The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-05-31
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Gathering of the Delegates-Conventio
Talk and Probabilities is the
Strongest Man &C., &c.


WASHINGTON, d. c., May 9th, 1884,
Editors Union The Republican National con-
vention will be held at Chicago next week. The
agony will be over and the Republican party will
know whom it is to vote Tor for President and Vice
President of the United States next November
A large number of the delegates are already drop
ping into this city route to the convention,
probably to pick up some points on the way and
also likely to confer with their chiefs or the can
ddates whom they intend to support in the con-
vention, all the principal of whom are here in the
city, viz: Messrs. Arthur, Blaine, Logan, Ed
munds, Sherman, Lincoln and Gresham, the last
three being numbered among the dark horses
Most of the delegates here now are from the South,
it being the most direct route for them to the city
where the convention is to be held. But the num-
Der is not confined to these, as many from the
North and East are already here, or will come
here on their way to Chicago, and even many
from the West will take in this city before
going to tie convention. In fact it would seem
that this city is to be the place of the first conven
ton before the other one at Chicago is held.
Much discussion is taking place in the hotel
Hobbies and elsewhere among these delegates and
between them and the friends of the several can
didates mentioned above with regard to the NOM
nations to be made by the convention, and the
most positive opinions can be heard expressed and
declarations made with regard not only to the in
dividual preferences of the delegates conversing
but also the strongest candidate and the person it
would be most proper for the convention to nom
mate for the head of the ticket with view to
cess at the polls in November. Most of the dele
gates here are for the nomination Of President
Arthur, although Messrs. Blaine and Logan have
some friends among them, and there may be
very few who favor Messrs. Edmunds or Sherman.
The point most discussed is the availability of
the several candidates for the nomination and not
so much the individual preferences of the dele
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must be sunk in the interest of the best and
strongest nomination that the convention can
make, if the party is to succeed in electing its
didates in the fall. This conviction has been
forced upon them the more strongly since it has
been ascertained certainly that Tlden will be the
nominee of the Democratic party for with Tilden
the nominee of that party it will take the very
strongest nominee the Republican party can put
up to defeat him. This fact is conceded.
In canvassing this question of whom the con-
vention must nominate, the minds of the delegates
naturally turn to New York. The Southern dele
gates here do not admit that States in the South
can be carried for the Republican party, for sew
eral of them, they say, certainly have Republican
majorties in them, such as Virginia, under Sena-
| tor Mahones lead; North Carolina, which dele
gate from that State to-day said has legitimate
majority in it of $4,000, and Florida, which has
had such an enormous influx, the last few years,
| of people from the North, most of whom are Re-
concentration of effort the part of the leading
| Northern Republicans and the right candidate, be
carried for the party. But they do not expect
those means to be used. Therefore they advert
to New York. believing that to be the pivotal
| State on which the election will revolye for the
| success of the one party or the other. A Repub-
lican Senator said at the capitol to-day, GAS goes
New York so goes the election" and all recognize
how difficult it will be for the Republicans to car.
ry that State if Tilden is the Democratic nominee
! Yet it is believed they can do it with the proper
nominees citizen of the State and one strong
there as President Arthur. Hence there no
signs of despair among the delegates or other Re-
| ppblieans here.
A dilemma, however, presents itself to the minds
| of most Of the delegates and others. Some say
! that it is very important that Ohio should be
| ried by the Republicans in October, and that
Arthur would not be as strong candidate or as
certain to carry that State as Blaine or Sherman,
| both of whom, however, they concede to be weaker
in New York than President Arthur, if indeed any
| candidate outside of that State could carry il
against Tilden in November. The reply made is
| that it is much better to risk the loss of Ohio in
! October, as Maine was lost in September, 1880,
| than to lose New York in November, which will
| probably determine the election. They argue, in
favor Of the nomination of President Arthur, that
| he is a citizen of the pivotal state Of New York.
on which the election will depend that he is well
and is its business mems choice that he has been
tried and has made most excellent and safe adj
ministration, which they most want; that his ad-
| ministrati0n has been commended by the people
| of the whole country and all the Republican con-
ventions wherever held and that besides, if it be
necessary to look to some of the Southern States,
several of them, those mentioned above, can be
carried by him but by no other candidate, and
hence they are for him.
The Southern delegates here are indignant and
spurn the charge that they come from "rotten bur-
roughs," or that they will "sell out" when they
get to the convention. Many are white men and
with their colored colleagues who appear to be a
very respectable and intelligent class, say they
are convinced that Arthur would be the strongest
candidate that could be nominated, and that his
nomination is almost absolutely essential to sue
cess, and that therefore they are honestly for him
and will stick together and vote for him while his
name is before the convention. They say they
have come for that purpose, and believe that he
will be nominated with the strength he has in the
North, and which is greatly increasing both there
aud in the West. ANON.