The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-04
The Impending Elections for the
United states Senate.

ono-eailu VI tueAl reJlro Win tne eXplratlOn OF
each Congress, the object being the infusion
OF new element in the body fresh from the
people with the beginning of each Congress
10 NIL the vacancies which will thus occur in
the Senate on the 4th of March most of the
elections required have already taken place,
including the reelection of Sherman, of Ohio;
Morton, of Indiana, and Ferry, of Connecti-
cut. Among the places to be filed with new
elections for the new Congress are those now
held by Conkling, of New York; Cameron, of
Pennsylvania; Trumbull, of Illinois; Blair,
of Missouri; Kellogg, of Louisiana, and Nye
of Nevada. The election of Senator Wilson
as Vice President makes vacancy for Massa-
chusetts on the 4th of March, and this case,
as the most conspicuous Of the lot. we will
first consider.
The leading candidate for the seat of Senator
Wilson is Mr.. Secretary Boutwell,. He has mott
fed the President of his intended early resigna-
ton of the Treasury, and has evidently caused
it to be understood among his friends in Mas
sachusetts that he resigns the Treasury with
the. expectation of being returned to the
Senate. No very formidable competitor has
yet been announced against him, though it
appears that the opposition or ant-Boutwell
elements are actively canvassing the chances
for his defeat We think, however, consider
ing the distinction which Mr.. Boutwell, gained
in VIII CHI he stands with the President as
head of the Treasury, that he will, without
a contest, be transferred to his friend Wilson's
place among the Conscript Fathers. As
ready, able and experienced debater on all the
public questions of the day we think, too, that
he is much better qualified to achieve solid
reputation as Senator than as the head of the
Treasury Department.
We have no doubt of the reelection of Sena-
tor Conkling. The republican majority in
our new Legislature is so thoroughly Invested
of the Fenton element and SO entirely in &C
cord with the administration or Conkling ele-
ment that the reelection of Mr.. Conkling
may be considered as morally certain. His
services to the administration and his party in
the late campaign, to say nothing Of his
marked abilities in the debates of the Senate,
settle the question We are not so well salts
fed of the reelection of Senator Cameron,
although his recognized services in securing
the decisive administration victory in Penn
sylvania of October last against the combined
forces Of the democrats under Buckalew, and of
the anti Grant republicans under Curtin,
Mcclure and Forney in party view of the
subject, entitle Cameron to a reelection. The
Pennsylvania politicians, however, are very
uncertain, and rumor is afoat of various
schemes afoot for a combination to defeat
Cameron. STILL as Curtin, Mcclure and
Forney are ''down among the dead men, for
the present, the chances are heavily in favor of
Cameron.
Senator Trumbull as q liberal or anti
Grant republican, has given up the idea of a
reelection, being in the condition of Morley,
sdead as a door nail The November cleo
ton in Illinois settled him. A Grant repub-
lican will succeed him, and General Oglesby
is mentioned as most likely to be the lucky
man. The case of Senator Blair, of Mis-
souri,, is considered doubtful. by the coali-
ton of the democrats and anti-administration
republicans Of 1870 the State was revolution
lied, and General Blair, for his services in
unexpired half of the term which ends on the
4th of March next By the same token, for
his services in bringing about the opposition
Presidential coalition Of 1872 General Blair is
entitled to Senatorial reelection. But the
democrats of the Missouri Legislature, it is
said, are beginning to think Of dropping the
liberal republicans, in order to fall back again
under the old democratic flag. So it appears
that the chances of General Blair as coali-
ZIONIST are rather cloudy, though the Mis-
sourians in their choice Of Senator might 90
further and fare worse.
Senator Nye, of Nevada, the irresistible
light comedian of the Senate, we fear, will
retire with the present Congress. A certain
Mr.. Jones, o Nevada millionaire, and q very
enterprsing, liberal and popular man, has,
they say, stolen the hearts of the republicans
of the Sage Brush State from Nye. And they
say, too, that the sovereigns of Nevada have
got the notion into their wise heads that
"Jim Nye' is q brother of that unfortunate
'.Bill Nye' who permitted himself, at draw
poker, to be CLEANED out by that heather
Chinee," and that something of the popular
disgust for ''Bill Nye" has accordingly fallen
upon the Senator. If this is true the fair
play men of Nevada are not acting fairly with
their Senator for has he ever been defeated
by that "heathen Chinee?" That is the
question for the Nevada Legislature. Seri-
ously, however, the pressure of the doctrine
of rotation in Office is so powerful in our far
Western States that he is, indeed a lucky man
who secures q reelection to the Senate.
| The contest for the Senatorial succession in
Louisiana to the chair of Kellogg is likely to
result in the choice of two Senators one by
the regularly elected McEnery government