Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1880, Page 4

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Dearborn streot, corner of Monroe, Haverty's MBinstodon Minstrots. Exposttion Butlding. + Lake front, opposite Adams atroat. Concert. Olympte Thentres £ <. Clark street, between Lake and Randolpt. Lingard itt “Oakon Hearts.” Miss Content Mitie-Falt, ° : Corer Handolph end State strats. Concert’ by ‘ho Apollo Club, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1880, ———-——___ = . ‘Tue Italian Parliament was opened yes- *torday by King Humbert. ,» AsMANnamed Lynch was killed by light- ‘ning near Streator, in ,this State, during the ‘storm of Inst Tucsda, 3 . ‘Tue result of the Itatinn elections 1s the re- *turn of 23 Ministorialists, 149 Constitutionalists or Conservatives, and ulnety Rudleuls or Dissi- agate. Cor, Morron, a respectable and respected ‘citizon of Quincy, comiitted sutclde yesterday morning. Ho has been sutfering from I-houlth Yor some time. * YESTERDAY was onc of the hottest days ever experienced in New Humpshtro and Massa- chusetts, Tho thermometer ranged from 8 to 102 in tho ehude. Tunship Borneo, from New Orleans for ‘Trieste, laden with ofl, was wreoked on Hoayer Island on tho 16th whilo trying to nuke ber way to Halifax, N.8. —_——_——_—_—_—— For thé future, monks and nuns engaged Au tho pedayogicnl profession In France must have diplomas from tho State and not from the ‘Church authorltics, x B. Gratz Brown was yesterday awakened from hia political sleep of elght years to be made Chairman of the Misaourl Demogratio ‘Convention ut Moberly. Forertanens who have been {nstrumontal dn getting up the Communist demonstration of ‘Tnst Sunday in Paris will bo banlshod France by vorder of tho French Government. «Iris now probable that the Kellogg ease ‘will bo dlaposed of this session, There 1s not the “sTeast doubt that Kollogg will be pormitted.to. <votain bls seat. IcEvenas in the Atlantic off the const of . ‘Newfoundland continue to striko terror to the hearts of tho Trunsntlantio mariners. ‘Tho jHtonmer Marongy reports sighting several on the 9th of May, ———t SrNAtor Bnoy the recently appointed Georgia Sonutor, took the oath and his svat yesterday, Unllke his predecessor, Gordon, he Mutonds to sit by his colleague, Hen HNL Piuncz: Leovonp, accompanied by tho aMarquis ot Lorne and Princess Loulao, arrived Hust ovontog ut Loronte from Quebse, ‘Tue Joyal Canadians wero very much clated at the “visit of tho young mun. A FOURTREN-YEAN-OLD boy of Barry Coun- '¥) Michigan, committed suicide Pucsduy night. ‘he boy had boun so multrented by hls father “that he sald before ho committed the rash act rahat bo had rither not live. . A Fierce tornado swept over ‘portions of Oarrull, Ida, Sac, Calhoun, and Hninilten Coun “tos, Iowa, dotng great damaue to farm proporty, demolishing muny houses, and severely injuring: ‘eoveral porgous—two fatally. ———— ~ Gaver Wirrraren hins got {nto troubie yagain. A palr of citizen's pantnloons was found concenlod in tho aloove of his overcoat Tuesday after ho had doviared that ther was no citl -@on's clothing in bl Owrna to the mimber of Senators and Congressmen who will attond tha Chico Con- Yontlon, no mensurcs of a palltical ohuructer atro Itkely to be diseusied tn altner Huuso of Congress until atter tho ith af dune, —_— 4 Ti Muntetpal Council of Paris have, by a “voto of thirty-four to avyen, vensured the Free eat of Pollco of that city for {nterfering with , the Communist demonstration laat Sunday, ‘The. ‘Profect suys (t ls none of (he Counuilig business, vas he ie responalbiv to bighur authorities, ‘Tr thermometer stood 04 In the shade at ise York yestorday. Tho intense heat and ‘Tong-cuntinued drought In the elty and vielnity j fadoing great damage tn tho murat district, ‘The farinera ave plowing up the first vrop of ‘Yerutables in iuny plicus in order to plant alter tho next min, ee ‘Tue Woman Sulfragista at indtanapolis ‘Jesterday revlected wl tho old oficers, adopted 8 platform, and Istencd toa number of spscches ‘Vy lady orators, after which they adjourned, An cifort waa made ty indorse tho Greanbuck Labor party, but it rocotyod only o alight back dug und failed of sucecss, . Tie Blackhawk Distiilery, owned by the Chicago Distilling Compuny, consisting of Messrs, Bermingham, Wutebinson, 3, J, Fitz uibbon, and Col. ¥, J. Honnvssey, caught fire boul 6 o'vlovk Inst evening and was totally des slroyed, Tho Ines {8 catimated at $25,00), and fa Tully covered by tusitrance, —— A dozen Turkish villages bordoring on Nulgarhi were recently deatrayed by a depre- dating foroe of 2,000 men composed of police. mon, gymoastio societies, militiumon, and brig- undg of ali nationalitics, principally Bulgarians, ‘This will furnish another case fur tho ntorfer- enco of the Euglish Government, Tuene ts @ possibilty that, should Don Carmeron attempt te uomluate the Tewporary Sualrmun of the Chicugo Convention ty opposl- don to the wishes of a mujority of tho National Commitee, ho muy bu duposed from hla position fs Chairman of that body, and somo momber more In tnison with the opinions of tho tajor+ Ity elected in hia Extensive oll-works at South Brooklyn took fire yesterday from an explosion of. gas. ‘The thames soon communicated with xorie nrg ofl-tanks, and Intd hoktot n steamboat lying close by. A lumboryard in the vicinity also took fre and a largo portion thoreot waa dos Rtroyed. Tho ontiro danuya is estimated at 875,000, Over one hundred of the most prominent Republicans of Indianapolis havo signed n docu. ment declaring that thoy will not voto for Gen. Granté hould he be nominated at Chioago. Taken $n connection with similar Jevlarations inde by prominent eltizens of Cincinnatl and eleewhoro, itacems that the third-termers aro not neting in a sptrit to further tho beat Inter- ests of the party. | Ges. Haren ts stilt in pursutt of the Indians who have committed so many dopreda= tion in New Moxico recently. The number of the murdors committed by thosavngesis greater thin nt first supposed, and Includes the killing ofsix herdsmen at Tularosa, fifty-tive persans in Soroceo County, and soventy-eight nt Socarta, ‘Tho ranches in thoga districts have been com- pletely broken up. —_— Ox the 1tst bailot the Hon, Dietrich C. Smith, 2 Gorman banker of Pekin, Tazowell County, was nominated for Congress for tho Thirteenth Ullnola District yeaterday, [ls com- petitors wore Bnucr. of Mason County, Dono~ hue, of De Witt, and Funk, ox-Mayor of Bloom Ington. Thore 8a very large German populn- tlon in the dlatriot, -and Smith's cteation fa as= Rured, Tho district ts now represented by the Fint-Democrat Stevenso: Tite Missour! Demoeratle Convention yes- terday was not so favorable to Tilden us it was antleipated to be. OF the delegates elected eighteen nro reported to be antl-Tikden, nine for Tilden, and three doubtful, Some of the Niden men, however, clatin 0 much larger proportion of the delegates for thelr man, one claiming as Many ns thirteon for him, By the ekiliful ap- Pllcation of tho contents of the burrel it may turn out so, Reporrs are §n circulation tn London that Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, Ald. Fowler, and Mr, O'Donnell, an Irish M, 74, have recelved lot- tors threatening thom with death If they persist in opposition to the admission of Mr. Brodtaugh toasentinthe English Commons. Atfenst two of the three persons mentioned, Wolf and O'Donnell, would be greatly gratified ut the re- ceipt of such tetters,. It would make thor po- litical stock In trade for months, if not years, to come. A REQUISITION numerously signed by the Kadieal and Liberal mombera of tho British Parliament has teen presented to Mr. Qind- Btonc, requesting him to recall Sir Bartle Frero from tha Govornorship of South Africs. Tho request [s made on tho ground that ono of the main planks of the platform on which the Lib- ernls redo into power was that the South Af- riean polley and administration of the Tories wana futlurc, and to be consistent now the Libe cral Government should make 9 change in tho Governor, | Counr Ontorr, the Hussian Minister to France, who retired in such disgust to 8t. Poters- burg after the Hartmann affalr, returned to Parla yesterday, bringlng with blm expressions of good will towards Franco on the part of tho Czar. Prestdont Grévy said that France recipro- cated the cordial feelings of the Russlan Mon- arch, and witha true Frenchman's politencas added that he was glad that ugsia was repre: sented by so fatelligent and populara diplomat ng Count Orloff. Thus was the Hurtmann epi- sode emvothed over, Seen No tar has fallen In the region around Pittsburg for two months, except a slight shower About ten days ago, As a consequence tho ground is so dry and parched that farmers aud gardeners have lost all thelr early crops, wator 1a becoming quite scarce In the rurul districts, and grass, grin, and fruit-trees look as If thay bad been singed by fire. The drought region ox tends into the adjacent districts of Ohlo and ‘West Virginin, The thormomoter, for the pnst tonth has ranged highin the ninetics, and an ‘unusual amount of sickness, particularly umong the children, hay been the result. eee SENATOR Winpost offered an amendment tothe Pensions Deticfoncy bill yeaterday pro- viding for an appropriation of $600,000 for tho pay of Marshals, The Senntor oxplained that tho courta In various parts of the country wero about to be closed fcr want of funds and that ag Congress was on the ovo of adjournment some provision was necessary. Tho amendment was defeated by a strict purty vote, Sonator David Davis, as usual, voting with the Demo- ernts. This yotd may be considered in tho light of anothor bid for tho Presidency at the hands of the Domocratie party. We print thls morning several letters ro- colved from carnest Hepublicane throughout tho Northwest protesting in vigorous language against the Springflell outrage ond ns vigor- ously ayninst tho third-term idea. These letters express tho oplntons of many as Stalwart Re- publlcans as any of the thiri-term Bosses, Thoy proclatm an intention nat to bo dragoonodl Into Voting for the nomluce of a bulldozed Conven- tlon, or one which shall be gagged In. the Interest of michine politicians, placo-begyars, and pup- fas oioluta, Those mon have conic to, the con- clusion that the ring-rulo of “potlticnt Bosses" might as woll be fought agalust now ug at any other tine, Ex-Srnaton Carrey well expressed tho feoling of many Republicans In reference to Gront’s vandidacy ton Tummune reporter yes- terdny. Porgonally, he said bo would be in favor of Grant, if thoro was anything likes general cenit for his nomination. Instead, hawever, there Was tho most bitter antngontam among a largo class of Republicans who hive done tho party good service intho pnst, Hedld not Ike tho inethods by which it waa sought to nominate Grant,and did not believe that the peopto would indotes such methods, ‘There was, he ald, a focling of opposition to tha third-term {den which any amount of campaign oratory could not erndicato, ‘This {6 the opinion of many stale ‘Wart Republicans boaides tho ex-Sunator, — ‘Tun debato on tho Chief-Supervisors-of- Blections bili was continued yesterday, Senators Edmunds, Rotting, and ‘Teller buing tho princl- pal spenkerson tho Republican wlde. Mr, Ed- munds ridiculed tho amendment offered by ‘Thurman, rendering the present Supervisors In- ellglbte to oflev, and churicterized tho billasn political manouyre In tho interest of tho Demo- erate party. A referones by Senator Rolling to tho outrages ayalnst negroes in Buuth Carolina and Mlesieappl brought angry reyolnders front Senators Butler and Lamar, the former saying that Rolling bud ranaucked all tho Mthy, dirty revordy th Washington and clsewhera for tha purpose of pronuunoing a malediotion on my Stato,” and that what Rollins kad sald waa “trom beginning to cud a contemptibly calum- hy upon the character of Bouth Carolina.” ‘To thia Senator oiing qQuictly remarked that all he nad uttered wad based on tho sworn test: mony of tho people of Bouth Carolina. This ‘was tou much for Hutluy, who retained hia scat during the vemiinder of the debate, ‘Tho bill was Nnwily passed with ‘Thurman's amendment, which is mainly dirogted ayatnat Supervisor Davenport of Nuw York,—by a strict party voto. Iv reference to the campalgn roorback Printed iosthe nooniay Grant organ yeaterday us to Bu aa tor Blilne’s connection with the Texas Poolfle land-grant job, and the purpogs of tho Democrats td investigate tho mattor shoud Rains be nomianced, g gontiomun residing in this ity, who is thoroughly conversant with all the fucts tn this casy, who has examined every one of the dovuments In the hands of Col. New. wll, thy bogs of the fellow George, in thle mutter, called at fis TrrwuNg office Jast evening and sald that thoro waa not a worl of truth in tho wholo statement, that {t wax mado of wholo ekith, aud was, a maticlous, raniignant, and dastardly attempt to ruc the oharacter of ono of tho ablest men in tho Roupublican party, ‘The gentlemun in question dvcs wot favor tbe nomiuation of Mr, Blaine, but he could not al- low, with tho knowledge he hna, the moral ase sasinsof thothind-torm crowd to make such cow: ardly and villainous atatements and go uncon- tadleted, The gentleman turther asserted that Mr. Dinino was not directly or indirectly cous nested with tho grunt to tho Toxas Pacific, and that the only Senator ut present tn Congress “who was in tho lexst wuspcoted of any concern In thy muttor fa one thuslastically da favor of Grant's nomlus- fon at allhnrarts Tho gentleman who mado this statement ef! his name and address at THe 'Trimener onice, nnd ja willing to, back up his statoments, and to confront any Grant man who callé on him with the knowledge In bis posscs- Bion. —_ THE POFULAR PROTEST LAST NIGHT. | If anybody has had any doubt about the popular indignation in this ety nt the great fraud and outrage that wero perpetrated von tho Republican party of Iflnots at Springfield, that doubt must bd dtssipnated this morning tn reading the necounts of tho two meetings helt in Central Music-Hall and Farwell Hail last eveutng. To popularly ap- preciate these demonstrations it musthe kept In mind that the great crowds which as- sembled were not drawn together by any of the sual methods of political managers, and that the Post-Oftice and other officini purileus were not called upon to contribute any of the enthusinsm, If evern politieat demonstra- tlon came direct from the peyple, that of Inst night took its origin and caught {ts spirit from the popular heart, The meeting was first anounced on Sun- day morning, but It beenme evident the very: next day that there would bo a crush, and only the arrangement for adinisston by tick- ets upton certain hour: protected Central Tall from a Jam that might have resulted in serfous neeldent. Thousands were turned away from the doors, and the announcement, that an overflow meeting would be held at Farwell Iatl served to till that house as well, Stil, many hundreds went home, disap- voluted at not getting into what they. re- garded ns the principal meeting. 1t was found, however, that the Farwell Halt meet- Ing, though an impromptu gathering, lind all tho onthustasm of the other; Atthe Music- Hall the speakers were Henry W. King, who presided, Messrs. Kirk Hawes and E.G. Mason, Gen, Kueffner, of St. Clair County, Col. Waterman, Hermann Raster, and Mfr. (regory, At Farwell Hall, Gen. Bates, who presided, Gen, Hurlbut, Elifott Authony, Kirk Hawes, and othors prosented the enso of the disfranchised Republicans, At both meetings there were constant and timely ont. bursts of feeling which completely over- whelined the speakers, ‘The tono of the speeches was uniformly modernto and restrained, though earnest, honest, sincere, and impressive. Thero was no effort to incite the populace fo any rash «desertion of the party whieh has retained for twenty years the confilence of the mass of the intelligent and responsible citizens, Tho cominon sentiment was in favor of an appeal to the National Convention for protection agalnst the frand which the * Boss” and his underlings have attempted to put upon the Republicans of this clty, county, and State; and confidence was niways expressed that such an appeal will find an Impartial hearing and a just verdict in the court of Inst resort. But there was a deep undercurrent among the assembled people which no. one present could fall to recognize, denoting an enduring repugunnce to any faction that would undertake so flagrant and un- precedented a conspiracy to throttle the pre- yalling sentiment of a majority. When any one in tha crowd shouted “Bolt!” to meet some pertinent question, that contingency, if forced upon the protestants, seemed to be ng popular among tho assembled masses ns it was among the ‘fifty-eight Grant deleentes who seceded from the Cook County Conven- tion. ‘The speakers said nothing to encour- tuge those extreme niantfestations of indlgna- tion and disgust, but it will be sheer folly for the desperate manipulators of the third-term boom to Ignore the sentiment these manifes- tations denote, ‘Mr. Kirk I[nwes’ presontment of the ease was as clear and forcible ng that which he inade to the deat cars of Logan's bogus ma- jority In the Springileld Convention. Ue had g story to tell,—“‘a plain, unvarnished tale,” —and he told it in a concise, stralghttorward, and convinolng style that left no ondin doubt ag toltstruthand Justice. Any one whols still uninformed ns to the exact natura of the outrage committed at Springfleld by the ex- clusion of the Cook County delegntes, the fraudulent procurement of o bogus Grant inajority, and tho dlsfranchisement of ten Congressional districts, may find in Mr. Hawes’ speech at Central Lall, reported in full elsewhere, © complete and condensed oxposition of the triple villainy. No lmpar- tial man can read this statement without feeling nn assurance that the actlon of tho Logan delegates at Springfield will be ro- pudinted by tho National Convention, Tho third-term causo was -desperate at the best; the Iinois fraud has sealed its doom, Mr. E. G, Mason turned hfs- attention especially to the. self-appointed “Boss” of the Republican party In Ulnofs, and fn an olegantdbut Incisive manner related some ex- verlences {n Logun’s personal career, the re- vival of which at this particular time will contribute to the popular indignation which his recont coursa hing excited. Mr, Mason mode a tolling point, too, when ho recounted how the three Consuls of the Republic of F¥rutco once fed up toan Emperor, and asked what the Senatorial triumvir of this country propose to de. Gen, Kueffnor and Gen, ifurlbut represented the support which the antl-Grant districts outside of Chicago will bring to the appenl against Logan’s usurpo- tion, and Mr. Hurmann Raster spoke plainly and uneguivecally as to the sentiment and purpose of the German Republicans hore and olsowhere, ‘There Js one feature about this ant!-Qrant proteat ngalust disfranchisemont which gives it National Importance. ‘The eyes of the en- Ure American people are looking In the direction of Chicago, Tho reading people of this country—from the Atluntle to the Paclfic Coast, froin the extreme North to the extreme South—are fully Informed as to tho morlts of the Hlnots contest, ‘The sentiment which was nuunifeated at the two Chicago meetings last night extends to eyory city and hamict in the Republle where justice {3 revered and outrage reaunted, Tho people of Chicago have merely given expression to a popular protest that prevails everywhere, because it is thé pvople of. this clty and this State who umediately represent the victims of fraudue lont disfranchisement, But the fraud can- not be niatured without arousing all over the land the same vigorous, manly, and irrecon- cilublo resciitment that found éxprosston last alight In Central Hull, Farwell Hall, aud the strevts of this great elty, + ey Ty 1876 there way noidtviston of the party in Ulinois, and the yote for President was thus divided: Hayos, 8.228 ose ie Others 220007) we Rt Poral Vote ..s0.4s : Hayes over Tiden., ee Hayes over all... seven: SOTL ‘This1y tho majority on which the Republican e THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. party must enter the coming campnign, As against tho third-term issue all tho elements of the opposition will unite, and in addition to this the votes of many thousands of Re- publicans who aro conselentiously and de- lerminedly opposed toa third term. The re- cent netion of the Loss has Intenaliled this opposition. It hns embittered the opposition of the, Republicans of ten Congressional districts by mallefously robbing them of thelr representation at the Chicage Conven- tion. ‘Those ten districts gave Hayes 28,000 majority in 1870. AIL’ this indignation will find open nnd declared hostility to any enndidate who shall te nominated by the disfranchtsemunt of these districis, Is it snfe, then, In the faco of a Republican ma- Jority of leas than 2,000, to provoke and defy the opposition of the Republicans of ten Re publican districts In JHinots? Is It sate to axk them to submit as slaves to insult, out- rage, and disfranchisement? 15 it advisable for tho Convention, In order to give John Logan the personnal triumph of having 43 votes to dispose of In the Convention, to also make tt cortain that the 43 Electoral votes of Ailinots will be given to the Democratic enn- didate for President ? A GREAT BLAINE VICTORY WON IN PENNSYLVANIA, The most significant political event of tho day, a3 showing unerringly tho povularsenti- mentin the Keystono State, wus the vote Inst Saturday in the great Republican County of Lancaster on the direct fssuo of Binino ve. Grant. The election was held under what, is known as the * Crawford CountySystem” of nominating, which is by direct vote of tho people, ‘The elcetion was held to nominate a Con- gresainan, a batch of Leaislutive Represent atives, Involving the choice of a United States Senator, and n county ticket. ‘The County Central Conuuittos Inst Febru- ary, Instead of calling a County Convention, took It unon themselves to appoint delegates to the State Convention, nnd thoy sent none. but third-termers. ‘These packed agents of Don Cameron, when they renched Harrls- burg, elected two Grant delegates—A. J. Kauftaann ond Willian K, Seltzer—to the Chicago Convention, while it was a notortous fnet that tho Republicans of Laneaster County were overwhelmingly for Biatne, From. that day on there was trouble in the “Old Guard” county, which isa small State of itself, and which gave Henry Olny 4,000 majority and Hayes 8,000, being nearly half the majority he got in the State. The dissatisfaction becomlng.intenso at the dis- ionest trick played upon the party, it was finally agreed by both factions to submit the question of Presidential preference to A direct vote at the tine of nominating the county Ucket, which wag Inst Saturday, ‘The third-termers professed to be as con- filent of sweeping tho county as were tho third-termers in Covk County, and, while thoy failed as decisively there ns here, they did not bolé when beaten, as did the dele- gates of Cook, ‘The contest was naturally a hot one,.and the voto east very large. ‘the Blaine men swept the county by nearly 0 three-fourtha majority! The third-term thing was whipped about 4,000 votes autho direct iysuc, Tho Blaine men not only swept tho county, but took the pre- enution to elect two Blulne dolegates to the Chicngo Convention, Of course the two Grant delegates previously elected by the Centrat Committee wil! now retire, as the district has declared against Grant and for Blaine by threo to one, on tho stipulation of the two factions to fight it out at the: Repub- ean primaries, and to abide by tho reault. ‘Tis election adds two votes to tho nineteen Ponnsytvanin delegates {yho had previously declared their intention: to ‘support Blulno in the Chicago Convention and disregard tho unit gag rule attempted to bo fastened In their mouths by the Joss, ‘The revolt con- tinues to extend in the “Keystone State,’ and we are prepared to seo a majority of that delegation vote for Biuine, who {s undoubt- edly the “favorit son"? of that great Com- monvwenlth. —_—_—_— JUDGE DAVIS AS a INDEPENDENT OAN- IDATE. ‘The publication of tho letter recently writ- ten by Senator David Davis to his friend, O. H. Browning, of Quincy, has been generally aceepted as a declaration of the former’scan- didacy for the Democratic Presidential nomi- natlon. It is not unlikely, however, that the Ietter has another purpose and signiilennce,, und really moans that, under certaln elreum- stances, Senator Davis may be an Indopend- ent candidate for the Presidency. # Acareful reading of Judgo Davis" lotter will reveal that {t contains sentiments not likely to appenl with grent forces to the regu- lar Democratic Convention, It condemns in avory direct mannor the methods employed in many Southern States to put the Demo- ernts{n power, and st has an indepondent ving throughout which will not Inspire the Demoeratic Convention with confidence that Davis would bo a pllablo tool in thelr hands if they made him = Pros- ‘dunt, ‘The Democrats nro disposed to nominafe, and {f possibie to elect, a man who will avt simply as recording clerk for the en- Tollment of Domoeratic Jegislation, and the appointment of such persons to oflice as the Senntorlal bossea and Congressional dls Ponsers of the patronage may deslgnato, - Hud Senator Davis been bldding for the Dem- ocratic nomination he woult have avoided tho manifestations of party Independonce which characterlzo his Lotter. i It is more reasonable to assume that Sena- tor Davis has concluded! that the Republic- ans are Hkely to nominate Grant and the Democrats to nominate Tilden, and that, In such case, hundreds of thousandsof men in both parties will want to vote for an Inde pondent cand{dute, David Davis is In a position to attract s Iatge following 1% the event of any notable defection from elther or both of the regular parties, Ho was a Republican of Whig an- tecedents till n few years ago. He was electud to the United States Senate by a fuston of Democratic and Independant votes, beating John A. Logan as the regular ite- publican candidate, His electlon’ ovcurred ata functure which enablod the Republicans to secure a majority of the Suprome Judges on the Electoral Commission that dectaud in favor of Inyes, and he naturally thinks the Republicans owe hint some gratitude fur this. Intho Senate Judge Duviy hos been about as independont as It 1s possible for a man to be In 8 political body, and he has taken t sort of judicial attitude in all une partisan questions which has been seryicca- bla to the country and won him respect. Personalfy ho fa a man of clean reeord and fafrability, He is rioh, and yeta Grangor, Ho Js with the péopls In thoir opposl- tlon to corporate . monopolies, and yet the capital of tho country would not be afrald to intrust the Excoutive power and intluenco In the hands of a nian’ person: ally so conservative, and having large intere ests of his own atatnke, - Discontented Dem- oorats could vote for.Davis without hesita- tion, and antl-third-teria independent Repub- Heans would much rather vote for him than fora Btatesovereignty Bourbon running as the candidate of the Democratic party, » What would constitute David Davis' fol- lowing as an independent candidate under such clrouustances as would bo Iikgly. to make him one? In the fret place, it may be assuined that Dayid Davis could start out with all that in- dependent voto scattered throughout tho country, which of lato years lins supported the “Greenback” tickets, or tho Labor- Reform tickets, or any othor form of inde- pendent nominations not growing out of moro locn! issues, At the election of 1878 this vote amounted to a million of votes, If (rant be nominated by the Republicans, | {hose who want to protest against giving any man more terms than Washington, nnd against the methods whereby lls nomina- tion will have been brought about, If at all, will readily vote for Davis. ‘This class may number a million more. If at tho suing thine Tiden be the Democratic candidate, the number of Democrnts who-will refuse to stomach the sham reform and elpher record of such a candidate will certainly not bo tess than a half and may renel: a million of votes, ‘They would naturally and engerly go to Davis, It {a not {nprobablo that David Davis, ns an independent candidate under such circumstances, cotld obtain soing threo willions of votes, and carry half a dozen to nu dozen States, = What would the result bo ? ‘The election of President would be thrown {nto the {louse of Kepresentatives, who would choose the President from the threo persons having the highest number of yotes— viz. ‘Tilden, Grunt, and Davis. At first thought one would say that thls would re- sult in tho election of Tilden. But this Is by no means certain, The Republican eandi- dato would not receive n majority of the voles in tho House, and, knowing thls, the Republicans In tho Mouse would naturally prefer to give their votes t6° Davis as the only way to defent Tilden, If, by any unforeseen eyent, there should be the sinvllest probability of Grant's tiking the lead of Tilden in the House, the reguiar Democrats would unquestionnbly Join tho Davis forces to elect Davis in preference to Grant. Though the ILonse of Representa- lives haa a Democratic mojority, it ts divided almust evenly by States, and the delegution from any State that Davis might carry would be disposed to yleltt to the popular prefer- ence of ils constituency, : Froin these reflections {¢ will appear that the notion that David Davis may run os an independent candidate is by no menns un- reasonable or far-fetched In ense Grant and ‘Tilden be the regular party candidates, Nor isttat all preposterous to predict that, in such an event, his chanees for reaching the White House will be better than those ‘of either of lis opponents, It 1s In the power of tho two reguiar parties, of course, to put the chances of Independent condi- dacy out of tho question; but, if the “Bosses” on both sides shail have their way, both Grant and ‘Tilden will be noml- nated, and David Davis will have tho. oppor- tunlty which Ne probably forecast In his own mind before he wrote the Browntng let- ter, It would be a curious outeomo of © Boss” rule, but none the less a vindfention. of the popular protest against such dictation, THE CASE OF ILLINOIS. Republicans from this and othor States will understand the enonnlty of the bull- dozing actlon of the Springtiold Convention when they read the following cull for tho Natlonal Conventlon, ‘The call says: Repubdiicans, and alt who will codpernte with thont In supporting the nomlnce of the party, aro invited to choose tice delegates from cach Congressional district, four nat lange from each Btate, two from each Territory, and two from tho District, of, Columblu, to represent them in tho Convention. ‘The call is not, as Loran asserts, fora “convention of Staves”;. it is ® convention of Republicans, represented by delegates chosen from cach Congressional district, and four from the State at tnrge. Ty Indiana the Republicans of the thirteen Congressional districts held separate conven- tions in their respective districts and oteoted thelr twenty-slx delegates. The State Con- vention met in Indinnapolis andselected four delegates for tho Stute at large, and ad- Journed. It never entered Into the minds of thls State Convention that !t had any right or authority to Interfere’ with the delegates elected by the Congresstonal districts,—per- haps because they had no Boss, in Maine the Congrosstonal districts nado thelr own selection of delegates In tholr re- spective territories and independent of tho State Cotiyéntlon, whose work was confined to appointing four delegates as directed In the National call, In Massachusetts four delegates-at-lorge wore appointed by State Committee; twenty-. two delegates were appointed by Congres- stonal districts, In North Carolina, no State Convention; delegntes-atlarge appointed by Stata Com- mittea, other delegates appointed by Con- gressional District Conventions, Innll these States thé delegates were ap- polnted In: Hteral compliance with the Na- tional call, an In all the other States, Illinols and Kansns. excepted, State Conventions word. held, and appointed tho delegntes-at-large, and the delegates from each: Congressional district’ chose the delegates, to represent such dis- trict, ; ‘ ote . dn Kansas, the State Convention, whilo necepting the delegates ‘appointed in two of the districts, undertook ‘to repudiate the se- lection in one district, and to appolut two other delegates In thelr placa, In Ilttnols, tho delegates to the Stata Con- vention from each of the ninetedn Congres- sional districts met in district meetings, and appointed two delegates to represent each of auch districts In the Natlonal Convention, Atter this had been done according to un- broken usage, the. State Convention by o mnjority vote, undor the dictation of “the gentleman from Jackson,” repudiated the appointment of twonty dclogates selected by ton of the Congresstonal districts and delib- erately solected twenty other persons to rop- rosont those districts, ‘hls was done on the fallacious pretense that tho Natlonal Convention called for tho appointment of delegates “from ench Stato”; and, that being a ‘convention of States, it was tha right.of the “States” and not of the Congressional districts to choogo and appoint dolugates. , The Peoria Transzoript, in an article which wo print this morning, polnts out the rascal- ity of this usurpation In soveral instances, “In the Ninth Congressional District of Iinols thore wore thirty-nine delegates np- polnted by the counties compouing that dls trlet to the State Conyantion. Ata meoting of these delegates all were present. W. 8, Gale, of Knox County, ana John A, Gray, of Fulton, recelyed thirty-four yYotes and were elected delegates from thnt Congressional dlatrict to the Chicago Convention, ‘Tho other five delegates were presont and took part In the.proceodings, . - The State Convention, under Lognn’s or ders, appointed Richard HW. Whiting and Joab Mershom delegatyy to reproseut that dis- trict in tb Chicago Convention! ‘The action In the Third Congresstonal Dis- trict I, possible, even a stronger instance, ‘The whole delegation from that dietrict was excluded from: the State’ Convention, oxcopt the, delegates from Lake County, Finally, the Convention, by an unantuous vote, ad- luitted evety one of the thirty-five delegates from the Third District to the State Conven- tion, There Was not dne of these delegates in favor of a thizd term of Grant, The dis- trict delegates unanimously appointed El- Mott Anthony atid Washington Heaing delo- gates to represent the ‘Third Congressional District in the Chicago Convention. ‘Tho Stato Convention, by amajority yote of under Logan's ord dertook to repudiate {ho unanimous action of the Congresstonal district and to appolut John L. Beverldge ond 1, J. Kadish dele gates to the National Convention. That was a cnse repudiating the unanimous choles of the District Convention and substituting other delegates who hat not a vole In the district, Now, in the faco of these f{nets, let the public again road tho call for the National Convention: Ropublicans, and all who will codperate with them in Ep EIDE, the nominee ol the party: ttre invited to choose two delegates from Pach Con resatonel district and four nt largo from each state, two fram cnob Territory, eto, to repro- sent thom in the Convention. WI any ono claim that the Republteans of the Third District elected Jon J, Beveridge to represent them, or that the Republicans of the Ninth District elected Dick Whiting to represent them? > ‘The delegates from the ten districts will present their credentiats as appointed by thetr respective Congressional districts, the only credentials required by the call of the National Comuitttee, Those credentials will be In exnet accordance with those of all the other delegates. snva those at Inrge, and wn- logs tho purpose be tu break up the Conven- tion, disrtipt the Republican party, and trans- fer tho Natiounl and State Governnitnts to the Demoerntic party, the 550 othor delegates appointed by Congressional districts will de- fend and maintain tho rights of thelr asso- elates In Llinols, CHARACTERISTIC IMPERTINENCE, Mr. Powell Clayton is a member of the Na- Honal Republican Committee from Arkangns, Jie was furmerly Governor, and once Untted States Senator from that Sinte. Iie 1s one of tho men under whose lendership the Republican party of the South has been snutfodt ontof existence, It is entirely natural, therefore, that Mr, Powell Clayton should. be foind among the “rale- or-ruin” politicians who propose to impose tho third-term Issue upon the Republivan party of tho North, : Clayton fs entirely will- ing that the Republica party shall be wiped outat tho North as it has been at the South, unless ft will be Instrumental In bringing into office the men with whom he trains, ‘This man Clayton ts reported in an inter- viow as talking Uius: “Everybody knows whero I stand," sald the gentlemin, “Lam for Grint Just ag long a8 there ta a prosnect of Ils boing nominated.” “ What do you think of bis chances? “Fram ny'standpoint, I think that thoy are xcaltent, “What if Grants nominated, do you think that all the Republiean purty wilt support him?” eo. most ussuredly. Lt is aly the pulltt- clans who are fighttng rant, and if he ia nom nated they will be compelled to support him, ‘That (s nil that thoro is of it. “‘Thoy will have to fall fnto (ine, as thoy will be force! to do ft, and they can'tdo anything olso untuss they go over tothe other pare “But there is that opposition to a third term?" “Tht lan't worth muntion 14)" sald Mr. Clay- ton; “ns soon nas Grant fs nominated every fol- low who hus erled thint term will have to fall ee Nnu. ‘Lhore will bo no half-way nbout it, elthar, ; Clayton's impertinence would have been Apparent enough without this common- place tautology. It exceeds anything which the Northern “ Bosses” have yet achieved In the way of effroutery. ‘The managers of the Grant “ boom" atthe North have contended that the opposition to third-termism ismercly “sontinental,’"—n © popular superstition,” as Col, Fred is reported to have called it, which it is the duty of his father and tho mannging politicians to put down. But along comes Clayton with tho astonishing dis- covory.thnt It Is only the “ polliicans "—tha oMecholilers and the officeeseckers—who aro opposing Grant's ‘third nomination, and that they must porfores yield after ho shall be nominated or be destroyed. This Is an cn- tlrely novel viow of tho case. “Thero 13 a strong ‘probability that a man like Clayton cannot really comprehend that tho peoplo—the masses who vote without ever expecting otfico—have anything to do with the clection of n President. No doubt he really betteves Ung the opposition to Grant, somes from one set of oflcescekors just ag Crant’s support depends upon another sot of olliceseckors, He knows that the machine” ig run by a cliquo of politicians, and no doubt he fancies that the opposition Is in the hands of anothor clique of politicians, Clay- ton’s impertinenco is to be traced to his ignorance. Le ig the sort of man who really cannot understand a “sentimental” objec tlon to breaking a National precedent He probably never heard of such 9 thing as the “unwritten Consti{ution” of 0 nating Ho don’t know that anybody ever votes :for one man or one party in proference to another for the good of the country, No patriotic In- atinct evor governed his preference or his voto in all probability, and be has never drenmed that It could possibly Influence any othor man’s preference or vote, All Clay- ton knows about the present strugale ts, that he and some other fellows want Grant nome Inated so that they can control and divide the spoils, and he supposes the only reason why some people don’t want Grant nominated ts because, In that cago, thoy will not hare so good achance for grabbing offices: Never- theless he thinks tholr ‘only chance will bo toelect the Republican candidate, and that, consequently, the anti-third-term sentiment- alluts will wheel into line as soon as thoy shall have been benten in Convention by fair means or foul means, no matter which. ‘rhe most serious reason why Grant should not be nominated has never occurred to Clayton, Its because his nomination ts not antagonlzod by the politicinus and office- holders, but by a large class of men who want to vote tho Republican ticket but will not yote for a third torm under any party auspices, ‘Theso men aro neting upon a principle which js as profound n. mystery fo persons Ike Clayton ag tho doctrine of tranaubstantintlon. le dovsn’t SKmprehond it, Tens of thousands of antl-third-term quiot citizens have prac: tleally serveit notica on tho professional Doliticinns that they will not vote for any third-term cundhiate, and, ns thoy ‘are not seeking office, they will be pretty apt to keep thofr word, Clayton is naturally fncredulous about this, and says that the opposition to the third-terai “ Isn't worth mentioning.” That {s, slmply beonuse it {so principle, and, In the minds of such fellows as Clayton, principles “ain't worth mentioning” {na matter of Polltics, Powell Clayton should bo trotted out in the National Convention as a speciinen of thogenulne, simon-pure machine third: tormer, " Tie mo&t infamous part of the Logan campaigu is naturally assigned to, and Rratofully accepted by, his most mendacious and unprinclpled organ, tho 2-0, of this elty, Yesterday that paper published the followlng special dispatch from its Washing» ton agent: Q Wasuixaton, May 2.—Yestorday thero was strong talk smiong tho Doniocrate of a commit. too to investigate the Texas & Puciflo Kailroud seandal, but it was asuerted that uothing woul bo dono till after the Chicuga Convention, and thon, If by chants Blaine should be numinated, thoy would show thole band, noe oominittes of nveshinence would bo upppinted, with power compel the proxiuction of papors and pers sone; an that Counnittes woud nid pnts campalgu bulletins ull the sumer, cortuln, If Demooratio he Chicago Convention, Blaine will be von antud avouE the invectination wostialtise, waiya al about a mation co (] io salstactory ezplausuon of what would be lone, . The malignity of this dispatch is exactly paralleled by Its devilish ingenulty. For, while the main part of It is devoted to the {nsinuation thatthe’ George Toxas Paclfid Railway scandal retleots upon Mr, Blaine, and thatin the oventof his nomination 6 it ure ctautved by committee of Investigation will be p to alt during the enmpnten with na A galling his character, the Inst ling of It con. talns an admission that the main part Ig a Tle This contradiction of his own Story affords uMctent evidence that tho Inter-Oeean, inal minds uphis lic out of whole eloth, Tut there ia other evitlence at. hand, While th scoundrel, lilred to tie by the Grant organ Ht this city, was engaged in forging his false dis. batch tor the wires, fr. McLane, Charmer of the House Committee on Paciic Rallwaya, was Informing another correspondent thes tho Georgu letterscto not, nearly or Temotely, - reflect tyon Mr. Dintne. Mr. MéLang sald fob thy remotret suggestion | subtnitted—nud hoe had seon taro aioe upon Mr, Blaine ns concerned in any meee that nil nttemptn toconneet that gente er and this bitsiness were malfefaus and ‘unjust, wy Motane obsorvuil furthor thut he lind esta | all tho papers presented hy Mr. Genrze ag eed 4 the expansive, statement sabimiticl oy ll half of the ‘Toxng & Paeltle Company, and ns th rosult of auch oxamination, ho felt Ne wages ho obligation to take tho lnltintive rere tlee- fitch inatiers to the attention of the House, ‘Tho statement of the Texas & Pacihe Gomes: avas in suhstance to tho effect that Mr, ee Ind offered to surrender the papers in quest forn pecuniary emisiderntion, and, falling ith nnd Adopted 14 present course by venge. on way of ret: This le out of whole cloth of the Inter: Ocean Is the counterpart of Its inslnuation 8 month or so ago that In tho event of yz, Blatne's olection to the Presidency the office’ would be under the contro) of Jay Gould,’ When entied upon to justify by proot Ha tne famons Inshnuation the lying organ was abe solutely dumb. And so it will be now when confronted with a conclustye Tefutation of. ils malignant slander. Where an apology fs due the organ will maintain a sullen allenee, Instead of making confession for its sin, tt will proceed to manufacture fresh falso. hoods. But tt noverthetess wears the brand of infamy,—a manufacturer of Ite, a forger of dispatches, a mulignant and mendactous defamor! ——, Wuen tho Logistature of a State wishes to press t subjovt upon the attontion of Congreis, tho wording of the Joint resolution Renerally fg -that the Sonatora In Congress aro * Insteucter and tho membors nru “ requested” ta givo the matter their support. A Legtsinture elects the United States Sonntors, and bes q lent to in striibt its servants, Rut it doca not elect a meme ber of the House of Repredentatives, and ha no legal right to ylvo him any “ Instructions," Thy People of his district are tho ‘only proper au thority to “Instruct” bit In regard to bis pub Ho aeta, Anything beyond a simplo request on the part of tho Legislature Is justly regarded as impertinent, So, too, in the mnttor of Appotnt- ing delegates to tho Nationul Republiean Con vention: the State Convention exhausts alt its teyitimate powor and function when It elects’ and “Instructs” tho delegates-nt-largo which. represont tho United States Senatorial die trict, so to speak. The Congrosstonal dis trict dolegntes can only bo proporly chosen, by tho districts themsoives, and nny interfer enco with this inalienable right $8 (n utter diare Gurd of tho true theary upon which the call fa, bused. ‘Tho Stato Convontion that undertakes to sct at dofance this well-established rule strikes n blow at tho epirit and genius of our freo institutions. It {8 a gross usurpation on’ tho part of the mnobinists that ought to be ree sisted to the bitter ond. Hnppily, tho last Re publican Nuationnl Convention that met in Cla einnatt four years nyo has established a wholes some preconont bearing directly upon this potat, and to which Tie Trunune has alrendy referred. ‘The cose was that of the four delegates from Pennsylvanta who rofused, very properly, to Obey tho fostructions of the Stato Convention and vote for Gov. Iurtrantt. Thoy gave asa reason that tho prople whom they represented Proferred Mr, Binine, instead of Hartranft, and they nppealed to tho President of the Conten- tion, Mr, MePhorson, to protect them inthe - right. Tho Chair did so, and ruled that the delegates from Congressional districts bad the right to voto as thoy pleased in tho Convén ton, inspite of tho dictation of Bosses and uall rules passod for tho bencfit of “ favorit sons.” From this righteous, consoryative, and em ‘nontly Republican declston an appeal was takes. te tno house, and upon the yons nnd nays belng. , eniled the deciston of tho Chair stood as the Judgment of the House by the decisive voteot 305 to 354,u majority of 41, The decision was not rendered by a novice in the application ot. pariiamontary iaw, hut by a person chosen be enuse of his eminent qualifications as a pre siding officer, 80 that if the case had rested en trely upon his simplo avorment it would have Btooil the test of criticism; but the appeat belay taken tho rullog bas alt tho force now of estal< shed precedent. The dotegates from ten die tricts in Illinols propose to taxa advantage ot this common-sense decision noxt week, and avail themsolves of the doctrine that itsoob viously implios, a Tus Hon, C. L, Sholos, of Mitvwaukes, who-has been prominent in Wisconsin politics for thirty years, and one of tho ablost men ia the Democratle party, writes a letter to the Sunday etegraph in which bo comes to the ald Of tho third-termers. Ho assumes, what Is not oorrect--to-wit: that the opposition to the third, term bas its eblof inspiration in tho fear that publlo patronage will bo prostituted for the benoilt of the candidate, and deolares that Grant must he free from such susploion for the reason + “ that he has not so much asa ten-dollar Posts, mastership in his whole arsonal of offonse an defense," Br. Bholos misnpprehonds the rel ‘reason of the opposition to the candidacy of Gen. Grant. It {snot bocause of the foar that all the {nfluonco of the Government will D0 turned to bls account, as it was tn 1838 to elect Martin Van Buron, but mainly because his election for a third timo would neodlesly violate a woll ostablishod usige of the Atmorican peopio as old a8 Government {teolf, and sanotioncd by Waste - ington aud ‘nll bis om{ncnt and patriotic sucets sors, Itig ono of tho traditions of the fathert that is now for tho first time sought to be dix - graced and abrogated. Mr, Bholes ought to koow that when twonty-four of tho thirty-eight tates aud all tho Territories emphatically dcclate tigainst a third term whon so distingulahéd ® soldior and statesman asGen, Grant stauds 4 its reprosentutive, there must bo a donp-root projudice in tho minds of the paople against 8 Innovation. He ought to know, also, that, {0 = dition toa very large majority. of tho Lea Moan party boing opposed to a. third term T0, uny man, howover groat and good, nincty-lae, hundredths of tho Domocratic party aro of samo way of thinking, so that tho third:tert schomo 1g utterly anti-Republtoan und sot i Vomuoratio from ovory honest puint of viow {a only urged upon the poople by a Bonato ‘a Synd{oato wham an inscrutable Providence Lats mits to cut auch fantastic tricks with the Repl cd oun party fis make all honest moa blush sbanio, . A — . Zon CHANDLER, Sopt, 23, 1670, wrote ¥ tho Ropublican Stato Contral Committed Mighiguns ; Tam under the impression that Grantt chances aro better thun those af any pom Gut falas head bomfaatad We tao a can i t ol v) eld, an a trongth tiotweon tho frionds and supporeers of a fow stalwart radicals, ts rH Old Zach don't appoar to have knows bl "old ag well ns ho thought he did, for wo are cea rd by LB. Brown, of the Galena Garelle, yiitradth patently “Inspired,” that Qoorge W. Ch tho Philadolphia Ledyor, was mistaken In rf that Grant's name would be withurawn fro contoat at the National Convention in Chios Urown pute it in this shapos tse bid Noither Gcorgo W. Childs nor any one 4, Gens authority for making such Bn gssertio: + tala Grunts hame bas navn mee porary oe Beach 8 8 Treatdontlal candi¢ at Ihe awrisen tho wost vortalnly will not order la nan ri 5 . Ola'Zich over dronnit. that bie iusto friond would allow bis namo to vome be! rahe Convention in the extraordinary, are rit and antl-Hepublican manner in which th saree nols Boss is doing jt Sonator Chundlor me supposed that Grant would onter into® oe fight for tho nomination, but he was Hot fumed and, altho tolerably well versud In Bite nature, had not penetrated all the rooussok lurking ambition in the Leart of maa. ae > Turns {s to boa great reunion of the std Wisoonsin soldior in Milwaukco from ae of to tho 18th of Juno, Inclusive. The citer Milwaukee are maxing extonslvo prepay togivathe old voteransot the Uslod “ gordial welcome to tha vity, aud nothlag loft undone to make the viult ono of pice ites the men who periled all to ave the Nationt ' 5 Twenty thousand ex-agidiers aro expovied @ /