Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-30
WASHINGTON.
THE OPPOSITION TO GRANTS CAN
Ol0ACY.
Ohio to be Taken Into Consideration When
the Nomination is hade-How
General Grant Whiled Away
the Sabbath.
The onnosition TO Grant.

WASHINGTON, December 29.-The hrst
movement of the newspaper quadrila-
teral formed TO defeat General Grant 5
nomination has ready developed, and
from henceiorward it will be harped
upon with persistency. 1t is that Grant
cannot carry Ohio, because OF the oppo-
sition OF the Germans to his candidacy.
Again, that he cannot carry the Buckeye
State because Editor Halstead, forsooth,
and Editor Smith will not support
him. Whether it be true or the
widest conjecture that Grant can
not carry Ohio matters but little to
those who make the declaration.
The real point to be gained Is te create
the apprehension that Ohio is doubt,
iul Republican State, and Is not sure OF
scoring a victory iOrany other candidate
than John Sherman. Thus, while the
anti-Grant conspirators make capital
against Grant by claiming Ohio to be
doubtful, they also make capital Tor
Sherman by putting him to the front as
the only candidate who can secure It's
Electoral vote. The friends OF General
Grant laugh at the charge. They re,
mind those who are at all impressed
with the idea that Grant cannot carry
Ohio that Richard III. Dana, the
Massachusetts, delegate TO the
Cincinnati Convention, announced
from the rostrum that no man save
Bristow could carry Massachusetts,
whereat Bob IngersOll in reply said, II
that were so, God help the Republican
party in the old Bay State, and advised
it to burn Faneuil Hall and destroy Bun
ker Hill.
The politicians have certainly come to
one conviction, and that is, Grant Is III
the hands OF his friends. His staunch
friends here say that he is a candidate in
this sense. If he is nominated he is not
going tolun away from the responsible
ty.
What makes his warm friends even
more anxious to have him nominated is
the mean way in which the admirers OF
Sherman have proceeded to attack HIM
and belittle his public services.
Some of Blaine's friends say that II
Sherman means TO inaugurate a crusade
against his rival aspirants for the Presi-
dental stake by an organized system OF
mud-hinging, after the manner OF the
Bristow intrigue, Blaine will form an al
lance with the Grant wing, and Will
even consent to take second place on
the ticket with Grant. Congressman
MoMahOn, of Ohio, told your cores
dent Yesterday that gentleman IN New
York told him, Immediately following
the November elections, that he heard
Blaine say that the ticket would be
Grant and Blaine.
1t cannot be denied with even a mod
icum Of truth that Secretary Sherman
is not usiug as well as abusing the pat
ronage of office to further his own polit-
ical prospects. 1t is the BristOw game
over again, with the exception that
when Grant found out that Bristow was
prostituting his public trust for his per-
Sonal ends he let him know in an en-
phatic way that 1t met his dlsapprovaL.
HAYES, on the other hand, allows Sher-
man to flo ahead, and gives his APPROX
ing smile.
If the history OF the appointments
made in the South by Sherman within
the past wear, and the motive which con-
strained him to make them, could be
land bare, the public would very soon be
convinced that Sherman is using his OF
flee to help him in the chase for the
more exalted one.
General Grant
spent Sudnay quietly. In the morning
Le attended the Methodist Church. In
the afternoon he took drive in the
suburbs of the city, and this afternoon
dined with Senator Don and Mrs. Cam
eron. He was called upon to-day by a
number of distinguished Otticiols.
The General will remain here un-
iii Tuesday, when ne leaves for
Florida, to sail thence for Cuba.
No public reception, in accordance
with his wishes, has been arranged for
him. Tonight he dined with the Con-
gresham banker, Levi Z. Morton, OF
New York. During a discussion OF the
Nicaraguan canal scheme last night,
General Grant said he did not believe
the project should be undertaken unless
there was unlimited capital to back it.
The guests at the dinner given Gen.
Grant bv Don Cameron were: Senator
and Mrs. Cameron, the two Misses Cam
eron, General and Mrs. Grant, Colonel
Fred Grant and wife, |. :. Grant, Jr.,
Chici-Justice Waite, General Edward
Beale, Senator and Mrs. Carpenter,
Senator and Mrs. Logan, General Sher-
man. General and Mrs. Macieely and
Lieut.. Greene, OF the army.
Gladstone's Double.
4 gentleman writes friend here that
at q discussion OF Gladstone in the
Athens Literary Club. few nights ago,
judge John Welch, Ex-Chiei-Justice OF
the Ohio Supreme Court, SAID: Il have
in my minds eve man OF our country
who, in many respects, is like Glad
stone. mean General Garfield. |
consider him in many, indeed most, re-
spects quite his equal"