Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — The National Convention. [ARTICLE]

The National Convention.

The Eighth National 'Republican Convention held its first session Tuesday afternoon, at the Exposition building in Chicago. The election of a temporary chairman was the most important of work of the iirst session, as one of the candidates for the position Gen. Powell Clayton, of Ark., was legarded as' t]ie candidate of the Bluine men, and the other, Jno. R. Lynch, of Mississippi, was con sidered the anti-Blaine candidate, _ and the vote upon them taken as a test of Blaine's probable strength in the convention. Lynch was by forty-four majority, and t lie result is counted ns a bad setback for Blaine. The second session of the convention began yesterday at 11 o’clock a. m. General John B. Henderson was elected permanent chairman, and much other preliminary work disposed of. The third session began at 7 o’clock " last evening. It is probable that contested delegation questions occupied most of The time of the session. It is not likely that ballotting will begin before this afternoon or evening, and perhaps not before Friday. The Indiana delegation held a meeting in there headquarters and decided to present Gen. Ben. Harrison’s name, as a candidate for the presidency. Gen. * Harrison, who was himself a delegate, returned to his home, and will not be present at the convention. At this stage of affairs it would a rash man who would hazzard a very positive guess as to the final result of the convention. A . A isit to Chicago yesterday, however, tins gone far towards convincing 1 us tlint if nothing else stood in the ,uiy of Blaine’s success, the very insolence and overbearing aggressiveness of his “boomers" w ill so exasperate all who are not already - his pronounced supporters, as to tqake fcia nomination impossible.