The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c., June 8, 1875.
THE APPROACHING NOMINATIONS.

THE APPROACHING NOMINATIONS.
Grant is determined that Conkling
shall be the nominee of the Cincinnati
Convention. The Inauguration of a
Democratic President on March 4, 1877,
would be ruiuous to him and ever so
many more magnates of the Republican
party. Their rascalities would then be
exposed by the new Heads of Depart
ments. So Grant and his friends have re-
solved to go in, with a will, at Cincinnati,
for the man most likely to be elected,
however personally distasteful to any of
them. They know that, to win, the Re-
publican candidate must carry New
York; and, as the signs of the times
point most Enthusiastically to the nomina-
ton at St. Louis of the strongest Demo-
crat in New York, Samual J. Tilden, its
present Governor, they think that Conk-
ling would be better man to run against
him than any other Republican. They
know that Conkling is not popular in
New York with a large proportion of his
party; but he has used the Federal pat
ronage in that State for several years for
the purpose of strengthening himself,
which, added to the influence and prom
ises of the Administration and its friends,
during the campaign, will secure him,
Grant and his friends think, more
strength there than any candidate from
another State could command. They do
not really think that Conkling can carry
the State against Tilden. Not one of
them thinks so. "But," say they, "if
kmoO that Conkling's nomination is the
thing now determined upon, and that it
will be acted upon at Cincinnati, unless
some unforeseen circumstances occur du-
ring the next ten days, to produce a
change in the opinion of Grant and his
friends; which is very unlikely. wish,
from my heart, that they would nominate
Conkling. He would have no more show
in New York against Tilden than he
would have as a candidate for the Throne
of England against the Prince of Wales:
Tilden ran for Governor against General
Dix, one of the most able, honest and
popular men of the Republican party.
Dix was then Governor and had been re-
nominated by his party as its strongest
man, and because his Administration was
universally conceded to be more success
full and satisfactory than that of any pre-
vious Republican Governor. Dix had
been elected by majority of more than
$1,000 votes. Tilden beat him by some
thing over $4,000 votes; thus changing
100000 votes in his, Tilden's favor; and
what was unprecedented in the history
of the politics of the State, the official re-
turns showed that Tilden's majority in
the rural districts was large enough to
elect him, independent of his majority in
New. York city. The idea of Conkling's
beating Tilden in New York, or of any
one else beating him, is too absurd to talk
about.
POOR BLAINEl
No such sensation has been created
since the panic-stricken Belknap confess
ed his crimes to the Clymer committee, as
that which has attended the developments
in Blaine's case the past three or four days
He, too, the undoubted favorite of ma
jority of his party for President, with
more personal popularity than any other
candidate, is seized with a panic, as the
evidences of tortuous dealings have been
brought to light in his own handwriting
The guilty conscience needs no accusing
but the defiant protestations of Blaine
seemed as if they would subserve the pur'
poses Of his political adherents. AL
though the Tom Scott story had about il
can ancient and fishlike smell" it was
hoped that it would prove to be "a gooc
enough Morgan until after the election:
Now, however, there comes Nemesis IL
the shape of Mulligan, armed with the
inky trophies of weapon that is nigh
tier than the sword, and fills the aspiring
soul of Blaine with terror. Suddenly, II