New-York tribune., 1884-02-18
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
REPUBLICAN PREPARATIONS THROUGHOUT
THE STATE.
DELEGATES To CHICAGO TO BE CHOSEN ny THE
PEOPLE AT DISTRICT COMMEMORATIVE AD-
ILLUSTRATIONS sTRENGTI-THE CAMPAIGN

ALBANY, Feb. 17.-If the Republican State Con-
vention is held April 49, the thirtyfour Congress
sIonal district conventions must meet between
April and that date for the election of sixty-eigt
of the seyenty-two delegates to the National Repub-
llcan Convention; for according to the rules laid
down by the National Republican Committee. tho
district conventions must be held within the fifteen
days next prior to the meeting of State conven-
tion. The announcement by Mr. Warren, the chair
man Of the Republican State Committee that the
State Convention will probably be called to meet
on April %, will much facilitate the holding Of the
Congressional district conventions Now that tho
Republican leaders in the several Congressional
districts have the date, they can far more readily
make the necessary arrangements for assembling
the delegates to the district conventions
PREPARING FOR DISTRICT CONVENTIONS.
The first steps toward the holding Of these con-
ventiOns being taken rapidly. Last Tuesday
the Kings County Republican General Committee
passed resolutions in favor of the election of tho
eight delegates of that county by the Republicans
residing in it's tour Congressional districts. To-
morrow the chaimen of the Republican county
committees of the counties of Tompkns, Chemung,
Schuyler and Seneca which compose the XXVIIIth
Congressional district will meet at Ithaca for the
purpose of drawing up plan for the election Of
delegates to district convention in that district.
James f. NickersOn, the chairman of the Republic
can County Committee of Chenango County, has
opened correspondence with the chairman of the
Republican County Committee in Madison, BroOme
and TiOga counties, composing with Chenango
County the XXYIth Congressional district on the
subject of the convention TO be held there. 1t is
stated that AlOnzO Ferguson, chairman of the Re-
publican County Committee In Schoharie County,
has written a letter on the same subject to the
charmen of the of the Republican county commit
IL 4. IL, v
Congressional district, Ierkmer and Otsego w.
VI. Van Mater, the State Committeeman of the
XXVIIth Congressional district 0swcgo, Cayuga
and Wayne who was here last week in consuta-
ton with leading Republican politicians, has, it is
said returned home to set In motion Immediately
preparations for holding district convention in
that district Ex-senator Rockwell, of Warren
County, here on Friday consulting with the
Republican members of the Legislature from the
counties of Franklin. Clinton, Essex, and Warren,
which compose the XXIst Congressional district
concerning the assembling of convention in that
district. In the XXXIVth Congressional district,
consisting of the counties of Chautauqua, Cattarau-
gus and Alegany representatives of the three coun-
ties will shortly meet to decide upon their relative
representation in the district convention.
DELEGATES FROM DISTRICTS AND At LARGE.
1t seems to be taken for granted here that district
conventions will be held in the eight Congressional
districts of NewYork City; In the Albany Congress
sonal district in the Monroe Congressional dis
trict in the two Buffalo districts and IN the OnOn-
Cortland district. Indeed it is doubted if the
Republicans of any Congressional district in the
State will neglect TO elect delegates and leave that
duty to their delegates TO the State Convention. If
none neglect to elect delegates, the State Conven-
tion will simply have the duty of choosing four
delegates at large. 1t is said that effort will be
8 - hose
these delegates Perhaps two of them will be the
United States Senators. Warner Miller and Elbrdge
G.. Lapham. 1t IS thought likely, however, that Mr.
Miller will be a district delegate from the XXIVth
Congressional dis Herkimer OtsegG and Scho-
hare.
CHOICE OF JUDGES.
The State Convention will also nominate two men
for Judges of the Court of Appeals. There is an
agitation in favor of renominating both the Judges
whose terms expire: Judge Andrews and Judge
Rapallo One is Republican and one is a Demo-
crat but both have been on the bench fourteen
years and the argument is made that partisan con-
sderations shonld not be regarded in their case. IL
the Republican State Convention should nominate
Judge RapallO. Democrat, il is argued that the
Democratic State Convention would nominate
Judge Andrews, Republican.
PRESIDENT ARTHCR's SUPPORT.
Politicians here think it too early to speculate
about the proportion of delegates President Arthur,
or other Republican candidates for the Presidency,
will have in the New-YOrk delegation to tho
National Convention. The estimates of the Presl-
dents support vary all the way from thirty To for
ty-ive delegates and even this support is regarded
as not of an entirely trustworthy nature. Will the
President get the support of all the delegates from
New York and Brooklyn' 1t is considered doubt
full if he will especially all from Brooklyn Yet
the leaders of the Arthur movement seem to rely
upon promises made to them that the President
shall have all the delegates from these cites-twen-
ty-four in number. And will these delegates sup
port Chester A. Arthur as loyalty and tenaciously
as they did Grant in 1ssOf This is the second OF
the questions frequently asked by Republican poll
ticians here 1t is recognized that many of the
same men that supported Grant will support Ar
thur but II is doubted if they will cling as long to
the latter as they did to the former. While the
Speakership contest was In progress here in Janu-
ary many Assemblymen who had not made their
choice among the candidates used Mr. Roosevelts
room as a camp of observation" 1t Is suspected
that considerable of President Arhurs support will
be Of this unstable character. There Will be dele
gates who are ostensbly for HIM, and wLo will
actually vote for him if they think he is likely TO be
nominated, but who all the time will be endeavor-
ing to discover If some other man has not moro
strength with the intention of transferring their
votes to him at the first opportunity The NIFTY ono
New-York delegates who supported Grant IN lSso
were morose body of men when they saw that
they had been defeated but their nofoseness ai"so
chiefly from the fact that they made mistake as
politicians-they had not supported the successful
candidate, and they had no claims upon ms gtaIi- graz
tude Some of the men who are supporting IIesl-
dent Arthur say that they do not intend to make
the mistake this year of supporting an unsuccessiu
candidate till the last ballot.
POSSIBLE EFFECT or LATE ELECTIONS.
The Presidents supporters have one advantage
which the supporters of Grant did not have in
1850, namely, that the delegates will be chosen at
more favorable time for them. The Grant delegates
vere elected In February at time when town