Daily Evening Bulletin

CLOSING IN ON CHICAGO

Sherman, Blaine, Arthur and Logan Neck-and-Neck,

While Edmunds, Hawley, Gresham, Harrison and White Are Crowding in Their Rear-An Exciting Chase.

Chicago, June 2.--The hotel lobbies were crowded this morning, the entrance and exit to and from the Grand Pacific and Palmer being almost impassable. Two large delegations from the South, one from South Carolina, and the other from North Carolina have arrived.

Sherman, ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts and Collector Robinson, of New York, came in Saturday noon. Fifty of the New York Arthur's Business Men's Party have reached the Pacific, and the Arthur headquarters are crammed. The Pacific Coast delegation, representing California, Oregon, Nevada, two hundred and fifty-nine strong, arrived at the Palmer this morning, with martial music, and Blaine banners in the air. They are

HOARSE FROM SHOUTING,

But the vigor of their enthusiasm is undiminished.

Said one of the delegates, as he distributed Blaine badges by the wholesale: "We are here to stay till Blaine is nominated. We have supplies—eatables and drinkables and money—to see us through, and when Blaine is nominated we will return to the coast in the finest coaches that ever crossed the continent."

"That sounds well," said Wales, of the New York delegation, "but we are here in the interest of

ARTHUR AND BUSINESS,

We feel that the present administration has been highly successful and we don't want our business interests made unstable by a change."

Senator Harrison, of Indiana, said that all reports to the contrary, notwithstanding, it was impossible to say just how the Indiana delegation would go at the start.

Paul Strobach, of Montgomery, Ala., and Deputy Collector Blodgett, of Walla-Walla, South Carolina, are conspicuous at the Sherman House. Blodgett is trying to do heavy work for Arthur.

Hon. Jas. A. Geary, Chairman of the Maryland State Central Committee, denies the published statement that Blaine has eleven out of the sixteen of their delegation, and says that his latest figures are eight for Arthur and eight for Blaine.

JUDGE FORAKER ON THE SITUATION.

Chicago, June 2.-The News prints a number of interviews to-day, among them one with Judge J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, who is managing the Sherman boom. It says of him: Judge J. B. Foraker, the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio against George Hoadley, is a young man, with a brown mustache, a clean-cut face and a pleasant, genial manner, sufficiently spiced with reserve to be agreeable.

"I think Sherman can carry Indiana and New York," said he. "I have no doubt about his ability to carry Ohio. We do not regard him as a dark horse. We think he comes here with a positive following, and that he is the strongest man we could nominate. I feel kindly toward all the other candidates, and President Arthur particularly. His administration has been beyond question."

"Could not Arthur carry Ohio?"

"We could carry Ohio with any fair candidate, I believe;

BUT SHERMAN IS DESIRED

There, and next to him Blaine. We are a working State; we have had a great deal to overcome, and Blaine's dash and vigor is valuable capital with which to go into the campaign."

The Logan headquarters occupy rooms 34 and 36, and are in charge of A. M. Jones, Chairman, and Dan Shepherd, Secretary of the Illinois State Central Committee. It was claimed at these headquarters that Logan's friends were growing in confidence, as reports came in of a nature to indicate the

IMPOSSIBILITY OF EITHER BLAINE OR ARTHUR

Securing a majority of the convention.

Thus far no headquarters have been opened for Edmunds, or Hawley. In the discussion and doubt over the question of first place, the Vice Presidency has dropped almost completely out of sight, for the reason that the traditions of the party make the latter depend upon the former, as a mere matter of political geography. A new candidate for that position was, however, developed in the person of Hon. Andrew D. White, President of Cornell College, who was spoken of for the place in case the fortunes of politics should make a Western man the candidate for President.

There are well-founded reports that several delegates who were elected as Blaine men will, in view of the fact of Sherman's formal nomination, vote for Sherman on the first ballot, and as long as his name is before the convention, and will only vote for Blaine in order to prevent the nomination of Arthur. But nobody knows how many there are of this sort of delegates.

THE TEXAS DELEGATION

The Texas delegation arrived last night. A delegate says the majority are for Arthur. A feeling prevails that if there is any chance for Arthur to drop out of the race they will all vote for Blaine. The colored people in the State are all shouting for the Plumed Knight.

MURAT HALSTEAD

When asked whether or not he was working for Blaine, evaded an answer by saying his preference was Sherman.

THE PENCIL PUSHERS

The Baltimore & Ohio special newspaper train, which left Washington at 10 a. m. Friday, arrived here at 7 o'clock Saturday, making the trip of 850 miles in twenty-one hours, the fastest time ever made over the road. Correspondents are expressing much gratification at the courtesy of the Baltimore & Ohio, under the auspices of Assistant General Passenger Agent J. P. Pangborn and Superintendent of Telegraph Charles Solen.

An Arthur member of the Indiana delegation states positively that if Arthur is
Harrison on Gresham

To the front. It is stated at Blaine's headquarters that thousands of his supporters will arrive within the next twenty-four hours to help his canvass. Two hundred from the Eighth Ohio district alone are on their way in a special train.

The distribution of press tickets commenced at 9 o'clock Saturday at the Palmer House. The arrangement was admirable and moved like clock-work. In three hours nearly four hundred seats had been allotted.