Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-20
TIE BOOMING AT NIGHT.
Hot Work All Along the Line, with Specuia-
ton All at Sen.

| Hot Work All Along the Line, with Specula
| ton All at Sen.
| CHICAGO, June ga rush pell-mell from
the convention hall, a hurried dinner, anC
| the adherents Of the numerous candidate
| were hard at work again, secretly and open
| ly endeavoring to gain pledges of support
from one delegation or another. The head
quarters We're, if possible, even more crowd
ed than ever, Politicians on confidential
| missions flew hither and thither, and every
available ante room was pressed into service
for secret confabs And, after all, the situa.
ton was just as unsettled every bit as mixed,
as it was twenty-four hours ago, or as it has
| been at any time since the battle was opened
| with the arrival of the first delegation.
| From Sherman, the strongest candidate in
| point of certain numerical strength on the
| first ballot down to Rusk, the weakest, there
| was not an expert political stAtistician in
any one Of the seven CAMPS TINT
| could figure sSithin mile Of
the actual support his man would
be assured. The California men have
pretty well made up their minds to refrain
from placing Blaine in nomination when the
state is called, despite the declarations of
Creed Raymond on Sunday that they would
do SO in spite of nllopposition But they will
vote for him from the first ballot just the
same, and as they are pretty close to the top
OF the roll-call, they calculate that their ex-
ample can not fail to be contagious.
The Depew candidacy has kept on apace,
and the New York delegation continues to in
sist that he is their first and only choice.
After the convention had adjourned yesterday
any number of people, not a few of them
delegates, visited headquarters to tell him
that he could not only be nominated but
elected, and one enthusiastic delegate-at-
large from Minnesota assured him that he
could carry that state by 40 5000 majority
Naturally enough all these assurances gave
New Eork's candidate renewed hope that
lightning would strike in his direction, and
his followers wero sailing on the tip-top wave
Of elation. But il they had stirred around
ineog in the granger camps their spirits
woul1 soon have been hnundering again in
the trough of the sea The simple. unadu-
terated truth is that if the halloting had been
reached yesterday afternoon Sherman would
have been the nominee Early in the day
the granger influence was scared, and tho cry
was Anything to beat Depewn Then when
night came and it was found that the New
Workers had failed to make any material
progress they came to the conclusion that he
wasn't such terrible bug-a-boo after all.
and gradually dropped back under the shad-
ow of their old idols. ...s HH- FHr
Yesterday morning the Alger men, the
Harrison men and the Rusk men would have
combined on Sherman. At night the two
former at least were proclaiming as loudly
as ever that ultimate victory is with their
candidates
As showing how straws are grasped at with
avidlty the Gresham boom took in an addi-
uonal supply Of wind yesterday ON the
strength of rumor that Delegate Sims. of
the Nineteenth Indiana district, had ptfAIieIy
declared that the Indiana delegation would
go to the judge on the second ballot There
was sudden rise in Gresham stock when
this got abroad. but it fell just as quickly |
when an unqualified denial from Sims be
came public property.
10 sum uP the situation it is as MONDAY |
nlght-Depew against the field, with the lat |
ter ready to fiyto Sherman if the New York |
err can be beaten by that means Harrison /
gained some strength at Ayers expense
and his friends received promises of