The New York herald., 1878-01-13
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.
The Democratic Party in the .
Old Keystone State.
THB COMING GoyERNORsHIP STRUGGLE
Inside Workings Of the Ciques-Sum.
mary Of the Situation.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IL, ls7

PHiLADxLrEiA, Jan. IL. 1878.
The struggle which has been going Tor several
weeks in the ranks OF the democracy will cuiminats
next Monday night in the selection OF iorty-sx dele.
gates TO the State Conventi,n ,n. iuii convcn.
ton consists OF POI delegates, aad as Phiadeiphia
chooses nearly one-d:th OF the number tho light here
Is an interesting one. There tour Offices 10 10
aied-Governor, Lieutenant Governor. Judge OF tho
Supreme Court and Secretary of lu'erBal AGama Tho
democrats ars ahead OF thor republican brethren IN
preparations for noxt fas election ! ind tha, the
party IN power has not perfected its plans as the
cliqres the other side have The situation ia the
democratic camp Is about es iolows:-
EASTERN CANDIDATES rHK oovEayoasHIr
Tho candidate Tor Governor who Is most frequently
mentioned IN this part OF the Sa,o Is General wMl-
iam McCandess, formerly ono OF General McCleiiaus
iavorite officers the Army Of the Potomac and tho
present Secretary OF Internal Affairs OF this Common.
wealth. There are two othcr pseudo candidates ios
GoveTnor from this city In tho persons OF late Dis.
trict Attorney Furman Shepherd (wno would be per.
suaded to accept instead the supreme Court Judge
shiph and Mr. Daniel N. Fox, chronic Office seeker
McCandless. however is tho only aspirant who has
any show. Lewis G. Cassidy tho popular Philadel.
phia lawyer, Is the leader OF the sherGs Office gang
as Is called He is said to be at heart opposed IA
McCandess, while pretending not TO ba Ho is SUD.
tor from the Twen,y-seventh district who
Is Senator walIaccs candidate on the prom
isc that hs Cassidy Is to be Attorney
General II true that Cassidy will SO.
cre,ly oppose McCandless he will provo q dan.
gerous enemy, Tor this lit was stup,dIy pro.
saed: % unaer 'ho new rues ior Inrty government in
to settle all contests between the delegates elected by
the primaries Cassidy IS chairman oil this Board, and
every other man on IT, with one exception, also OF
the Shenn's crowd This Will enable them to TX tho
phladclphia dcega.ion, aud 1t there nos i,ty 70
McCandless II Will seriously injuro his chaaces
Mr.. Richard Vaux, tho veteran Jacksonian demo-
cra,, Is candidate tor the United states Scnatorshv
IN 1850 Meantime, he IS said 10 DO apparently very
friendly to McCIndcss spite Of the runior that he
Is Tor Dil tho candidate OF his old cncmy Senator
Wallace, wth whom lac Is SAID to have buried tho
hatcnet vaux's friendship for McCandless cannot
bo counted on as certain, IN tho Old inan growing
and more eccentric every day. He mas a uesrI
down 10 his waist, whicn ho conceals under his
clothing: ho sports seal ring on his thunb aud 40
money would tempt him 10 enter a street car. Its
whispered that the cause ot Vaux's dslEe OF Wallace
Tho faGro oi The latter tho Old man ior
the Governorship, according TO contract.
Judge Ross, OF Noiristowu, the udJoiung judicial
district, Is being pressed tor Judge OF the Supreme
Court He has boon twice defeated for that nom ina.
tiVn In State conventions and once, at ErIe Tor tho
Governorship. He aud l,ll Will Join hands hc and
Mccancoss against any two cnnaid,,es from hs
West leaving tuc other two plsccs Of Iu.
formal Affairs aud Lieutenant Governor-to tiadc Oh.
SO much Tor The candidates IRON his section.
WESTERN MES.
James H. Hopkins aod George A. Jcaks will be pre-.
scntcd by the western portion oi tho Sne candi-
Congress, Win jacob Zp sicr, VINO Was President OF
the lace democratic State Convention. Tor Lieuicuaus
Governor THIS wi be tue nrst onst :asin; Ross Toe
Judge and trading on Lhc SecratA'j of lnterpuI
An.irs with whatever iocalny Win uring them mot
votes.
Unit,d States Senator Waacc ha, lorg been COMMIT.
ted 10 Dn tor Governor, ana pul.s scny tux Tor hin
Dl has served tvh ycarsIn tue stat, scdal e.rIyus
arcpubicsn districi esch TINE lie Is spu-ib.la~ VI
MI Suffer- the republican Secretary or state under
Hovernor Curtin. Aud mas always lone good service
for the Pepnsyvani, Railroad whenever sist oorpora.
Ton necdou Il iriend at court apenKer Rindait Nho
has hai victory tho D.srict Attorneys onicc IN
TINS city IN the appointments OF John Z. Read aud
Dallas sanders. nrst ana ihrd assistants, wal back
Jcnks for overnor IN the hope that tho anti-raroad
mon may got away with D, ana the railroad men
may bo 100 strong TO permit the nomination Hop.
klns. II the Allegheny Inen present press Hop
kins with the unanimy ana vigor which tnoy usually
sh0~ with their cpniidies no may be ed IoI
lac elements o; strength winch late
from that county did not. INC Pittsburg dclegalivu
has just bcon elected ana Instructed for Hopkins.
Mr. Hopkins is tue son OF the late " illiam Hopkins
VINO Tor many years the loader OF the nnI.ra.l.
road men IN tho Legis aiure OF Ionnsyivania, and
his son has Inherited all the old mnb's cnmities "a
that dlrectiou while no is TO hsvc ntled himself
for tho encounter with alt tho Appliances of cuit
vated politician Hc has Inherited wealth, has been
high in Masonic order, trveIisd over Europe
been Ia Congress, ana now squares himself for me
struggle o hts iife-Ihc Governorship OF Pennsyi-
vania.
Randall will favor Hopkins after jerks MS against
Dill He would be satisfied with AcCandless, how
ever. because he believes that in his nomination
neither laction would triumph particularly He Will
resist Dill the more the more Wallace urges HIM tor.
ward.
70 the supreme ,nch would leave vacant judgcshp,
into which ierkos hopes TO STEP Stcngcr, OF frank.
lin, she present member OF Congress rom that dis
trict, Is also Candidate Tor Governor also 10
the venerable Hon tricS Is. Wright, "who in 1Sif SIR
Nat,onsi Convention" and VINO now Shines as q
favorrc oi tho labor purity, more by the gnt OF hts
peculiar homestead biii granting l60 Of
loan OF $500 every sctter tban by past party
serviocs. Mr. Wright vory rich, runs three or four
anthracite coal mines, dsrbutes thrce TOUR thou.
sand oaves oi bread among tho L1zcrne mncrs cvory
year. and has done so or years, and thinks that
"thcse youngsters" as ho calls them, shouu stand
back or niui Tho act We leaders, huwcvcr-uKr Ran.
oail, Wallace ana Cassidy-do NOS take niuch stoox ia
his chances, unless, ipdeod, no should taken up
nrss by Ihe labor party as their standard bearer.
This might compel recognition OF his cL<ms by TUG
democrats
iSrRicursa
Mr.. Dllls riopds seem to count Cassidy for sup.
port IN Philadelphia, on the understanding that tpl
lawyer ~ 10 De Attorney General AS the state
would then he apport0ncd uuder his ADMINISTRATOR
a hill could be fixed that would give Cassidy the
Legislature whom hc wouid light Wallace tor MS place
jeo, TO slcra,ons, for Dill is us liable to set up ior
himself as any mao named, ani II u United States
Senator was 10 be elsc.ed 'Govcrnor" Dill might
want 70 60. He would surely be backed by the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Compsny,I II Wallace could mako
II IN preferences to CASSIDY, whose big iecs. crrauc
ways and hercc ambi.,on arc easy things o
manage. Is said that tho railroad has
put up handsomely every umo Din has
he Is a tried aud ,ruo mao 70 tnsn. Cassidy may
therefore count on q little too much support IRON
those who fear him moro than they love him Cas-
sidy is ably seconded by Thomas j. Bargcr George Nc
0owan and Tony Laws. COMMONLY known tue
sheria's crowd with whom sam Joscphs actively CO.
Treasurer, being check ny iowi with Kcmblc, Ridg-
way and tho republican ring managers now ess.ys
and his brethren except when sam needed 10 place
an amount where II will do tho most good and tncn,
eck. turns sn honest penny and sus,ains purity
OF the grand old democratic party. McGrath by the
way wants to be tho candidate tor State Treasurer two
years and Is now. as an observer says making At.
m0sphore Tor himself.