The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-19
CREEK versus GREEK.
Col. Alec Mcclure. the Old Machine Pol.
ItIeinn OF the Pennsylvania Lobby, ON

Col. Alec Mcclure. the Old Machine Pol.
ItIeian OF the Pennsylvania Lobby, ON
Don. Cameron.
PHILADELPHIA, December l7.-Colonel
Mcclure. who has followed the Cameron
trail all through his life with the peril.
nacity and bloodthirstiness OF q sleuth.
hound talks this way in the morning in
the Tims: "The election Of Senator J..
Donald Cameron 10 the Craftsmanship of
the Republican National Committee has
much meaning in it that is obnoxious to
alIintelligent observers of political events.
A conference with General Grant at Har.
risburg on Monday was followed by Sen.
atOr Cameron Fastening back to Wash
ington to marshal the Grant men OF the
Committee in line, to give him the high
est command of the party, and the Sher-
llan followers took position in the rear OF
the Grant veterans for the promotion OF
tue Young Pennsylvania Senator. There
were earnest but fitful efforts to organize
the Committee in fellowship with Blaine,
but the result was q general struggling
along the Blaine line until the contest was
practically abandoned.
"Ihe effort to concentrate the opposi-
ton to Cameron on Mr.. Wm. E. Chandler
was q misvGnture, as should have been
known before it was begun. Chandler
has nothing OF Zach. Chandler about him
but the last name and lower grade OF un-
scsupulous partisauship, and to give him
the command OF the National organization
ha
Heis bright, versatile, and handy to have
about committee, but the clothes OF the
chIet would hang ridiculously loose on
him.
The selection of Senator Cameron as
Chairman, indicates that the coming con.
test Is 10 be one Of any degree OF despera-
ton necessary to insure Republican sue
cess. He is the man who-was first to the
front to revise the vote OF Louisiana and
Florida after the election Of Tilden and
have those States declared to Hayes. He
was then Secretary OF War, and it was his
assurance TO the Southern returning boards
OF the protection Of the bayonet, that
cleared the insuperable obstacles in the
way oil the fraud, and Hayes rewarded the
CabInet officer who had saved him after
defeat by dismissal. and a homily on
civil service reform.
Senator Cameron is doubtless quite
willing TO repeat the Louisiana and Flori.
ia business whenever and wherever
necessary TO succeed in 1880, but we haz-
ard little in assuming that he won't pro-
pose to repeat it to take in such political
water'haul as Hayes. He won't stop for
prayers when he should cut across lots
and through any sort OF bramble to carry
the election, but he does want to be sure
that when lie goes wooling in that rather
Pertlous way he won't come home
sheared. He knows Grant, and he is for
Hrant for the reason that something bet
Ter than civil service platitudes will be his
Ueward il Grant is pulled through. He
may prefer Sherman as second choice,
but he il not gifted in devotion in second
choice in anything, and especially in poll
lies.
with all the gentle offices which have
passed between Cameron and Blaine, he
does not seem to incline to let Blaine get
IN position where the memory Of Gin.
cSlnnati might be revived unpleasantly and
leartuIly avenged. Reading the National
Committee by its plainly defined actions,
The selection Of so able and bold parti'
san oI Grant as Cameron on the Grant is.
sue, means that Grant shall be nominated
and that no trick shall be lost to compass
his election