Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1880, Page 17

“ THE CHICAGO. TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1880— COUNTER-CURRENT It Is Now Setting Against Gen. Grant with Overwhelm- ing Force, And Bids Fair to Carry Him Entirely Out of Sight. Sentiments Against Third- Termism from East and West. The People Who Vote Unalter- ably Opposed to the Syn- dicate’s Dictation, For They Do Not Want to See the Party Overwhelmed with Disaster. How the Machine Politicians and Pap-Suckers Manufacture Booms. The Record of a Northern Man’s Visit Through the South. Not a Single Instance Found Where Grant Was the First Choice. What the Leading Men of the Republican Party Have to Say. MICHIGAN. LANSING. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Lansrxe, Mich., May 29.—The probabili- ties and possibilities of the coming Presiden- tial nomination are the all-absorbing topics of conversation at Michigan’s Capital. A large delegation of citizens will attend4ho Convention, many of them leaving for Chi- cago the present week. It is currently be- lieved that Bosses Cameron, Conkling, and Logan will fail in their crowning attempt to foist Grant as a candidate upon an unwilling people, and it is almost universally admitted that Michigan will be a “‘ weak sister” in the Presidential struggle if the so-called “strong man” is set up to be her coming lord and master. Speculations are rife as to the modes to be adopted by the respective party leaders to secure their ob- jects, and confidence is expressed that it will be acase of Greek meeting Greek. The authoritative denial by the Hon. James F. Joy, one uf the delegates to the Convention, who has just returned from Europe, of the sensational canard published yesterday in one of the Detroit papers to the effect that Senator Blaine once attempted to obtaina bribe from him, excites much favorable com- “ment, and is accepted as revealing the LENGTH TO WHICH THE GRANT MEN will go in wanton misrepresentation and defamation. There is no possible doubt that Michigan Republicans to-day, for expressions of their choice for Presidential candidates, would go strongly against the third-term candidate, and would give Blaine an over- whelming majority against the field. There ict, desire to have him defeated in the Con- vention next week, and fully a hundred of them from our city will go, or have gone, to who he is; whieli will surely gi cratic majority in Wisconsin’ etree Dene: ‘WATERTOWN, Chicago to help prevent what they Speetat Dia : t 4 ey patch to The Chicago declare | would be, 7 cee eutcial gy ATERTOWN, Wis, May 20.0 Noone need but 710 plurality over his competitor. With | ing aniong Republicwe agaist anata t the head of the ticket, even the ht Se anenine hopeful stalwarts in our dis- tion of. Grant, ‘and ‘the third term; especially is this expression clearly trict are convinced that the district would dicated ; in- lect a Democrat. As one influence it may among the Germans, a large number he mentioned that we have in. our city over | Cf Whom, although heretofore Democratic, stand ready to support the nominee of the 1,000 electors who are naturalized Holland- | Chicago Convention providing the candidat My ate ers. Of these fully 80 per cent are Republic- hy nven i ans. One of the most prominent of them, an Han acceptable mai. Ay ashburne or Sher- acknowledged Header, Stated that fully three- | gent, any of the eandi Sees ice, but it is evi- fourths of these would bolt Grant outright, no | favored ahead of Grant. Sunes would be matter who might be nominated on the other | jicans here aunoun aa thas aa few Repub: uewe tS iettaita OF any polit a to de: tion of openly bolting Grant if he ‘so Dineed promises tov subvert’ the choice and wiltat in the fiek, part of them in favor of not voting the people, for they have too receutly es- tion by the Dati ts of auidena nomina- old c y s defe a y BE | sepean a more Hollanders, nearly every man of | ing the fact now 80 paent that the eau - many whom expresses the same views and purpose, | tion of Grant would cause a serious disruption” in| the Republican ranks in the danger can be understood. ‘The reason various localities in this State, endangering is plain why Michigan sends an almost SOLID ANTI-GRANT DELEGATION yery materially Republican: ascer c to Chicago, and why they will all work to | Wiscansin, and perlinps losing the Mecbrat vote to the Republican cause. ‘The Conven- their jutinost against him. Men who are Grant’s warm admirers are personally dis- | tion at Chicago must be cautious not to trifle with the feelings of the masses too much _re- eusted Fae angered by the tactics of his I alleged friends, thetriumvirate, and,naturally | garding the questions now at issue withi frightened at the danger to ‘the local Com. the party, remembering that Seopuolicans generally are not made up of that material eressional and State tickets if his nomina- tion should be forced on the Springfield | that can be imposed upon, -brow-beaten, or bulldozed with impunity. plan, are outspoken th stele opposition, and will remain so until the canvass clo: WISCONSIN Los: NOMIN. ‘They hope that thesolid, intelligent, patriotic To te Eduor HA TeGioemiuan ee majority in the Republican Convention will Benxi, Wis., May 28.—With an_ordinary fair and honest nomination for President, avert such a calamity as is inevitable if the would-be bosses succeed next week. Mich- | there is little or no doubt as to the result in Wisconsin; but in view of the outrageous igan will give any other candidate a hand- some majority, and an unbroken Republican | manipulation in the State Conventions under the lead of the Senatorial triumvirate,—Lo- delegation in Congress again. With Grant several Congressmen would unquestionably | gan, Conkling, and Cameron,—we make no be dest ane the State might well be classed, estimate. ‘There are sure—no mistake—many in the *, close”or “doubtful ” list. good Republicans in this section who will not EAST SAGINAW. support by their votes the nomination of Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Grant, should he be nominated by such un- fair and tyrannical action as disgraced your East Sacinaw, Mich., May 29.—As the Ec hour for holding the Convention approaches | Springfield Convention. While we fear, we yet have hope, that the Convention to mect the intensity of feeling against the machine 5 tactics among leading Republicans increases, | next Wednesday will avert the danger ahead and muttered imprecations against the gag | by stamping out the great wrong attempted, rule are heard on.every hand. “Many concede | and give usa fair chance to still prevent the Blaine’s chance hopeless, and say that Wash- | entire control of the country from falling in- to the hands of the Rebels. Should the plans of the triumvirate.succeetk it looksas though the man whom we honor as the leader of the army which suppressed the Rebellion will himself be the means, by his ill-advised nom- ination for a third term, of handing over the Government to’ the control of the men he helped to conquer. Ihave been a Republi an since 1856. INDIANA. A STILL MUNT IN JACKSON COUNTY. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Seymour, ind., May 29.—For two days a “still hunt” has been vigorously prosecuted in this county—Jackson—for the express pur- pose of finding out the true [feelings of the Republican voters in reard to their prefer- ences in selecting a candidate for President. No one class of men was selected from which to draw conclusions, but all castes were questioned alike, the merchant along with the farmer, the professional man with the machinist, and so on till more than 200 men had been seen. In every instance where the question was put, “Who is your choice for President?” the first an- swer was final, and no further questions were asked, unless a continued conversation was volunteered. Of the 220 men who vonched an answer to that interrogation, the vast majority favored Blaine as first choice, Sherman or Washburne as second, and only twelye declared for Grant. From many of those, and they were not a few, who were in favor of ‘“anybody- to beat Grant,” afew facts, cold indeed, but prolific in sound rea- soning, were gleaned that furnishes some reading matter that the peopleat large would do well to turn over more than once before they cast it away. ‘Throughout the rank and file of the Re- publican party there exists a feeling against the third-term policy that will certainly lead to a revolution in politics should Grant’s champions Succeed in nominating him. The plain fact is, that the Republicans of this part of the State do not want a third-termer at the head of their ticket, and many stub- bornly assert that they prefer to “Jay off” ‘y burne and Edmundsmay’ save the party from discord and disintegration. The Citizen, one of the most widely circulated weekly news- papers in this section, published at the coun- y seatin Tuscola County, a county largely Republican, says to-day: We believe that nothing but a miracle will prevent a Conkling-Cameron triumph at Chica- 40, and we protest aguinst such x willful disre- gard of the wishes of a large majority of the party. Gen. Grant is not the choice of a ma- jority of the rank and file of the party, but oliticians of the Conkling-Cameron school cure ttle for public opinion, and the wishes of those who are expected to furnish the votes necessary to elect the ticket are to be disregarded. The under- current of opposition to the third-term iden is so strong as to make the issue of the campaign extremely doubtful. DO THEY REALIZE THE SITUATION? To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Granp Rapips, Mich., May 28.—It cannot be possible that the Grant third-termers real- ize the situation. Even here, in stalwart Michigan, the nomination of Gen. Grant would make the result of the election doubt- ful, and if the same feeling pervades the tates are more evenly politically di- vided, which from all accounts is a fact, his nomination means inevitable defeat of the epublican party. Men are plenty here who have always voted the Republican ticket, who aver,-with emphasis that means Dusi- ness, tat they will not vote fur Grant. The t mass of honest Republicans ought to @ spared the impending humiliation, and those self-constituted leaders the lesson of defeat which can be the only outcome of the stupendous folly of those who are deter- mined to rule or ruin. We expect Michi- gan’s delegates to use all honorable ineans next week to secure the nouination of Blaine, Washburne, or Edmunds, either of whom will carry the Wolverine Stite by 40,009 majority. Will the Grant men_ heed the unmistakable signs of warning so abund- ant in every Republican State before it is too Jate? A Repusiican SINCE 756. MADISON. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Manpisoyx, Wis., May 29.—Language fails to convey the utter disgust and indignation felt by the stalwart Republicans of Wiscon- sin at the course adopted by John A. Logan is amongst the rank and file of the Repub- lican partyzan unsuspectedly strong hostility to the nomination of Gen. Grant. Said au old Stalwart yesterday, when asked as to whether he would vote for Grantin case he was nominated, “No, sir; I voted for Grant the first and second time, but no third term for me.” There are many of the greatest admirers of Grant in the State who do not favor his nomination under any cir- cumstances, for the reason that they cannot bring themselves to look with complacency upon the precedent of a third term. All the ugly thrusts at his Administration these men regard as the weak invention of the Democ- Tacy, but the objection toa third term inthe minds of shrewd, thinking men is deep- Tooted and amounts to 2 definit doctrine. Their prejudices against the further honor- ing of Grant in the Presidential direction are very strong; especially is this ‘the case among the masses, and particularly among the Germans. There is not a German in this city who would vote. for Grant, while very many of them who are Democrats would vote tor Washburne, Blaine, or Edmunds. Michi- gan’s strong preference would be Blaine; after him any one to beat Grant. KALAMAZOO. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Katauazoo, Mich., May 29.—It is asserted by politicians who have lived to see many ‘National Conventions that there was never a tine when the excitement of the people gen- erally was so intense as it is to-day, and that there was never a time when one candidate Presented by a few poiiticians of the lower order have made doubtful the people’s choite. Your correspondent has to-day seen many Republicans on the street talking in Groups, and nearly all excited and disgusted &pte possible success of Logan, Cameron, ‘ Co. and this, too, when the people Ore Sgainst their plans by ten to one. maxclitine Republican said that it would State ore. doubtful the strong Republican Hale of Michigan, and that the State officers mould have to use'unusual efforts to secure train) with Grant at the head of their Hcket. “Itis thought here that the party is ps CERTAIN OF DEFEAT WITH GRANT ora candidate. Not one Grant man has fet found who is profuse in his reasons for mer ination, and there are very few such Hanae plus State. ‘The excitement, is Similar to that produced during the late ar, near the end of the struggle, when bs people were anxious for mews, and won- t Tene 0 the result, All are disgusted as one year than to vote for any man that will accept a nomination in the manner in which Grant must secure his. The voters in this part of the country do not think that Grant is the only man in the country fit to be President, and the majority of the men who expressed themselves think that he is now almost wholly unfit to be placed at the head of the Governuent. If the sentiment which prevails here is contagious throughout the State—if Grant gets the nomination,—the Republicans of Indiana stand 2 most excel- Jent chance of being defeated. Many men who have voted twice for Grant do not ‘care to do so again, and will not work to secure his election, where, on the other hand, they would enthusiastically work for the election of either of the other candidates whose names are prominently mentioned. ‘The machine politicians who are attempting to force Grant on the Repub- lican party are mashing the very life out of hundreds of voters, trodding under foot their wishes, and bringing certain defeat to themselves. Said one man: “These fili- busters may force that kind of a ticket on the people, but they can’t foree me and other machine politicians of Illinois at the contemptible manner in which they over- rode the wishes of the Republican party of Illinois and fotsted upon them Grant dele- gates to the National Convention. Men who were previously in favor of Grant’s candidacy before the Illinois Convention openly avow themselves as opposed to such barefaced robbery, and say if Grant is to be nominated by such means they will not support him if nominated... This feeling is widespread among the intelligent voters of Wisconsin. From all parts of the State come in reports of this feeling. The voters of this State will?) not have acandidate forced upon them by fraud of this character. The feeling is wide- spread in this Sfate, should Grant be nomi- nated, that the only course for Republicans to take is to take measures to nominate a third candidate and give him their suffrage. This feeling cropped out at our Convention when a number of the most prominent. Re- publicans in the State entered a strong to vote it, and they. will find enough PROTEST AGAINST GRANT'S CANDIDACY, more just like me to defeat 5 ™ie them next fall.” Just such expressions as which was telegraphed to the Anti-Third- Term Convention, then being held at St. Louis. It was openly talked then, if Grant was forced upon the Republican party by chicanery, which the action of the [Hin Convention plainly indicates, then a third candidate was the only recourse of that por- tion of the Republican party who are in tavor not only of purity of the ballot-box but also of primary caucuses and State Con- ventions. This feeling has steadily grown in this State, and our people are awaiting the action of the Republican Convention with hope and fear; hope that the good sense of ‘many eminent gentlemen who are delegates to that Convention may guide the deliberation of it towards the selection of 2 candidate who will unite the party and carry it forward to victory ; fear thatthe ma- chine politicians, headed by Don Cameron, Roseoe Conkling, and John A. Logan, may succeed in stealing the National Convention as Logan did the Illinois Convention, and thereby foisting upon the party Grantism, third-termism, nepotism, and all the frauds which characterized Grant’s second term, the result of which lost Wisconsin to the Repub- Jieans, That Wisconsin will again go under the dark pall of Democraey there is nota doubt that can be heard in any crowd where poli- ties are being discussed, and they are not inade by men who say they will do such and such a thing, and then do the oppc but are made by men who form their opinions after due deliberation and forethought, and then earry them into execution. Speaking to a, lifelong and “bred the bone” Republican, he said: “YT cannot for a moment think that the Chicago Convention will nominate Grant, and ] will not believe it before it is forced on me. _I never have voted for a Dem- ocratin my life, and I am past 60, and I never expect to, but I will not vote for Grant, which amounts to about the same thing.” The old gentleman being warm Mi his ejacu- Jations, L asked him if he thought there were many men whose’opinions were as his own. “Go with me through the country, and four out of every ten Republicans will answer you that they prefer not voting at all than to vote for Grant with | his ast record staring them in the face. have two Leys at home, neither of whom will cast a ballot tor any such usurper as Grant. certainly is, and many of my neigh- bors vie with me in what I say.” Again and again these sayings come rever- berating along till the v is filled with them, sounding the death Knellof the Re- publican party if Grant is nominated, ind sinking him into utter oblivion. So faras the voters of this section ot Southern In- diana are concerned, they feel more like bolt- 0 means employed in bringing this Qpout Itisnotso mach an opposition to and testis an opposition to his retainers Corn’ Policy and principie involved. Dem- fase Without number, are secretly chuck- Grant verthe near approach to power via ’s Domination. A careful estimate of nine out ey Rould without soulit ind ninety- very hundres publicans op- Posed to Srant’s nomination under the pres- ADRIAN. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. PADELAS, Mich, May 29.—While the Re- Publigws of this section appreciate the great en; ti servicks of Gen. Grant, they are most Phatically averse to again ‘calling him to is 12 2esidential position, and this aversion that Wensified by the manifest engineerin: of nas done in his behalf by a cabal faite too reputable politicians and jour- a ts in some. few sections. The Republic- aj ugh this section are awaiting Ten the’ result of the Chicago Con- eagerly? and the news from there is’ fakery scanned. There is a universal is among the Democrats of exul- no an at the bare possibility of Grant’s mination, but such a consummation is wed with dread by the men who have suewed the party banner with unfaltering P “ied through many a hard-fought _cam- co en. ‘There is hardly a Republican in the pitch ‘Who favors Grant’s nomination, and outers ling has been more inantfest since the Convent of Loganism in the Lino’ Special Dune Baris. ipectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. GRAND Rarips, Mich., May 29.—Dissatis- and ‘on with the head of the ticket, defection pungstiection, would surely beat the Ite- fablican party ‘in this (the Fifth) Congres- 2 oe District, and the only man that can be Utin nomination to produce such a disas- us result is Grant. Hence the Republic- osttoa man, in this city and dis- if thegnachine politicians rule the National Convention. These are not the opinions of one man, but they are the sentiments of nine-tenths of the Republicans of Wiscon- sin. ing than voting for the “great warrior and foreign traveler.” ‘The actions of his managers in securing delegates is looked upon as a setting aside of the will of the people, and such tactics have been used will be refuted in a declar. tion by the voters who have thus been dis- franchised in a way that will be sad to look upon. Any other candidate can poll the full strength of his party, but the nomination of Grant will bring ruin and disaster on any and allwho are blind enouglh: to force hi re tion. G. INDIANA LOST TO A CERTAINTY IF THIRD- TERMISM PREVAILS. _ To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Koxono, Ind., May 28.—As the time al proaches when the standard-bearer of the great Republican party will be chosen, the * JANESVILLE. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. JANESVILLE, Wis., May 29. ing’s Daily Guzette, the leading u n organ of Southern Wisconsin, speaking edi- torially of the anti-Grant Wednesday even- ing meeting in Chicago, says: ‘Among those present were many prominent men, substantial citizens and life-long Repub- Hicans. and they do not believe in tho Logan method of carrying a State Convention. Per- sonally, they have us much udiniration ror Gen, Grant us Loan hus, and probably x much more honest estimate of his character than Logan places on it, for thoy honor Grant for the service try, while b tigen = tee bin’ ° for ng seliish | people here are naturally more outspoken in Tactive, and. nothing else. But be | their sentiments. in the earlier part of the this as it may, the time hus come when the Na- | campaign, when Grant’s name wasinentioned as a candidate tor the Presidency, many who were opposeil to the third term said but little, owing to the fact that they did not believe he would be a candidate or, allow his name to come before the Convention as such. But now, as the time draws on apace, and the people begin to realize the situation, the expressions aguinst the third term and the unit rule are inost emphatic. 2 : Republicans who have been identified with the party since its birth and organization a3 aparty are foud and emphatic in their sen- timenis, and unhesitatingly declare they will bolt the nomination. Mr. J. Fred Vail, our delegate from this tional Republican Convention musts take notice Of the gathering in Chicago on Wednesday. No such @ ineeting could have taken pluce without some cause, and what was suid and done then will be more or less felt during the cumpaign. ‘The Logan scheme is nothing but a trick which is niin to political tyranny, and the National Convention will do itself honor and the coun- try a service by giving Logan the chilling rebuke his schemes deserve; and the National Convention __ should bear in mind that it will make some difference in the result this fall whether it will xive the party 2 candidate to vote for wnom the people ‘will Support simply as the best thing they cun get, or whether it will give them a nominee who will inspire enthusiasm all along the line of | _ Mr. d the Republican party. For the reasorgthe Logun | district to Chicago, told your correspondent trick shoula be ‘Prowse to naught, h& methods | a few days ago that ke felt sure the Indiana delegation would. unite on any man to beat Grant, and in no State in the Union was the sentiment against a third term stronger than in Indiana, ! The general opinion of the leaders of the party here—men who are identified as the rebuked, and a spirit of fairness, of honest pur- pose, and of cool deliberation should pervade the National Convention. LEADING GERMAN REPUBLICANS here say that if Grant is nominated they will support the Democratic nominee, no matter .of Grant’s nomination grow more ap; best _workers—is that no greate: - could befall the ytrty than tor nonemuity Grant. lt is conceded here by nine- Republicans that the third ton tee would be productive of discord in the ranks of the party, and insure Democratic success the next November. Iknow whereof Ispeak, I am giving readers of Tie TRUE fe state of the sen- ment here and the feeling of itesiss ee ee iB of the people as prominent merchant said to me th day: “Nominate Grant, and the third tet will defeat the party as sure as there is a sun an hiavane 2 trol he few may contro! conventions - force the unit rule, but the pcople ae the ballot, and when they vote their sentiments machine tactics will have proved powerless to accomplish aught save ruin and defeat. Your correspondent has no hesitancy in saying that in the event of Grant’s nomina- tion no small element of the party will bolt tnene feeling in Indi ‘The feeling in Indiana is so unanim against the third term thatas the probabilities arent, the masses are growing more determined stand by what has been from the first svith thet an honest copy con i have exagrerst nothing. I know th state of feeling among the penis of this pact at Indiana, and I have tried to give it as it is. The masses here cannot and will not en- thuse with the stigma of a third term resting on them. XXX. WITH GRANT NEW YORK, om0, ILLINOIS, AND INDIANA ARE LOST T0 THE REPUB- LICANS. : ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, WEA, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., May 28.—I.de- sire to enter my solemn protest against the nomination of Gen. Grant. It is my grave conviction that in the event of so dire a calamity the Republican party is -defeated, ruined,—yea, ought to be. Washington him- self, were he raised from the dead and placed in nomination under similar circumstances, could not be elected. From the earliest or rather einbryo of the Government, the Amer- -icin people have in all their various or varied conditions universally been fgainst the continuation of power. ‘There is nothing upon which they have so uniformly looked with a jéalous eye, and right, fully, too; and now shall we, who have led in many a hard-fought campaign, with our banners inscribed “one terin only” (1 refer to the old. Whig and then the Republican party), forgetting ull our traditions, all our princi- ples asaparty, turning our backs on all, lindly, yea criminally, appeal to the coun- try to elect aman to the third term? I tell you no man can, no man ought to be, elected to fill the office of President for the third time. It is one of the great fundamental un- written laws, greater even than the Constitu- tion itself, that no man shall trample down in his unholy, insane desire for power this great law, sanctified first by the Father of his Country, Washington, and revered by all his successors till Grant. Look atit’ With any good man save Grant the success of the Re- publican party is certain. With Grant at the head of a ticket, New York, and Ohio, and Illinois are lost, and does any sane’ man __ suppose _ that there will be any contest in Indiana? I don’t know of one Grant man in my town- ship, and butene in all this section outside afayette. My township elected its Ite- publican Trustee by 102 majority, and I know that Grant cannot carry it. Nominate Grant, and I tell you desolation, yea, ruin and death, stalks over the proud and hopeful Republic- an party of iana. We are undone, ru- ined. Teould write all day, and then would not have ‘fully discussed this grave subject; but Dhope I have conveyed to you my con- yiction, in part at least. T hold that thousands of patriots ought to go to Chicago and shame these machine politicians, these oftice-seek- ers, out of existence, ‘The Republican coun- ties are all opposed ¢o the nomination of Grant, but will support any other nominee, Yours truly, J. K. O"NEALL. NEBRASKA, OMAIIA, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Oana, May 29—Your correspondent to- day interviewed Mr. John Rosicky, editor of the Pok Rok Zapody(Western Progress), the only Republican Bohemian paper in the United States. The circulation of this paper goes all over the country. Mr. Rosicky says it will be impossible for him to support Gen. ot i - Grant with his paper, because 99 per cent of all the Bohemians are adverse to Grant and a third term. - Theres are Jarge numbers of Bohemians in Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, New York, and Minnescta. The vote in Ohio is fully $,000, of which 5,000 are in Cleveland alone, In Wisconsin there are 6,000 Bohemian voters, and in Nebraska 3,000, In Nebraska nine-tenths are Republicans. Out of 200 Bohemian voters in Omaha there are only three Democrats. In Ohio, Wis- consin, and Minnesota they are evenly di- vided as to politics, but it is safe to say that not more than 5 per cent will support Grant. ‘Their prejudice against Grant is not on ac- count of the third term alone, but also on account of the crooked whisky business, and the failure of his second term. Mr. Rasieky and his paper supported Grant fur the sec- ond term, but will not do it for a third term. TRE OMAILA “BEE,”? an anti-third-term paper, says editorially: The Republican party hus reachod the most critical Period of its eventful history. The at- tempt of headstrong leaders to commit the Re- publican party to a radical departure from time-honored usage in the proposed nomination of Gen, Grant is fraught with disaster. Itis in- defensible and dungerous, an experiment that will strain party loyalty to {ts utmost tension, and is almost cértuin to wreck the great party that struck the shackles of slavery from 4,000,- 000 of men and women and established equality for ull men Iu this Republic. However grateful tho Ainerican people may teel toward Gen. Grunt for his patriotic services in war and in peuce, they entertain the profound conviction that ‘an unwritten law that limits the Presidential tenure to two terms sbouid not be violuted. ‘Thousands of earnest, stanch Republicans in the State and in every State of the Union ure unalterably opposed to the violation of this precedent, and it is mor- ally cortain that a2 large percentage of these Re- publicans cunnot be induced to vote tor Gen. runt, Shull the Republican party deliberately commit sujcide? This is the question which presents itself to us at thishour. This is the issue which will be determined by the National Convention next week. __H. M. Blake, delegate from Montana, came in on the train, and will leave for Chicago to-morrow, He is a strong Blaine man, and says the sentiment in Montana is anti-third term, anti-machine, and anti-Grant. Delera- tions from California, Nevada, and Idaho wilt pass through to-morrow, The Nebraska delegation leaves Sunday, L. W. OSLORNE, member of the National Republican Execu- tive Committee, left for Chicago this stter- noon. The Omaha Bee gives him the fol- lowing scoring: Four yoore ago the Republicans of Nebraska honored Mr. Osborne,of Washington County, with aseut in the National Convention. ‘That’ body, upon the recommendation of the Nebraskit delegation, placed Mr. Osborne on the National Committee as the representutive of Nebraskn. This important trust Mr. Osborne was in honor bound to discharge in uccord with the known and expressed sentiment of the Iepublicuns of this State. ‘This much we had a right to expect, and this we have a right to insist on. In 1816 the Republicans of Nebraska were ” practically ununimous for James G. Blaine. The late State Convention has demonstrated _ that they are still overwhelmingly — for Binine. Mr. Osborne, we _ understand, | is now an avowed Grant man, With this prefer- ence we find no fault, but we insist that Mr. Os- borne’s personal preference should not govern his conduct. in the discharge of his duty as a representative of the Nebraska Republicans. In other words, if Mr. Osborne's vote intthe Nu- tional Convention is given in opposition to the interests of James G. Blaine, be will commit an unpardonable betrayal of trust for which his constituency will hold him responsible. It would be un infamous outrage on the Repubheans of Nebraska, as well as upon the Republican party of the whole Union, if Mr. Osborne casts bis vote in favor of the premeditated usurpations of Don Cameron and the syndicate that seeks to force the nomination of Gen. Grant uguinst the known will and wish of the Republican: masses of this country. We hope Mr. Osborne will do his duty like’ a man of honor, even if it does conilict with his personal scntimonts. If he has ambition for future preferment, if he desires the approbation of the Republicans of this county und State, he will discharge the import- ant trust confided to bin in accord with their known wishes. If be dares to flinch from his duty he will be execrated as a scoundrel un- worthy of the confidence or respect of any respectable man. z DUNBAR. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Denxbar, Otoe Co., Neb., May 20.—This county sends a solid a i-third-term delega- tion to the State Convention. What gives this significance is the fact that xt the County Con- yention last fall a -resolution was passed in promising him support if a_ candidate for President. Butone man spoke against the resolution, and it_ passed by an over- whelming majority. Now the majority is de- eidedly the other way, the anti-Grant dele- gates receiving from fifty to sixty votes out honor of ex-President Grant, and about eighty. If Grant toses in this wa: lidate that las been nained, and his nom- ination will be the extreme of folly. KANSAS. LEAVENWORTH Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Leavexworrn, Kas., May 29.—The posi- tion of the Republicans of Kansas to-day is the same as on the 26th day of August, 1874, When, at their State Convention, they made what is claimed as the first public declara- tion against a third Presidential term in the Following resolution: ‘caolved, That the unwritten law the example of tho Father of his Countey ie de Sining a) deere toa’ hire preadential term is ough it were in This was the sentiment then, and the fact remains that, despite tha most desperate ef- forts on the part of the machine politicians to wrest the State from Blaine atthe last Convention and hand it over to Grant, the triumph of a practically unorganized major- ity over a thoroughly organized and desper- ate minority was most complete. There are very few Republicans but who admit. that there is no sound basis of party policy for the Grant movement, and the far-sighted poli- ticians of this State, even those who would if the matter was left with thein as a personal choiee place Grant in the Presidential Chair, recognize _ THE LARGE SENTIMENT everywhere in the party that stands opposed toathird term with an earnestness which would be sure to take shape in a bolt such as the party has never before suffered trom in the event of Grant’s nomination. The senti- ment among the business men, as arule, is against Grant’s nomination, and it is so strong as to be utterly irreconcilable. The quiet, unassuming men who are vest-pocket voters are almost invariably opposed to Grant basing their opposition, first, upon the belief that a third term ‘is at yariance with all the — time-honored traditions of the Government; second, a feneral disgust of the inasses that the will of the people has been ruthlesly set aside in obtaining delegations for Grant. Kansas Republicans inaugurated the great struggle for freedom in the ante-bellum days, and to-day they stand as unalterably opposed to anything which savors of an at- tempt at overriding justice and free: institu- tions as_in those days when they took their lives in their hands and_dared to speak for freedom for all men. | Whatever may be the private preferences of the Republicans of the tate as to their candidate, be it Blaine, Washburne, Sherman, or whomsoever elst the nomination of any one of these would no cause dissatisfaction in event the individual choice does not succeed, béyond the little natural regret which might follow; butso surely as Grant is nominated will there be hundreds of voters in the Republican party who on election-day would march to the polls and ates tor ie Detogeratic: nominees, chine rule does not suit rty-lovi Republicans of Kansas. ee, TOPEKA, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ToreKa, May 29.—The number of third- term men in Kansas is smaller than in any State in the Union possessing an equal Re- pudlican majority. Four years ago there was twenty opposition to Blaine in the State Convention, and his strength has in- creased measurably since. With Blaine out of the race Kansas Republicans would be practically unanimous for Washburne or some other deserving inan of acknowledged. ability and in sympathy with the masses. The two Senators and three Congressinen from this State have pronounced against the third term. At the last State Convention the Hon. J. D. Snoddy, of Linn County, who was chosen as one of the Republican Elect- ors, stated that he would not cast a vote-for Grant if he should be nominated ahd elected to the Presidency. Snoddy is conceded to be the best campaigner in Kansas, and reflects the sentiment of the great majority of Republicans in his district and throughout the State. Influences have since been brought to bear on Snoddy sufficient to indute him to say that as an£lector ‘he will vote for Grant, in LL ant the event of his election, but as a citi a Republican he CANNOT ACCORD THE THIRD-TERM scheme an honest and earnest support such as could be given to any other of the candi- dates nam Kansas is largely settled by liable Republicans frgm Ohio and nia, and the | fe = -ROEON, them is one of _ bittet _ hostility to Grant and | the machin and they declare their intention to withhold from it their votes and their influence if the will of, tne people is thus thwarted by the Logan-Conkling combination, The dele- gates from this State left for Chicago to-day, accompanied by a number of friends of the different candidates. There were only three Grant men in the party. The Kansas delega- tion will stick to Blaine, no matter what emergency may arise. OO. TOLEDO. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘ToLEDo, O., May 29.—There is no denying the fact that the anti-Grant and anti-third- term feeling has been growing rapidly and strong in this-gection of late, and especially since the Illindis Convention., It has always been a reproach and byword among Repub- licans of Northwestern Ohio to be known by the names “ Bolter and Soreheads.” Loyalty to party has generally been the first thing to be considered by the average voter in making up the estimate of his duty in any given campaign; but within the last ten days a great change can be noticed, and there is likely to be an earthquake of indignation at the action of the machine in the matter of the National Con- vention. It has been noticeable that not a few, even of those who were opposed to the third-term movement from principle or per- sonal feeling, have had until lately very little to say about the matter, although they have kept up a terrible thinking. Within the last few days, however, they have become de- cidedly bolder, and have more freely spoken their ininds on the subject. Inquiries made to-day re’ a surprising number of ear- nest, thinking men and Republicans of long and unquestioned | standi who de- clare that they ‘will not support Grant if nominated, and say that they do not believe he can be elected. ‘It has been held by soine that those men would not come out and express their sentiments in this manner, ‘They have been rather chary about it, but the first break was made by men who said in a quiet, disgusted sort of way that if Grant was nominated they believed they would not go to the polls at all; that they had the privilege of staying at hume. A prominent worker expressed the feelings of many to- day when he said: “If the people generally demanded Grant’s elevation to the Presidency again it would be different, but when MACHINE POLITICIANS ARE SO ANXIOUS togetaman into the White House a third time, there is surely something rotten some- where. ‘The. third-term question, anyhow, is an unwritten law, and the Republi party, by its record and its traditions, is firmly committed against the scheme.” An- other well-knewn stalwart of the party in this section said: “I won’t vote for Grant if nominated, because it would bring in the same old cowd. We would jhave the same odious smell again.” Some of the stanchest supporters of the cause state that itis not ny opposition to the third-term prin- & je in their cases, but they never w anything in Grant’s Aduministra- tion to warrant a repetition of it, and there is nothing present or in prospective that demands his renomination, even if he were fe strongest of the strong men that could Ve put up by the party. , MASSACHUSETTS. THE BOSTON DELEGATES. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Bostoy, May 29.—The Massachusetts delegates are now on their way to Chicago, but without any fixed plan ofaction. The two Grant men are inclined to hold aloof, and, at an informal meeting, ex-Goy. Boutwell re- fused to come in, although? he was in his ofiice in the same __ building. One thing is certain, all but .two are violently opposed to third-termism, and will use all their influence against both Grant and Blaine. They meet in the Gardner Tfouse to-day. Sherman men here are claim- ing many delegates whose first choice has been declared for one or the other of the lead- ing candidates. Their latest claim is 15t on first ballot, and they believe their strength is sufficient to hold the balance of power. They, are determined to stick ‘together, hoping to get more votes after the éarlicr ballots. The Maine and New Hampshire men_ar- rived here to-day on their way to the West, Dut there was no demonstration here by the 1 friends of Blaine, as expected. Not more than twenty persons saw them off tonight. ‘The Maine men numbered sixty-three Blaine badges. None of them appeared confident of their cause, but they are all VERY BITTER AGAINST Grant, and one delegate voiced the universal feeling when he said: “ This train contains a dijegation pledged to anything to beat Grant.” | ‘The rumor that the Senatorial Syndicate propose to try the same expedients upon the Chicago Convention that were suc- cessful in the State Conventions excites intense indignation among representative men here, who believe that Cameron, Conk- ling, and Logan will not find it quite so easy sailing in a representative body which will have in it{men as fertile in parliamentary re- sources as themselves, and determined to defeat all unfair and violentiexpedients. The Journal voices general Republican opinion here when it says: The Logan game would not pay in a National Convention. Such a course would disgust so juny voters that success with any candilate nominated .by such arbitrary methods would be well nigh out of the question. Let ushave fair play at the beginning. , Lo-day’s Herald has_ advices from Wash- ington that Senator Hoar stands firm and square against thenomination of Gen. Grant, and that all the rumors to the contrary are false, ‘This was known to the Convention which elected the Senator to the Chicago Convention. MB. HOAN’S REPUGNANCE = to Gen. Grant’s nomination is thus described: Mr. Hoar, while a strong partisan, was deep- iy impressed by the evils of Gen. Grant’s Administration.” He had no sympathy with that personal Government which tooks upon the possession of a public oflice as a piece, of property to be used for the nefit of relatives and friends. Four years ago he saw the absolute necessity of reform, and was courageous enough to go a reason- able length in condemning the corruption which had crept into the party, and prom- ising better things. has been a con- sistent and faithful friend and supporter of the clean Administration of Hayes. This being true, he must Jook upon the re- nomination of Gen. Grant as an unworthy Teaction towards those principles and prac- tices which the country so emphatically con- demned and which reduced the party’s great majority to a popular ininority. IOWA. MR. J. 8. RUNNELLS, the Chairman of the Iowa Republican Cen- |- tral Committee, who will represent the Sev- enth District in the Convention, is at the Sherman House, and cordially received a ‘TriBoNe reporter, who called for the pur- pose of interviewing him. “ How does the delegation stand 2” was the first question asked. “Twenty-two for Blaine, and no scatter- ing,” said Mr. Runnells. “No second choice?” “Not yet.” c “How do you stand on the unit rule?” “ We are opposed to it.” “Tow were the Iowa delegates elected ?” “The four at large by the Convention, and the others ratified by it after being nomi- nated by the districts.” F “Then the delegates will be pretty apt to vote for the twenty contestants from LIli- nois 2” : “There is no doubt about it at all.” “Is there much opposition to Grant your State ?” * “Yes; a very intense opposition.” “What is its character?” “Not so much personal as on account of the methods which have been employed by his friends and the fear that he would not be a‘strong candidate.” “Te could carry Iowa?” “Undoubtedly; but we have three close districts lying along the Mississippi, where there are a good many Germans who are hostile to Grant, and there is no doubt that his nomination would greatly imperil our chances of carrying those districts, if not de- featus. There are men who are aspirants for the Congressional nomination in one of these districts ut least,—the only one likely to select a new man,—and they will not be eandidates if-Grant is nominated.” i Ee ary ceases any friends in the dele- ion : Yes, quite a number.” * And Edmunds?” “T know of but one whose second al is Edmunds; there may be possibly gwo.” «And Sherman ?” e ds ‘Js there any likelihood of the delezation breaking for Grant ?” 7 “None whatever. Thatis one of the things that is beyond doubt. A delegate who voted for Grant wouldn’t get a very warm recep- tion when he went back home.” “ Are you iliar with the facts regard- ing the Illinois State Convention?” — _ “Yes, in so far as they appeared in the ress. “Do you think Logan was justified in doing what he did?” “By no manner of means. It was the greatest outrage on political decency I ever heard of.” “What effect will it have?” “The action of that Convention has done as much as any one thing, and perhaps more, ie Strenethen and intensify the opposition to rant.” “Than even New York or Pennsylvania?” “Yes, much more, because Illinois is in the West, where the people are more wroughtup on the subject.” “HT ve you seen any evidences of such an effect “Yes, decided evidences. The press of our State have been outspoken in denuncia- tion, and I have more or less correspondence with prominent members of the party in Towa, and they all denounce it.” “ Any Grant men do so ?” “We haven’t many of them.” a “What are your -views as to the situation generally?” = - “T haye been in Chicago only a few hours, but, so farasI can learn, the Blaine men have confidence that Grant will be beaten, and I have seen signs of a lack of confidence among Grant’s friends that he will be noimi- nated. The Grant men arc beginuing to talk more or less about a candidate to compromise upon, thinking that the nomination of either Blaine or Grant would be prejudicial.” “What definit expressions have you heard on that point?” “Tam hardly in a shape to tell you, but I can say this much: that I have heard sug- estions from Grant men that it was feared that his nomination would endanger the suc- cess of the party, and that pussibly the same objection would lie as to Blaine. Feeling ae way, a compromise candidate 1s desir- able. “How do the Blaine men feel about it?” “Thave heard no talk among them.” “Do you think Grant could be elected if nominated ?” “T think it extremely doubtful.” Among the guests at the Sherman is MIL. J. S. CLARKSON, editor of the Iowa State Register. | “Jowa is very strong for Blaine,” said he, “and has no second choice, but, after Blaine, is for the best man that can be nominated and the surest to be elected.” “Do you think Grant could be elected ?” “Tthink it is very doubtful. He woul weaken the party everywhere, and I we would lose-three districts in our State. That is why Iowa is so strongly against a third term. “Grant himself is very popular in Towa.” . “ indications of jhis é eon Seen, any riends giving way? s aa: * Well. they are going about asking Blaine States to present a candidate of their own. ‘We have been approached and asked if Lowa had‘no name to present.” a ““ Approachied by known Grant inen ? “Yes, very pronounced Grant men. They find that they haven’t votes enough and can’t et any more, so they want the strong Blaine States to break away so that they can defeat Blaine.” : : “Do you mean a name for Vice-Presi- dent?” “No, for President. If they can get Iows for instance, to name a favorit son, they will go for him, and in. that way defeat Blaine. We have several men who are stronger than Vindom.”? Wa You will not accommodate the Grant men, though?” * Towa is for Blaine more than for any of wn citizens.” Tell me again, please, what the propo- sition was.” “Grant men came to us to see if we would be willing to presenta man from Jowa and yote for him; and from their talk it looked to me as if they believed they could not win, and were working to defeat Blaine.” ‘You regard their coming to you as an in- dication of weakness gpd a desertion of Grant?? "#Tt looks as if they were peering into th future alittle. The Progra seems to be anything to beat Blaine if they can’t get Grant.” “Have you talked with any one since Have been: here regarding Grant’s nomina- 10n 2 ” “Yes, incidentally.” “ What seems to be the feeling with refer. ence to it?” @I don’t find the Grant men near as confi dent as Iexpected to.” 5 “ Tlave you seen the estimate of the votes fey, ‘claim he will receive on the first bal- ol + * Yes? “ What do you think of it?” “It amounts to nothing. The total is made up by putting in solid the States where Grant has any yotes_ and splitting all the Blaine States except Iowa and Maine. ‘They split Maryland, for instance, and take nearly all from Blaine, while the State Convention ive instructions for him than ,. quertainly not more than $20; and that is is the most he will have. 1 don’t see how he can gain any more.” {low many will it take to nominate »” ST think 383,” | ity anti-Grant men have a major- ‘There is no doubt about it.” “How does your delegation stand on the Dale rule?” a “Towa is on record as opposed to_ it. She voted solidly against it in 1876. Our dele- gates were eRbted in district caucuses with the understanding that there will would be respected, and the delegates were reported to the Convention merely as a matter of form. ‘That is the invariable rulein Iowa. The dis- triets control the matter, and the Iowa men will readily vote for the admission of the Illi- nois district delegates if they present a caso Well proved, showing that they were elected by actual majorities.” “Are any of your delegates liable to go for Grant at any time ?” No; some of them inight have done so as a second or third choice, but they have been alienated by the action of Logan.”” Mr..Clarkson also said that the Republic- ans of Iowa felt very grateful to Tae Trip- UNE for the strong, bold, and effective fight it had made against the third term, and that, whether defeated or not, it would have the satisfaction of knowing that it represented in the fight the prevailing sentiment of the Re- publican party in the Northwest, and would retain the friendship of that sentiment, MRL J, M. SHARPE, a delegate from Atlantic, In., said that the solid Blaine delegation from that State would vote against the unit rule and for the admis- sion of the Illinois contestants. THE FAR WEST. THE OREGON DELEGATION HEADQUARTERS, Room 113 Grand Pacific Hotel, were formally dedicated to the cause of the Blaine states- man lastgvening. Mr. O.P. Tompkins, dele- gate-at-large, was met there by a TRIBUNE representative, who inquired as to the pref- erence of the delegation, and was informed that its motto was, “First, last, and all the time for Blaine.” “Our Conventicn was, perhaps, the most unanimous in opinion of all the conventions held. Of the 165 se teentess 164 were enthu- slastically for the * Plumed Knight.’ ”? “Was there any particular reason for this unanimity 2? 3 ee * Yes, sir; we believe that Oregon will give 2,000 majority for Blaine for President.” “ What will the result. be in the event of Gen, Grant’s nomination ?” “Oregon will give a Democratic majority.” “Wave you 2 second choice 2” “T have heard but oné expression of opin- ion, and thatis, ‘Anyone to beat Grant’ The nomination of Blaine will insure the election of the Hon. Mf. C. George, our candidate for Congress, and his defeat, should Grant be- come the nominee.” “What is the prevailing sentiment on the Pacific Slope?” __ “ Intensely anti-Grant, and 1 have found everywhere between here and Oregon the the same strong feeling against the nomina- tion of the ex-President. His success in the Chicago Convention, L believe, will jeopar- dise the existence of the Republican party.” ; MR. C. W. BENNETT, a lawyer of Salt Lake City, and a delegate to the Convention, arrived at the Palmer House yesterday morning, and was promptly hunted up by Tie Trieune emissary. Utah, like the other Territories, has only two votes in. + the Convention; but this year -there is 9 contest even as to them, According to “Mr. Bennett, the Republican Committee appoint ed two delegates to Chicago, and the people thereupon arose, and, ina convention of their own, nominated two others,— himself and E. A. Thomas. The two dele- gates appointed by the Committee are said tobe a Blaine men. The Convention ex- presse no preferences _for anybody, Mr. ennett isin favor of Edmunds or Wash- burne. His culleague, Mr, ‘Thomas, was a Hspming Judee under Grant, and is a pro- tégé of Conkling. The presumption, there- fore, is that he isa Grant man. Mr. Bennett is unanimously of a differment mind, and Trequently expressed the wish that the road. was clear for Washburne, Having been in the East for some weeks, he was unable to say to what extent the contest from Utah would be prosecuted. . CHICAGO. THE GERMANS AGAINST GRANT. If any anti-third-term man clings‘stil! to the hope that Grant will cause his name to be withdrawn at the Chicago Convention he should pay a visit to the Palmer House and he will be “disenthralled.”_ Every moment, with every new arrival and access to their forces, the determination of the Grantites either to rule the Convention or to ruin it increases. On the maintenance of ,the unit rule they will insist, and if they can only succeed in browbeating and cow- ing the opposition into submission to this rule—above all Garfield, of Ohio (who profanely calls the unit rule i Confederate idea)—they are confident of tushing the name of Grant through the Con- vention without much opposition. In their determination to win at all hazards lays the iain strength uf the Grantites. Such is the impression a conversation with some of the notables at the Republican National head- + quartersanade upon a TripuNe representa- tive. But the opposition to the third-termers among the Blaine men, but chiefly amon the Washburne men, is equally as strong an outspoken. While the Americans appear to be quiet, earnest, and silent in their steadfast determination to win, the enthusiasm of the Germans in their opposition to “the first term of the second series” increases frou hour to hour, from minute to minute. “Just histen2’ said a prominent German citizen of the Fifteenth Ward. “This very morning an enraged Grant man, an American, told. me that the American Grant men would n ‘ote for, Washburne, because the Ger- mans in their clannishness seemed to have made up their minds to force the nomination of their choice upon the Americans by all possible means. * This,’ he said, ‘is Know- Nothingism.and German Know-Nothingisin: at that. The very reasons why the Germans support Washburne almost to a man are of a foreign nature. Although we Americans indorse the action of Washburne as Minister at Paris during thé Franco-German war, yet it is quite immaterial to us who is on the upper side when two foreign powers are at loggerheads.’ | 2 i “'This was quite anew version of the dis- like of Grant men towards Washburne to me. I responded that if was Know-Nothing- ism on the part of the Germans to be in favor of adecent, spotless, and pure man. for the Presidency of the United States, it was American Know-Nothingism of the most abominable sort to force down the throats of the people by such detesta- ble means as thoses used by Logan in ,Sprinyfield, Cameron in Pennsylvania, and Conkling in New York, a san whose record us former President of the United States could never be defended, but only looked upon with charitable eyes,—to say nothing about the eifrontery of the attempt to fasten the same inis-rule with the aid of the * Confederation of Three’: onthe Nation cy 1 forever. While the Washburne:pill would not injure the American stomach, the Grant-pill could never be swallowed by the Germans for fear of strangulation.” And the German Washburne man de- paned with elastic step, being .conscious of paving said something good and unanswer- Aiong the many strangers of note. tarry- ing at the headquarters of the antithinds term cause at the Grand Pagific was fund AN OLD GERMAN, a citizen of Buckingham, in Kankakee County. The home of Capt. Swigart, the Republican candidate for Auditor of State, in Kankakee City. “Capt. Swigart,” said the old Teuton, “is a youn man who enjoys the ex teem. and respect of all who’ know him. His father emigrated from Baden, Germany, to America when the Captain, was quite young. Me was brought up on his father’s farm and worked as a farnt-l until the