The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-13
rnE SITUATION IN NEW YoRR.
Bearing of the Late Election Upon Na
IlOnal Politics. Blaine and HIS Frientls.

| htAEtuG VI tnt A4utt kleetIou upon M
tionaI POIIties- Blaine and his Friends.
New YoRx, November 12.-Unless Il
was on the eve ol a Presidential battle OF
national convention, seldom has New
York been so full Of national politicians Al
now. Leading Democrats here are very
despondent over the result Of the recent
elections, but byno means without hope
for final success in the immediate future.
they look upon the result in New York
as q draw battle, and believe that with their
party united on some such man as Bayard,
Hancock or Field, they may be able to
carry the State in 1880. They feel that
they have good show as long as they only
have to fight for New York to add to their
solid South. They say they are not dead
by q long shot, and intend fighting all the
harder.
The Republicans feel that they have the
game IN their own hands, and all they
have to do to bring final success Is to be
courteous, and not to get quarreling
among themselves-ala Ia Kelly and Tilden.
The Republican party was almost as badly
divided In the State at the recent election
as the Democratic. although the division
did not appear on the surface. In the
Presidential election they hope TO present
Q united front, and in such an event do
not fear as to the result.
Senator Blaine has been here several
days. He is looking admirably. He thinks
the result OF the recent elections gives his
party to the Presidency In 1880, also gives
the Republicans the next Congress, almost
without adoubt. He said that even should
his party fall to get the next Congress, It
would rather help than aid Republican
administration, and It would be an easy
matter to wait for the following Congress,
which. under the new census, can
not fail OF being Republican. He says a
great pressure Is being brought to bear
upon him to 60 10 Louisiana and make
several speeches there, and that he Is half
inclined 10 do so. His friends think that
his appearance on the stump in the South
would surely break the solid Grant move
ment among the Republicans there, and
secure for him good support from that
section in the next National Republican
Convention. From what your correspon-
dent has been able 10 ascertain from per.
sonal observation, il Is safe to assert that
Mr.. Blaine's friends here, and they are
legion, are about to begin to push his can.
vass for the Presidential nomination with
vigor, They maintain that he Is the only
man who can carry the convention and
prevent Grants name from being brought
forward. They believe Blaine to be as
popular now as he was in 1875, and more
so.
Ex.sheriff-now Congressman-"Jim.
my" 0'Brien said at DeImonico's last
night that Randall would be Tilden's can.
didate for the Presidency in case Tilden
didn't get the nomination himself. |
O'Bden is the leader Of the anti. Tam.
many Democracy here, the man who gave
the figures TO the New York Times, the |
friend OF Tilden and OF himself. He saws
the result in New York makes Tilden's |
candidacy for the Presidency out OF the
question, and brings to the front, as the |
only man OF the, Democracy who can
carry New York, Speaker Samuel ], Ran
dali. Randall Is Tlden's choice, provided
Tilden can't get the nomination himself.
A bystander suggested to 0'Brien that
Randall could not carry his own State,
and had ever been defeated for Congress
in his own district.
"1t makes no difference whether he can |
carry his own State or no" was the re-
ply. "He need carry but New York State
to keep the South solid, and prevent its
breaking away for Grant. He will be the
candidate, and don't you make any mis-
take about it" This last sentence was
said with great emphasis, as if O'Brien
meant what he said. He is shrewd pol
itician, shrewder even than John Kelly,
and what he says may be regarded as sig:
niticant.