Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-06-14
AT. CHICAGO.
nURAT HALsTEAD TELLS WHAT He
KNOWS ABOUT 1T.
He Says Ohio is for shermsn-His Remarks
Concerning tho other
BoomE.
lRr talerrnph % lhe plsna,ch.l

CHICAGO. Juno i3--Murat Halstead, editor OF
the Cincinnati Commercial hds>fte, came IN On
an early train to-day 70 look after tho Interests
Of sherman. lie received the reporters win MS
usual urbanity and talked with tho utmost free
dom and ia his most characteristic vein for half
an hour.
"Ohio Is undoubtedly for sherman. reports 20
the contrary Notwithstanding" aaid he. " There
NAV be frank In the deegstion-there gene
rally Is one crank ia . body Of nfty-but DO not
think there Is more Than one II thero Is That IL
will therefore stand by sherman. with Foraker
az the front loyal 10 the choice OF the state.
sherman has already alarge vote sssurod, moro
than 800 and be will grow. Blaine Is out Of Tho
race for good and ALL but II Is not 20 be denied
that the ohio delegation Is composed Of Blsines
friends, who would Gladly DO for him If he we're
in the nold but lie Is not, and no one Knows Il 80
well IS Whiteaw Reid. William Walter Phelps.
Charles Emory smith, and o.hor intimate friends
Of the Plumed Knight"
"Do you think b Gine mon are seeking 70 Gre
ate diversions from tl!is ran or mat In order 10
get delegates on TIE Rround comparatively
untrammelled By pledgcs7n
mo, DO not Ia fact, thoy are utterly un-
settled themselves. They do not know which
way % turn
"Aro they likely 10 turn TO Alger?"
Hardy. But Tom Platt. OF New York Is DO
ing ali iu his power TO tuln the New IOrk dcle-
ga,iou 10 Alger. and he may succeed If DopsW
IS not in he 1oid. Dcpow could carry New
YORK. but be might loee Kansas aud Iowa.
Harrison will have q great pull IN the confident
CHIN which Is cot up for him that be can carry
a State which Blaine lost ia 1888. and the Harri-
son men urge Phelps for a second place because
he can carry New Jer-ey-anOther state lost by
Blaine foar years ago. IL must not DO over
looked that this Il indeed strong combination.
twill receive attention In the convention"
"And about Greshsm7"
About Gresham: there Is one terrific OBJ
lection 20 him. # nominated be would have 70
resign from the bench, sud that would give
Cleveland an opportunity 70 put 10 In sOmo old
Democrat TO preside over Illinois, Indiana, and
Wisconsin: and that won't 90. The Gresham
boom reminds me OF the manner We ran the
Rrlstow boom I'm Cincinnati We ala not help
Bristow, bat we beat Blaine and played hell az
the same time. Hayes 90; It. Why, the way we
worked for BristOW was q caution. We T. Eod
tho galleries for him with 5000 persOns, who we're
all supplied with BristOw fans and shouted thom-
selves hoarse. but IL was 10 &C.. We hal run the
boom way into ground sud broken IL off,"
The central event among the crowds Of poll
ticians to-day wa the arrival Of Chairman h. r.
Jones, Of The National Republican Committee.
Eumors were thick that the Chairman was tie
bearer Of another epist,e from Blaine. The ru-
mOrs in circulation we're told 10 the Chairman in
detail. Then The question was plainly put:
INF Jonos. have You such letter."
Tho answer was Dat snd 10 the point "No.
cir. Candidiy have not. Nc communication OF
q political kind hR5 boon received by me from
MIR. Blaine since The letter dated Florence reach
ed me.h