The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-29
THE NEXT HOUSE.
THE PROSPECTS OF THE DEMOCRATS,
THE REPUBLICANS AND THE
GREENBACKERs.
The Republicans Expecting to Gain Cen"
gressmen In the SOuth-An In"
tervEew with Fyner.

Especial Correspondence Of the Democratl
WASHINGTON, D. c., August %, 1878.
The most entertaining, ii not instructive,
study of the time is to read the calculations
of the Radical Journals, or listen to the expec-
tations of Radical statesmen respecting
THE COMPLEXION OF THE NEXT HOUSE OF |
REPRESENTATIVES,.
OF course they make it out to be Radical by |
small majority, or, ii not Radical out-and-
out, even the least sanguine amongst them
avow their belief that the Nationals and
Greenbaekers In the North, and the sInde- |
pendent Democrats down South are by some |
mysterious means going to 'hold the balance
of power" and the said balance is by some
means still more mysterious going to be
tipped in the Radical direction. BY common
consent, then, Of all the Radical prOgnosti-
GATORS the organization Of the next House is
to be wrested from the Democrats, but there
their community Of consent stops, and the
| methods by which the great desideratum Is
| to be accomplished are as many and various
| as are the Individual prophets. This indicates
| to me significant fact, to wit: That the Rad
ical managers realize that their sole chance OF
! success in
| THE PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS OF 1850
is staked upon the congressional result this
| fall. They have no hope of getting their can
| didate-who will be Grant-in except by
| counting him in, and they know that the sole
| earthly show for another electoral count"
| lies in the possession Of one house OF Con-
gress. They have no hope of the Senate, and
hence the House, like the hole where the
traditional boy was digging for the ground
hog, is their only hope. But by what analogy
| or upon what logic they deduce the prospects
they pretend to cherish is mystery to me: |
have devoted the past two weeks to a laborious
analysis Of the situation, district by district,
| SO far as nominations have been made and the
issue Joined, and of 1877 districts that have
nominated [ find the following to be the
statistics:
out of the forty-eight Republican districts
| which have now nominated their regular can
didates. seventeen have nominated Green
backers. Of these seventeen, eight have been
substantially accepted by the Democrats,
either by direct Endorsement or by passive
acauiescence SO that we may say that in
eight out Of forty-eight,, or in one-sixth OF
the Greenback or National movement is
souarely inimical to the regular Radical par
ty, and
| THE GREENBACK CANDIDATES.,
if elected will be, for all present purposes OF
organization and Of legislation on the all-im- r
portant question of finance, substantially
Il Democrats.
Eighty-nine Democratic districts have
, nominated, and in these thus far only sixteen
distinctive Greenbackers have been nomi-
mated. none of whom have been lndOrsed by
} the Republicans, and not more than one Or
; two Of whom are likely to be. Allowing for
the sake of argument that the losses OF the
. two parties by the Greenback movement Will
| and thof w ruOgt
where it is now in the ascendant, we observe
= that the Republicans are to lose in seventeen
) districts out of forty-eight or about 35 PEI
cent, while the Democratic representation is
. jeopardized in only sixteen districts out OF
eighty-nine, or trifle less than Is per cent
Here we see that so far as nominations have
been made and SO far as the state Of the can
, yass may be taken as an index Of it's results
THE NEW MOVEMENT
under it's various names has injured the Re
publican party very nearly twice as much az
1t has the Democratic, without considering
the fact that il every Greenbacker who has
been nominated were to be elected, that re
4 s,1lt would be direct stab at all the designs
! of the Radical managers in respect to the
t chief use which they will have for the contro
s of the House. No Grecnbacker will support
0 Grant, or any Of the policies Of which
= GRANTS CANDIDACY
J. In 1880 will be the exponent. II the choice
e should be thrown into the House, no maj
elected as Greenbacker this year can or will
: ever vote to seat Grant, because Grant IS tx
/ them the most conspicuous. symbol OF the
: system OF financial oppression and robbery
v Of the Door to enrich the rich, which forms
the core of Repubicansm, and against which
s the new movement is everywhere a protest
I My own conclusion from all available data
e is, that instead OF gaining the thirteen o.
majority the Republicans will lose at leas
:. eighteen or twenty Of those they now hold. =.
k | Their own managers admit that they will
Il lose perhaps one IN Maine, two ID Connectl
cut, three In New York and six or eight il
Ohio and Illinois; say twelve in all. But they
e profess to believe that these will be made vi
Q by two seats they hope to gain in Connectl
cut, two IN New jersey t. three ef;.ocs or four IL
r in Kentucky and, for the rest, from twenty tt
It twenty-five in
THE SOUTH.
n The latter reckoning includes indiscrimin
s ateiy negroes, carpeL-DaggeT5, . i11dopeIea eaa
], Democrats'' and Alcorn, who is counted
Now what am chiefly seeking information
s about in these times, is how and when th
n Radical managers are going to pick up thos
> twenty or twenty five loose districts in tn
4 South Full Of O. desire to ascertain all abou
It this political conundrum / stumbled over
e TYNER
IS Yesterday; the grave and solemn Tyner VIII
'C walks among us in these times, weighe
l. down, as it were, with the awful mantle {
!. Morton, which, by common consent, ha
e fallen upon his statesman-li shoulders. B
IS it known that have a weakness for Tyne
e He is not indeed, a serious rival Of the lat
l. Daniel Webster in the higher walks OF states
g manShp, but he is a mediocre man Of hOrs
Il sense and good disposition. He IS not Rt
q former, civil service or otherwise, but, poo
" as he is, he was once Postmaster General, an
io THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY
1t was not able to buy him, though it caused a
y offer to be made. [ need hardly add tha
since that time the lottery has bought out q
entire administration of Reformers, incluc
- ing Judge on the Supreme Bench, directl
VI 'n or indirectly. But be this as it may, Tyne
ls nc has my respect for his horse sense MS goo
% nature, his frank speech, and, above all, fc
1s his earnest way Of believing what he does b'
u lieve, and for his honest way OF not pretent
y, u ing to believe what he does not.
Ii He may not be a statesman, but he is
y shrewd politician and close campaign calct
It lator. His views on political managemer