Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-18
THE PRESIDENCY IN 1850,

1ol tue ensuing year.
THE PRESIDENCY IN 1880.
Although it is yet fully two years before
the nominations for our next President will
be made, the aspirants for the position are
already laying the ropes. Local political
conventions all over the country are manip-
ulated in the interest of one candidate or
another, and if one but watches the
resolutions and the speeches by which the
gatherings are marked. he will be able to
form pretty correct idea of how the cat is
going to jump in $780, unless some I'M
toward event shall occur in the meantime
On the Republican side there is plenty of
scheming, although the chances of success at
the polls are exceedingly meager. Hayes
does not figure in the calculations. Among
all who supported him SO warmly few
months since there is now "not one SO poor
as do him reverence" He receives more
blows than words of praise from his whilom
friends. Grant finds some ardent admirers.
Several newspapers of some circulation see
in him the only man who can carry the
country, and in the Illinois Republican con-
vention the mention of his name was receiv-
ed with boundless enthusiasm. But among
the more respectable members of his party
his candidacy is hailed with feelings the re-
verse of delight. They appreciate that he
has very heavy load to carry; that the sins
of Robson, Belknap, Delano, and others of
that ilk, will be visited upon his head; that
his sympathy with the whisky ring and his
efforts to save the thieves from punishment,
will react against him; that his devotion to
military rule in the South is an efectual bar
to his success in that section. Conkling and
Blaine are working to the best of their abil-
| ity with the White House in view. Opposi-
ton to Hayes southern policy and to his
style of civil service reform are their present
| stock in trade, but they make the most of it.
Bristow is keeping quiet, but is neverthe-
| less deploying his workers to the best ad-
| vantage. His prosecutions of the whisky
| ring are relied upon as evidences of his fit
ness. Hartranft is making still hunt.
On the Democratic side the Republican
papers appear to be running the candidates
to suit themselves, and we have to depend
upon them for intelligence of the move
ments of Presidential aspirants and their
modes of working. Tilden, it is claimed, will
demand the nomination in 1880, as COM
pensation for the loss of the prize at the
last election. It is even alleged that the
| controversy between Hewitt and Watterson
was melted by him. for the purpose of set
ting him right before the people, as to the
! electoral commission. There are plenty OF
| illusions to his bar'l,'' and how he is using
| its contents, but all are mere speculation.
His hand cannot be directly traced in any OF
the recent political movements, which goes
to prove that he is like Joe Bagstock-" SLY,
de-vil-ish sly" Hendricks has maintained
an almost unbrcken silence during all the
exciting political events of the past year and
a half. He has, however, kept himself
prominently before the public outside OF
politics, and is now on a lecturing tour in
the South, eschewing politics entirely. Thur
man is working sub rosa but very efectu-
ally, for it is claimed that he so manipulated
| the Ohio Democratic convention that he is
sure of the delegation from that State in the
next national convention. Bayard is work
ing industriously for party interests, paying
| no heed, apparently, to the schemes of others
but making record for himself which will
be sure to tell wien the delegates assemble
to choose a standard bearer.
Last of all come Ben. Butler and George
Francis Train. The former hopes to see the
workingmen's party increase to such dimen-
sions as to sweep all before it. He has been
toadying to them for year or more, and will
| undoubtedly be their candidate if they have
one. His prospect of success at the polls,
however, will be in the inverse ratio to the
prospect of his success in the convention
Train will be the graham bread and psyco-
logical candidate. He does not depend upon
any convention for Endorsement, and hence
does not need to scheme for the nomination
He will nominate himself, and if he votes at
all he will vote for himself. He is the unan-
imous choice of George Francis Train.
Each of the gentlemen named have cham
pions who esteem them more highly qualified
than any other men in the country for the
first position in America. None of them
with the exception, perhaps, of Grant, would
disgrace the position as Hayes has done.
Neither Butler nor Train. we are convinced,
would accept the Office by fraud; the reputa
tons of the others would make such an as
surance an insult. Although it is yet early,
it is interesting to watch the game as it
progresses.