National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-07-09
THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE.


Northumberland DoRsHEIMER, Of
New York has been regarded as o warm,
devoted, and answering friend of Mr.
TILDEN, and if he is not so now he has
changed position. 1t would not be matter
of remarkable surprise to know that he has
changed, for mutability is among the marked
characteristics of human life and ambition.
1t is alleged that he has assumed an indiffer-
ence to party leaders, traditions and usages,
and has worked himself into q position
recognized rs an independent personality in
politics Mr.. DoRsHEISIER seems to have
turned away from his former political aliilia-
tions and associations He no longer culti-
Yates the Statesman SCHwAB and the ct-
ceie,uS of his salon de lager but has ex-
panded to the proportions of Coney Island
and Brighton Beach, where he has gone into
the interview business somewhat extern
sively, waiting patiently for some admirer
to utter his own name in connection with
the next Presidency. This is free coun-
try, and there is nothing in the Constitu-
tion of the United States or of the State of
New York which prohibits Lieutenant
Governor, or any other respectable citizen
or even those not so very respectable-fr
being candidate for the highest honor
in American politics The Presidency is
rich prize for any American, and well
worth the highest ambition and most vigor-
Gus effort.
But Mr. DoRsHEi MER is both talented
and modest, and hence in running his mind
over the list of possible candidates on the
Democratic side he invariably avoids the
mention of his own name in that connec-
tion. During late interview with a Herald
reporter Mr.. d. develops his inwardness
with characteristic mOdesty so far as the
gubernatoral question is concerned He
does not oven allude to his own name, and
the presumption is that no pentup New
York contracts the powers Of his ambition,
but that it ranges over the whole continent,
and hence he names Governor ROBINSON,
SANFORD f. CHURCH, and CLARKsoN N.
! POTTER as the favorite candidates in that
race. lie knows, however, that neither of
these names can command the united
strength of the Democratic party. They
have, each and all, been faction
lists, and hence must encounter an
tagonisms within the charmed circle of
Democracy. In view of this Mr.. DORIS
HEIMER proves himself not only wise,
but very discreet statesman and poll
ticiau, when he exhorts his brethren in
this wise, in regard to partisan fealty aud
duty: mo mere personal difference, per-
sonal fortune, personal anything should be
" permitted to have an effect, The contest
" should be with the enemy, not in our own
" camp, The nomination must go to the
" strongest man, independent of his desire
" his necessity, or his fortune"
Having thus disposed of the Empire
State and its mere municipal affairs, Mr.
DoRsHEIMER turns his horoscope upon the
Presidential field, and gives ita wider range
guided by the same lofty spirit of self
abnegaton that has marked his views and
utterances relating to the honors of his
own State. He meyer for u moment points
his index finger to himself, but runs his
power of indication over list of worthy
names as readily as singing master would
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with the facility of an artist Governor
DoRsHEIIER thinks the West could name
the candidate in the National Convention
ifit was unit but as il was not when TIL
DEN was nominated he distrusts
its unity now He speaks somc-
what admiringiy aud with n paironizing
air of Mr.. HENDRICKS, of Indiana who he
thinks is strong and growing stronger. But
he has no confidence to assert in his case.
Then he bundles DAVIS and THURMAN to-
gether in one mess, giving both the credit