The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-21
RADICAL sPECULATIONs.

The Hoy" James G. Blaine, late Speaker OF the
House of Representatives, wants TO be the next
Republican candidate for President. SO does Old
Ben Wade Also Henry Wilson. Likewise Nor
ton. Idem, Conkling, Carpenter, Elihu Wash
burne and some others. Blaine now seems the
liheliest of the lot TO win the prize, and for that
reason is not likely to win it at all. He is able,
popular, ambitious understood TO be in training
for the succession, and this Is enough to combine
all other ambitious aspirants against him. Who
will be the candidate depends much on the course
of political events IN the coming year.
II there is a marked subsistence of the negro
and kindred agitatlons, financial and economical
cues ions will resume their prominence and
then It is not improbable that Bris;ow may loom
UP as candidate. II the South shall keep alive
the negro question BY demonstra tons of violence
and injustice marked enough to arouse the gen
eral lndign alton of the North, Sheridan would
probably be d fayorlte candidate. II, as seems
not at all likely there should be general break
up of parties and dissol alton Of party ties, it Is
not impossible that the Republicans might choose
Sherman, with his brilliant military fame and
eclectic political philosophy to lead its columns
to victory"
So says the Press, of st. Paul. Minnesota a
journal which has been steady, strong and
Jealous adherent Of the Administration. 1t
SAYS nothing whatever Of Grant or third
term, and this is noticeable in almost all Of
the radical Republican newspapers. The
conviction seems to have crystalized in the
minds Of leading Republicans that they can
not afford to ge counter to that unWritten
article Of the Constitution which forbids a
third term which, as has been said, is part
Of the common law Of the republic.
The Republican nominating convention is
fifteen months distant, but many able heads
and ambitious hearts will be busy and earnest
over the nomination from this time forward.
insignificant as presidential term of four
years, in republic whose inhabitants com
prise less than thirtieth part of the aggre-
gate population Of the globe, may appear in
the annals of this nineteenth century, there
are many hundreds Of our public men who are
ready to make any sacrifice, and to undergo
any labor to attain to that perishable honor.
A multitude of office-holders, aspirants, poll
ticians and political writers are studying,
toiling scheming and specializing on the sue
cession
The combination Of the field against the
favorite, as suggested by the Press, is not i'm
IIUDdDiC, SCI ouSL II
may defeat Mr.. Blaine, or some other candi-
date who may chance to be toe popular
favorite, will do no good to those who torn
It. The rejection of prominent and popu-
lar candidate is more likely to result in taking
up. Nv common consent, candidate before
scarcely thought OF. The possibility Of the
nomination of Sheridan by the Republican
party, as suggested by the Press, is so ex-
tremely slight that none of the friends OF
law, decency, truth and order need feel any
alarm whatever.
As Democrats and Conservatives, We do not
indulge the slightest hope that a Republican
convention will court inevitable defeat by any
such stupid blunder as the nomination Of
Phil Sheridan would be. Gen Sherman, who
might be an available nominee in some con-
tingencies is entirely ont Of the calculations
for the sufficient reason that he will not leave
a lifetime certainty in profession which fills
his ambition to the brim and affords an ample
income for the mere chance of holding
higher rank for few years OF trouble.
This talk Of candidates, though interesting
is premature. More significance attaches to
the warnings and counsels Of those journals
who seek to reform the party and SO prepare
it for the contest which, as they foresee, must
be intensely severe. For example, the st.
Louis Democrat, leading Western Radical
organ, exhorts its party in the following
urgent terms:
The unloading must continue. Unworthy men
must be tossed overheard. Unjust or unsafe
measures must be repudiated. An honorable,