Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-30
THE NATIONAL HUB.
HOW THE OHIO NOMINATIONS ARE
REGARDED.
The Administration and John Sherman
JubiIant-Sorow for Taft-Bill
Chambers Ugly lnsinua-
ton About Certain
Documents

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Outside OF the
immediate Administration there is 4
good deal of diversity Of opinion con-
cerning the nomination. The Republi-
cans who swe-r by the Administration
say il is strongone, but those who look
to the future say that il is weak. Those
of the latter opinion advance very good
arguments why il is weak ticket. They
say that il joins the issue between Grant
ism and Shermanism; that it will be-
construed by Grants friends as the first
black-eye his Presidential candidacy has
received. Hence it will be antagonizcd
by the Grant influence. Ii should be-
borne in mind that, no matter how
elated the Stalwart Republicans
were over the recent vetocs OF
the President, they have not forgotten
that he abandoned two Southern States,
moreover that Foster announced the
determination OF the President to thus
abandon them in advance of his inaugu-
ration i'm a speech made in the House of
Representatives. in which he said, in ei
feet, that if the Democrats would allow
HAYES 10 becounted i'm, the flags should
float over States, not provinces.
Bill Chandler says that Fosters nomi-
nation will revive interest in the celc-
bratcd Wormley Conference, and that II
Major Burke, OF New Orleans, has not
DESTROYED the secret agreement made at
that Conference, it, publication will
make il impossible for Foster 10 conduct
Stalwart campaign, rs lac will be called
on To explain from every stump in the
State.
Again, il is held bv the Stalwarts
that Fosters nomination will afford this
class the first opportunity, aud one II
has long sought, to stab President
HAYES. II is claimed that all there il
of evil i'm the HAYES Administration
Foster is responsible for; that he yaci
lated when he should have been firm
that he compromised when there was
no necessity for il, and that by 80 doing
he almost disrupted the party organiza.
tion.
Bill Chandler says that Ben Butler
will take Il personal and deep interest ~
the canvass, and that neither his voice
nor influence will bc in Fosters behalf.
So far rs Hamilton county j. concern
ed, il is claimed here that llickcnloopcr
will not be popular enough as the tail
Of the kite 10 pun the ticket through.
The two great interests of the county,
tobacco aud whisky. which pay rcye-
nue. into the Treasury greater than that
collected even from the great City oi
New York, have often come 10 Congress
for relief Foster had led in every in
stance the opposition against every
measure looking to this end, and in the
Forty.fourth Congress IL was his effort
alone which defeated the reduction oi
the tobacco tax. While the bill passed
the subsequent Congress, il was not
aided by his vote, but was carried ia
spite Of his most violent opposition.
Ohio Democrats here say the nomina-
ton surprises them, because they gave
the Republicans II Ohio more credit
than 10 have made such blundcr as
to-day's work. They conccdc that Tafts
nomination would have been decidedly
the stronger one. Judge Thurman Is
quoted as having said the ticket was
worth 20, 900 Democratic votes.
The argument the Ohio Democrats
use Is that il is difficult 10 see how Fos-
ter can put enough enthusiasm in the
canvass 10 make il heroic. II he
attempts 20 conduct stalwart cam
paign, his record If against him.
Ii he attempts, or the attempt is
made for him, 20 utilize the present att-
tude Of the Republican party in favor Of
bayonet rule, his New Orleans report
emphatically speaks for hin-that hc II
not in sympathy with his party as II has
now arrayed itself. lie was the first to
denouncc bayoncts ~ an element Of free
government He must admit that II he
was then right, his party is wrong; II he
was then wrong, the whole policy Of the
Administration, ~ far as il applied to
the South, is wrong, and that the peace
offerings 10 the South were given ~
gall.