Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-01
CONVENTION NOTES.
The Republican Chances at Chicago
What is Being Said and Done by the
Politicians.
GENERAL NATIONS TACTICS.

CHICAGO, May 29.-First Assistan
Postmaster General Hatt0n has beer
on his feet all day, first at OHs hotel ant
then at another, c0rraling the doubtful
Arthur delegates and working witt
might and main to make new converts.
A PUBLISHERS ENTERPRISE.
4 representative of an enterprisiEg pub
fishing firm of Philadelphia was showing
around today prOof-sheetS Of the lives o
the Republican candidates for president
and Vice President. The Biographies are
written in such a style that with a few
alterations and additions they viii do foI
most any of those mentioned in eonnec
ton with the nominations, and it is cal
culated that 100000 copies Of the book
can be put on the market in less than a
week after the nominations are made.
BbAINE's BROKEN REID.
Whitelaw Reid, who came in to-day
with several assistants to work for Blaine.
insists that he is the only Republican
who can carry New York, but at the same
time he cannot conceal his dismal fore
bodings for the fate of any Republican
candidate if Tilden should be the Demo-
cratic nominee. A friend of Blaine from
Washington tonight says that Blaine did
not speak hopefully to him on his depart
ure, and remarked plaintively that he
w. Baxter died. Blaine, he said, talked
as if he did not care who got the nominal
ton if he failed.
THE PROPEESY OF DAVID.
Judge David Davis, who arrived at the
Grand Pacific yesterday, said that Blaine
or Arthur WOulr be nominated within
four or five ballots. If they fail to get in
in that time there will be long series of
ballots. After the bars are let down for
the dark horses Judge Davis has no idea
who is likely to be the man.
AN ARTHUR COUP D'ETAT.
The greatest activity seems to prevail
in the Arthur camp. The Presidents
friends are said to be preparing for coup
d'etat Monday or Tuesday. 1t is under
stood here, among other things, that the
Arthur organs are preparing an elabo-
rate rehash OF Blaine's past record. They
will 90 for his relations with Dir. Multi
gan, his connection with the Little Rock
Railway, and into everything that has
been charged against the man from Maine
since he became an important factor in
American politics. This will be sprung
upon the delegates just on the eve of bat
tie, and the evidence against Blaine will
be arranged in such a circumstantial and
plausible manner as to carry conviction
with it, they think, to the minds of the
timId and wavering. These articles will
brand Mr.. Blaine as a corruptionist, a
bribe-taker and a thief. Another move to
be made will be the displaying Of auto
graph letters from Secretary Lincoln and
Postmaster General Gresham.
LINCOLN AND GRESHAM FOR ARTHUR.
Lincoln, in one of his letters, says that
he has done nothing to deserve the honor
of a nomination, and that if it came to
him he could not help feeling that it was
meant more as tribute to the memory of
his father than in recognition of anything
he (the Secretary has ever done. He
says that his best friends cannot do any
thing for him which he will value more
highly than to use their influence, and,
If they be delegates, to cast their votes for
Chester A. Arthur. He considers that
Arthur has earned the nomination. He
has been a good President, Mr.. Lincoln
says, and has harmOniZed the Republican
party as no other man could have done it.
Postmaster General Gresham says he
does not want the Presidency. He would
rather not have it. His friends can do
him no greater favor than to work and
vote for Arthur, whom he considers one
of the best Presidents the country has
ever had. These letters, together with
the Blaine expose, are expected to kill
off the man from Maine and at the same
time improve the cause which the Arthur
men have in hand. The Arthur men are
evidently determined to make as much
noise as they can.
THE ARTHUR LEADERS.
Stephen B. Elkins, of New Mexico, is
one of the most conspicuous figures in
the Grand Pacific lobby. He is the en-
bOdiment Of activity and ready at any
moment to assure his listeners that Blaine
is certain to win. He is regarded as the
Of 1ao To
pendent he said: CIV. Z. Chandler will
not lead the Arthur forces. Until last
week it was given out, and he himself let
it be understood, that heintended to lead
the Arthur forces, but for some reason or
other he has failed to come to the front.
and Frank Hatton, the Assistant Post
master General, will lead them, and he is
here nOw'for that purpose.
SOME IDLE TALK.
There has been a great deal of talk in
the hotels tonight about Gresham. There
seems to be a general impression that ne
has been agreed upon as the heir to all
that Arthur has. To Offset this there is
an apparent effort in the Blaine camp to
help on the boom for Ben Harrison.
EDBIUNDS' POLAR WAVE.
The Edmunds flutter seems to have gone
by the board, and down at the Leland
tents are to be pitched, there is desOla-
ton and weakness Of spirit. The Leland
is out on the lake front, where the re-
frigerating cyclones from Manitoba come
fresh from the waters and keep people
shivering. 1t is rather odd that Mr.
Edmunds should have pitched upon the
coolest spot in this unnaturally cold city
for his rendezvous. There are an unusual
number of men in this convention who
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do the Garfield business over on their own
account. # they had dropped around 70
the Grand Pacific Hotel today however,
they would not have had their hopes
assisted to any extent. All the other
hotels in the city were practically desert
ed, and the big lobby of the Pacific was
packed. Everywhere in the crowd there
was Blaine talk. His emissaries seemed
to be everywhere and talking to every
body, and they certainly had a wet
blanket effect on the delegates who be-
lOnged to other camps, and who, i'm
encouraged by their leaders, who have
not yet arrived, were inclined to be
rather shaky.
THE NEGRO MARKET.
There was a school of colored delegates
from the South about the place allday and
the Blame miIlionaires were feeling among
looking crew, these Southern delegates Of
color. Some of them look like stablemen
and others are regular dusky dudes, with
big cuffs, high collars, and a wild afflu-
ence of jewelry. The Blaine men very
early in the day began to pass the word
that the colored troops were fighting
nobly for dollars, and it was pretty freely
understood that a good many of them
might easily be induced to see the disad-
vantages of an Arthur campaign and the
profound benefit the country would be
likely to experience through the nomina-
ton of Mr.. James Gillespie Blaine.
Smith and Handy, of Philadelphia, and
Tom Donnelly were talking earnestly to-
day with a number of the dGrk-skinned
men from below the Mason and Dixon
line.
BOB'S LITTLE BOOM.
Among the visitors to Mr.. John G. News
room this morning was the Hon. Elihu
B. Washburne, VINO came to secure tick
cts of admission to the convention and to
talk over candidates. He referred to the
wide division on Blaine and Arthur. and
then said: ''Why not nominate Robert T.
Lincoln? He is fine young man, honest,
capable, business-like and we'll known.
His nomination would give great salts
faction to the Republicans all over the
country. 1t would provoke no antagO-
nisms. such as are to be feared should