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any great display Of personal independ-
ence.
Recurring to the subject Of the division
In the Republican party. and in reply to
question as to what the Conservative Re
publicans would do in the event Of Grants
renomination,q or of the nomination of one
Of his creatures like Conkling, Mr.. Phelps
said there would be two courses left
open to Republicans of his views ::
One course would be- to bolt the
convention and nominate a third
candidate. The other would be to coalesce
with the Democracy and destroy Grant and
the wreck be had made of the Republican
party together. If the Democrats should
agree on fair Conservative platform and
nominate ticket which would personaliZe
chat spirit there would be no occasion FORA
third nomination. But it, the Democracy
should hopelessly Bourbonize itself and the
Republican convention, be captured by
Grant, either for himself for third term,
Or for one of his creatures. then there
would be free fght,a general uproar and
music, by tie, tull band, as it were But
this was all Hypothetical upon q contin-
geIicy which Mr.. Phelps stifl believed inn
possible. He did not think Grant could
capture the Republican convention. He
thought Grants influence upon the party
would E. -. -s-., .,t.a. =. +, = ar,
DWINDLE RAPIDLY I'm
as soon as the next congress came in with
its applications of inyestigative cautery to
the various departments of his administra-.
ton. It could be safely assumed that the
Republican minority In the next house
would not commit the blunder of standing
or seeming to stand, in the way of investi.
cation, or as the defender and apoIogist of
the Grant administration. These, and
many more facts of similar nature and
significance, were already patent to those
who made politics a study They would
become apparent to the mass in due course
If developments.
These views were expressed by Mr.. PHELPS
10 an easy, conversational manner, and with
a peculiar nonchalance quite unusual with
politicians when talking to a newspaper re-
porter for publication. His r = 3
COMMENTS UPON VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS,
cow or recently in public life, were very
piquant, and were made with the same free
dom that distinguished his general obser-
uations. One or two as samples. will serve
to show his Independents style: In reply to
some remark abont Lyman Tremaine, Mr..
Phelps laughingly observed that never il,
all his observation or in all his reading had
he come across so enormous distension
with 90 little wind as in the case of Ire
maine | Speaking of his colleague in the
Louisiana committee. Mr., Foster, Mr..
Phelps paid him glowing eulogy and said
hat Foster had constitutional propensity
10 be right, but he sometimes needed a
little encouragement. There were men,
ike Sumner and Schurz, to whom the in
uer consciousness of being right was enough
But Mr.. Foster liked to know that other
Ileople knew he was right
IN CONCLUSION,
Mr.. Phelps said he was greatly pleased
with ST. Louis. He liked everything abou,
the city except its mud, and even that was
admirable in that it surpassed all the other
mud he had ever seen or heard of. He
| loped to see St. Louis again at some time
when the soluble properties OF her soil were
ess apparent. He leaves for New Orleans
his morning, and, after completing hi
mission there, goes to Mexico to look aftel
nme private interests connected with tn,
international railway OF which enterpris,
te is one Ct the principal promoters.