St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
ARTHUR, LINCOLN AND LOGAN.
Efforts to Turn Arthur's Votes
Over to Lincoln.
LOgans Illinois Friends Indignant and
Threatening Revenge.
The Man From Maine is Likely to Gain
More Than Bob Lincoln.
Especial Telegram TO the Globe. I

tSpeclal Telegram TO the ClObe.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE Tribune of this morn
ing says: Sin spite of the weight of authority
against the swopping of horses while crossing
stream, the Arthur leaders in Illinois and Wis
consin are still busy with their little scheme to
desert the president and transfer what Arthur
votes they can to Lincoln. On the surface they
are as much devoted to the man in the White
house as ever while in private they virtually ad-
nit that he has no show, and fall back on Lin
coln-not that they love the young
secretary particularly but with the
idea that the convention might be stampeded in
his direction more easily than in any other The
motive of course, is s'anything to beat Blaine,''
though for prudential reasons the movers are not
going round wearing signs to that effect
SIT is the last resort of few machine pol
ticians," remarked Blaine man from Western
state yesterday, ''to prevent the people for
third time from having the man of their choice.
The machine can do nothing with Arthur,
but its managers think they can cloak their
work and hoodwink the people with Lincoln.
From this time on you will see radon the Ed
munds, the Sherman and the Hawley men, and
the delegates friendly to the other candidates
who constitute the field, and an effort to turn
them over to the support of Lincoln. But it
wontwork; the combination can't be made. In
the first place you will find that the southern
delegates won't take to it and in the next place
that about ten delegates from Illinois are not for
Bob Lincoln under any circumstances. They are
for Logan whom they know and admire, and who
knows them, and not for man who is too aristo-
cratic to know them when they happen to go to
Washington, and wouldn't know them if they
were introduced to him every day in the week.
OF course, if Logan shouldn't get the nomina-
ton for first place some Of them might tolerate
Lincoln for second but L am not so sure even
about that. l have been here long enough to
learn, however, that the Illinois delegates are
not for him for first place, and 1 never yet heard
of a case where a man was showed a state
when it didn't want him.
There has been good deal of such talk at vari-
times, when the name of Lincoln has been
broached at political discussions, but the vol
ume of it has grown of late, with indications
that there will be much more of the same sort
as the delegates gather few weeks. 1t is no
secret that theLogan men do rot mean that Lincoln
shall be nominated for either place if they can
prevent it, and the attempt to turn over the Ar
thur strength to man who, in addition to the
other objections they wage against him,
has stood in Logan's way so far as he could,
is having its natural legitimate effect.
Primarily it is soldifying the Illinois delegates
all the more for Logan, secOndarily it is welding
them together against Arthur, whose workers
they hold responsible for the effort to boost Lin
coin at the expense of Logan and at the same
time creating very friendly feeling for the man
whom these Arthur workers thus hope to kill off
the man from Maine. Possibly the Arthur
lieutenants here-abouts and in Milwaukee failed
to foresee these and other inevitable results of
their little scheme, but they are beginning to
down upon these astute political minds at last
and in Il way that goes far to confirm the
homely truth contained in the horse swapping
maxim above referred to-