The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-25

cannot the state and that either Governor Sey
mour or Chief Justice Church would be more avail
able candidate. This style OF talk has apparent
fairness about IT. and has doubt had effect
outside delegations Tho canal opposition represented
BY Canal Commissioner walworth, is more violent in
expression, and less effective in consequence.
rlE rAnxASr FIGHT
against him would help Tiiden rather than nure him
n IL the only element opposed to him. Mr.
schell says little and confines himself his room.
Ar. Kelly himself Is cautious, and while declaring
openly against the Governor endeavors to convey the
impression that there ID nothing Of personal
character in his opposition The men who swing In
the halls and barrooms proclaim their hostility
riden the representatives OF Tammany Hall not
the sort Of persons likely influence the delegates
from other States Then they meet persons
~ho dispute with them whenever they attempt
20 dcnouncc Tilden, and as they are better at
selling and rum drinking than in arguments they
generally damage their instead Of bcnchtng it.
The contest thus tar has been waeed altogether on Mr.
Tildcn. therefore, and has been conducted without
reference tho better availability OF any other cand-
date. Il has been side effort to convince
every outside State that Governor rden cannot carry
the state be has been successful in for two successive
years, aud the other attempt to show that Gov
srnor 1iIicu Is stronger than ever, and that the
opposition TO him Is personal and unworthy ono
TUE FINANCE TROUBLE.
I. 10 noteworthy that the Hendricks campaign,
toward which the Western indatonists have hopefully
turned their eyes refuge from the hard money
danger In rilden. Is likely to dsappont them. Hen
bricks wili roar you gently as any sucking
dove financial subjects One or them assured
tha, there could no greater difference ewo
mems views finance than there is between the views
Of Governor Hendricks and those OF Mr.. Allen of Ohio
lilo asked about the payment OF the public debt in
sreenhacks, and he said that when Governor
Hendricks supported that tho policy
OF Western party, Il was because
they believed 10 DO what the law meant, but Con-
gress made authoritative declaration that sub
cct that could longer DO regarded the law and
Governor Hendricks. and he supposed every else
had gwen Il un on the inquiry why party gensr
ally regarded opposing Governor Tilden manly
financial grounds. earnest for Hendricks, my
informant thought that there was popular mscon-
ception OF the ground OF difference; that Indiana
favored Hendricks because he had always been her
dda,c, and she believed that with any
other man Indiana woud be last IN Oc,o-
ber that Ohio opposed Tilden not at all
on financial grounds, but because in the last State
election he had given aid and comfort TO the enemy
and SO assisted defeat Governor Allcn in Short the
Indiana view Of tho difference between Eastern aud
Western men on nnance - that It all turns on the
word resumption. Tilden they label the candidate
OF enforced resumption and Hendricks they contcm-
plate AZ equal believer the advantage Of resump
ton when DO reached by the growing up process
To such moderate proportions does tho grandeur OF in
ation reduce itself when scrutinlzed closely In the
claims OF . candidate; but It Is whispered
that the Indiana men have received the cue from their
Tammany friends thai their only hope is to make the
mammoth imitation smo mildly, and draw in its
horns like little Kyioe COW.
uAScocK's STRENGTH,
II he really has any IL ut present held In reserve
Pennsylvania Will present his namo and give all the
Of the State Tor him, and he will get Others
but ut present his friends seem scattered all
among the delegations, few in each and they will DO
overshad owed by their associates unless rally Tho
General should be made. In that case he may show
stronger than Hendricks Is.
A MILITARY CANDIDATE OPPOSED.
It looks all through that the opposition 10 military
candidate - gradually developing itself In marked
manner Hancock's name begins to be heard Mrs
surrats execution to be less urged against him
than the general objection 10 . soldier President
THURMAN AND GOOD OPINIONS.
Thurman develops a moral but not q numerical
strength. he has every ones good opinion, but not
in fair way TO get any ones lie is very much
in tho position here that washburne in AZ Cincn-
natl; his strength candidate is conceded by all
thoughtful persons but tho want Of support from
his State, regarded as fatal defect II - held
however, That II the Ohio could be Induced lay
aside their sympa,hes and present his name unani-
mously lie would Immediately run into a position
scarcely inferior 10 that now had BY Mr.. Tildcn him.
sell. because he would at reconcile the Eastern
aud Western differences on finance and would be more
available than Tden tho West and equally a.
to tho East and moro than any other per-
consistent opponent OF jobs and jobbery.
In his candidacy tho element OF weakness
would DO that Il rcIinquishss the man, Identified IN
popular Imagination tho leader OF tho reform move
ment, and would commit the party TO a somewhat
less emphatic Insertion OF that issue, would assnilate
the democratic action to that OF the republicans who,
instead Of Br.stow, accepted Hayes. Its strength,
however, is that Thurman could carry every state
which anybody claim for TiIdcn could carry some
which Tildcn cannot, but ne needs start In his
State, and that II Is hopeless To expect this
Is TO judged from the fact that the opponents Of Ill
den relinqushed this chance before they determined
to concentrate their strength on the weaker Hen
bricks.
saEwx.
This morning the Tden and antTilden fight has
shown some lad blood, and brought the cansmen TO
the verge OF a battle in which bool .irom the nose"
was in danger Of Icing shed. The terrible encounter
between Colonel Walter Church. OF Albany, and
ST. Louis TIden man, Ia which the for
mer vas charged with having unhappy pecunlary
relations with female descendant oil 'ne Father %
his Country was followed to-day by noisy brawI
between some Tldcn and anti-TideD New iorkers. In
The Lindeli House. Mr.. Nicholas Hill Fowler was the
anti Tdcn champion. while the doughty Maurice J.
Power buckled On his armor for the great refofineE
Mr Fowler had been holding forth against Tileen 70
crowd of listeners, after having vanquished the Mayor
OF Schenectady, who evlnccd more disposition % de
eide the discussion By blows than by arguments when
the exCcrx the Marine Court throw Ills cap the
ring Nicholas Hill Fowler declared that Gov
ernor T,iden's reform pretences we're false and
fraudulent; that Jenny oBricn, and not TlIdcn.
had exposed the Tweed corruption, and that IL the
Tweed Ring had conceded TO O'Bricn what Lc lie
inanded Tiden would have been heard rom, and
Tweed would be ''bosslng" IL here to-day. Mr. Power
wanted TO know who Mr. Fowler represented Whether