Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-09

of this city which presented to the per
manent chairman of the republican ma
tional convention the gavel, made o
woods from every state and territory ant
Alaska, with a handle from the old char
ter oak of Connecticut, has made dupli
cafes of It for presentation to Blaine anG
Logan.
WORKING FOR A CRowD.
The democratic committee of arrange.
ments is not satisfied withthe convention
hall as used by the republican convention
and will enlarge its capacity to twenty
thousand, or double the number 1t will
now hold. 1t is to be made wider anG
larger, and the platform will be at one
side instead of at the end.
GRESHAM.
Some curiosity has been expressed
that General Gresham's name was moi
presented to convention for the second
place, Colonel Holloway, of Indianapolis,
one of the generals friends; explained
the reason to q reporter. After Blaine
was nominated, he said a number of the
delegates went to the Indiana men and
urged them to present his name. Ar.
thur men of the New York delegation
declined to interfere az to the second
placed, and announced that they would
support anybody wanted by the men who
nominated Blaine and whom they did
not wish to embarass in the completion
of their ticket. Roosevelt, Curtis, and
other Edmund men said Gresham would
be quite satisfactory to them. Col.
Holloway denied there was any division
in the Indiana delegation, which, he
said, was solid for Gresham if he would
take the nomination. Between the after.
noon and the evening session a despatch
was sent to the postmaster general in
forming him of the movement in his
behalf, and in a short time an answer
came to United States Marshal Foster
substantially like this: "Don't desire
the nomination for vice president; could
not and would not accept it. Why not
nominate Harrison2" In the face of SO
positive a refusal as this, Gresham was
reluctantly dropped.
ONE OF HI LEGACIES
left by the delegates was a report which
is said by those presumlng to know to be
a fac, that Wednesday morning. after
Powell Clayton's defeat, Blaine man
ayers, being assured there was an anti.
Blaine combination on Gen. w. T. Sher.
man, seriously discussed the advisability
of getting up a stampede for cold TIE.
cumseh" themselves, thereby forestalling
the Arthur men. 1t is said Theodore
Roosevelt, George William Curtis and
Cabot Lodge agreed to take Sherman
and urged the Arthur men to unite upon
him and that the Arthur men agreed to
the combination bnt would not agree
upon the time when it was to be con-
summated, they insisting upon having at
least five or six ballots before they would
admit Arthur's chances to be hopeless.
The few remaining Arthur men on the
field give it an explicit denial.
Albert Dagget, of New York. says it
was evidently an effort of the New York
and Massachusetts independents to put
the responsibility of the nomination of
Blaine upon the shoulders of the Arthur
men. He stated that at the joint caucus
of the Edmnnds and Arthur men, held
Wednesday nights, the Edmunds men
were given to understand that on a break
they were expected to come to Arthur,
he having the largest number of votes,
and there being no enmity toward him
in New York and that if they held out
too long they might expect to take the
responsibility of Blaine's nomination.
This latter version was laid before
Chauncy Filley and he said; eyes, we
knew the Arthur men had told the Ed
munds men that they would be held &C.
countable, and the Edmunds men re.
piled that they would accept the respon,
sibilsty."
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, and DR.,
j.. J. Mott, of North Carolina stated
that they never heard of the combina.
ton said to have been proposed, or of
the refusal of the Arthur men to enter
into it. They at no time prior to the
third ballot considered his chances hope
less, and if in addition to the 279 ballots
he got at the start, he had received the
votes of Edmunds and Hawley, General
Sherman and Lincoln, he would have
had 800 votes on the second ballot and
would have been the nominee, AS 90,
ing to show n phase of
CHICAGO PECULIAR FsNEss
for the national convention, the following
figures are appended: That with nearly
500 newspaper correspondents here, all
telegraphing pages of news, besides the
increase of private messages. The tele'
gragh companies had their hands full, the
Western Union in particular was enorm.
GUS. The officers Of the companies here
have compiled a statement comparing the
number of words of matter sent during
the convention of 1880 with the number
sent during the past week. 1t is as fol-
lows:
1880. 1884.
First day. ............. 263, 6l3 408, 24l
| Second day. ............ 292, 629 1888, 49,
Third day. .............. 346,874 1872, 30t
Fourth day .............. blank 500, OO(
6,724,23l