The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-22
THE EMPIRE STATE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO PRoGNosTicATE THE
OUTCOME OF THE
New York Republican Convention - Plenty
of Timber and Nobody Much Ahead
Fred Grants Friends at Work
Other Political News.

SARATOGA, N Y. Sept q The city is
full of Republican politicians. Among
them ara Gen. Joseph B. Carr, Joseph w.
Drexel and Chairman James d. Warren,
all candidates for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton delegation headed by James Tan
ner, OF Brooklyn, is here in the interest Of
Col. Fred Grant for secretary of state
Delegates to the Republican state conven-
tion are arriving in large numbers, and the
quiet Of Saturday and Sunday has been
changed to one of hustle and activity and
political booming" The good material
in the field from which to select candidate
for gubernatorial honors is commented upon
on every hand. There have been twenty
f1ve or twenty seven names mentioned for
the first place Oh the ticket. but of course
the greater number of these will not receive
and do not expect anything more than a
complimentary vote in the convention.
The standing of the various candidates
at the present time, based upon careful
canvass made Monday afternoon, appears
to run in order about as follows: A. B. Cor
nell, Cornelius N. Bliss. Ira D. Daven-
port j. W. DrexeI, Joseph B. Carr
Levi P. Morton, James d. Warren,
William H. Seward and James Wadsworth.
with Messr-. Andrew D. White Noah
Davis. DR.. Swinburne, B. #. Tracy, Senator
Henry r. Low and nearly as many other'
commanding more or less strength. There
is no denying the fact that Gen. Carr, who
some days ago stood foremost in the list of
names for the first place, is rapidly losing
strength. His friends claim, however, that
before the gas is lighted again his boom will
be the strongest in Saratoga.
New York county holds the kew, and the
city delegates are hard at work endeavoring
to harmonize upon good man Mr. Sew
ards name is frequently mentioned for
second place, and it is believed that he is
very strong. Davenport has many friends
for the lieutenant governorship.
A quiet movement is on foot TO make Col
Fred Grant the nominee for secretary of
state This uncertainty OF the gubernator-
ial candidates, hover, leaves tue minor
places on the ticket still very much cloudsd.
They have not been sufficiently discussed to
warrant any statement regarding them
The best politics at the present time ars
those of Ex-Governor Cornell His friends
have been playing shrswd game, and it
has worked admirably. Had the nonina-
lion D6oD ulhu6 MO1udy ne WO0l1
surely have been chosen. Even thoss who
are bitterly opposed to his selection admit
this.
In conversation with a very intimate
| friend of Senat r Miller, a correspondent
ascsrtained that in his opinion the probabi
ties were that if New York city could CON
centrate their forces upon any one man it
! was Bliss, and that in the event of failure on
| the part of city delegates to act as unit
James d. Warren, of Buffalo, would de-
| vslop a surprising amount of strength. The
city delegates appear to take but little stock
In Warren, and rather lean toward Seward
as their choice outside of the city. "But,
they say very emphatically, "the candidate
| for governor must and will come from New
| York city"
New YORK, Sept % in an intsrvisw "
with Hon Levi P. Morton Monday after
noon at the Fifth Avenue hotel, that gentle
man stated that he had no idea how the
state ticket nominations we're going, but
that if he was nominated Of course he would
accept Gen. Carr, he said, seems to have
the greatest strength at present, he bsing
the only one who has worked actively to
| get the nomination.