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General Notes - Organization of IN
Vermont Delegation


The Vermont delegation has organized as
follows: Chairman, Gov. Smith; vice
president, Alonzo b. Valentine secretary,
Truman G. Fletcher committee on ere len
!lals, Henry Ballard; on permanent or lan-
lzation, Frederick Billings rules and Or
der, Red6eld Proctor.
The "Dark Horses" Encouraged.
From the Boston Advertisers Despatch.l
striking result of the test Of strength is
the sttilening given to the various side can
didacies. Blaine and Arthur are now al
most certain to kill each other. The clark
horses" are, therefore, much encouraged.
Logan's industrious friends now insist that
he is sure to gain from both sides from the
first ballot. They will be very firm. The
Ohio delegation has not been united for John
Sherman, but he will have 81 Jotes, and these
gentlemen are sure that the logic Of the stu
allon must bring him to the front. So certain
are they OF this that a number of them met
several Edmunds delegates in George VII
liam Curtiss room and tried to induce them
to go for Sherman. They declined for the
present, while protesting kindly feeling
for The ex-sccretary. Ohio men are pro-
verbally bold, but just why they expect 100
Edmunds men to yield before vote is some
hing that they have not made clear. These
Ohloans are doing their share to defeat
Blaine by supporting Sherman. for whom in
the end they expect many Blaine votes.
Indiana has settled her troubles. After four
DAYS wrapgling, the delegation agreed. 90 to
|, to present Senator Harrison. Ex-Sena' or
thompson will do it, but with
in 10
time in the history of the conven.
lions That a candidate has been ON the
ground working in his own behalf Har
rlson has done it and with good results.
AT first the delegation. stood 1G to IA for
Gresham, and now Harrison has it. 1t came
about in this way This morning the dele
cation was in a qnandary. At noon Colonel
Holloway, Ores ANS friend, received des-
patch from the Postmaster General saying
that he would not allow his name to be used
then his supporters surrendered, and late
TINS afternoon Harrison was made the choice
of the State. The Western men are thus
dividing their strength so as to have as
many blankets as possible spread for the
approaching shower. They think that with
Blaine and Arthur out of the way they can
catch the prize somewhere, with CullOm
Oglesby, Fairchld and Lincoln and Allison,
all ready to come to the front.
The Chances.
from the Springfield Republicans Dcsratchl
Have the opposition to Blaine the sense TO
handle their forces and engineer their ad-
vantage to success? That is the whole mat.
ter in "a query Tho Blaine men are not
cast down by any means, and profess conf
dencethat he will have 1863 votes. Tney
give Arthur 3O1.
Looking the situation over. it is evident
that Blaine has the best organized camp. The
opposition has the most votes, but little CO.
hcrence. Has it leaders who can combine
to win? John Sherman appeals to have
dropped out, for the reason that he awakens
no enthusiasm in the West He
has warm eastern friends, but they
discover no fellow feeling. Gen.
Sherman, II the Other hand, seems 10 be
not remote possibility. Thcre is demand
for him in the heart Of Bhine's forces-in
Iowa for examplc,-aud such availability
attracts even III independents Such men
rs Senator lloar, Mr.. Lodge and Col Has
kell are SO convinced of the rtctsstv Of
defeating Blaine ttat they look toward Gen
sherman as p"r6"p5 the wan to w'n with
But the EImurd3 men will @ into he r,,-
ytn'ion solid fuf him. and stick So lorg as it
seems best There is que, wurn cling done
On behalf of Lincoln His aiv1ca'es are not
dispose 10 press Ct antagnnizc Edmunds
or any man 'v'o ~on'd satisfy the indepen-
dents lu' tn. r,sl hopes The Arthur
mca ak a'rIl lnvi : taken new lease Of
lie, tnI II c'n- petty clear that the Pres-
dent Is out If the race. OF course Blaine
Just nos locks attractive to unstable men, |
'"femilar with convention work lIrri. n
u.. 80" nm as a caudi late ll,i. TIA,
Of lndiqna pv.~ - trot Lim out.
delegation havlNf Vplrn
How tho Blame Wen Talk!
From an nteli;- -ttr one OF mo Blntne
leaders,
IF we do not nominate Mr. Blaine upon
this occasion, all o. .c who arc controlling
his interests will be willing TO go out Of pol
itics perpetpally. We shall not get there on
lie first ballot and probably not on the sec
ond. Following the 1rot Totc Of the conven-
ton, which will number somewhe.e he
tween 3l4 and 1926 votes for Mr.. Blaine, the
Ballot in his favor will grow by 80 to 40
votes. We d. not expect to complete the
Blaine victory, however before the fourth
ballot by which time it will be clearly shown
that Mr.. Arthur can not reach the goal of his
and that the other candidates are
without a living show. We shall receive !
solid re-enforcements from the Logan |
camp on the third ballot. On the
second we shall get every vote in the Arkau-
sas delegation also on the third ballot, At
the time when Logan votes are transferred |
to us we shall get the Sherman delegation
from Ohio. That, added to the ballots we
have already from this section, will give us
the entire Ohio vote BY this time you
will begin to see that the Arthur delegates
have begun to strong into line for us. There |
is lot of those fellows who go with the tide.
If they think it sets in favor of Mr.. Arthur,
they will stick by him. If, on the other
hand, they fear for an instant that it is going |
to the opposition, they are our persiu.mons. |
They are worth nothing to us or to anybody |
Use if they can not see that their man is on |
the winning side. They are the people who
believe at all times in shouting With |
the biggest crowd. When the convention gets
down to the time for voting to begin, the !
ball., v i'll be forced On if we have Ia stay
ia tie c d venton hall all night and all the
Text day There is going to be No fenCii |
ton of the business of 1876 and 1880. Two
days of that kind Of thing are enough.
There is only one possibility OF doiealmg
Blaine, and do not see at this iuncture how
it is to be worked. The possibility
is the sudden bringing upon the con
vention at critical moment of name winch
may sweep the country. But cannot S. c
anybody at this time who could b. III ought
of by the other side-bythG Other side mean
the Arthur people-whOsc name las emo lgh
electricity and force to set tic agar 81 ne.
1t is certainly true that if Mr.. Lincoln had
ever performed any public services OF great