The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-23
NO MOSES YET.
Only Three Ballots
Taken Yesterday.
RUMORS OF A COMBINE
Allison to Get the Sherman
and Gresham VOtp
NGERSOLL'S MISTAKE.
Ills InQGldOGS at Blaine
Not Well Received.
THE CLIMAX TODAY
THE CLIMAX TO-DAY
Enthusiasm for the PIumed
knight at Fever Heat.

CHICAGO, June 22.-Walker Blaine, sit
ting in his accustomed seat in the box to
the chairman's right, smiled in approval
upon the three ballots taken by the conven-
ton at this mornings session. They did
not so please Mrs. Logan, who, a dozen
seats west of him, was anxiously watching
the Alger boom nor Col. Fred Grant, who,
sitting on the stage just to the left of the
chairman, was telling people around him
that, in his fathers last days, he had said
that he would like to see Gen. Gres-
ham nominated and elected President
Of the United States. The fact is,
that in the morning session everything
went just as the Blaine managers had ex-
pected and hoped it would California was
the only state that voted solidly for Blaine,
the announcement of the vote calling out
the most genuine enthusiasm from the dele
gates, as well as from the spectators. The
other pronounced Blaine men, with few ex-
ceptions, obeying the instructions of their
leaders, scattered their votes widely over
the other candidates, including the favorite
sons like Filter and Rusk. There was moth
ing on the surface to show that Blaine was
candidate, while all the while the stream
OF tendency was setting thoroughly
TOWARDS BLAINE.
The other candidates, given full oppor-
tunity to develop their full strength in
every case, fell short of the conservative
estimate of their friends. Sherman, whose
friends had claimed that at the lowest esti-
mate his strength could reach 800 votes,
rising rapidly to $50, his nomination to fol-
low on the third ballot, could only muster
249 votes ON the second ballot, a gain of
twenty over the first ballot, five of which
he lost on the third ballot. Gresham's
minimum vote, set at 15O,
could only roll up 1913, by
the third ballot. Alger's whole vote,
put at $50, to be doubled by the third bal
lot, had got only 122 when the third ballot
closed. The secondary men all fell below
lOO votes. Depew's weakness was held right
up to the light by his decreasing vote,
which finally rested at 90. The Blaine
managers-Elkins, directing from the plat
form, and Powell Clayton, Manley,
boutelle and others hard at work on the
noor-saw to it that no one boom
WEAKENED TOO MUCH.
They wanted them all kept going. They
would have prevented Filters withdrawal
II that had been possible. He kept twenty
Tour votes from the other candidates, and so
served their purpose of maintaining a
lagging competition between the other can
aldates. This explains Phelps vote after
New Jersey had formally determined not
70 vote for him. The weakness of Sher-
man, whose missing votes were captured
chiefly by Alger, and of Gresham, who is
The victim of his fool friends, one of whom
IN the Indiana delegation committed
Tue absurd mistake of voting for
lim on the first ballot-of Harrison, who
evidently could not hold his own state dele-
cation, and of Alger, whose boosted re-
Fruits were so few and so slow, became
eilnost as conspicuous, however, las Depew's.
~ was not strange that when the session
|fndod the opponents of Blaine scurried
round from headquarters to headquarters,
Frying again TO make a combination on
allison or some other dark horse to beat
'laine' stimulated as syg were by tele-