The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-15
PREPARING FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
pepew, HIscock, Miller and Piatt
Probably New York Delegates.
The State DELEGATION as Whole In
Favor of Blaine.
Cresham's s Name heading the List
In Minnesota.

ALBANY. N. Y, May 14.-The Republi-
cans of the State of New York, have now
elected IS delegates of the 72 that they are
entitled to send to the Republican National
Convention. Small as is the number Of del
egates to be chosen by the State Convention
there is great deal of interest shown al
ready in its probable action regarding them.
This is, perhaps, natural in view of their
eminence of position. Chosen by State
Convention composed of several hundred
delegates the four delegates at large unques-
tionably have higher rank in the opinion
of politicians and the public in general than
the Congressional District degates selected
by small conventions.
A large proportion of the Republican men,
berS of the Legislature have been elected
delegates to the State Convention. When
they departed for their homes on Friday IL
seemed to be the unanimous opinion among
them that the delegates at large would be
Chauncey M. Depew, Frank Hiscock, War
ner Miller and Thomas G. Platt.- However,
the members of the Legislature do not form
majority in the State Convention, and 1t Is
rather early for any one to say what the
State Convention will do. The opinions Of
the members of the Legislature after they
have visited their homes and talked with
their fellow-delegates will be OF more
trustworthy nature. The efforts Of the
friends of Messrs. Depew, Miller, Platt and
Hiscock to elect them as delegates at large
shows that as yet there is no 'Slate, and 1T
Is acknowledged by the friends of these gen.
tlemen that they have made no combination
to elect them. Indeed, the large number OF
State Conventions renders it almost impossi-
BILE to arrange ''slate" that cannot be brok-
en-.
The States delegation to Chicago as a
whole favors the nomination of Mr.. Blaine.
The delegates of the five Congressional dis
trlcts of Long Island, which contain the cit
les of Brooklyn and Long Island City and
Staten Island, are solid for Blaine. A large
majority of the New York City delegates fa-
vor Mr.. Blaine's nomination. That covers
thirteen Congressional districts. Warm as
is the personal friendship of William H.
Robertson and w. Hustled for Chauncey NJ.
Depew, as representatives of the XIVth
Congressional District their first choice is
for NJ. Blaine.
The Republicans XXVth District (Sena-
tion:
Resolved, That the Hon. James G. Blaine, the
foremost statesman of the time, securely holds
the confidence and the hearts OF all the constitu-
ents represented in this convention and the del
egates this day selected are requested to give full
weight TO this sentiment in their action in the Ma
tional Convention,
New York Democrats.
The Democratic State convention has de-
termined upon Frederick r. Candert as tenn
porary chairman of the State convention to-
morrow. The slate for delegates at large is /:
Raines of Monroe, Flower of New York,
Hugh Mclaughlin of Kings, and Smith M.
Weed of Clinton, Ex-Mayor Cooper and Os-
wald Ottendorfer are fighting for Flowers
place.
The Situation in Minnesota.
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 14.-Most of the
Minnesota county conventions have now
been held Without exception the Demo-
cratic conventions have indorsed President
Cleveland and his tariff reduction views.
Almost all the Republican conventions have
declared in favor of some reduction OF the
tariff and a large number have indorsed the
tariff utterances of Congressman Knute Nell
SON. Delegates to the Republican State con-
.clared, are Gresham, 100; Blaine, 63; Sher-
man, 8; Depew, 1; uncommitted, SO. OF the
Blaine men 80 favored Gresham second.
TWO Labor Delegations Probable.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. May 14-About 800
delegates, representing nearly every State
and Territory in the Union and every Sec
tion of advanced radical labor elements, have
arrived to participate in the National cen
yention of Union and United Labor parties
tomorrow OF these, fully two-thirds are
accredited to the Union gathering, the main
representation of the United party coming
from New York and Ohio. Strenuous eff
forts were made to bring about a coalition Of
the two factions, but Rev. DR.. McGlynn and
his adherents, composing the United Labor
elem ent, insist on the adoption of the single
tax plank of their platform as the only basis
of unity This does not commend itself to
the Unionists and the indications are that
two Presidential tickets will be placed in the
field tomorrow unless the conference COM
mittee appointed by each convention is ena-
bled to reach an amicabe conclusion.