Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-28
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR
THE PRESIDENCY.

the following:
Chicago, December ga Times Wash
ington special says: The Post, the Democratic
organ, summarizing its talks with politicians
says: THE contest for the Republican Pres
idential nomination two years hence, seems
to have already pract cally narrowed down t,
Grant, Blaine aud Washburne The two for
mer stand principal actors and competitors,
and the latter is the most distinguished rep
resentative of the grand army of c"mpromis.
candidates. Grants strength lies III the
South, Blaines III the Northeast, and WASH
burne's, in Il less positive sort of way, every
where" Then, after ana yzing the strength
Of each, it says: "Grant, however, is almns,
invncble, from the fact that the tremendoI,
influence of the money power is all on his side,
This influence really brought about the nomi-
nation of Hayes in 1876 TIE power that is to
prevent it from accomplishing the same in 1880
with the name of Grant substituted for tina!
Of Hayes-has yet to assert itself Such ar,
the probabilities and possibilities bearing up
on the case. The nominate of Grant III 1889
seems therefore, from present Indications L,
be inevitable.
The selfimportance of the small, nimble
Grub street heroes who are privileged t.
write for and telegraph to the city newspapers
which are connected with the Associate pres
would be more amusing if it were less super
cillious and absurd. These too-busy pratt
tiers were badly enough spoiled even before
one of their number saw fit to assert through
the telegraph that the Vienna correspondents
Of the London Press, and not the opposing
armies i'll the field were the principal factors
in the Russo Turkish war. That capped the
climax of their audacity and impudence,
until now they are seeking to grasp the pol
itical situation III advance of the events of
$780, and with a wisdom which would be
owlish if it we're not parrut-ike and monkey
ish, telling of the philosophy of past and the
inevitable outcome of present nlaneuveres i'll
the political field.
In the foregoing told with an as
sumption Of inner knowledge which very
impressive, that the three figures i'll the
scene whose background is the next Repub-
Gcau National Convention and whose object
is the nomination to tho Presidency,
Grant and Blaine and Washburne, will be
trio of competitors for the honors Indicated.
This, instead of being this correspondents
guess is fancy as Old as the anticipation al
the political incidents Of so, only it Is nial3
droit'y stated and clumsly put. Blaine, OF
course, will die with all unsatis6ed ambition
upon him; Washburue would not be true
member of his own family if he were not
seeker for the highest place i'll our politics;
bnt Waslburne is almost as loyal to Grant as
ever Sheridan Was; and Blaiue knows enough
to know" that it would be hiuIself against the
f I'D with the field occupied by Grant and 3
forces if he presumed to enter the lists against
TIE General The fact is, Blame is too
sbrewd q man not to know that al that will
prevent Grant from being the next Northern
(,ot to say Republican candidate for the
Presidency, is Giants death or his refusal
t. accept the nomination. We believe these
t. be very remote chances.
And now with regard to the preposterous
assertion that money inf uence brought about
the nomination of Hayes il 1876. The Very
reverse is the truth. Blaine, cunning, ia
reaching and adroit had made himself neces-
s>ry to or wholesomely dreaded by very i'll
q lential part of the railway and banking inter
e9ts of the country. The New York Tribune,
0 gned by J ~ G ,uld and conducted by White |
law Reid, was his chief organ With |
great nimbleness and much fnesse he la / |
secured, right under the nose of Governor |
l. artrauft and Don Cameron at least half OF |
the fifty eight votes of Pennsylvania. Hun
self Pennsylvania though resident ot
Maine, he secured and exercised a remarkable
influence in both the State of his birth and |
That of his adoption. Somehow, he had 50
himself upon the National bankers,
gold ringsters aud railroad and wheat curuel
nien as to present himself before the National
Convention with larger personal strength
han that shown or possessed by any other
man. For year he had been quietly awak-
saing the State pride of every Maine born
ran in the country, and stirring up the Penn
.ylvanian, wherever he could learn of the
. hereabouts of any such who had left their
,arly homes He had done, i'll various ways,
nore things and better things in the way OF
,srsonal advauc ment than any politician and
4lf-seeker Of his time. Meantime, himself
.ni othe. ambitious Presidency seekers had
one what they could to prevent Grant from
eine nominated to third term. Himself II
,.s who defeated the Force Bill. He thought )
hat Grant would use that measure to secure
is own advancement at the expense OF