It certainly looked that way, but the result of the election for the temporary chairmanship proved to be misleading.

Mr.Hanna's poll was not to find out how many delegates would vote for the nomination of Mr.Blaine, but how many would vote for Lynch for temporary chairman.

On that point his poll was substantially accurate.

It was assumed that every Blaine man would vote for Mr.Clayton.This is where the mistake was made.

It turned out that there were some Blaine men, especially from the South, that voted for Lynch.