Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-30
CLEARING the TRACK,
Gossip From Chicago Hotel Lob
hies.
CANDIDATES AND THEIR FRIENDS.
The Possibilities for Blaine, Arthur, Sher-
man and logan---The Number of
Seats and Who viii
Get Them.


Special % ne Register.
CHICAGO, May 29.-0utside prev in the
hotels is as yet scarce Very few delegates
are IN the city, and those who have arrived
are not the kind from whom to gain much
information. They are in two classes-the
class that knows what it wants, and the
class that desires to ascertain what is de-
sirable. The latter can't talk and the
former won't. By tomorrow, however, it is
expected 200 delegates will have arrived and
something Ike . crystallizaGon Of plans
may be looked for. Beginning with Sun
day food of pencils and an avalanche of
paper will strike the town and figuring will
commence in earnest The local politicians
are all at sea, and have ceased making
tables for the first ballot. Three weeks ago
every man in town carried block Of paper
and half score of pencils, and the moment
he cornered friend he began to figure.
Then it was all Blaine; but so many Blaine
delegates have gone back on their alleged
favorite that the calculators have grown dis
guSted and discouraged
Something About Logan.
The busiest men in town are the Logan
fellows. If you see a man on dead run,
hurrying from hotel TO EOtel it is the safest
thing outside Of insurance tables to set him
down as Logan boomer People from
away OH are inclined to laugh at the idea
of there being anything in Logan's boom.
but Long Jones, Po tmaster Palmer aud
Dan Shepf erd think quite ihe opposite. In
their minds eve they see the White House
at every turn and Logan stands at the door.
Nearly score of times day "I.ong" Jones
rushes down from his room. No SO, Grand
Pacific to the poStOthce and then back
again; the alternate half score times Post
n,Ster Palmer daSheS out Of his office runs
to the Grand Pacific and up to 50. What
trauspires no one knowS-a sarcastic cuSs
remarks. NO one cares I'm half inclined
to believe it.
Committee Work.
After dinner yesterday Messrs. New,
Clayton and Martin got together in Mr..
News room, locked the doors, and tried 10
do some work. 1t is slow business. The
request of the local committee for 2j0 seats
for distinguished citizens and public officers
Of Illinois lies heavily ON the hands of the
committee There are indications that it
will be badly set down upon when the com
mittee secures a quorum. The committee
did not do much in It's informal state Some
disposition was made of press applications.
Ii is thought the Chicago daiheS will re-
ceive eight or ten seats each Other well
known papers like the Albany Journal and
Springfield Republican will get two, while Il
number of smaller da.i's from small cities
will be given one seat Mr., New bears up
well under his crowding work. His remark
about il Yesterday WAS that the indications
were that he would have something to do by
the end of the week if he had good luck.
Newspaper Men.
The influx OF newspaper men has begun
in earnest. Gath Is at the Windsor and
and Eli Perkins is also on the ground.
delegation of Washington and other East
ern newspaper men are expected Saturday
Concerning Candidates.
In the hotel lobbieS there is considerable
presidential gossip The Drift Of opinion is
10 the effect that Arthur has the pole in the
race and that the Blaine boom began too
early. Men inclined to bet are Offering 10
take Arthur against the field. The Blaine
men say they are waiting until their CaII-
tornia and Nevada delegates get in with
their banners reading. Blaine and Vic
tory Jones is giving careful attention to
the Logan preparations TO receive the col
ored delegates from the South There
seems tn he an idea abroad that these men
can be easily influenced to change. Powell
CLAYTON was Spoken To on this point last
evening. and he said We have four col
ored men on Our delegation, VI. W. Gibbs
a delegate-at-large :. II. Holland John IL
johnson and Fred HaviS. They are not
men who are easily influenced, not even
with big check. Gibbs is a man who Is
worth O.OOO. There is great deal Of
speculatior about how CLAYTON stand han
selr He. was asked Yesterday whom he
was for and he replied he was for no man
John G. New saws about the same, aiding
that he is too busy to talk politics.
John sherman.
Ppn,Je who supposed that John Sher-
mans boom was inHuiteSmal art likely u
be surprised when the returns come IN. Not
that predict his nomination, for that Is
scarcely probable But he will have htty to
sixty votes on the first ballot instead ot the
twrntv-six he is credited with. Ohio appears
10 be hut awakening To the fact that Shcr-
man is after all pOtcnuaity IN national
affairs and would make a good President.
The Arthur business men boom Is very
diaphanouS and the real commercial inter
cs,S of New York prefer Sheru6n OrstmoSt
anv other good man to Arthur.
Echoes From southland.
Ofthc delegates in town. by far the great
or number is from tbS South. \ canvass
nj these men diSclnS,s the fact that the real
feeling among Southern delegates has been
misunderstood Delegates counted for
Blaine are Goranybudv to beat the Maine
man. so called Arthur adherents are Tor
Bis;ne Sherman or Hawisv. This late but
varshle knorledEe i one of the factors
mns, potent in destroying the tables already
made and in leaving cslcnlatOrS AZ sea.
Chicago Gall.
The committees have found that the ca
pacirv Of the hall has been heretofore under
estimated Nearly 1000 seats will he AS
sioped TO holders Of stage and press tickets
and , 900 more to delegates, alternates ana
contesting delegations. Then 5000 seats;
;rcIrSipT 500 in each of the galleries and
-2O in tho private boxes. will be left for th'
General unbEc. \ member Of the commit
,ses measured the hail ,o-dav and found thu
:, w,s cy2oc,lv thirty-three feet less in length
tban rbe hail Of 1880. But what 1t lacks n
iang,b is partly made up in The arrange
ment of chairs. They are placed closer o.,