Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — The Delegates at Large. [ARTICLE]

The Delegates at Large.

The idea seems to prevail to some extent that tfie vote on presidental preferences, at the Loganssport convention on the 10th inst, should be regarde J, by the dele, gates that day chosen, as pu instruction to them to vote for Blaine at the Chicago convention. The idea is entirely erronious. The Logansport convention had no power or authority whatever to instruct the delegates. It was expressly understood that Indiana should send an uninstructed and unpledged delegation to Chicago, and the vote' on preferences at Logansport was taken merely to “Satisfy the curiosity of the members ofthe convention as to which of the presidental candidates appeared, at the time, to be the most favored.

Colonel John S. Williams, of the Lafayette Sunday Times, who has been spending some time in Washington City, writes in the last issue of his papei?: ‘'The great want of the Democratic party to-day is a leader—a man with the ability and the nerve to lay down a policy, and around whom the party will rally. Why, every Democratic popinjay in Congress —and there are quite a number of them—has a tariff bill of his own! Fact. A Democratic mutton-head from the north part of the State, who doesn’t know a tariff from a buz-saw, has introduced two or three tariff bills in the shape of amendments to the present law. And so it goes along the whole line, every fellow on his own hook.” This remark must refer to the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Wood, of the Tenth district. Compliments of Colonel Williams to the great Democratic statesman from Crown Point. —[Indianapolis Journal.

According to a tabulated statement in last Sunday’s Inter-Ocean, of the 417 delegates to the National convention chosen up to Sat. night, 223 were for Arthur, 97 for Blame, 46 for Logan, 15 forEdlutmds, 6 for Gresham, 5 for Senator Sherman, and 2 for Gen. Sherman. If the Inter-Ocean’s figures are correct it would seem that Arthur was almost certain of a nomination on the first ballot, but some allowances must be made for the Inter-Ocean’s bitter anti-Logan sentiments, and it is altogether likely that Arthur’s strength is somewhat exaggerated in the the president is sure to have a large and earnest following in the convention and bis_ chances for the nomination are certainly considerable. And why not he a$ well as any? A more absolutely irreproachable administration has never been given by any president; and as it is [generally conceded that the one indispensible qualification in a successful republican candidate is his ability to carry New York,‘would not he, as a resident of that state, be more likely to fulfill that condition than almost .ally other man who could be mentioned?

The Republican Stat? Convention in session at Indianapolis, last Thursday, selected the foliowine delegates at large to the Chicago convention-. Senator Benjamin Harrison, Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Terre Haute; Hon. •John H. Baker, dt Goshen, and Mprris McDonald, of New Albany. The alternates are Edward T. Horn, /colored) of Marion county; J. iUielker, of Vanderburg county;; Moses Fowler, of Tippecanoe county, and G. B. Ward, of ’■Vhjte county,