, 1874-10-04
4 Glance at the Candidates fol
Other Offices.
List Of Delegates to the Congressional
and Legislative Convention.
Ward Meetings.
THE CANDIDATES

| may burst, insurance companies dissolve, tho
| Board OF Trade grow demoralized, the Beechor
scandal cease to exhilarate, but politics magic
| tradc-nevcr dies. Tho politician II living ex-
| ample that
| HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
! in tho human breast He ia rarely caat down,
| never commits suicide, although often defeated.
When hs has staked his last morsel Of :" check y
on the iesue OF campaign. and lost.
he hides not his diminished head,
but rines with courage unnbatcd, taking for Lin
motto. "My turn next" Every man ia not so
finely constituted as to die OF chagrin, like poor
Horace Greeley after the election OF 70, or lfks
| the famous William Pitt after the defeat Of the
| European Coalition ut Austeflltz. II such re-
suits would follow every political defeat in CHI
! eago, neither Mr.. Edwards nor tho Lakeside pco-
| ple would DO able to lift us into the grand pro-
| portions of city with half million of souls.
| No. our population would waste away, year By
year, and leave not wreck behind. Obituary
| notices would bc az plentiful as Wanted in
| tie columns OF TIE TRIBUNE. and party graft
| tude to
"woRKERs FOR THE CAUSE"
could only be shown In perpetual funeral pro-
cessions and heavy orders on the local under
takers. Political soreAeadisuo rarely results in
conclusion Of the brain. still less in paralysis Of
the patriotic tongue. Nine-tenths OF our pres
~ ana;d,+.a ~ of3ca h,,a hao, ,.haf,ra ~.
ou' e"oo41'0" ~ o4us7 - 'e '0eA '10
people shout a. often constitutional va
grants have been before the South Side Police
Court, but still they come unda,inted aud un-
abashed. Could their patriotism be relied npou
as much as their audacity they would be the bull
| Earks Of their country.
OF course the
CONVENTION or TIE PEOPLES PARTY
- N,&~%t> IL fC,,r.r EJ,n
stirred up Ill the element8 interested more or
less LII the Congressional and Legislative nom
nations Speculation Is rife rs TO ehe result OF
the del1berations OF the PATRIOTS elected TO serve
IS delegates TO that conclATe bE the " primaries
last evening.
THE F1hsT DISTRICT
remains in about the same condition rs when
last written OF. Mr. John B. Nce
still appears to be the first choice OF
| the Republican party for Congress-. He is
supporters have beenIworking quietly all along.
aud 1t Is thing almost or Certainty that he WILL
| receive the nomination despite OF Aid. Dixon y
pleassnt1ies relative to his own chances for .
sent IN tho National Legislature Nr Rice IL
keeping very quiet himself, but feels conhdaut
OF success- Within few days. however, the
name Of Mr. Sydney Smltn. the taleuted lawyer.
has been freely used In connection with this
| nomination: onthe ePeoplo's side. Mr. Bernard
ton. He has few rivals, bur they are not much
considered under the circumstance. more espe-
cially as Dan Q 'Hara and his particular Set are
all in all for him. Mr.. Caulheld. now that he
| has taken the field. ls working n right down
earnest
Judge Wallace, who would be most Formula
bio candidate, seems to be out OF the way be-
cause he cannot be persuaded, it IL said, to
stand. II Mr. Cau'lield encounters serious op-
position in the Convention, 1t has not yet de-
veloped. though it is half expected from one
| class of Lrlshmen Who do not feel very enthusl-
astic about him.
THE SECOND DISTRICT.
The Republicans OF the Second District claim
that Mr. Jasper D. Ward is on firm ground, has
bis legs yell under him, and IS sure to Distance
"the tela" in ths race for the nomination No
Republican appears to contempiase serious op,
position to hin, and ne may pe larry Regarded
as the nominee OF that party
All Ii not 30 smooth on tho feople slde OF tne
| fence. Carter II. Harrison IS actively al WORK
and appears TO have taken stkong noIa anons et
the 1rish and Americans OF his sec1lon Of the
city. 1he Germans are not particularly lnlnlcal
to him. and, taken altogether, h1s nominating
stock has risen 100 per cent wltho the last 1our
or i've days {. =. r. Holden ls 1unhinK On ne
same track, and Claims 70 nave etEenetn win
precisely Toe same elements on1 nooodv appears
to have much fifth in his ultimate success.
Mr. William ]. Onahan has been spoken OF BY
4 certain section Of the Irish interested IN the
Union Catholic Library Association Of rMch
be Is Presldent; ihe knowing ones ens, no"-
ever. that Mr. Onahau can nave no chance Nnat-
ever 80 long as Caulted ID running IN the fi1ss,
"jockeyed' by Dan O'Hara, who has pledged
himself to " Barney tooth and :nah: a;an.
Mr.. ). s. Gardoer still makes some tamt Signs
Of coming intol tue Convention as candidate anden
friends will have bis name Withdrawn befo1e
ballot s taken Mr Gardner pa5 M conso.e COM; n'1n-
self with the reflection that his bruAancy Ut
Washington cannot blind An admlnpg world.
THE THIRD DISTRICT H.
people, on the North Side. are very much dis
tracted over the Congressional attitude in that
section. Charley tar"el, alter the "itnofa"al
of M1. Hcsing, Jr.. imagined that he was gong
to have nice easy time Of it-in fact. walk
over. The Peoples party, however. picked up
Mr. John Y. Ledoyne, the well-known lawyer
and affable gentleman, and .ptted him against
the Republican champion. In order M to counter
many Of Mr. 4. G. Hesing's frlends have been
trying to induce him, for tho sake Of the party.
to take the field for Congress himself: THIS he
absolutely declines to do, and there IL little doubt
that Mr. LeMoyne, who Is warmly supported ny
1lr Hes1nE, VIII De tue nominee es
1t was rumored on the North olde lasI even
ing that Washington Hesing would be put Tor
ward as candidate again, but th1s ls rather l1n-
probable.