New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-27

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WASHINGTON Tuesday, Nav % lsSa

WARRINGTON, TUESDAY, nay -, ts1R
Washirgto is not the place where Pre-
siients are made, but il is the place where Is frst
seen what Presidents are likely to be made Itis
the high hill from which is seen vast swesp o.
valleys below. Ii is the center Of vast circam-
ference to which everything tends, within the hn-
it's of that circumference. Ii is the focal point
where political rays converge from all quarters. Ii
is the bottom line of long columns OF public senti-
ment here first footed up and the results irst
ascertained 1t is the Ledger Of public Affairs
where public men and public mcs ares
are footed up, and where their true pos,tioa
is seen at glance In a word, Washington 10
Metropolitan as regards politics and public affairs
and no other place in the country Is. Compared
with it, New ork itself is strikingly provincial.
At the present juncture, the Presidency is, Is
NAV well be presumed, subject fully illustrated
and made plain by the opinions and facts which
have been flowing in upon this political center.-
There is perfect unanimity of sentiment among si
disinterested and intelligent observers to WHOM
the Wings will nominate for President. Nobody
is blind but the White House people and their ad.
herents. They have pulled their caps over Their
faces and see nothing. They are like men who
shut their eyes at midday and swear It is night
The President is being led into the mine where Ae
will stick, whoever may climb out over his head and
shoulders Whoever else escapes, he is willing
victim and will be left TO perish in the mud The
candidate thus Enthusiastically Indicated, is General
Scorr. The lowest calculations set him down at
$50 voters on the first ballot; others put him all tho
way up from l65 to l75. The idea is prevailing in
some quarters that some Of the Scorr men had
better withhold their votes, that he may not be
nominated on the first trial, and thus have the adj
vantage of numerous accessions, on the second bal
lot of Delegates who desire his nomination. but
who feel constrained by the expressions of the
preferences of their constituents to vote for other
candidates at first. Such is the case with Dele
gates from Virginia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Massa.
chusetts, and some Others. But it is doubtful il
the plan will work. We do not any way Of
preventing Scorrs nomination the first ballot
and are not sure that it is worth while TO at
tempt it.
But in regard to the action of the Convention,
after the nomination, the sky is not so clear. An
attempt will be made, by the libustiers, TO break
Gen. Scorrs back by shouldering on to him tho
the Convention will have sense enough to follow
the action of the Convention OF 1873. We want
the candidate to occupy the national position Of a
representative of the United Wing party North
and South. The party that was Overwhelmingly
triumphant in 1910, barely defeated through fraud,
in 1874. and again proudly victorious in lSiS. We
desire the Wing candidate of 1852 TO stand as the
Wing candidate of hose years stood-lndepend-
emit of sectional questions and sectional ISSUES
and the representative alike of the Wings OF the
North and the Wings of the South. And unless
the party is ready to throw away ayictory already
within their grasp, and wilfilly commit a jeio-ds-
Sc, and thus not only terminate their existence
now. but damn themselves hereater they Will
not leave their old we-tred positions for the
DOGGY ground upon which an attempt will be made
| to entice them.
Let ii not be for a single moment forgotten that
| the great Wing party of this country, under q
popular standard-bearer, is an immensely powerful
organization. The resistance to the nomination
| of Gen HARRIsoS In 1910 by the South was emf.
nently fierce and threatening, and the resistance
to the nomination of Gen. TAYLOR in 1913 inu
rious quarters, North and South was greater than
was ever brought against any man in the party,
by far, and greater than is likely to be brought
against any man for long time to come. Yet
| that re sistance in both cases. was overcome and
| the candidates triumphontly elected. The resalt
teaches an emphatic lesson now. We trust it
will not be lost upon the Convention. Against
the well considered action of the party, under
popular leader, the fbustiering propensities Of
individuals are bat as grains of dust in the en-
brace of the whrlwind. The indiriduai is power
less when he would move in opposition to his
party, or in contempt of his party obligations and
relations. The mighty genius of Henry CLAT,
towering high above that of any political leader
this country ever produced, and supported by such
friends as scarce man ever had before, succumbed
in 1880, before the chosen head Of the party
of those years. IL would be craven to apprehend
disaster and defeat from the Vaccinations Of such
men as seeded from the Wing Congressional Cau
Gus, with so striking an example before us 9th
inherent weakness of all attempts to resist the
lead OF the popularity Indicated and chosen head Of
the party. }. P.