Show Skirmishing The polcj of those who do wish to See either Blaine net j nominated is to persuade or Arthur Pledged and the Un independents adh rtoadhere to their chOIce thr re through ballots They UCCEsive y even desire to Illinois voting for Logan It is keep ex peeled this course wm break in the ranks of lllan compel a thur and meke it possible to andAr nate either Gresham Lincoln nomi Sher man Hawley As between Blaine and Arthur this class of deleJtates usually express a preference lor the latter This fact leads Arthurs friends to hope that the indepen dents way be induced finally come to his to support Iner to day with Nebraska and Kansas COurse people developed the fact that Blames friends have overestimated his etrtngtb in these two sS and when ballots are had there wIll toe a pronounced aivsiou This miscal culation is due to basing the prob able action of thie year on the leel ing in 1880 but then it was not so muon Blame a3 opposition to a third term for Grant While Blames popnlarityllis conceded other influences have entered in to divide the support No one can fail to discover the difference between the management of the conspicuous candidates There is little system but great enthusasm in the Elaine ranks while Arthurs followers are like a well drilled army This was remarked on by a prominent Cali fornia delegate who expres sod Pacific his surprise > he said the Coast delegation had started out for convention firm in the belief that the nomination Elaine was a foregone conclusion and that after the first ballot on which complimentary yates for Ar thur EJraunds Lognl Sherman and others would be given there would be a stampede to the stand ard of the man from Maine Since their arrival here however their > confidence had been greatly shaken by Arthurs adherents |