The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-11-28
PRESIDENTiAL Prospects.
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than ever to the Presidential prospects for
1880. That these prospects were radically
affected by the manifest revolution Of opiu.
ion in this and other States Is 80 plain a. 10
cause the Democrats something more than
uneasiness 10 this State more especially,
no doub., than IN any other was the blow
severe, for the thirty-fve Electoral votes oi
New York mean a great deal TO q parry.
Add since the Democrats cannot longer
claim these ihirty-ive votes as assuredly or
even probably theirs, it Is conceded on all
sid, S that this will lie the pivotal State in
the struggle OF 1850.
In direct connection with the Presidential
question, good and we'll authenticai, d
-tory, which Gail Hamilton may or may not
approve il current in political circles here.
This story runs To the effect that enator
Blaine, on his way home from his successful
po!itical i1urneyings in Iowa and Other
Western States, fell in with an old friend
and admirer, who Is also we'll known and
exceedingly active in New Jersey polite.
After little the conversation nstura ly
turned to the subj ect OF the next Presidency.
The Republican outlook at that time was
particularly gloomy, with the shadow OF
the Maine and Ohio election returns hang
ing over it. None OF the signs Of promise
nov so plentiful were then discernahle, and
il was after come remarks recognizing the
general unbopefulness, that the Senator
asked the Jersey follower frankly and
squsrsly
who, in your opinion, do the Republi
cans Of this country demand as their leader
to victory and the White House in lss0?'
The ardent admirer replied, without hest
tation, and as something about which there
could lie no possible doubt, that the Ameri-
can people in mass called loudly for just
oue man, and that man was
JAMES G. BLAINE, OF MAINE.
To the ardent admirers establishment,
Mr.. Blaine declared emphaticslly that he
did not think SO, and that his friend was
| much in error if lie thong ht 20, and must
change his views. The Senator went on to
saw, in substance, that he was not the man
| for this crisis This was 4 time when per
| sonal ambition should be subordinated To
the nations veal. The man the people de-
| manded was the man who could most Ger
| tainly lead them to success. There was
present to his thought such a msn, a great
and representative statesman, OF high and
enlightened views, of superior intellect, of
rare executive ability and PERSONAL popu-
larity, well qualified to so govern a. to
| make the nation powerful al home and Re
spected abroad; Il man in many respects
| the very foremost statesman in the land, in
| honoring whom the nation would do honor
| to itself, and that man, the Senator added
| as close to his enthusiastic eulcgy, was the
Republican Senator from New Iork,-Ros-
coe Conkling,
Had the ardent admirer received blow
from the Maine statesman's fist, he could
not have been more taken aback. For as
he was a devoted follower of Blaine, so was
he downright enemy Of Conkling. Thus
to hear his friend put forward with highest
much, and he had doubted the evidence Of
his senses but for repetition from Mr..
Blaine Of the opinion that Conkling, and
not Blaine, was the man for the people.
That is The story, thoroughly vOuched
for, which creates considerable amusement
in political circles, in the light Of The re-
cent elections.
CONFIRMATION OF THE STORY
came unexpectedly through the declara-
tions Of two prominent Pennsylvania poll
ticians, strong supporters OF Blaine, who
met some political confr,res in this city
shortly after the Jersey Incident narrated
above. These gentlemen surprised their
metropolitan friends not less than Mr.
Blaine surprised the Jerseyman by show
ing singular t.lthusissm for Conkling, and
asserting that no other man would do rs a
Republican candidate in 1850. This strange
change Of feeling on the part Of men known
to have been bitterly opposed TO the New
York Senator for years, led to a good deal
oil remark among the shrewd party men
here, who thought they could ste the hole
in the wall with great plainness. The
friends Of Senator Conkiipg claimed that
this wonderful magnanimity of Senator
Blaine and his friends was not alto ;e;her
di-,nterestei. They took IL that,
as the Maine statesman saw no
chance Tor 4 Republican president in
1850, he was perfectly willing his foremost
rival in candidacy should be dis O I'd OF
effectually by being put up and beaten, as
all indications then made it probable he
would be. That would leave the field clear
for Mr.. Blaine in 1884. And even were
Conkling TO be elected, that would dispose
Of him all the same, and would prevent
return of Grantism, which prevention was
chiefly TO be desired by Mr. Blaine. The
idea, as things looked in October, is agreed
TO have been shrewd one. But now the
same politicians here are asking if Senator
Blaine's views remain unchanged, under the
altered outlook. They think not, most de-
cidedly not, ard their amusement arises
from the prediction on all sides that Sena-
tor Blaine will be in the field again by De-
cember, and more actively than ever. "All
things change, and We change with them"
was the quotation offered by gentleman
who narrated these facts with intiuite zest.
That Senator Conkling is in the field for
1850, no one with any pretense to political
knowledge can or does doubt. And this fact,
perfectly assured by the election of last
week, raises the interesting question as to
GEN. GRANTS PROBABLE ACTION
in case his old-time friend and ATTEST sup
porter should become leading candidate.
According to Herald interviewer, Mr..
Corbin says, with a chow of speaking au-
thoritively, that Gen. Grant has no inten-
ton of re-en,ering the po ilical arena, and
will do so only if his party demands it,
That is, if Gen. Grant is found to be the
only Republic an who can with any GER
tsiniy OF success he put at the head of the
national ticket, then he will consent to be
put there The leaders here, however, do
not accept the views of Gen. Grants rels-
tive, and believe that both the ex President
and his Pennsylvania supporters are deter
mined upon third term. Two or three
days after election, | asked gentleman,
well posted as to the Republican opinions
prevailing in the inner circles here, what
he thought of Gen. Grants prospects, now
that even the Herald had put Senator
Conkling in his place as the foremost can
didate. 81 think as l did before" he re-
piled, shat Grant is the coming man. |
Roscoe Conkling has received a powerful
boost through the complete and unexpected |
victory of the Republican party in this
State but believe the turn Of events be- |
fore 1850 will be such as TO throw both |
Blaine and Conkling out Of the lists and |
to make the party fall back on Grant"
One of the causes most likely to produce |
this result would be so close rivalry be-
tween Blaine and Conkling, that, as in |
1876, third candidate must be cho.en as
tn. only possible compromise.
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