The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-06-09
PUBLIC OPINION.

| The Democrats nave nHu one OF tWV
good candidates for President since the
/ fact was not due at all to the rule while
on the other hand, 1t has forced upon
the party four or five very poor candi-
dates, whose triumph, whether In the
conventions or the elections, so far from
producing harmony, rent the party with
bitter feuds. The Legitimate effect OF
j this mode Of defeating the will Of the
majority In convention Is to prevent
the nomination OF any eminent states
man, and to prepare the weary and dis
gusted delegates for o. compromise on
some obscure person, who will be very
apt to turn out an imbecile or u fraud.
Originated by demagogues Mt q re-
mote period for an. evil purpose, this
fruitful source of mischief should now
be abrogated.- IN. Y. Sun Und.
The New York Sun credits Colonel
Scott with the ownership OF the New
York World and the Baltimore Gazette.
Hitherto Colonel Scott has been credited
very generally as an unusually clever
railroad man and as having rather more
| than average sense In most business
matters; but to assume that he Is
capitalizing newspapers Is to write him
fool. His sagacity has been vastly
overestimated Ii he doesn't know that
he emit afford to own newspapers, and
that newspapers cant afford to own to
be owned either by him or any other
great corporation director. The Balti-
more Gazette is certainly owned by its
ostensible proprietor, Mr.. Welsh. Who
owns New York paper is one OF those
things no fellow can find out, but bout
the last man who Is likely TO own any OF
them is Colonel Scott. -Philadelphia
Times Und.)
The slight hold that Blaine has on the
whisky ring crowd In this city, who Sc
cured him half a dozen delegates, Is
shown by the alacrity with which they
rushed to unload him Yesterday after
reading the damaging revelations con-
tanned in the testimony OF Mulligan, OF
Boston. They threw up the sponge at
once. and announced their intention OF
some other candidate. The regular
organ of the whisky thieves is for Conk-
ling, although they don't like bis hard
money sentiments. The little twilight
tender Of the Whisky There's Organ is
for Conkling, while Gen. Macarthur and
the crowd whom he acts with are FOR
Morton. The Rev. Robert Ingersoll, OF
Peoria, who IL q delegate for the State
ut large, is said to be warmly for Nor
ton, and ready to drop Blaine any min
ute. II Blaine il left behind there will
be desperate effort made to keep the
delegates from supporting Bristow, as
the cry Is, anybody to beat Bristow, who
has been rough on those who have
stolen the public revenue. Chicago
Tribune tRep.)
Washington special to st. Louis Globe
Democrat 1.-The defeat OF Bristow In
all OF yesterdays conventions has so far
put him out OF sight that he was not
talked of to-day. at the capitol In the
general political discussion that was
everywhere uppermost." 1t Is becom
ing more and more apparent every day
that, unless Bristow steals something
within the next few weeks, his chances
for the nomination at Cincinnati won't
be worth a continental red Louisville
Courier Journal ,Dem.)
III the South is the powder magazine
which Morton, Blaine and the Illinois
Republicans assert, then 1t would be
better If the Confederacy were an accom-
plished fact. III the danger Is only a
deliberately concocted fiction. what con-
is too strong, what contempt
too deep for the men who are thus fan
ming the flames OF sectional discord and
aniInosity for personal and partisan
purposes? fSt. Louis Republican, Dem.
Conkling ought to secure the nomiDa-
ton mt Cincinnati to Grants second
self, Washburne. 1t Is strange that no
one thinks or naming man at the Re-
publican Convention known for his nn-
hostility to Grantism. And
yet it is not so strange. No one but y
friend of the Administration stands a |
ghost Of q chance. Hence. it is as likely |
to be Conkling as any one. They want |
to try and carry New York, you know.
And they are going to make the effort |
with Conkling as their best man. This
forlorh hope Is born OF desperation. I
Albany Argus DEM
The Tribune, by way, we suppose, OF
showing how anxious the so-called RE
are to secure the nomination
and election OF Gov. Tilden for the
pleasantly observes that
''the average OF the Civil Service under
administration is Fitz-
hugh" The average, then, Of the Civil
Service under Republican administra
ton, we suppose, may be taken to be
Belknap. On the whole, the country Is
likely to get along better with the low
doorkeeper, who, having
slipped through inadvertence on the
part or his superiors into place, was
kicked out of it by them when
his character was discovered, than with
the high Republican average OF q venal
Of War. who, when Demo
cratic Congress had run him to earth,
was promptly and politely let out by the
President Of the United States, and
would have gone scot-free but for q
Democratic committee Of the House,
IN. Y. World DEM
The New York Times thinks that Mr..
Blaine's availability as a Presidential
candidate is gone. Well, Blaine is not q
The fool, and he knows that he cannot be
next President as well as any able news
paper can tell him; and he knows the
same thing OF Conkling and Morton.
The corpse of Mr. Blaine, as Presi-
Dental candidate, is, however, a large
one.