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+ the rules by whioh the subsequent proceed- *. $nge will be governed wilt be passed upon, also, by the tudividual delegates. And ‘yj nothing in the future fa more certain than, * dint tiie unit rule willbe voted down, At 4 Jast, then, wo are to havea convention of , delegates, men; not n convention of States *, on the Democratic States-rights plan, ‘Whon Ar. Cameron had made up his mind ato anbmit tothe will of the Natlonal Com- “+ anittee, he was cniletl upon to meet the ns- ‘gombled delegates of the Keystone State In council. Fortwo months Mr, Camoron has been assuring the ‘country of the solidity of tho Pennaylyantia delegation. In these assitr ances, flashed over thy wires from thie to 2 time, thoro has been a tono of imperlousness, _ othe imperiousness of proprictorship, ‘To the Intervieweis he was wont to say: Ihave + nothing new to stata; repeat my interview of = Inst week: the Pennsylvanian delegation ts solid for Grant, and the General will bo nominated on the first ballot. “f know ity”? added the Pennsylvania member of the syn- lente. A good many timid anti-third-term men, anxlons for the future ot the Republican party, actually shuddered with F aD apprehension as thoy read Don Cameron’s brief, curt, decisive edicts, How did’ Don feel when the hour arrived which was to deter- mino the truth or falsity of hla pretensions aud assertions? Did he tremble when he faced hta delegation from hts State? Doubt- © Jess, for ho had been humbled fn the National _ Coommittes room, Tho scheme of the Syn- dicate was already n failure, the Grant forces were {n the process of disintegration, and the third term, the most nuductous a3- sumption known to the political history of the country, lind fallen fiat, But tho chict of tho machineIn agrent State put tho mo- ¢ mentous question: “Are you prepared to put your votes in my pocket?” There wasn moment of oppressive silence, and then a . delegate rose in his place and read the fol- lowing protest: Cutcaao, June 4, 1880.—We, tho undersigned delegates to tho National Itepubtican Convention from Pennsylvania, knntefny that the sentiment of tho Republients of auld Stato ts, lurgely * against the nomination of Gen. Grant for Pres{- dont, und having the best Interest of the party atheart, aud desiring honestly to represent our constituents, hereby pledge ourselves to votu against bis nomination. JAMES MCMANE: W. 8, Nowatass, Ist District Wa. 8, Leann. 2d Distriet, EWwOOD ROWAN, 4th District. TON DiseToN, 4th District, Sth District. Tiavs, 10th District. Aue FAnSHAM, 12th District. , D. NNEY, &: Gat ‘Y+ | tith District. ‘M. 1 ‘ADDELI Mites Gare” fe Disixlots Bone, 10th District. L, Uuntosrus, Vib District. M KY, Ath District. AGENSELLER, 18th Distriot. NUH, 1th Distelet. Depren, 8th District. C.N, TAYLOR, 1 oth Diatelet. IRVING P. WANGER, f W. A.M. Giren } Lith District. . Dale ntonnt-Large. , Samuns Y, Tomrsos, Davip Mowat, id District. The situation was m duplicate of thatof the New York delegation the day be- fore. ‘Twenty-two Stalwart delegates of the State of Pennsylvania announce to the man who clalmed to contro! them that they would “resist tho nominntion of Gen. U.S, Grant by all honorable means,” because they he- Hoved such nomination would surcly entall defent upon the Republican party. ‘Tho two pleturos aro so exactly allke that we reproduce the New York protest ns o sompanion pleco. Here it ts: , CiHITCAMO, Muay 31, 1880,—The undersigned, dote- rates to the Republicnn Nutlonal Convention, ropresenting our several Congressional districts: + In tho State of New York, desiring above all, tho + lecoss Of tho Republican party at tho up. prouching elvction, and realizing tha’ hazard attending an insudiciousnomlnutian, declare our pu ¢ to resist the nomination of Gen, U.S. Grant by all honorable means, Wo are sinecre in the. conviction that In New York, ut least, lle nomination would inaure defeat, Wo have a Brent battle to fight and victory ig within reach, but wo varnestly protest agalnst entering tho gontest with n nomintition which wo regerd a4 anwise nnd perilous. 7 y WILLIAM H. Ronsirson, 12th District. Winrsast lh. Woouix, |. 20th Distriat, . ‘ BORMAN ae Aras Bk District. : ses D. STIVEL : BLAKE G, Watts, frit Distrior, ‘ AGNuH, —— fs0th Diateict. 8d District. ' BiMEOM BS, HAWKING, 4st District. © : Ripe 6yLvesten a District, ' omy B. Ao Wth District, ENRY R. JAN! 3 Weris 8. Dickinson, roti Diststet. ; Jans W. Hoste, * Jeth District. " Fennts JACOuS, Jitey ~ Bist District. i Ontvint AneLL, Jit, Tbh District. Loney B, beastons, Bit District, Andon the heels of these tivo important defections camo the report that Virgluin, + elatmed always a3 solld for Grant, had broken away from the column, Dlnino taking ten } delegates and Sherman ton, leaving two for the third term, Again o rovolution! The Grant managers, smarting under thelr’ de- teats In tho Emptre and the Keystone States and their utter dlscomfturo in the National + Domniittee, appaar to be thoroughly demoral- , od, Tho battle becomes a rout, and prom+ ‘wos soon to dugenerate inton wrotohad stam- 5 pede, 5 But, have the managers no bowels of com- passion? Do they propose to take Gen. Grant Into the Convention, thereto suffer » @n Inglorious defeat? These are tho ques- tions that were In evory man's mouth yester- day. The mon who have most persistently and yigorously opposed Gen. Gran’t nom- ination are fils truest friends, ‘They do not wish to sco him moercltesly slatghtered, Thoy wouldrather have his nine withdrawn while it may yet be done with something of honor, Gen. Grant has never announced himself asacandidate. It docs not matter how he has committed Nimself, privately, to the members of the Syndicate, Even Jf he has beon a party ‘to all thelr schemes and wishes, + thefactneed not hecoma n part of recorded > history, Ills name has been used until ite ‘usecan no fonger serve his friends. Why should ftnot be withdrawn, as It was pres ented, by the Syndicate, as It was presented y stenaibly without hisvolition? Will Messrs, », Conkling, Cameron, and Logan persist in entrying Gen. Grant with them duwn to ignominous death? These questions votce sentiment which pervaded all circles yes terday, Itls Cult that wroat Injustice ls being done to the renowned name and world-wite fame of the ex-President. ‘There are thou- sands who have opposed the third term with all thelr might who would gladly rescue Gen, Grant from the odium of o finnl and overwhelming de- feat. For tho further uso of his nue the members of the Syndicate will bo held responsable; for thu masses of tho Re- podiican party prefer rather to belfeve that Gen, Grant Is now standing by his unfort- ‘unate friends than that they aro stamling by him. Who is the cumlug man? It la plain vow that the Grant managers have nelther tue power to hold thelr forces nor the ability to transfer them to any one man, Their preference fs doubtless Edmunds, But they clearly oppreciata tha dunger of the nom- joation of Blaine in the event of on attempt to «xo over w the Scnator from Vermont, The Blalne forces are com- pact, well Jn hand, and very enthuslustic. Nobody knows how many of the Grant men have Biatne in thelr minds as second choice. ‘Atty this fact—fear of Biaino’s nowination on the second ballot—that will perhaps keep Grant In tho Held to tho last, regardless of all ‘TRIBUNE; WED consequences to his name and fame. Tho Tndlantans ara presenting the claims of Ben Tlarrison as an ayailuble dark horse, He is of Rovolutlonary descent, say thoy, a nephew of William Henry Harrison, of plensant memory, a man of stable character, of first- class abilfty, and of great fame in the Hoosier Btate, ‘Tho Indfanianséwill not, however, quit Blaine so long as his chances remaln good, ‘Tho Sherman men are very adroit, and mny help the Grant men to transfer tholr forces to Edmunds, In tho hopo that thelr candidate could hold the balance between him and Blaine, and finally anatch the prize from a weary convention. ‘The following letter, sent to this offies for publication ata late hour last night, docs not require an explanation: ‘To the Editor of The Cricago Tribune Cmcago, June 2, 199.—Thostatoment has beon {ndustriously elreulated that Ohio Is solid for John Sherman, The statcmont !s not tric. There aro at lenst nine delegates who will not vote for Mr. Sherman on the first ballot, but will voto for Mr. Blaine on tho first ballot, and so long us there ia a ronsonable rospeak nomination, These dolegates wan will not yoto for Mr, Bhorman aro J. Ritehio and WoW. ‘Touvallo, of the 8 Distrivts I. Be Mack and =D. MM. iHnrkness, of the Tenths . . ‘Tripp and . W, Jones, of the Seventocnths fA. Sheldon, of the Bightcenth; and Evan Morris and J. 0. Beatty, of the Nine- teenth, We counton others against Me, Sher- man, but donot caro to mention nainas, It ts neingular fact inthis connestion that tho dis- trict {n whtch Gov. Fostor and President Hayes reside are not for Sherman, und that the same 1s truo of Gon. Garflold’s district. teK Joun 6. Bkarrr, A. W. Jones, > Evan Monnis, 1. M. FTAIKNESS, 3.M, RiTcite, W. W, 'TOUVELLE, > Joun H. THe, L, A. SHELDOS. PRELIMINARY. . OBSERVATIONS. “GAT” NOTHS AND INTELVIRWB, Onicaay, June 1.—The prospects of Grant, which on Monday louked brillinnt, were rudely dissipated that night, ant all day to- day have defined, until It fs now certain that he ennnot be nominated on the first bal- lot, andSmust take,his chances In tho steople- chase, Secretary Boutwell, an unswerving Grant man, sald to-night that Grant would Inck forty to fifty votes of a choice on the first ballot, but would not .be dropped, and expected recruits afterward from the other cumps. ‘Lhe majority of the Natlonal Com- mittee, being against Grant, were ablo to unite, as the delegations against him could not.: Belecting George Monr for Temporary Cliatrman, they thereby secured the solld Edmunis vote to swell tho ‘Blaine and the Sherman and Washburne columns, op the floor of the Convention If any other candi- date should be put up against Hoar by tho Grantmen, At tho same time thoy produced. f revolt In the New York and Pennsylvanian: delegations, and foreed the abandonment of the unit rule by threatening ta deposs Don Cameron. ‘That worthy was cool and game, but had to eat tho feel, mentally saying: “All Holl shall stir for this!” ON MONDAY NIGHT, when the Natlount Committee went Into ses- sion, we had something really dramatic.. 1 spent an hour or two towards midnight oult- bide of the door of the Committee in the lob- by of the Patmer ILouse, and as now and thon A member came out and dropped a little news tothe reporters and politicians that rushed upon hhn, it was, startling to watch tho re- yulslons of feelings and alternationsof gloom or joy. Men are never attached to anybody Bo mutch ns followers are to candidates about Convention tine, particularly to Presidential condidates, Between admiration and ex- pectation they almost grow to worship their campaign idols. Standing around the door wero John Russell Young, who has been around tha world with Grant,-and his brother Jim, who !s a friend of tha Camerons; Hallet Kilbourne, of Washington, who was sent to jail for not allowing an investigating conmnittes to see his business books, and released ‘by the Supreme Court; Gilson, of the Sun, who tb covertly for Blaine, and his done all the investigations on the Republican party generaily; McCook,’ of Colorado; young Sam Bowles, and twenty .or thirty others. A Httle*stalrway Ieading back to the halt-story where theso wero congregated was packed with veople, and the hotel lobby was crowded .with people lstening to somo munking speeches ind othors making bets, but all on the whole good-humored, Suddenly the news came out of the com- milttee-room’ that Georgo Hoar had been chosen for ‘Temporary Chotrman. ‘The countenances of the Grant men fell at this, but they Instantly rallied and sald: “ Well, between Blaine and Grant, HonrisforGrant.” Yes,” rojoined the anti-Grant men; “but he Is for everybody else except Grant or Binine.” Nost camo the news that Don Cameron nt refused to put tho question on the unit rule, ‘This created blank astonishmont, par- ticularly when {t was followed by the In- formation that if the Comunittee undertook to depose Cameron, Loar would be fought by the whole Grant force,’ Peoplenow stared at ench othor, But the few porsous who keep tho run or roster of s convention reflected that it lad heen mown from the outset that a majority of the Committoo was agalnst :Grant, Then the tuformation came out that the cominittee of three created by tha Executive Connnittes hnd been enlarged to,nine, and six antl-Grant men put on it, aviong thom Hoot, of Chicago, who wanted to hold the building of tie’ Contention till Wednes- day and Sayles J. Bowen, who sold his jiim for selllog {¢ to Gers Sherman, Instead of giving tlm, Bowen, the firgt chance, FINALLY THE COMMITTEE ADJOUNNED, and by the white faces and allent manner of Powell Clayton, Gorham, and several-of the Grant men It was seen that they wero twuder suppressed excitement, Everybody had to aulinit that in the Committes ab fenst Grant's enoniles had been able to net li concert and had bent iim, George Honr, howaver, ts 1s unobjectlonablo a man as mlght bo chosen, except from the fact thes ho probably opposes the enforcement of tha unit rule. Four y ago the Provislonal. Chainnian, McPherson, of Pennsylvania, was selveted by the Blatue men, and he seb the ruling that delegates eould, vote nguinst Instructions, Hoje, ty quits Iikely to rity the same wily, He baat Ben Butler for Governor as presiding oflcer, ‘The Grant men, through John P. Jones, of Nevada, thelr member of the Committes whieh selected Hoar, served notice on the rest thag tho Grant mon reserved the right to oppose "Mr. Hoar by nominating another candidate If they saw Ate This LD have un: derstood ‘for tha past week. Gorham, of California, told me on: Wednesday Inst that hw expected the National Counulttes would be aguinst Grant, and would - nominate in anthGrant man through the Chairman, who would call the Convention to order, to be tts temporary — presiding ofilesr, * Grant's friends may then select a candidate,” suid Gorhiun, “in opposition, and we shall have the first test vote on the ‘Yemporary Ohalr- mun p Dut it might bo o part of the tactics of Mr, llonr in the chalr to refuses to entertain the motion of an opposition candidate to that reg larly nominated by the Commuttee, ~ In that cusy the first confllet night not come up an contesting Hoar’s Presidency, . but on the Unitinstrnetion itself, " ‘THM NEW YOUR BRRAK, Blmultaneous with all this Mformation the news Was recelyed that eighteen or nineteen mambers of Ue New York delegation, posi- thyely refused to support Grant, and had signed their names tow paper to that effeat, and had submitted too castigntion on the subject by Edwards Plerrepont without delgning any reply. ‘This proved to be true, and the paper was exultingly read about the D) 8. Nearly at the sano time (en, Binghnno, of Philadelphia, who gave Blaine pre hits house in 1874, and was puntshed there- for, he and his friends, by the Camerons, aunounced that slx mon oy the Philadelphia delegation, had served notice on that worthy that they would not support cithor Grant or the unit rule, So was seen at once the full extent of the defection in the two great dole- math amounting to about twenty in each, or apy forty voles, When the Utica Conven- tlon washield Twas told there would be honso to Grant and then brought sult ngainst |’ |, would bury hi tw ve nntlGrant men fa the Chicago delegation, 7 The last’ pecs of news on’ Monday night sarin In colneldence with the othors looked 0 A RUQULAR COUP D'RTAT, and yas to the effect that the rall of thé Con- yentlon had been demanded from the Secre- tary to be given over to a sinall connuitics of antl-Grant men to examine ft and revise it The Secrotary of the Committee, ‘Tom Keoxh, vho was elected by only ong majority, with jon Cameron, tins been a firm Grant man, though he wavered two or three months ngo between Grant and Blaine. The spectators hat night separated, some. blank, some timid, and others exuttant, ac» cording to tholr atandpoint, When we opencd the Chicnyo papers next, day the Conimittes proceedings did not fill the Space nor point the moral we oxpected, and only left open a probable impending contlict betsyeen Onin- oron. and the majority of this Committee, ‘The Intter were loath to remove him, because In that event he might be able to defeat per- Tinps any candidate they’ put up In Pennsyl yanin. ‘On the game Irritation It wag auld Logan and Conkling would bo any candidate. JEROME CIAPFER, who took tho leading part against Cameron and for Blaine “in iis seastan is a man $1 very feeble health, troubled with the bladder disease, his face pale, and the bright vigor of his. countenance ‘and movement gone. But he has an unilinetiing will, Ho was the Dele- pate from Colorado soveral years, antl chicily nstrumentat in having tha State admitied to the Union, wherein he had great help fram Biatne, who was Speaker of Congress. lie had a dimeulty with Gen, Grant on the subject of the Governor of Colorado some thm about 1873, when Gen, McCook was ap- pointed. McCook and Chaffee, having been ntiuate Criends, separated on business ques- tlons, and have ‘been hostile to, each other. Chaffee was an advocate of Binine (n 1870, And has been the most Iberal contributor to his expenses fn running for the Presidency fn 1880, Possessed of a lirge fortune, majnly derived from tho Little Pittsburg and other nines, and with only a daughter, already provided for, Chaffee has come on the fleld @ sick man, but with» steady norvye to do his best for Blaine. BOU INGERSOLL wasalsointhe cityon Monday, conferring with tho Blaine men, und this led to the rue anor that he would again enter the Conyen- tion ns a proxy and make the nominating speech for Lfuine, who is rather short of ood speech-making inaterinl, Fryo being his est Instrument. Atnong sone of the Southorn delegates In favor of Grant there was great anxiety of feeling on Aonday night when they heard of the proceedings fn the Conunitter, Lieut- Gov, Flanagan, of ‘Texas, said; “ It Is not in the power of Gen. Grant's managers to trans: for his vote to Sr. Windom or any secondary man, however respectable, We nre for Gen, Gratit and no other person While Cain not in favor of Mr. Binine for President, and think he would bu on the defensive from the time of his nomination, Luiways had the greatest ndutration for his behavior in Con- gress, his talents, his. sparkle, and his jociund and dashing leadership, thero Was no Grant f would be for Blaine,” Mr. Flanagan said that ho had no great oplnion of Washburne asa candidate trom what he had heard frow other people, £ Mr. Moraes White said he thought Wash- burne would make a good Presiden On Tuesday noon ib was known that Don Cameron had squatted before the hurricano and saved lis head. giey had it for a lon, while about town that ho had bepn depose: CONKLING AS A CANDIDATE, é An. inthnate friend or Roscoo. Conkling says thnt after the proceedings of - Monday night in the National Oomumittes be found Conkling at his room in tho Grand Pacilic Hotel, and until.a tate hour In the morning listened to a splendid display. of passionate pyrotechnics from that able dintecticlan, whose sentences ‘are never so fing 23 when barbed by anger. Not only Conk- Jing, but his “associates and tho muan- agement of the Grant forces, showed adeep, exasperated . fecling, and 4. Ilt- tly. more, In the estimation of persons present, might have threatened’ the Conven- tion and the party itself, An ex-Senator of the United States, who fs for Grant, said. to-ay nt_8 o'clock that while he mennt to support Grant from ballot to ballot ag long. as his friends held logetiier, and still believed he could pull through, that in the event of his forces thinning ont this geutteman meant to xo for Roscoe Conkling for President, The questton was asked. how . Conkling, | tcould get more votes than Grant." Wo wi ret,” sud this person,’ every vote in the State of New York, where there are now a dozen to elghtean mzulngt Grant on the third- form. theory, He will get. ‘the | vote of Kanaas, I am. told; get Windon’s vote. from Minnesota; consolidate, per- haps, the vote of Pennsylvania and probably get Nebraska, California, and make gaing ii New England and the South, “Lhe chief contest,” sald this person, “4s In the State of New York, and Conkling can carry New York if any Jiopublican in tha.country can, Against iis moral character there 15 nothing to say. He hus stood by Grant, and. means to stand by him, and has never har bored the iden since Grant's campaign begun of gaining any benefit from it, Conkling,” remarked the same authority, * will present. Grant's name to the Conventlon in a speech, and give many of them the firstehance they over hod to form an oplilon-of hin.” = Judgo Taft, of Cinclanatl, heard a part of this conversation, and he sald: * Conkling would suitine ay well as any man in the country but stick to Grant as long as possi- ee ? dangerous to Mr. Charles Milter, of Kentucky, sald: “Next to Grant, Conkling would ‘sult me better than any nan tn the. county, and Would get, twenty voles from Kontucky ev- ery tna,’ 9 Senator Dorse ,of Arknnsas, and Judge ‘Taft coine nthe view that the Sherman yote Inthe South had all been pleked up by trading ‘Treasury places for it, r, A. IK MeUlure ‘sald ‘at 3 o'clock to- day that tho contest, If it lay between Bintne, Ho and Shormnn, would be; won by irant . Mr, Morse, Demooratlo oditor at. Fort Wayne, said that, Indhing would present Hendricks’ name in the Clneinnatl Convene tlon, but he did not think Hendricks would gobover fly voles all told. . IIe oxpected nbout forty-six from Michigan. Lo thought filden would not be noniiuated. + A VAT AMENDE,: Friends of Mr, Franklin Woodruff, of Brooklyn, sald that the strictures made pon hin and upon Seeretury Sherman, who were charged by Mr. Lorin Palmor with having schemed together to get control of the, City of Brooktyn, {n order to uso it for the promo- thon of Shurman’s Prosidential prospects, are neither bused on the facts nor Justified in deconoy. It was trite thot Bir, Woodruit was the Republican candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn lust November, but itavas entirely on the voluntary nominutloy of ‘the Repul- Nean party. Str. Sherman was at Coney Island thoJuly previous, but liq made no reference to ‘hls politieal purposes, and nt that tinto had nut resolved to be a candidate, ld March of tha present year the wel lth contract for furtishing labor to weigh 0 dutluble goods was given out to Mr. Dag- gett, who ls ndelegate here, for the briet spe of three nianths, ab the lowest rate wos over ats namely, 13 cents ton, = Instew of being paid by days’ hours’ — labor for at much higher figures, -Nor ly (t true that Mr, Woodrult hid any, connection with the ngirs of Henry Ward Beccher, aa Initiated By, Mr. Paliner, xcept that Str, Moulton, Mr, iton’a friend, had business relations with hfs house, In the Indixeriminate fury of Dir. Bevchur's friends they attacked muny guntle- nien In no way associat with any of the charges agaist hl, and imerely because thoy hid some more or less rentota connec tlon with Mr. Moulton’s dally business iife, AS wo tho charge that the ‘Treasury had nade any aettloment in favor of Mr, Woodrull, there jy no more trath In tt than that the do- tectlvo ugents of Treasury In thelr hunt for nol iby soven years ugo charged that the warehouse dir of Woadrull & Robinson had falled to comply with some techuleal require- ment of the law, and they, Ike Phelps, Dodge. 0. and other firms, not wishing thelr large warehouses to be sfut up by the doy ernment in the thne of actlye” business, settled the deticit aunt them, whieh was something over $4,000, Mr. Woodruff says that the prevailing business sentiment In Brooklyn, us in New York, favora Sveretary Sherman, and not Grant, and that this gossip relutive to him, made 1,000 iuiles from home, fy malictous, and grows out, of political dis- uppalutiontund the usual local feuds of Hrooklyn polities, The Government hag nover instituted proceedings of any kind mralnat Bir, Woodruff, He has never been fudicted by it or any othar authority, . Qoy. Tost YouNU, ; who succeeded Hayes when he took the Presidenc: sand Ig now a member af Con- razz, suld, when L asked hin, pointing to his Sherman badge, how long before y candidates * f don't know but wo may biiry hiw in the White, House, way thingsare breaking up he may be as likely a5 nok to gut the nomination, Grants frieuds have pot been doxsed or troubled by Sherman, Wo have a atrang following In the Southern delegations, think Grant anyhow fs outof the question now." “Suppose, Gov, Young, ‘It is necessary to leave Grant’ and choose somebody else, who crosses your vision as a possible candidate? Is It Garfeld 2" * “Ono, Iteanbo no man from Ohio. It might be Air. Edmunds, ort might bo some now man fram the Northwest lke Windom.” “Would Edmunds rin well? “Ife would carry Oho, Yet, T think the desire is forn Western-man, Kastern men aro not very available in tha large States of the West. ‘Thora is nothing to be sald against Edinunds, hut those fixed notlons which me! acquire In thegld and small constituencies o the Enst, which 9) as Presidential candidates ont here,!? nn Washburne carry Ohio 2? ‘Yes. If h jot mixed himself up in this Grant business. I think his prospects would have been altogether tho best for the nomination, but by expressing inself for Grant, and then being run against, Grant in Ttlinofs, he has, I think, dlspinced lilmselt in tho confldunce of both si des to some Ux- My : Ly i “Can Blnino carry Ohio?” “Yo. [think Blane can got moro votes in Ohlo than any other man there but Sher- man. Ho has been among our people, and they like his style, But you have no ilea,” au Gov. Young, “of tho strong following herman s “X do not seo any of It In Illinols, Gov- ornor? “Well, he is perfinps wenker hora than al- most anywhere, But ho is strong at home, in the Enstorn States, in New York City, in the South, and generally in the West, too. No candidate can bring around hin. n batter rango of men in pusiness enterprise and social and moral wdrth.” “ Would Grant be sure to lose Ohio? . “Fie would indeed. ‘Tho prejudice against’ thla third term amounts to a tempest. Our German population, that discriminates care- fully, is‘auito ‘averse to Grant. Taincerely say that if Grant is nominated 1 shall not think it worth while to run for Congress again in Hamilton County, to spend $2,000 on such faint hope of election as L would have running along with Grant: Besides, wwe are the only Stata to hold on olection in October, and Its moral influence will be very: eat olt the November election. Ido not, ‘now whether the Grant inen havo, suttl- ciently considered the finportanco of: ft. we should lose Olifo In October we night as well Iny down in Noyenter.” “Suppose President, Hayes, Gov. Young, had not salt he would stop with oue term, cag you think ho would be avaliable now? A Y “No. I think not, He hns made.n good many ‘mistakes, both in the results of his policy and in hls appointments to oltice. I do not aceuse him for what hoe did‘tn the South, ‘Shey cheated tlin down there: Hy fook thom at thelr word, and he belleved that, they would allow free -elections and the con- filet of ‘opintons, But they have gone on using social and Industrial Inthnidation, and often physical Intimidation, and accompany: Ing it with those Lssue ballots and false elec- tions, until L regard ft ns linpossibie to cari any Southern State for x Republenn Presl- dent. ‘That fs the reason we onght to con- fing our attentipn to the North.” “Did you seryo inthe Legislature with Hugh J. Jowett 2" “Yes, a coud many years azo.” “Would he make an available candidate for tho Domucratic party as President?” “|. “T think he would be thoir very best, Bald Gov. Young. “Tie Iga purse men, and 1 known in Ohio, very Wi i'think the more thoy would Investigate nls character the bet- ter they would find it. Le was, courteous fentlenan and a inborions man in commit: ves, Ills expoutive capiity 1s matter of national faine. He is a min who means right every, time by men In both parties. + ‘HL, B. Payne,” sald Gov. Young, ‘whom they are talking about for President, fs ver fittle known fn Ohlo outside of Cleveland, Tle’ docs not possess Mr. Jewett's warm and’ kindling manners, and“1 think would bo* looked tinon ns the political executor of ‘Til- den, We have a good prospect to elect tho nomtnee of this Convention If It don’t broak up Ina. quarrel, particularly if thoy nomi- nite Tilden at Cincinnati, 1 that case the Dentocrats would be on the defensiya from the moment the campalyn openct.”” : * OTHER INTERVIEWS. Mr, Whitelaw Reid, at 30’clock Tuesday, sald Grant and thg,third term was gone and the nomination now Iny between Blaine, Washburne, and Edinunds, i Mr. Edwin: Cowles, ‘of -Cleveland,: at 13 o’elock, sald ho regarded the third ‘term ng beaten, and seomed w iffle apprehensive that” Shorman might got ‘the’ nominntion’ on ne- count of haying such a urge following In tho Southorn States and no great onomles among ‘tho Grant men, Y ot Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, Conkling’s enemy, seemed quite hifarlous at the result of atfatra in the Natlonal Committee, and particularly atthe rumored ‘deposition of Don Cameron, Roberts said that the nomination of Grant avila break up tho Republican party any- OW a Tinot Mr, Lamon and Mr. Goorga Mandy Smith, both State Senators of Penusylvanin, and devoted Cameron men. In reply ton question, 3fr. Smith sald: “Lam hardly ablo to givo you a sound view of Grant's chances, because Lam surrounded by an element in Philadelphia favorably to Blalne. Perhaps £ do not fect ns confident os f would like to. But_f€ they depose Don Cameron from the hend of the Pennsylvania delegation It will bo a bad movement, Lhe Camerons haye an Influence in Pennsylvania that no Republican cundidate for Pres{tentean withstand if tholr resentmmont 1g oxelted,” I think thot*stop would be looked upon as an insult, and that tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would feel that It had been insulted in the act.’? ‘This was at 10 o'clock in tha morning. . . Mr, Lamon sald: “A very sevoro blow yvas denlt nt Gen. Grant by.the few rich men, Childs and others, who bad tho conching of him when he came to our city after his re- turn to America. No reception ever given in Philadelphia was a Patch to that ‘The heart. of the people was in it, and tha most Invish nergles of the Repubileims wore bo- stowed upon the latina shed gists, But ho did not give the workingmen of the party any portion of hin attention. Ie was being earrted off from amongst us to clubs, sip- pers, breakfasts, and cides by:the halt a dozen people about hin until it got to be a matter of remark amour the boys that Gen, Grant didnot care anything for us. When the Grand Ariny of the Republle paraded In his honor, le staid just long enough to see them go by, and thon hnstened off to something socal nmong the blue bloods be- fory thoy could come buck and shake hinds with him, At the municipal: reception held at the St, George’s Hotel, which was ca pecially gotten up in his honor, he hard; tasted his soup before thoy rushed him off to return among us no more, and go to theli Suturday Night Club, adlterary circle, | ‘The conseguence was that, before Graut left tho city, the laboring, enthuslastic politicians among the Kepubilcan party were completely soured, It was then that Hlalna stopped: t and made his impression. Mr. Childs an that aet had a full week: to enjoy Gen, Grant after the public festivities were done, But. thelr areediness to absorb him hos partly roduccd this disaifection whieh I deplore In our delegation”? Gat. —— TNE SITUATION. COLLAPER OF. TUR BYNATORIAL’ THUMVIRATE Tho third torm ledoud, Tho Sonatorial Tri- umvirate have overplayed thomsclves, and Gen. Grint will not reooive tho nomination on the Qrator any other batlot. “If bis frionda aro wiso —and {in this category it would bo ontircly out of piace to fnolude elthor Camuron, Conkling, orf Logan—and dosiro to presorvo tho tustro that bns attached itself to the General's fame and name, thoy will not allow his namo to coma before the Con- vention, Thorv {9 no to-morrow after the roll. call bns boon footed up on tho lust hallot, and tho groatest military gontus fa thon as impotant ns would be the efforts of, a obildto fruo itself from the grasp of a glans; és "Tho causes for tho collapse of the Grant boom were not muny, but they wore oxcoodingly olfogtive.' Kirst was tho attompt to stifie publio opinton and override the wishos of the people as oxpressod at the district mostings in Now York wid Philadelphia, Second was tho grand larceny by which Jogau carrled“the State of Iino. Tho third wus the uult rule, which Coukling, Cuneron, and foun hud Cettored upon the rupe rusontatives of tho peuple, und the fourth wis Don Cameron's outrayoots condugs at tho meee ing of the National Committee on MBoyduy even ing. ‘Cho lust wus tho crowning Act of the polit- teal intuimy with which the catpalgn bus boun charactorized. ‘ Youtorduy the third-termem mado got of thot atrongua and Eien Pr q ve) NOL have cnuujeh Votes (o ontoree elthor tho walt rato or to nomluato-Grant on the fires bul- lot. Honce thoy treated tho opposition In a morg conwillatury uivod. ‘They’ surrendered the urro- gunt pretousions whlch inurked all thelr uctlous tho day before, Nearly one-third af the New York dolegution wore in open robellion, ngd an others thy fros of sedition bud. becn. kindled. The lndications in every quarter, excopt in twa or three Justancos, wore thet unless & compro- miso wus ofected tho Grantites would full to Blccos py ulght of t . SHRID ANBURYERABLS. ARNOGANOR. Conkling undertook ty stem the tide, Ho coasod, dwyplored, und thon threatened the delegation raty unfavorably against |, from his Stute, nd aftor he bad mado Inborioug speech of nonrly = an hot Jongth, yoto was called, and the a unit rocetved only forty-five votos out of sevort~ ty. ‘his wae tho finietiing blow. Conkling and rthur wero willing to surronder on the best torms that could ho made, and after a burried consultation Cameron ‘ant Logau conelided to oncur, ‘Tho meeting was thon, howover, beyond thelr gontrol: Virginin, which lind beon reportom solid for the third tort, burat wide open, and cleeteds ant-Grant mento all tho positions requisit in tho organization and workings of tha Conven- Hon. 1 wag not long after tit.tho Pannsylvania disvontonts took the bull by the horas, and reso- lusely sinned s pledgo repudinting. tho unit rule a to ineructions, ‘Tonnessoe, which had ‘bean ovenly divided, widenod the gap by revlect- ing William Rule to tho NutionaiOommittco by n voto of 16 to #.—thua sitting downon the entire Oamorontan policy by an overwholming majorl- ty. Like the Alpinonvalanche, which steadily Iheronses {ta ‘proportions ns it descends tho mountain aldo, tho defection grow In nNumbera as it surged nlong tho Ine of the States, Tho bonsted dit votes - with which tho Triumvirate olalmed thoy would nom- inate Gen. Grant on tho first ballot shrank to about 300, and before sundown this ovenlng that umber will show a marked falling off, Grant's riont# Insiat that ho Is tho man of destiny, Roth the Napoloons wero: thoy have passed info history, ‘The [Mlinols headquarters was a veritablo cavo of gloom, and those whe haunted tho giudily denped apartmenta conducted thomaalvos us if thoy were attonding a rural funoral., Tho house was too small for the mournurs, and they hung around the fence nnd door-yard walting for tho corpse to be carriot! out. Tho Egyptian dele- gates wore particularly depressod, Thoy hu! been worked up by Logan to bullove that ‘tho cam paten was a comploto walkway for tho Galena tannor, aud to find themselves docotved soruth lesty added Injury to thelr allsappointimont. ong.” Jonus wis paler than usual, and his eye was dla. Ho hed lost his onthusiasm, ant while, ho" talk gt times with a good deal of vigor; it was evident that he was doing up-hill work, It was the effort of a lawyer for hiseltent whom ho knew to guilty of tho orig ebarged In tho Indictment. THE NDAINM AND SHERMAN. MEN were, ns inight be expected, paqeuit ingly, u- bilant “over the turn in nifairs, ‘ha forier held a caucus in tho evening, at which thore were, two sor throo repre- snntatives from every delogation exvept two, and tho reports aggregated, so it i9 claimed, a voto of nbont BOO on the tirst ballot. Ono ¢n- thisiistio supporter from Ponasylvania said tint tho statlatica showed 115. . 1 'Yho Ohio delegates, who pre for Sherman firs! Inst, und for all time, claimed to have over I votes pled; for the Socrot of tho Treasury, Undor tho londorship af Gov. Dennison, they felt oxeeodingyy wontent, He claimed that the nom)~ gation of John Sherman would certainly occur on the third or fourth ballot. Houssigned 14 his: reason tho beflef that nohe of tho Grant men waukl support aithor Bluluo or. Wishburne, Edmunds did not have eneugh er with the Gront strength to nominito hin. Blaine would Tot aupport Hdiannds, benog there was only ono thing for tho Muine people und their alles to do,—omnbrace Sherman ant sing “Let us have cnea” He anid Bhormin would stick till tho nat shot had feft the locker.” ‘Away up-stairs in tho Palmer tho Vermont people were quite Joyful. ‘Thoy looked for Sunriyall the Grant ftrength on tho third or fourth ballot, and tho conésequont nomination of tholr favorit san, ' ‘Tho Grant caucus at tho Palmor House in the evening wus nttended by 1 persons, being an actuniconnt mule by a ‘Camus reporter, « In tho list, however, was Judge Taft. and somo twenty’or so prominent Grant ‘supporters who were not delogntes, Long John Wentworth pre- alded. Speeches wero made by Logan and Conkling, and. resotations ndopted plodging un- wavering fldclity. ata A fairly close guess of the situation would bo about as folluwa, on frst butlot: if + Blaine... 500 Grant, B00 Sherman. Edmunds. Washburn Nocessury to ‘BLAINE CAUCUS. AN IMPORTANT AND EXTENDED CONFERENCE of dolcgates friondiy to Blaino . was beld {nat ovening at the Maine hoadquartors to can- yass tho sltuution and propare for the Convon- tlon to-day. All the States oxcept two wero reprosonted by from’ two to threo of -tha. promfnont. men in .tho dolegn- tions. Gen. Henderson . presided. . Tho rogcedt woro kept vory quict, but enough Teaiged oue to fet ‘ono know (ust it was an ox ccalingly plonsint gathoring, and that an ex- pression had been had which assured Mr, Ulaine about 300 yotes on tho firat bnilot, if not that number, at least twenty-elght moro than ‘his most ardent. supporters . ; 0: tho reerits having come from the Grant ye tolegraphed men. io result’ * | was Mr, Blaing, but. tho confrires bad ‘nothing for tho reporters or-for publication, Tho inft tho finpression, howaver, that tho ontire \program. for to-dny had bepn mypped putyand that troy wore particularly well’ pleased with whut tind heehdond, Ablonat thoy were very eheorful, and caleulating upon victory. “Woda not ex- pect to nominate Hinine on tho first ballot,” sald one, "but wo look for It on the second or third, whon Grant is out of tho way."* ' GRANT CAUCUS. ‘THY BOSSES ALATSIED, The nows of tho dlofections In Now York. and Pennsylvanta fo alarmed tho threo “Bosses that the ukaso wont forth fora mocting, -not a cau- cus oxnctly, buta grind powwow, at which tho souls of tho timld and tho -wavdring should bo stirred within them, and a goneral braoing-up” adininistored allaround. Tho Grant detegates ro- sponded with o tardinoas which showed how littla soit] thoy really had {a tho thing and procoedod in solemn procession to tho club-room on tho parlur door. of tho Pulmor House. ‘to got in thoy were ; =) NEQUIRED ‘TO PASS THRE DOOTES,— tho frat a wooden one, prosidud over carly by Jobn Logan, tho sccond of fron, with Long - Jones as doorkcepar, sud the inugr portal of the sume matarinl, presided ovor by tho socrotlve Filloy. As tho procession. was dragooned into tho room, and its individual members passed upon by tho triplicate set of doorkcep- ora, it recallod to an outeldor the admirable care toon in this wook's Puck on “Political Canvicts."" ‘The lash was lacking, Sitorally spoaking, but it wus hold In susponse ovor all who cnterod just as much as though it bad boon A A'VEHITADLE WHLP OF BMALL CORDS, It was vorylug amusing whon Frod Grant pro- sontod bimsctf at the door to seo that his pu's Antoresta wore not in auy way voglcoted, -Long Jones, mludful of Frod’s tnolinntion to talk too much, oxemplified of late in his iuterview with ex-Goy, Deunlson, of Ohio, hulted the valinnt young solder, a8 _{€ doubtful whothor to ndintt him or not. But Fred made it all right with the elongated sentry, after a moment's ounversauon, and peau pn. = Oonkilpg and Cimeron wero already there, aud Loyan entered aftor the Inst. bateh had ‘been earefully inspected, stamped, und pronouncod “atraight 3." It was notorious, howevor, that n lot of outsiilors, dressed in Graut badges, slipped into the room ‘and heard all thoy cared for. There was one Cx- ception, however, to the hist remark. Au nine bitious but undiseiplined omployé of a mora- ing nowspaper borrowed another mnn’s bat aud budge, got In, and proceeded to give himealt away in tho most approved style by pulling out paper and ponctl and. going to work. It is suareely 11 to stato that the Grantites pounce upon him, took away hia notes, toro hom up before hig fave, und expulled him with dgnominy und sbome,and an intimation that here were ,oncagh No..J4 boota to expedite his exit untess ho al as d.q. Tho nianagers wero ovidently aware of the presuuce of out aidora all through the mouting, however, tor, in- steal of dobig anything in the way of usiness, - Sondogtline any geuutiee forte. tay'es Dei ca Ino was vor sto ma with theanlo donate ‘caiad NKACING UP THE SOUTHERN DELEGATES, and partioularly the colored brigade. * It Wns 10 o'clook when the mooting was onlted to order by tho cducated elophunt of Cook County, “ Loog*: John, who, In his ponderous way; Delabored the tublo, plantod btmaseif in the chuir, and, electing bimsolt tg stay there, callod on Kisooe Conkling fora spoushs > ‘Pho: curled during of New York, evor rendy to encourage tho brethren, arose and was rucefved witha burstof appluuse.: He wpoke for nearly an hour, and was as assertive god as confident as usual, In ane plico bu _roferred to the ‘stntemont that there were’ a large number of Germans ‘in Cloyeland why would yoto against Graut, if nominated, On this polnt ho hud" poaltive ne- surances” that, on tho contrury, there were a turzo number of Gerinans, uot itepubllcans, who would yote for bli, Ta anothor plive bo ir as to way that Muino woul rages a ft thy it. Ktatonn @ go-uuglod 98 wa Se : * ‘Then ho “pointed, with. pride” -to” pinot, which Tela up her forty-two yotes for Grant, and nduled that the Btate had nover boon carrtud but twico for tho upublicun nom{tious—Uinpoln ang Grant—forgotting, apparently, that Mr, Hayes curried It some four yoars ago by Lever aver 19,000 inajority, and omitt stato Unt Grant would tn all probubility futlto carry It this zeny nominated, Florida was sure, of counie, or iia, : =m ADUNRAING THR SOUTHMUN DELEGATES, . ospootally the colored’ folks, ho ruforred to the argument that the Republicans would bo counted out there any way, und braced: then up by an- .coucurrenca of = tho other positive sgaurance which’ he bud covery Kiectoral voto: cast fur Grant woutd bu- ‘gounted, After caudouing them not to et any- boy eheat thom ont of thaie, rights, aud aftor tnd ging in the usual prediction that Grant would bo nominated on the first bullot and triumphuatty elagted, the geutiomang from New York aut down amid muok applause, * ‘The Bost slguitount part atout bis: speech ‘wis his utter falluro to rumombor the Now York wud Ponnaylyania dofections or to sy anything about tt. perfect English, the well-rounded the persuasive upatory of tho Benator of Now Yor ‘dossrved a. mors ficth Aaa than thoy avtuully recolyod in lug followed up by tho bull ronr, tho fatso nd tho oppor sont of tha Hlinols Bose, Tho neeting heard him about efghteen minutes, dud the begun to tro of him. At Inst ho ant down, and tho crowd breathod a atgh of relict) and ox- nimined thoir tympitniime to qe If thoy had ause talned nny fracturos. As thoes didn’t stom to bo anything moro te do, the crowd tiaving been properly ‘liaced, a ination te adjourn, was promptly varriod, aud tha artificlally-confdout asgombly broke up, i . Therv ta ne doubt that the gathoring was In- tonded to bo a test of the mumerioal forces af the Grant delegntes as well as Mn: OCens{an of arn torical bolstering up of tho weak-kneed, Whother thie Is 40 or not, tho fact remhins that B count of nusos wag inndo during the moeting, - and, after it was over, (ho bonst was made that, | 37 gure votes for the third-terin candidate wore Prosont, ‘Those arg large tigures, ull dliicult to seo that thoy aro hot lurge enough for the purpose required. It Js anfo to assure thnk there wero but: sory, fow, barely oxen possibly, of Grant delegates absont from - tho meeting. tt was called nt a hour, 50 that thogo who had ovening ongagements might BUIT attend, and strenuous eiforte wore mado TO KERHD THE AWARNTEDA- atas low a nimber as powiblo, ‘The result was p throng of 827 Graut delegates, From this, number must be eubtmotad tho twentyrtwo bolting delegates ‘of tho Loulsiaan’ delega. thon, whose noses were ineludod tn the count, and algo tho twonty fraudulont dologates of tha Illinois deteyation, teaving just 285 votes for Grant, or naariy one hundred short Of the required nttmbor to nominate. ‘Tho meeting was not coniined strietly to delo- tes, number of otitsiders tnterested In the "boom" bolng i Among those wore Fred Douglass, . Brod Grant, ox-4ttorony- General Tyft, a numbor of the members of the National Committoo, and other Invited gircats « ‘Thy departure of the delegates anit tholr Ruesta wis mundo in a vory formal, not to say grand, style. Senator Conkling wis the hero of the hour, and tho courtly manner in whieh the politica! Adonis recolved tho homage of tho un- derlinga bad an imperial flavor about it that pleasunt to ouserve, ‘Tho Now York how, when a delegate who had not yot konored was presunted to bliin, was both graceful, but it was patronizing; too, and quite a contrast with tho suppiiunt, not to aay cringing, genutlextonsof tho purtles presont- ad, The Indies in the corridor seemed to enjoy the scene tinmensely, and - tho, fuipression which the Now York statesman muda upon thom was most favorable. If Susin B. Anthony aud hor alster sulfrage-seokers only had seata in the Convention 1 Solegutes instead of moro spectators, in the ovent of Gen, Grant's decline ramin tug in favor of tho New York Senator, thore {8 no doubt that Mr, Conlin send scoure their solld sovemty-slx votes. Zhere was Just: ou little indy —n protty brunet tram Rhode Iatand who dured to bolrroverent in presence of the handsome and aumist sintosman, After sig had suryoyed him critically from ber sofa she re- marked, not sotto voce, * Now, Ma, he-ia-real don’t wondor that——"_But*n terri+ ro maternal frown pipped the remark fn tho bud, and the purport of fits unuttered words will nevor bo reveulud, . AT TEADQUARTERS. : TNO STIR AT THE NRAND'PACIFIO’ —» ~ yesterduy morning did not ecom sy gront hb mt: tho closing of the night previous. Still, thore was no let-up ia arguments, and tho button: holing of dolegates, Now necossions werd,con- stintly’ arriving, .and’ by noon tho office, exchungo, grand rotunda, and the entire parlor oor wag a surglug mass of Intonscly intcrosted humanity, Walking through tho vast crowd was exceedingly dificult, Tho thirty members of tha Nutlonul Cummittes opposed to tho unit rilo held caucus in Room 42. ‘There was a freo’ and unanimous exprossion of opinion 28 to what they would dv 1f Don Camcron’ would not do what was right and. just. A resolution was adopted to be presonted which sot forth tho fuct that Don Caimcron nd rofuged to. have recorded the motions sdopted’ by a imn- jority of tho Committee, and, {f ho continued to purauc that .cuurse, that summary monsures would be takon for his ro-, moval; also. a resolution declaring; him, dis-_ charged from furthor acting ns Chafrinan of the Committeg; | and cub mnother, naming Col. Cooper, of Mount Vernon, 0, a8 the noting Chairinan i * Of course tho result of the caucus was mado: known through the houso ond on tho streots, and created tho wildest sort of oxcitoment, Around: the Blaine headquarters thoro- seemed to be a doubt whether such action bad beon tnken. They did not approve ‘of it untoss all other methods of procedure hnd ,beon exhaust: ed. Tut if iteame to bo & necessity to scare fulr pss for nll tho other candidates, they were fur doposing Cameron without any further ado, AROUND THE SHERMAN HEADQUARTERS | thore wus 9 fooling that nl) dooenoy had been outraged by the notion of Don Cumoron, and that ho hind tried to enact tho role uf. a tyrant and would not be much longor tolerated. It bordered upon revolution, und Mr, Cameron would find that tho peuplo wore much greater than any ong individual, whoever. he might-be, ‘These sentimonuravore oxprossed iP, thd adber-" enta of Hdinunds, Washburne, and Windoru also, and thoy seemed to meet a general respons in thy heurts of all, , Tho various headquarters wero oxcecdingly lively, thoso of Muiuo and Obio buving .up- parently tho largest number of visitors, A IN THE MAINS HEADQUARTERS | 2 Goy. Davis, and Senator Humlln, and Eugeno Hale held forth, and their treatinent of delo- gates must have boon very satisfactory, since allepoke wellof the “mon from Maine," who knew how to ianke good impressions, Mioblgan was regaled by tho “Old Herkimor County Glee Club,” which sang suti-third>tormn songs nnd Grant songs without any show of Partisanship. At tho Ilinots hendquarters Goy. Cullom ind’ othor Stato oflicers held a sort of leveo, but tho Govornor took cure ‘to oxpress no proferciice, Long Jones made merry with all, but the Grant epiritssoemod generally down. =. "~ : + GONKLING LOOKED MADLY... + His feco woro anything but thnt quict smile of auperiority, Lo wus ovidontly oross-yrained and down-hoarted, Gen, Arthur, tov,: did not show exsvof mind. The Grant men generally wera very blue. Tho breuk in tho various delo- gutions was too Apparent, and it was gunerilly ‘understood that tio third term bad recelved 1 most terrible sot-back during the past twenty: four houra.- ‘The Grant men-—-that is, some of them-—talked of .a withdrawal of, thalr mau, ‘Thore were some who predicted that, now that tho unit rulo was broken, aud Grant. was assurod that he could not bo nominated on the firat_ ballot, he would to-day present a letter In which ko would withdraw his nume from before: the Convention, In such an event, tha strongth of Grunt would go to Edmunds, This was-tho ogrooment: 1f Grant could-not be nominated, thon his delegates would go over in body to Ed-- munds. Ae n ‘During the morning thoro arrived from Mans- field, O., 0 Shorman Ciub, about 180 strong, mur- ahaled by Cupt. Bradley, and accompanied by the American Military Band, They muda tho Oblo bheadquurters lively for some Ume. auer get toyuther about Jl o'vipck and marched, ended by thetr bund, to the Palmer. DURING THE AFTERNOON to did: tho antl-third-term delegation from: Now York, followod by nbout 200 otters, visited tho Grand Paola and called at tho headquarters of the ya~ rloua delegations and suug a wuubor of songs., In tho Shurman beadquarters they created tho greatest enthusiusm. The Appellate Court rooms wore crowded to guffvcation.” Thora word shouts for Gov, Foster, Tho enthusiasm wus in- tense, Tho Governor wns intrgduced by Mr, Loomis, and he wus recelyod with tho hearticst- of cheers, Mon throw up tholr hats, and tho re~ coption ‘waa really oxtraordionry in ite ohar autor, : Babin “Gontioman,” sald tho Govergor,. mounting . tho ruillug surrounding tho Tonch, "this ts about the moat enthusiustic reception evyorgiven , in Chicago.” ‘This sontiment creatod enthusiusm, and tho outburst was terrific, A. voluo" Thats * the: kind of a recoption wo givo in Chicago,” Some one else ahuuted, Zila is from all the Btatea,” The Govornor continued: “As tho friend. of Mr. Sherman I thunk you for tho call, and ft hopo that this onthusiusin Will be repeater until Mr, Sherman Js cleoted,”. ‘fhon thera was cine singing and cheering for Sherman and uine. ye ‘Che friends of Mr. K. 1. Washburne, to tho number of about twen y-ilve, mot at ivan yos-. terday inthe headquarters In the Grand Pacillo and talked matters over. “It was found that Mr. Wuahburne bad Hwenty-Gve delegates in the Convention from tho States of Wisvousin, Now. el m me ursey, Ounnootiout, and Ilinols. ‘Tbaro wi curnest and A hopuful focling expressed, . & FIMKNDLY CALL, fs Among tho inofdenta at, tho Sherman yestere day was a call" of tho Bouty Curulina, Lowa, ‘Onlo, aud California delegations on the répre- euntatives of North Carolina, ‘There was much outhuslasm and a “splendid time," us one of tho doloyates oxpressed I Col, Muckey, of South Canvlina, spoke first, snytng he himself would be gulded by the svntimént of the North and Northwest jn bis action in the Convention, and bo thought his delugation, which was Instructed for Gen. Grant, would be likowise, Gen. Bar ringor roepunded, warily indorsing Bherman, James H. Varela (colored), of \North Carolina, jn tho, samo strain, pledging tho, colored | poopla of the | south, and vi bis - reasons ‘why ho had abandoned Grant sinco his urrival bere, The prinvtpal ovo was tho .groat. opposl- don to him umoug Republicans aud the graye doubts about big eléction. Robert B. Billutt, & very eloquent colored man fromm South Onroling;: declared that it was blé purpose to voto -for: whon he saw fit, and guve bis bourerd to undor. stand that ho should bolg tho Instructions uf tho Btute Conyoution and rupresent the fuclings of" his district, [Applause.; GRANT IN WISCONSIN, - oe ‘Tho Ton. W-. EH. H. Btowoll, of Apploton, sit formerly mombor‘of Conyross froin Virglala, reached this city from Wushington yesterday and was buttonboled bya Tyne reporter, eu followed tit ia not nt’) or, hn Assy zt © hope careyjng wy Qupubllcan Cyeingty, but If ihaae i hombinted our chances will be dtasipated.” ac itiuaeata sou think of Cameron's totlon Mone say night?" Gate F, tis rofusnl to entertain motions and-rosotue - dona was napecimon of bulldozing.” © Was ho obliged to entortain tho motions?” Yous, undar wll ordinary rittos .of proceed Tt was n high-handod act on bis part. to refuse tg do It. fie is simply tho amentof tha National Jommittes.” ; the evo uf the Oonvontion, and tho proselyting, 1 At Tenaty: tho AttampL at It, was ati being keptup, Tho Ilinols boadquartors, where Jone A. Lognn anil Gby, Howorie had-thelr orowl, Tooked much ns if a funeral was xolug on. ‘The alr was affcoted by tho blucness of tho Grant fellows, Tho backbono sooinad to hive gone out: of thont,-thoy bndn’t aven a wenk chur to give > tpn thole favorite How different it. was around, the Shorman and Bli[ne rooms, Hero there was” shouting tiil.the walla resounded. During the evening the Pinninnat puuroan Cin and ‘their hand ome along Ane pinsed some soo old alrs, Cheers were given Blalne and Sherman, Billy Nevany cscortad the Mains Club about tho hougo, aud tho Malye duleyation called on ‘ tho Michigan boys, and Shore waa gonerat fn: } torchango of gnod fellowship, } These wore about all tho, interesting potrity : of thooventng. There wera ‘discussions ga gn overywhicre upon the. morits of tho Gnak 4 ates, but they didn't chanye a voto, saupeecnoues oF DEtKoATIONS, RS The following {9 a directory of tho ¥ hendquarters and delegations a3 far ns cae aeationet. epublica, Conteal Committee lone hiicnn, Contral mint , Palmer House, Tom BT A fe aS ut , leloe, Hong ae arene Pacific Thoom 42, TAN fy junrlors—-A ppollat noon, Grunt waite, te Pee ee, Corte ne ermn Clube New, York—Tremont, Parlors ., "Union Republican Club, Palladetphin—Tre * mont, Parlors P aud O, hice aa bi badass Neudquarters—Grand Pacific, Rending-loon. : (a ‘ Pia Uendyuarters—Palmor House, Room > i. Mgt ' f Delegations are domiciled ng follows; ¢ ‘Atabhnut--Palmer, Huo 22, ° ! ‘ Arlzona—Tremont, . Arkiunsitg—Palner, Room 90, Colifornia—Sherman, clul-room, Colorndo—Grand Pacific, Parlor 49. 7” % * Conneotiont—Grand Pacitic, Roum 49, « Delawaro—Grand Pacitle; Room Wi, Tdun't think “Why not?? st we “ Becuuge thore ts u lary jorman cloment in the Stato, and they will not vote for, jt, ‘Thore wre a Hroue many in our section, ani y profer Waghburoe or domo other man,” + Would the Hepublicans lose any Con- gresstoual distric! “Yous, two,-one.eure in Milwaukee, where thore ig a largo Geruian pouulution, ly tho who uaked blu if Gragt could carry Wiscousia. t “be replied... Florida—Palmor, Roor 14, ‘ Freee Ee Ceo 3 ana noig—Grund Pueitic, Parlors 117 Tudtunaocpalmon, Pariben Shand be ee Towa—Sherimun, Gents’ Parlor, © Tdnho—Tremout, + Kunsas—Palmer, Parlor 2. x Kontucky—Valmor, Purlgr 40, ‘ Loutsiuni—uedtier, 4 Maryland—Valmor, Parior 39. : Massnchtusotts—Gurdnor, Michigan—Grand Pacitla, Parlor 27, ee Miyngsota—Grind Paestic, Room 16% fk Misat: stn raimers Ream 6, Miseourl-Pulmce, Parlor 3s." “* Montand—fremont. fae eI ad Nebraski=Palmer, * r Novada—Pyliner, Room 7%. + + . * New Mampehiro—Grand Paolflo, Parlor (| Now Jersey—Grand Pucitic, Room 65. phew ‘York--Grasid Pacific, Ladies’ and Gente’ nirlors, 7 North Carplina—Sherman, Parlor I, Ohio—Grand Paelile, Parlor 115, Orcyon~Grand Paollic, Room: Peunsylvanin—Paliner, Rodin 18, Rhode Teland—Palmer, Parlor :8, South Curollqu—Sherman, Parlor L. Tennessce—Lalinor,, Parlor 26, roxng—-Falmur, Roum ie. | tab—Tromont, Roam 10, Vermont—Palmer, Parlor B, Virginia—Attantic, Room 21, Woat Virginia—Paimer, Wisconsin—Prelfic, Parior 9.3 Wnshiugton erritory—Grand Paelic, Room Wyoming—"'romont. . ae ; CAMERON'S .BACK-DOWN,. HARMONIOUS AVIUSTMENT OF ALL DIFFICULTIES ON TEMPORATY ORGANIZATION. ‘Tho Committco met at J1 o'olook, tho hourto which-they -had adjourned the night before, Don Camoron, somewhat moliifiod and tractabl occupled the svat of honor at tho head of the table. Tho tintl-Grant mon kept tholr doposing resolutions, ugreed upon in caucus and provid- dng for Don's grand bounce and Cooper's substt+ tutipn gz Chulrmin, In thelr pockota, wuitlng to geo whether tho; id be needed.’ As it turned , out, tho emerge! did ‘not present Itaclf, the’ program was\not-exoouted, and tho spirltot harmony prevailed. i , On coming to order, it was found that thero waa present, in addition'to the ‘membersof tho | Committee, :Gon. Chester: A,, Arthur, of. Now / York; “who + Janed -Gorham, :ox»Greenbacker” from California, Jenes’df Novadn, and Filtoy of 1 Missouri, In ai offer of compromiao. Thoy didn't dostro to have any row, they eid, in effect, and wero ‘ tir, ANXIOUB TO AVOID ACOLMBION —- whieh’ might resuit in tho disruption ‘of tho Convention and .tho defeat of the party. For) tho sako-of :hurinyny, thoroforo, thay would agree that tho “Hon. George F, Hoar, who was agreed upon at the mecting Monday, should bo nontinuted for Temporary Chairman, and elected * without opposition. Tha unit ruto quostloa would como up, if it came up at all, under the administrauen of tho Temporary Chiulruiun. ‘The antlGrant mon vory naturally inquired whethor the ambassudors could givo them «ny assurnnee thit thoy represented tho entra Gruutelement, +. i ‘Thorcupon the aforosad ambassadors asked for time to confer with tho highor powors,—thaf Isto say, Conkling, Cameron, nod Logatie-an go reasonable a request ‘ag thls could not, of course, bo refused, ‘The Committco, thoreforc, Adjourned until 2:50 o'clock to await tho results of tho conferonce. Somo of tho memberd wanted ‘tn carller roassembliing, but it wus Ox" Pluined that Mer. Conkling was ongaged it Inievlonary Inbor with the recalcitrant mombers of the New York delogation, “On rcuasombling nfter tho rooess tho amnbassa- dors nssurcd the Committes that thoy represent: ed tho Grant people antiro, and that tho propor sition, if acceded to, >» E WOULD BE SAOREDLY KEPT ae Don Camoron himself. explicitly stated, In prosence of- the: full orbinttioo, tae be Lully coucurred in tho proposition, and thot if it wore. adopted ho would carry tho'program outzo ils fullest extent, ‘Wheso ussurances wero regarded as boltig a sutistactory as It wag [ble to obtain without resort to pon, uk, and papor, Thoy word othe {og moro thu the auththind-tormess expect but, for fear that. a niiship should vocur, the caucus hedged aginst tho’ possibility of ny. Soule in San neo " dopied, ‘ho pro} jon was thereupon ol . By “Ae Penang business, before the Conimitied reluted to.the rell-call and tho question of a4 malting or excluding” contesting delegations from the Convention hall duriug tho prelimlanry organiantion, ty, te ded" fter considerable discussion, it was dec! ito admit all’ duiegations: baving, regular ‘oreduntinig,—In othor words, those having Prins facie right to seats in tho Convention. ‘nis de, olson, of course, admits tha forty-two her} J shrlekors from’ Iilinols,e tho - full Il ot iy delegations. from Kansas and West Vite gle thé, two nutl-Grant _ slulezates rom Utah “appointed by tho Territuris | Committoo, nnd all other dologunudot the ree ular" stampexceptin thocago of Loulsiana, ual i ‘tho. ‘whoto” question! is: finally dixpased: of by tho action of the Convention on the report o tho Cammtittes on Credentials, ‘In tho cise Louisiana, tt was decitod to 2 BXCLUDM NOTE DELEGATIONS, — , tho rogulara und the bolters—from the relia fnary organization, and the, reason, Ww! fit nn should be done for Loutylanaand not for Tee WAS subsuquontly. explained by a mombcr of Committes in thls wiser ie ‘Tho . [inols .contextants ropresont Conn ts sional districts, and Logun’s forty-two been. erggautlals from tho Chairman of the Stato! tygutton, - In Loutafung tho two ‘gonventions, and both’ como wi ‘from Stuta Conventions,—one from conyontion und th The question us to which wore re which bolters waa ono whlch tho Nw pot Ittea had no power te ducida. Ih hts cure oop abta olatined to represent n Stato. In the cane Tiitnoks, Logan's forty-two claiin to represent Biito ang tha twonty conteatunta to roprenaly. the ‘ten ngrossonal districts so abate ito disfranchised, Honeo tho Comunittce deciten f udiit tha forty-two Lasanites trot 111nols ta exclu t the two sots from roul worits ui gattiomont of the quedtion wnethor the district ave tho right to send dote premogutive Dotunge wloue to the seater ‘epurse, Couto up 1h the Committee ou Credo} : afd bo'Bnally,. SETTLED IN TIM CONVENTION. ae Having arrived at thoso various conclusions, the Committee journeds with the imogtous fooling allnround, eo meet agals at Tap, ‘eal of-. + Chairman . ta. oud eovesaty Haputing ~“phould bes dewmed « neo, ‘rE pietteally, tho antt-Grunt wo wlll ite ba ‘ition, tha erat ogy a a. tes ooepLi choir oandidate for Tes iporiry Ohulrwan, and. nob ‘magls fo whe, way, Sara oerTy ords, Do otler name. Hone and. Banator- tioar will be-clocted aud ¢ tall fs to put wulug! ober ‘oorted ta the platform, ‘Tho woit-rule sony Hto- that time, wilt have been kept submy and no collidiuu can arise on that score. tng doubtless ouina, up lator, but when ic ak ee ttery Convention will huve @ man iu tho shall Ng fairness is proverbial, aud who wilt ale trike to be Peg w anomber ot (8 -& Tainuns reporter mot & National Central Commitico, and asked i E WHAY Evayer , THELU ACTION WOLLD | 1¢. simply argounts to this,” question Involving tho walt rulu 1s vat until after the permanent orgentzadon 4 “that is porfected, the Committce on ve pe take thelr report, and vu all questo

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