Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-16
" BLAINE, OR BUST"
THE SLOGAN OF THE DELEGATES
FROM THE PACIFIC.
Booms that Boom, and Some
that Don't-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE EEcoRD-uN1oNl

CHICAGO, June 15th.-The political cald-
ron is just beginning to simmer, and on
Monday it will be boiling and seething.
Everything is at present in an embryotic
state. There are very few delegates in the
city, and the predictions and prognostica-
tlons made during the past week by politi-
cal writers are valueless. The party lead
ers-the men upon whose advice the nomi-
nation will be made-haye not yet arrived.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania Ben But
terworth, Of Ohio; Murat Halstead,
Charles Emery Smith, Phil. Markhanna, of
Cleveland, and few sub-lieutenants are
on the ground, but the Generals have not
arrived.
Sunday and Monday will see more eau
cussing around the hotels than has been
witnessed at any National Convention since
the war. There is the usual amount of
wire-pulling and intrigue going on in the
interest of the different candidates, but the
general sentiment among the few delegates
here is that the Convention must select the
man who will make thestrongest candidate
in the doubtful States of New York, In
diana, New Jersey and Connecticut 1t
looks very much as though New York
would name the candidate, and that he
will be a Western man. Thomas C. Platt
will be
THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN THIS CON-
vENTIoN,
And it is reported that he favors the NOM
ination of Alger of Michigan but his sup
port OF that gentleman NAV be as insincere
as Quays Endorsement of the candidacy of
Mayor Fittler of Philadelphia. Platt and
Quay are expert tacticians. The latter
says he will vote for Fittler, and that the
Pennsylvania delegation will be divided,
Sherman receiving possibly forty votes,
andsFittler fifteen or twenty. Quay mean
time passes much OF his time at the Sher-
man headquarters and is working energet-
ically for the Ohio candidate. 1t is prob
able that Sherman's managers do not care
to develop all his strength on the first bal
lot They are making combinations that
they expect will result in steady increase
OF his strength from the start until he is
nominated.
sHERMAN's S PRESENT STRENGTH.
Sherman is undoubtedly the strongest
candidate, and if he can hold the votes
which it is said are pledged to him he will
win. That he can do this is doubtful.
The Southern delegates, who are claimed
Tor him, are very uncertain quantity.
Next to Sherman, Harrison has the largest
number of Western supporters.
INDIANA's DEMANDS.
Indiana comes to the front again with
the time-worn plea that unless a Hoosier
is given the nomination that State will 60
Democratic and the party will be ruined.
1t is the same plea, reversed, that VOORHEES,
made at the st. Louis Convention. Many
of the old-time politicians are becoming
disguised with the unanimity and regular
1ty with which Indiana trots out a candi-
date and threatens disaster unless the State
is recognized.
GREsHAM's BOOM
Seems to lack substance 1t is sentiment.
and one which, in the event of bitter con-
test, may take prominent shape. Gresham
does not enjoy the good will of Blaine's
friends, and they are disposed to knife
him. Gresham is the only candidate who
will be in Chicago during the Convention.
His judicial duties require his presence
here, and he resides at the Palmer House.
ALGER MAKING HEADwAY.
The Alger boom is making headway. An
unlimited bank account seems to be the
chief motive-power of his candidacy. He
has the votes of Michigan behind him
solely, and his candidacy is not to be de-
spised. His agents are ION the ground early,
every incoming delegation is put in i'm
mediate possession of urgent reasons why
the man who saved Michigan in 1884 from
a combination between the Democrats and
Prohibiuonists should be made the stand
ard-bearer in 1888.
THE GHOST OF BLAINE.
Above and around and casting shadows
upon the aspirations of every candidate is
the ghost of Blaine. 1t will not down at
any mans bidding. His refusal, twice
given, to become the candidate is not ac-
cepted by MANY delegates as meaning a re-
tusal to serve his party if called upon to do
so. His closest friends assert that he must
be considered as out of the race They de-
clare that he would decline if nominated.
but Steve Elkins Tom Donelson and Sam
uel Fessenden, Secretary of the National
Committee, and a few others are urging
that the salvation of the party depends
upon his nomination.