Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-03
HOT WORK AT CHICAGO.

HOT WORK AT CHICAGO.
THE GEORGIA CONTESTANTS
LEFT OUTIN THE COLD.
Their Fate Settled by the Sub Commit
tee-A Prospect that Blaine will Lead
Arthur on the First BaIIOt-PoweH
Clayton for Temporary Chairman.
! CHICAGO, June 2.-The situation this
morning in the Presidential canvass was
/ very much simplified. All the delegations
are now on the ground including New
/ York and Pennsylvania, whose coming
/ had been looked forward to with some in
! terest. The negotiations which were car
| ried forward in the interest of the respect
/ i've candidates yesterday makes it clear
/ that the adherents of six candidates,
/ namely Arthur, Blaine, Edmunds, Sher-
man. Logan and Hawley, have made a fair
! measure of their strength and deem that
| the present aspect Of the fight warrants
/ them in standing by their men. The most
! ardent of the Arthur and Blaine men do
not now claim for them a majority of the
( convention. The highest figure mention
ed for Blaine is 33S, and the highest for
Arthur about 325. But conservative ad-
vocates of each put the figures for both
under 300. This is necessary in view of
the stand taken by the Edmunds, Logan
I and Sherman men. The friends Of the
Vermont Senator to-day are in high
feather OveC the possibility of his nominal
ton and contend that he has developed
unexpected strength.
CHICAGO, June >, l2:lO p. M.-The
/ Virginia delegates, headed by Senator
Malone, otherwise termed the ''stralght-
| OUTS" arrived yesterday. The other dele
cation, with the exception of Dezendorf,
/ arrived this morning. Gen. Wickhau
was the leader of the latter party. When
asked what he thought of the action of
the National Committee in getting the
| Malone delegates seats in the convention.
he said that he was not surprised. The
real contest would be made IN the con-
I ventiOn. The expression here. however,
is very general, both in the Blaine and
Arthur camps. that Manone and his
followers will be seated by the conven-
ton.
TRYING To CROWD HARRISON OUT.
The Indiana delegation met this morn
| ing and completed their organization and
adjourned until 4 O'Clock this afternoon.
The Blaine men are anxious that Harri-
son shall not go into the light, and their
influence was felt in the meeting, where
| considerable opposition to placing Harri-
son in nomination was manifested. 1t is
said that Hon. Richard Thompson ques-
toned the advisability of presenting his
name to the convention. What the outcome
will be il is impossible now the state, but
the contest is considered close. Powell
| Clayton announced this morning that he
was going to work for Blaine. The Ar
kansas delegation was addressed by Col
lectOr Robertson, of New York. who said
that Blaine could certainly carry New
| York State, while there was doubt about
Arthur being able to secure it. The
meeting was a stormy one, and when it
| adjourned without action it was said that
the delegation stood for Blame and for
Arthur.
EDMUNDS' HACKERS.
A caucus of Edmuuds' adherents was
held at the headquarters of the Massachu-
setts delegation this morning. There
were present between 800 and 400 people,
of whom $50 were delegates. The latter
were not willing to pledge themselves to
! the cause of Edmunds at the outset, but
! the absolute pledges of 80 were obtained
to vote for the Vermont man, and It was
estimated that his strength in the early
| ballOting would exceed 100. Senator
| George f. HOar, of Massachusetts. pre-
| sided. and speeches in the interest of
Edmunds were made by Andrew d.
! White and George William Curtis,
who spoke for about twenty min
utes. The sentiment which elected the
most applause was to the effect that Mr.
| Curtis, personally, believed that Ed
mundS stood upon the strongest fOun-
datiOn of any of the candidates yet men,
toned, and he proposed to stick to the
| eTmOnteT, at least until it became ap-
parent that the nomination of some one
else representing exactly the same ideas
was assured.
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, has been
polD TOD TEr,s,-
convention.
THE GEORGIA CONTEST.
CHICAGO, June ., : P. M-The National
! Committee resumed its session at 1915
! O'Clock this afternoon. Joseph i. Lee,
! colOred, appeared as proxy for William
! W. Hicks, OF Florida.
The subcommittee, through Horace
Davis, Chairman, to which was referred
/ the case OF the cOntesting delegation from
the First Georgia district, reported, de
/ claring that the committee considered only
| the proceedings in the district convention
| as bearing on the prima facie case of the
/ two parties, and did not 90 into the merits
/ OF the split before that convention. They
! find that the proceedings of that conVen-
ton were irregular and turbulent, with
| very conflicting evidence as to its merits,
/ but the committee deemed that on the
/ whole the prima facie case was
with Alexander Wilson and James
Blue and their alternates. Deveaux
moved as an amendment that the matter
! be referred to the Committee on Creden-
| tials, and that no names be placed upon
/ the rolls. This was lost. DeveauX moved
as a substitute that the names Of johnson
and Green be placed on the rolls. This
| was defeated. The report of the commit
| tee was then adopted.
THE ALABAMA CONTEST.
| Al.
matter of the First Alabama district in
| favor of Slaughter and Terror. The re-
| port was adopted without debate.
Senator Platt represented the Twenty
| second Pennsylvania district, putting
| upon the rolls Magee and Finn. This
was adopted without debate.
With respect to the contest in the Twen-
! ty-frst Pennsylvania district, the COM
| mittee recommended that neither Sayres
| nor Venting be placed on the rolls. This
would leave West as the only delegate
| from the district whose seat is not con-
| tested, but as the Presidential preferences
of the contestants are alike, both men
were admitted to the seat and given half
vote each.
John j. O'Brien and Mather Il. Brady
were admitted from the Sixth New York
| district, George Campbell and Herman
! Griggs from the Nineteenth New York
| district, and Silas f. Miller and John
Mason Brown from the Fifth Kentucky
district.
From the First Kentucky district Ed
| ward Farley and p. G. Bragg were seated.
| In the matter of the Second Illinois dis
| trict the majority report was not adopt
| ed, but substitute was, giving the seats
| to w. II. Rugar and Piper. From the
| First Maryland district James w. EardOm
| and Henry Rogers were seated. The ac-
ton in the contest from the Twenty-tirst
| Pennsylvania district was reconsidered
and Sayres, one Of the contestants, was ad-
mitted.
| THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
After the reconsideration in the Twenty
| first Pennsylvania district, nominations
/ for temporary Chairman of the convention
| were in order. Mr.. Runnell, of iowa,
rose to offer the name of Senator George f.
! Roar, of Massachusetts, a gentleman who
in the midst of the exciting features of the
| convention of four years ago, had presided
/ with that rare wisdom which had COM
mended him to the good opinion of every
/ delegate in that body. Paul StrObach, of
| Alabama, seconded the nomination. A
member from Louisiana said that he
| voiced the sentiments of the members of
| the Southern States in according all honor
10 Senator HOaT, and that they would
| doubtless like to see him chosen
! for the permanent craftsmanship;
| but in the distribution of honors to be
conferred he thought, as a recognition of
| Southern Republicanism, that in naming
| the man for a position fraught with pa
/ tronage it could gracefully be given to
| Southern Republican. He then named
| Powell Clayton, of Arkansas.
! Mr.. Cannady. of North Carolina, Sec
/ fhn IN n Mr nf