St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-02

weight in any direction. In fact, that placard
on the door has substantially destroyed what
influence the state might have had The
organize and select its members on the vari-
Gus committees. 1t is the talk tonight that
Gov. Davis will be elected as chairman of
the delegation, and Mr.. Sabin as the men,
Der of the national committee.
met Gov. Davis tonight and found him
very confident of Blaine's success. He says
Blaine is gaining ground rapidly and he be-
lieyes he will win.
Mr.. Sabin told me to call around Thurs
day and he would tell me who he was in
favor of and who he thought would win. He
thinks the convention will last three days,
and does not think that the committee on
credentials will report before Wednesday
morning.
MIR. Langdon says you can say that there
will be one vote for Edmunds from Mime
sofa anyway. was the only man from Min
nesota who refused to vote for Blaine at Gin
cinnati, and shall refuse to vote for him
now.
Gen. McLaren, who is aiding Senator Sa-
bin in his national committee duties, is very
pronounced for Arthur, and intfmates, with
a knowing wink, that Arthur will have some
votes from Minnesota at the start.
Bill King is red-hot for Blaine all the time
and says he is bound to win.
Fletcher arrived this afternoon, but says he
is not booming any one. He says he just
come down to look on and take a rest
When he meets Washburn, who is expected
tomorrow, he may resume his interest in
politics.
J. B. Gilillan seems to take little inter-
est in politics since last Thursday and he is
accordingly on deck. 1 am not sure but he
came down for rest also, as 1 found him
taking very comfortable nap this afternoon
on one of the beds of the Minnesota head
| quarters. His presence takes the place of
ice water in the rooms of the delegation.
L. L. Rogers put in good portion of the
afternoon in studying over the resolutions
of the convention which sent him, to con-
vince himself that he was at liberty to vote
for Edmunds.
Garfield will not be present, and his alter
nate, H. E. Barron, will act. Barron is for
Blaine, while Garfield would support Ed
munds ifhe was present in person.
Liberty Hall has been mingling with the
colored brethren, and tonight he is much
more sanguine of Blaine's success than he
was earlier in the day.
THE GENERAL SITUATION.
There is no doubt that the outside pressure
for Blaine has increased to-day, but doubt
whether he has made any actual gains. The
Blaine men have secured the ladies' ordi-
nary and O'Clock dinner room at the Grand
Pacific, which is a very spacious room, and
their boomers and claquers have been noisy
occupants all the day and evening, but while
that may cheer up the unsophisticated heart,
it don't count in general results. There are
too many Blaine delegations of the style of
the one from Minnesota for him to win. His
friends claim tonight that he will have 339
votes to begin with, but it takes
All to nominate, ana his 339, if he ever gets
them, will be more likely to diminish than to
increase. When I recall the solid 306, who
stood so faithfully but unsuccessfully for
Grant four years ago, 1 have very little faith
in Blaine's 339, with large contingent seek
ing to crawl out of the back door at the first
opportunity.
l met Senator Conger, of Michigan, to-day.
He is not delegate, and says he merely
wants to look. In response to the question
as to who he favored for president, he re-
piled: ''Well, L was for Blaine four years
ago. but l rather think Arthur would be the
| best man now.''
Blaine is not as strong to-day either with
the people or the politicians as he was four
years or eight years ago, and he failed both
| times.
''Three times and out" will be his epitaph.
Arthur is stronger than Blaine, but no vice
| president was ever elected to the presidency
by the people, or nominated by his party for
the first place, and 1 don't believe Arthur
will prove an exception. Tyler, Fillmore
and Andy johnson all acted as president to
fill the unexpred term of the actually elected,
but though all played their cards for
the succession, all failed, just as I believe
Mr.. Arthur will fail. 1t is dark horse race
for even man like John Sherman could be
styled dark horse in such campaign as the
| present one. If Indiana was an October
state Gresham would be likely to come to the
near as surprising to see him at the head of
the ticket next Thursday as it was to see
Hayes there in 1876 and Garfield in 1880.
Still, all is speculation now, and Friday
mornings GLOBE will be more likely to tell
the public who the victim for defeat in No
yember will be, than any representation to-
night. AS usual very little is said about the
vice presidency. That depends so much on
the presidential nomination that it can't be
figured out at present.
The ''Iudependents' are here, headed by
Geo. W. Curtis, who edits the crotchet work
in HdrperS' Bazaar. l visited their headouar
tiers tonight, but they were deserted. They
had signs blazoned about the Grand Pacific.
urging the nomination of ''the man who can
be elected" That is one of the things emo
fellah can find out, and is more than the
conundrum, "Who wrote the Junius letters, %
or ''who struck Billy Patterson
Carl Schurz drowned his grief by PLAYING
on the piano, when Horace Greeley was
nominated in 1872, and he will have to So
lace himself again, as the namby pambv
'Independents'' don't count this year. 1t
is civil service reformers like the moscow
cred Gen. McLaren Who regulate politics of
the grand old party. Curtis might as well
resume his knitting and Schurz tackle his
piano, for they have no weight with the col
ored people and their white adiuncts who
have taken possession of Chicago The
darky delegates are sought after and courted.
but none are so roor as to do the ''Independ-
entsn reverence. H.P.H.
SUNDAYS DEVELOPMENTS.
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