Show Presidential Prospects Chicago 27Murat Halsted telegraph tele-graph to his paper from Washington as follow respecting presidential prospects There is every prospect that the Grant pro idential boom will not last more than two weeks longer it promises to end peremptorily per-emptorily and finally at thoPearjiylvania elate convention next week It is reliably reli-ably learned here that some ef Grants mOEt intimate friends in Philadelphia have authority from him to act in the premises and they will withdraw his namo from consideration as a candidate in tho Pennsylvana convention where there Trill bo delegates from several counties instructed for Grant This will give his friends an opportunity to speak out on the subject His friends decline to enter into a contest for the position and of late it has become very apparent to them that it would be imiosible for him to get the nomination without a contest Hklstead also quotes James RYoung a Gra t man as saying that Sherman has been doing the stalwart stal-wart work in his own campaign and has alarmed Blaines followers and supporters support-ers and that it is expected Blaino will do vote himself to getting the Grant votes should Grant be withdrawn from the canva |