The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-01
TIE NEXT PRESLDENT.

Writing from new 1ork 10 Inc
Philadelphia Times, Cath" says ::
The two items of interest I learned
at the launch last Saturday were
from Secretary Schurz, saying it was
a fortunate thing for public morals
that old Granny Howe had under
taken the role of Balaam aud from
Speaker Cooper. expressing the be-
lief that Don Cameron's reelection
was certain, unless the Democrats
got the Legislature. The powers of
good and evil and yet in their first
fresh contention, Hayes gaining in
steadiness and nti-Hayes dropping
off very little in cussedness. The
latter now base all their hopes on
running Grant in 1880, but while
they coalesce on that hope the muI.
titude is antagonizing on Grant.
Dull as the times are, people feel
that they medicine US and behold in
Grants return to power the circliRg
yultures flying lower. Every day,
while the politicians resolve on
Grant, the people. even those who
apologized for him, grow cooler. 1t
is not Grant, but Grantism which re-
pels; not the wooden Trojan horse,
but the thieves in his belly. While
Hayes stify resists the Grant puddle
at Washington. there is no great
interest about his successor. Every
body sees that he is starving the
politicians out, and that is why the
more hungry band, led by Conkling
and his pals, support Huntington
and Gould.
5 i- GRANT AND HENDRICKS.
BY present indications. Thomas
A. Hendricks will be nominated on
the first ballot in 1880, unless the
party organs and leaders sell out for
cash in hand and TiIden wins again
Tlden and Hendricks may extin-
guish each other and Judge Thurman
succeed. The Vice President will
be almost certain to be southerner,
Tom Bayard having a chance, Cor
don or Ransom the probability. In
this city Hendricks is the favorite of
the Kelly wing, to which belongs
LIEUT.. Gov. Dorsheimer, and Bay
ard continues to be the pet of the
Belmont wing the latter accounts
for Belmont personally arraigning
Hendricks on the money question.
There is no Eastern candidate but
and his possibilities are
not above the Vice Presidency. The |
certainty Of Democratic success will
make the next nomination hard to
purchase. It was sold to Tilden be- |
fore because it was not thought to
be worth much. The Presidency as
a sure thing is not priceable; in
lottery it can he computed. There |
are $220.00O.0O0 to be spent by the /
President and party every year. Of
winch one-half is in their absolute |
control. Mr.. Tilden would probably !
be as obnoxious to the cormorauts /
Of his party as Hayes has been to
the Republicans. Tilden, besides.
has shown an apparent disposition
to treat with the uneasy and spleen /
tortured Conkling, so that many
think that Tilden would be a part 0 f
Grantism.
The business men, whose interests /
elect Presidents, observe one simple
fact that will turn them against the /
candidate in 1880; that
is Democratic Senate and Congress. |
They are too much in favor of short
and Governmental con- \
cord to elect q President who would
have constant opposition. Besides. !
there is not single respectable rea- /
son any longer against a Democratic :
national viclSry. Both parties have
the same general views and differ
ences. Republican defeat would
mean a iinaI farewell to the evils Of
civil war and all its camp-followers.
1t is the only path to political reor- !
ganization. Probably in four years
we should see all the spoilsmen and .
in both parties acting
together. democratic success means T
because change. Repub- +
lican success means no change, there
fore no extri9aiiOn 3