Show I EGAEC PRESIDENT MAKING The Little and Big Booms i Scattered Over the Country Colliding Looms Again Chicago 2OThc presidential questi n is absorbing a great amount of attention among newspaper men and interviews with loading politicians are being held flhily Scores summaries sent in from the principal cities in tbo west give a pretty fair index it is presumed of tin condition of the public mind on the subject sub-ject of nominees This is principally true of the republican candidates for as regards democrat there seems to be a great deal uncertainty Tildon doubtless I doubt-less has tho lead in the race as yet with Thurman and Hendricks crowding him closely and any number of dark horses in the immediate rear The interviews give the following general results among republicans By far the greater number num-ber express < < a preference for Blame I Ito is especially strong in Iowa Minnesota and Nebraska The next strongest candidate candi-date is Sherman who even in Iowa crowds Blaino pretty close and in Wisconsin Wiscon-sin iii parts of Illinois in Indiana and Ohio and in a number of the western and southern tales has a following that is silently working with much more effect than noise A surprising number also express a preference for Rayes despite h5 declaration that ho would not be a candidate Ihese arc understood to be alto for Sherman as second choice Grant takes the third plnce in nearly all returns re-turns His strength seems to have been greatly overrated by his friends and among the people at large who have been misled Dj the honors paid him as age a-ge eral and as a distinguished traveler mfo beievmg the people were rising in a spontaneous demand that he be their President In tho west ho ceems destined to secure only a moderate support Wash burno has been named as a second choice for the Grant menand undeniably has tome elements strength but much less than his political adherents could wish He is not regarded by the shrewdest politicans as a probable or even a possible possi-ble candidate for any strength Conk ling gets barely a recognition in the interview as do also Edmunds Garfiod and others Taking 100 as the number of voles in tho west the preferences indicated indi-cated by interviews might be cxpresred thus thusBaine Baine 37 Sherman and Hayes 30 Grant 24 scattering 9 New York 21 lxGovernor3IcUor mick believes Grant is losing ground and that the third term idea is impossible Personal friends of Conkling declare that there is no truth in the Heralds story that there is coldness between him and Grant The Suns Washington special says Great injustice has been done Governor Seymour by the qorrupt clique of politicians poli-ticians at Washington in suppressing a letter of his positively declining to be a candidate for the presidency or to accept the nomination under any circumstances There is no excuso for putting this ds tinguished democrat in a false position or of using his name with the full knowledge knowl-edge that no has forbidden it to bo used in any such connection The Herald reports nn interview with George William Curtis in which speaking speak-ing of Grant he says His strength is very great in Ibis state It consist in what is known as the machine element Cornell Haskins Arthur and Speaker Sharpe are among its leaders so is Silos B Dutcher who has just been made superintendent of public works His oflicc controls most of the patronage of the state and that witl undoubtedly be used by the machine for the furtherance of the third term project Whether or not they will bo able to throw the weight of New York in the national convention in favor of tho scheme remains to be seen It is probable that Conkliog will also tend in that direction and he is all powerful with tho machine He has private pri-vate reasons for not wishing the nomination nomina-tion Sherman or Blaine Undoubtedly a mpjority of the republicans will follow them but there will be a great number who will act independently if i they hold the balance I think I am right in saying say-ing that Cornells minority in tho aggregate aggre-gate vote for the governorship last year was between 50000 and 60000 Times1 Washington Conkling is undoubtedly un-doubtedly a presidential candidate His friends know all about this He has been exceedingly quiet and has not seen fit in any way to deny any of the rumors about his positiqn that have been bandied about in the Senate cloak rooms Don Cameron and ConUIng have had very little to do with each other since their differences during the extra session The projects of Cameron in Grants favor have been openly discussed for the last two or three weeks and out of the very boldness of his policy has grown the opposition op-position that has developed thus early This opposition to Grant among republican repub-lican leaders bas become so great as to lead Conkling to beievo Grant could not succeed in securing the nomination and that being one ot the pojeibiliies he might as well bo a candidate as any ether of his republican rivals Whether ho has any particular object In standing to gain strength that he can transfer to some other candidate is not developed but it is certain that he will try to get the vote of tho New York delegation whether for himself or Grant as he may elect The fact of his not going south with Gen Grant is now brought up and what was then charged to a misunderstand misunder-stand is now credited to a thorough understanding un-derstanding None of the New York politicians however believe that any change will be made in the New York legislature in the method of selecting presidential electors notwithstanding the alleged facts in the case which are now being published in New York papers Conklinga candidacy is one of the latest topics in political circles Cincinnati 21The Times today states that it has positive information from an authentic source that the national democratic convention will be held hero |