Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-05-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington D. G.. April q, 1876.
PRESIDENTIAL.

The Republicans are very much ex-
cited this morning over the action Of
the Massachusetts, Convention last
Wednesday. The Bristow men here
claim that majority of the conven-
ton favored their man, but that it was
thought injudicious to attempt to force
through a resolution indorsing him,
because the Blaine men were hume
rous and determined, and the harmony
of the convention would have been
destroyed By any effort, direct or indi-
rect. to slight him. The result is, as
might have been expected, that neither
faction is satisfied, and there is every
prospect that they will renew their
assaults upon the personal characters
Of each others favorites, with renewed
vigor. The Conkling and Morton men
look on with sullen Indifference at a
fight in which they appear to have no
part. They detest Bristow and Blaine
equally. and would rejoice to see them
kill each other off. But neither
Conkllng nor Morton can expect to
secure Massachusetts in any event.
just now, each candidate is more in
terested in his own State than In 9th
ers. The generally accepted PROPOSE
ton that no man can expect the NOM
ination for President, unless he can
at least control the delegation from his
own State, and that his strength with
the country at large is to be gagged by
his strength at home, makes the meet
ing of their State conventions very
important events for the several can
didates.
The Ohio Democrats here seem to
be divided between Allen, Hendricks
and Thurman. with no apparent pos
sibility of agreement as between Thur
man and either of the two others. If
we may Judge by indications here,
Thurman is ahead. The report of the
New York Convention will be known
before this reaches you. Tilden APP
pears to be the only Democratic can
didate In that State, and will undoubt-
eddy receive at St. Louis, the united
support of the New York delegation,
whether it is instructed to vote for
him or not. 1t is expected that Illi-
nois will declare for Judge Davis, of
the U. S. Supreme Court. He has a
good many friends here, but they are
all intensely respectable and too old
to move around briskly as man must,
if he would serve a candidate for the
Presidency. Davis's friends are most
ly the relics of the last generation
while those of Hendricks, Tilden,
Thurman and B&yard are more vigor-
GUS, lively fellows and hard workers.
The rivalry between the Democratic
candidates, however, is of a much
more friendly character thar that be-
tween the Republicans, and everything
points to an harmonious meeting at
st. Louis, when we may expect to see
such action taken as will serve the in
terests of the party.
ONE OF THE FUNNIEST INSTITUTIONS
at the capital is the National Republi-
can, known as the Kitchen organ OF
the Administration" A party organ
ofthe most radical type, it never misses
an opportunity to defend every Repub-
lican thief put in the pillory by the
House investigating committees. 1t
was therefore amusing to read in it,
the other day, an editorial entitled
The Era of SANDER, = which closed
as follows:
And the great difficulty is that
when an independent journal, like the
National Republican, rises to announce
its belief in these falsehoods, Tray,
Blanche, Sweetheart, the big dogs and
the small ours of the opposition yell
in one grand chorus 'Whitewash
Whitewash ! / Whitewash | Z" Com
ing from a paper which continually
defends such radical criminals as
Belknap and Babcock, the cheek of
the kitchen organ is simply ridicu-
lous.