Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-25
CANDIDATES FOR 1880.
Mr.. BR1srorps FRIENDS At woRK.
Making Terms With Hayes--The Boston
Banquet Arranged as the Opening of the
Campaign--Schurzs Part in the Negoti-
afi0us

The Presidential candidates for 1880 are
early on the track. Mr.. Marble and Mr..
Barnum have announced Mr.. Tilden as the
candidate of the Democracy, and some ar
dent admirers of Mr.. Bristow brought him
out in Boston as their favorite for the race
two years hence. It is true that the banquet
given in honor of Mr.. Bristow by his Boston
friends was not advertised as the opening of
of the Bristow campaign for 1880, but new
ertheless it was. There has been great
deal of re-pulling in Washington to bring
the Boston reception about. The friends of
Bristow were by no means satisfied with the
course of His Fraudulency. They were cool
towards him, and some of them were quite
ready to join the irreconcilables, like Chan
dler, in ripping up all the secrets of the
Louisiana villainy, the electoral commission,
and the Foster Mathews Gordon-L bar
gaming. They complained, of Returning
Board Hayes because he had sighted Bris-
tow. They thought some provision ought
to have been made for the great reformer,
who was forced out of Grants cabinet. All
during the Presidential campaign the Bris-
tow claquers had announced in the most
confidential manner that he was to be made
Secretary of the Treasury if Hayes was
elected. If their Boosting was laughed at,
they intimated that such an understanding
had been reached before the Kentucky and
other Bristow delegates to the Cincinnati
convention agreed to go for Hayes. The
bargain, it was limited, had been made by
Harlan, who represented Bristow, and Moves,
who acted for Hayes. Whether or not there
was any ground for these statements, don't
positively know; but am certain that as
soon as it was known that Hayes had Sc
lected John Sherman for Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr.. Bristow's friends became cool
towards His Fraudulency, and it wasn't long
before some of them were outspoken in their
denunciations of what they called the sham
and hypocrisy of his so-called civil service
reform.
The Louisiana Commission, with Harlan
as the chief manager of the trading that was
to be done, followed, and again Bristow was
overlooked to reward Harlan for his dirty
work in Louisiana. He was given tho vacan-
cy on the Supreme bench. And to make this
still more calling to the Bristow crowd the
appointment of Harlan was credited to Mr..
Bristow. l have been previously told the
story of Harlan's fnesse in this business, but
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Bristow wanted to be made an Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, and that it would
never do to let it be known that he was an
applicant for the position. Accordingly he
quietly set the story afoat in Kentucky that
Bristow had been rendered the vacancy on
the Supreme bench and had very properly
declined it. It would not have been wise for
Bristow, said Harlan, to shelve himself on
the Supreme bench. He was the coming
man for 1880. AS Harlan and Bristow had
been warm friends for years, of course the
statements of the former were everywhere ac-
cepted as authorized by the latter. After this
story had been we'll circulated, Harlan began
to secure the endorsements of Bristow's
friends for himself as an applicant for the
vacant seat on the Supreme bench. He got
letters and signatures to his endorsements by
the hundreds, and they were duly forwarded
to the de facto President. Bristow and his
friends did not discover what was going on
until they were surprised with the intelli-
gence from Washington that Harlan was to
be appointed. Then the little game Harlan
had been playing was exposed. Bristow
caused Hayes to be informed that a fraud
had been practised upon him, aut it was too
late: Harlan must be rewarded.
After a little fight on his Fraudulency be-
gan to wax warmer and warmer, and the oc-
cupant of the White House was not happy.
He was looking about for friends. He sent
for some of Bristow's admirers. They were
not in humor to be polite. They talked
very plainly. Hayes begged for support
against the enemies of reform. They said
that he had not treated Bristow respectfully;
that he (Bristow) was the representative of
the reform element of the Republican party,
and that unless he rallied his friends to a
cordial support of the administration it
must go under. Hayes protested that he
was Bristow's friend; that he wanted Bris-
tow to be his friend. They said he had
given no evidence of his friendship.
Thus the matter stood until Carl Schurz
became the mediator between Hayes and
Bristow's friends. Mr.. Schurz saw, as he
thought, an opportunity to strengthen him
self by an alliance with the Bristow Repub-
icans, and he urged Hayes to make friends
with them at their own terms. After good
deal of negotiation it was finally settled that
Bristow was to be the recognized heir to the
succession. He was to be trotted out as a
Presidential candidate and become the great
champion of civil service reform. Then the
Brlstow dinner was arranged and carried out
according to programme. But this arrange
ment is not altogether satisfactory to some
of Hayes cabinet ministers, and it may
breed trouble at home. In the meantime
the radical Republicans laugh at this trotting
out of Bristow, and say that if he ever be-
comes formidable candidate Grant will
come back from Europe and settle his hash
with some revelations he will make. I don't
put much faith in this, but I believe, never
theless, that Bristow, by identifying himself
with ''the great fraud of 1852 will effectual-
ly destroy any chances he might have had
for 1880.
The accident to Mary C1emmer.
The Washington Ecening Star says
'Mrs. Mary Clemmer, who was SO seriously