hastings, one Of the dell
Igates to the National Republican Cor
vention at Chicago from Delawar'
reached that city, In company wit
Watson r. Sperry, editor OF the Morr
ling News, on Thursday. Mr.
George v. Massey, Of Dover
who had been travelling out in Colorado
and W. j. Stewart arrived at Chicag
on Friday. Mr.. Hoffecker and MI
Pilling are expected to-day and tn
balance of the delegates will arrive to
morrow.
Mr.. Sperry, in telegraphing to hi
paper, puts Arthur In the vantag
ground. One reson for this is stated b
be that Arthur can get more Republi
can votes In New York city than any
one else. They say John Kelly viii
run for Mayor, and thus trade of Re
publican votes can be made for him II
return for delegation votes for the Re
publican national ticket, and they as
sumo that under these conditions regu
lar Republican votes will be cast in the
country districts of New York; but they
overlook the effect in the rural counties
of aPresidential candidate trading votes
with Tammany's boss to elect himself.
The other force on Arthur's side is pa.
tronage.
Some Arthur men Mr.. Sperry states
were claiming half OF the Delaware
men today, but there Is no foundation
for this. Mr.. Hastings will votet tor Ar
thur and the rest for Blaine. Personally
our State delegates think another
candidate than Blaine would be
stronger, but they don't concede this
superiority to Arthur, and they will
discharge their representative duty to
their constituents fully as long as Blaine
has show.
The Philadelphia Ledger,in summing
up the situation, says:
The delegates -'1ri jus1 about as
they did when the .,'re chosen Mr..
Blaine has a large number of delegates,
more, we believe, than Mr.. Arthur, as
the case stood then and stands now :;
Mr.. Arthur also has large mum Der,
and their delegates together comprise
nearly three-fourths Of the whole
number. The remaining quarter (about
200) are for Messrs. Edmunds, Logan,
Hawley, Sherman, scattering and IN.
known. Neither Mr.. Blaine nor Mr..
Arthur has votes enough to nominate
him, and there is reason to believe that
each Of them has already got up to
about his utmost strength and is still
very far short. The leading managers
If each of them, in the event of the
palpable inability of their favorite to
get through, will dc their utmost to
prevent the other from being nomi.
lated. and they will probably be strong
,nough and mad enough to accomplish
heir purpose on both sides.
This appears to be the only rational
reduction that can be drawn from the
present posture Of affairs, and the only
really growing stronger is
hat the contention will end that way.
There is great deal of hot feeling, and
I is getting hotter between the advo-
,ares Of the two (and two) strong can.
lidates. The almost uniform result in
such cases has been for the leading
managers TO get together after the bal |
oting begins to tire ont the delegates
md compromise on some neutral name |
hat has not been in the contest--or in
/ only as possibility or last resort. |
Five of the last eight Presidents elected |
~ the people were nominated in that
way, and because of Just snch hot con.
ention among the friends OF the two or
hree strong aspirants.