The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-12-31

Ia,qTr,s B, .pEcEMgER 81, 1878.


80 q ne 99elseT Oh Stly. -
committee appointed TO investigate 57tnee
charges oil election ssaads and naturalization
8, voters in the con ional elections. OF
1878 IS worthy on The e stsl esn1an who Is
not d lawyer he plays a mere game 81
bluff. he does not furnish one single Tact
which the committee can investigate. he
s;n,ply writes a letter which Is his late
speech in an Abbreviated form. Il Is I'M
worthy. OF man cccapying the position q
q United States senator. And we suspect
that Mr.. BLAINE knows all this as well as
any other man. y sss
What, then, is Mr.. BLAINE's object just
what 1t was when he made his failure, OF q
speech. he is playing bis part so as to tickle
the ears OF the groundlings. He made his
speech and he wrote this letter, not for the
purpose OF aiding in the Investigation OF
wrongs done to the negro, nor in the hope
that anybody in the world would be bene-
fited by his partisan strategy except himself,
but as a meansos securing votes in the next
Republican National Convention. Solar as
Mr.. BLAISE himself is concerned, it Is
strictly m anti-GRANT demonstration. He
knows that the negroes and carpet-baggers
OF the South will send 1873 votes to the
convention that will nominate the next
Republican candidate for the. pFesidencyE
and that only 1856 votes are necessary to 9
nomination. He knows thatas things stood
when Congress assembled, General GRANT
held all these 1873 votes in his grip. he
knows that there is but one, method OF de-
featine GRANT OF the nomination, and that
is by capturing some Of his southern forces.
We are appreaensiye that his strategy will
fail of its object, and that General GRANT.
will! be rather benefited than injured By it.
The negroes and carpet-bssgers know
GRANT as military tyrant and it is mill
tary tyrantthat they desire to see IN the pre-
sidential chair. The more BLAINE stirs them
up by his recital OF their imaginary wrongs,
the more, we fear, will be contribute to the
political capital Of the man whom he is
seeking to bankrupt. However, Mr.. BLAINE ilEi
Is an accomplished demagoguc. he knows
how to touch the hearts OF the men who
compose the mass Of the Republican party.
He may be more astute than we think he is.
He may know his men better than those
who suppose that he is working unlnten'
tionally to promote the ambitious schemes
OF General GRANT. at any rate, the south
ern people may rest assured that he cannot
possibly make as bad President as would
General GRANT. who knows no lazy but bis
own will, no justice but injustice, no way
OF governing freemen as freemen, no sense,
OF others wrong, and who has not one sim
gle qualification Of ruler OF n republic.
The strategy adopted by Dir. BLAINE will,
perhaps suggest to the better class OF Re
Publican statesmen that regard for Justice
and fair dealing demands that Republican
National Conventions shall no longer be al
lowed to make nominations for the presi-
dency OF the United States by mere ma
jority vote. The negroes and carpet-bag-
gers OF the South will have in that body, as
we have said, 1873 votes out Of the 1S5
which, under the majority rule, are necessa-
ry to a nomination. Add the votes OF Penn
sylyauia and Ohio, and the man who receives
them all is nominated. Or the votes OF New
York and Massachusetts, added to those OF
the southern States will nominate any aspi-
rant who can get them; and thus a man,
might be nominated by States only one OF
which could give him n vote when the
election came of. We expect this matter,
to cause much trouble in the Republican
party before long. Let Mr.. BLAINE secure
the next termination by pandering to the
negroes, and another nomination for Presi-
dent will never be made by the Republican
National Convention by a majority vote.
There is another reflection suggested by
the subject under consideration. IL is that
the Republican papers Of the North per-
sistently charge upon the Democrats Of that !
section what is strictly true Of the Republi-
can party. They. say the dog" is the
southern Democrats, and "wags the TAIL"
which is the northern Democracy. Now,
it is apparent from what we have said that
it is the Republican party which is in this
interesting condition. The solid vote of1SS
cast by the carpet baggers and negroes Of
the South is the dog that wags the little tail
OF Al northern votes which serve to COM
ple,e the number needed for the nomination
OF even the worst of aspirants.
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Mr. Thurman's Letter.
Mr. TgIJPNAN now has q model according