Wichita eagle., 1888-06-17
VIRGINIA DISTRICT CONTEST.
Much Bad Humor Shown at the Action Of
the Credential Committee.

CHICAGO, June lo.-One OF Cne QueereSG
developments this evening is the open ac-
acknowledgement that the fight to seat in
the convention the additional sixteen Ma
hone district delegates from Virginia is
in the interest of Senator John Sherman
for the presidency The fight is yet I'M
decided and promises unless quickly
checked to become a battle royal into
which the adherents CT all the presidential
candidates may be drawn almost newt
ably. The following of several favorite
sons other than that Of Ohio,
but above all the large element
who are for Blaine come what may, have
so far prevented the full contamination of
the Sherman-Mahone plan Of campaign,
and in consequence largely spoiled, for the
time being at least, what is perhaps the
neatest bit of politics that has come to the
surface here since the main struggle be-
gan. When it became known that the
subcommittee to prepare the roll Of the
convention would recommend that the
Malone and anti-Mahone district dele
gates both be given seats, but neither fac
ton allowed to vote, the managers of the
Sherman-Mahone alliance, it is stated,
quietly Struggled into the national COM
llllGbtE al SOl. "a. u. InOilpSOl,
a quick witted, plausible supporter of
Sherman, to see that the report was
amended. killed or delayed. So well did
Colonel Thompson succeed, that it is prob
able that the entire Malone delegation
would have been seated but for the deter
mined stand of the out and out Blaine men
and others led by Secretary FesseRden, of
Connecticut. The long and heated dis
cussion, it is understood, was almost
wholly IN tacbnical linac h M ,,oapfi ion
of presidential candidates, being devoted
chiefly to the well worn unite rule ques-
ton, but SO skilfully conducted that it's
be airing could not be misunderstood by
the well-posted, shrewd politicians
composing the national commit
tee. The anti-Blaine circulars,
said to have been issued by General Ma
hone in Virginia, and the offensive and
defensive treaty believed to have been en-
tered into between the forces of Malone
and Sherman are the points, it is stated
this evening, on which largely the opposi-
ton to admitting to full privileges the
entire Malone delegation, really, though
not ostensibly stands. The unit rule ques-
ton is, of course, perpleXing and impor-
tant factor in the situation. Had the six
teen additional Malone men been given
votes by the national committee, there
seems no doubt from the talk tonight, it
would have increased Sherman's strength
in the temporary organization lat all events
just sixteen delegates. 1t appears almost
equally certain this evening that had the
project gone through the national COM
mittee all right, the gauntlet of the Gre
dentials committee and the convention
could have been run in comparative safety
Tonight Colonel Hooker, national COM
mitteeman from Vermont, who was par
ticularly prominent as a champion of
Sherman, made no bones of declaring pub
licly that the decision of the committee
allowing both the Malone and anti Ma
hone delegates to sit in the convention, de-
priving the Malone men of votes, is the
result of combination of the friends of
other candidates against the Sherman
men. 1t seems probable that the Malone
fight will now be carried squarely on this
issue into the credentials committee and
later, perhaps, into the national conven-
tion itself. ,