The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-22

DrlStOW - III Oluer mau-lOr ne is now very
young-he will see the value of not depend
ing upon detectives to make canvass.
"Conkling leading Blaine length and
half behind, and dropping to the rear.
Morton dlstanced, and renewed activity
among the others. with the dark horse steal
ing to the front. Even bets on the dark
horse and the favorite." If this race for the
Presidency we're race at the Derby this
would be the correct statement of the actual
position of the struggle
The sudden prominence Of Mr. Conkling.
which may be dated from the support given
him by the HERALD at a time when interne-
cine party strife seemed to destroy his just
claims to recognition as the republican leader
in New York, has developed an opposition
in the West that seems to centre on Governor
Hayes, of Ohio. For some time, and espe-
cially since the politicians Of Pennsylvania,
with singular infelicity, changed the time Of
their fall elections, Ohio has been the Key
stone State in political sense. If Ohio pre-
sents candidate the West is apt
to support him, for the Western people
since the election of Lincoln have claimed
the right to govern the Union They nomi-
mated Lincoln, who was the dark horse" of
the 1860 race over Seward who was the
favorite They renominated Lincoln in 1864
with Johnson, who was virtually Western
man. They gave us Grant and Colfax, who
came from the Mississippi States. They took
Grant again, and it was only by an accident
that Colfax was not again named. The two
leading generals of the army, the presiding
officers Of the Senate and the House, the Chief
Justice, the majority of the chairmen Of
important committees are all from the West.
The people of that section are inspired by
the feelings expressed by Sherman in his
celebrated letter to Grant, that the seat of
empire is in the Mississippi Valley There
is no real feeling in the West for any East
ern candidate, not SO much as there was for
Seward in 1860, whose most eloquent cham.
pion was Schurz, as the head of the Wiscon-
sin delegation. The East is divided-New
England will not support Blaine, New York
has busy fraction against Conkling, and
from Pennsylvania we hear that Forney and
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revolt against Cameron's purpose to give
that State to Conkling.
If the West unites, and union seems inev.
table, the dark horse may come from the
prairies. Bristow is sentimental candidate,
affected by the old maids and old fogies of the
party. Even his best friends say that he is so
young man-early in the forties-that he
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support from Stevenson, Beck, the Courier
Journal and the Kentucky Bourbons to make
him acceptable to the grim, stern radicals
who came SO near impeaching johnson and
do not care to risk the results of the war
upon a President from the South. There
will be no break in the West in favor Of any
Eastern man, while at least three delegations
from the East are ready to break in favor OF
the West.
If Conkling has an honest support from
Grant-his strength, which grows from day
to-day in honest, wholesome fashion, be.
cause the more he is studied the more he is
regarded rs the natural republican leader
he may keep the lead and reach the winning
post. But it looks as if the West were pre-
pairing to spur some favorite to the front. Is
it Hayes Washburne some one not
named? Just now it looks like Hayes. But
in politics there is nothing SO much unlike
and SO far apart as to-day and tomorrow
In the meantime it would be we'll for
Conkling's friends to watch the race and
see that the dark horse wears the Oneida
colors. This is what Thurlow Weed did in
1860. When the race was lost to Seward hs
saw that it was won by a candidate who
wore the colors of Seward. Defeat in time
became victory, and there is no reason why
the result at Cincinnati should not bs
Conklings victory whether he wins or lose
the nomination.
Rings I'm Paris.
And now comes Paris with q Characteristic