The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-14
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! WASHINGTON, March 4. Signs OF the
pending presidential campaign thicken
and the fight grows warmer with the
weather. In the homely language. OF
New England, the leaders are getting
their coats Off The lesser captains arc
getting their instructions and the rank
| and file will soon be complaining IN
earnest. It is interesting here in this
focus Of political rays from oil over the
| country to watch the managing OF tho
captains and the maneuvering of the
parties. The contest In Congress Is like
nothing SO much as u protracted wrest-
ling match Of giants, In which each is
most afraid That hewill be thrown
over the others head and disabled for
tho presidential race. so the
leaders daily watch each others
every move, and the result OF every
| stratagem Is discussed with relation to
It's bearing on the Presidency. The Re
publicans arc quietly getting into some
thing Of o Precipitation at the prospect
that the "bono and sinew will not be
Us readily forthcoming as it was four
years ago. First, the times are hard
second, tho whisky folks are in tribula-
ton, which is expensive, IL not danger
Gus third, the national banks are out
of all patience with the present resump4
ton act, and Gun { see any help outside
OF it's repeal by the Democracy; fourth,
there is considerable disatfection within
tho ranks and hardly any one is willing
| to give anything until it is settled who
| n, hn Mt 10
nominated BSlRs Shepherd will contrib
ute literally; but even the Boss feels
the strings Of his purse tighten as he
thinks Of tho costliness OF whisky
trials, and remembers that district ring
business Is rather uncertain just ut
| present. And then IL is SO easy to offend
him, as Senator Wndleigh has learned
to his cost, one little speech against the
| 3.G5 bonds losing him the Boss contri-
button to the New Hampshire fund
| Speaking of New Hampshire reminds
mo that Senators Dawes and Cragin
have gone there, and q good many more
are worrying themselves quite as much
over the impending elections as they
are over the public business. On account
OF this very general desire to be cam
paigning, and because there is little
prospect Of reaching an adjournment
much before August, even by continu-
our session, 1t Is asserted, and the truth
Of the assertion is more than probable,
that a midsummer recess from the last
OF June to the middle Of September has
been already agreed upon. This would
accomplish the triple object of letting
the members off during the hottest of
the weather, give them q chance to sec
to things in their districts, and keep
Congress I'm session close up to the cleo
ton To look out for accidents. A mum
Der Of Investigating committees will be
left at work during the recess, 80 sixty
or seventy congressman will be left
about the city.
There is u strong movement on foot
to throw the currency question out OF
the campaign as q national issue. Nor
ton is Mt the head OF 1t, and naturally,
for IL tho Republicans should make hard
money one Of their planlSs he is in a
curious dilemma. On dit, prior to the
Indiana convention he received uumer
ous letters from Indiana sachems, init
mating in unmistakable terms that If
he wants to have the support of the In
diana delegation In the National Con
ventiOn. he must both work and speak
for the unconditional repeal Of tho re.
sumption act. On the other hand, !
have it on the most excellent authority
that he was himself the author and
50 it will not be strange II, when the
occasion comes, he shall be found swung
clear back again to the imitation
camp, although at present he is non
commital in public, and in private urg
ing the impossibility of uniting either
party on the currency question. He still
expects to make u little more Presi-
Dental capital out Of the Mississippi
resolution, but think has pretty much
given up Pinchback rs u magnet to
draw the colored vote, save such advan-
tage rs he may have already gained
from appearing as his champion. The
fiat failure thus far, however, OF his
efforts in both these directions have re.
acted TO his disadvantage, and he seems
to realize it. He still appears almost
constantly in public, but has spoken
much less often in the Senate lately,
and is looking the better for his relaxa-
ton OF mental labor.
That Indiana platform has had curl
GUS effect on all the Republican presi
dental aspirants. Blaine is the worst
since the terrible reality Of it's imitation
ism burst upon him. As usual, he
played the bully, but his effort to bully
his party into union on the currency
question has reacted disastrously. The
Irresistible logic of the Indiana
event has given force to Pig-iron
Kelley's assertion that Blaine
had insulted million Republi-
can voters. The old man from the
Pennsylvania iron regions is delighted
with the voice from Indiana, and thinks
the millennium is about to dawn soon.
Blaine's great hope, however, Is still
in the wave of the bloody shirt, and
the memory of the rebel yell Even
more than Morton, he desires to make
the presidential contest North and
South fight again, and he and his boon
companions are therefore i'm their glee
over their success in calling out the Da-
Wis letter and the speeches Of Toombs
and Ben Hill. Here neither Of those
three events nave hardly been comment
ed upon since the first excitement, and
very few who meet daily with the South
ern members intimate such a thing as
belief that they still mean to revive the
war issues But Blaine and his ilk are
receiving assurances that the bad blood |
he stirred up is having its effect in the
back districts, and SO Blaine is still
hopeful, spite OF Indiana
Occasionally some truly good Repub-
lican still pipes feebly for Minister Eli
hu b., but not much is said in these
days Of the compromise candidate, and |
the fight is narrowing to Grant or Conk-