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Gath's Gossip on the 1884 Chicago Republican Conclave
Busy Sunday in Chicago with Blaine and Arthur factions jockeying for delegates. Reports describe street crowds, hotel singing, and heated planning at Grand Pacific and Palmer House. Delegation arrivals from the South and West bolster Blaine. Logan gains ground in the South while Arthur faces rising internal strains.
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ChicaGo
Palmer’ House
Grand Pacific Hotel
Glen Club
Blaine
Arthur
Powell Clayton
American Free School Alliance
John A. Logan
Logan
Soldiary
Congress
Messrs
Harry Cole
J. P. Scanlan
George Murray
New York Typographical Union
Trades Assembly
New York Tribune
Tribune
J. W. Rowan
J. P. McGinley
Rodgers
New York
Richard Powers
P. H. McLogan
Confederation of Trades
Bureau of Labor Statistics
M. J. Geary
Tom Ochiltree
Texas
Tom
Mississippi
Louisiana
Kentucky
Florida
Maine
Colorado
W. A. Hamill
S. H. Elbert
William Walter Phelps
New Jersey
Cooper
Pennsylvania
Hoe
Bhut M
Quay
James D. Gary
Tennessee
Sherman
Hope
Hopkins
Col. Moultrie
Culpeper
Union
George Rex
Our Liberties
Liberty
Massachusetts
Alabama
West Virginia
Lincoln
Washington
Garfield
Blaime
Steve Elkins
Chaffee
John Stewart
William H. West
Ohio
Ilo
William Allen
Martin J. Townsend
John B. Henderson
Missouri
Shelby MM. Cu Jom
Edmunds
John D. Long
George F. Edmunds
J. B. Foraker
Indiana
J. J. O'Brien
Barney” Biglin
South
White House
Senator Cullom
Clark E. Carr
Galesburg
Colom
Harrison
The
Pacific
Gresham
Tom ‘Bowen
Palmer House
So-and-So
Bath
Republican Committee