Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-24
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The Washington PrOgnastic That Syrac as
Means Tilden at Cincinnati.
Washington Correspondence Chicago Times. |
There is but one opinion here about the Sy-
racuse convention yesterday. 1t is regarded
as an overwhelming triumph tor Samuel j.
Tilden, and an evidence that John Kelly's de-
fection really counts no longer as q factor in
New York politics. The victory of yesterday
that Tilden will be the nominee
of the convention at Cincinnati. People who
hate or fear Tildens can reckon confidently upon
his being candidate who will stay through
the fight. The same people who devised the
story that he would have letter of declinatlon
read before the Syracuse convention will, in all
probability, say that he will decline at Cincin-
natl, but 40 one at all experienced in politics
now puts any faith in that. Tilden is now
regarded as
CANDIDATE AS MUCK AS GRANT,
and with equally as good a chance for nomina-
tion. Among Democratic Senators opinions
differ as to the effect of yesterdays proceed
ings in Syracuse. All the Democratic
There is not one who believes he is proper
man to nominate for President. On
the contrary, they all agree that he is per-
haps the weakest man in the party. Some of
them think that the manipulation of the party
in New York is only the beginning of the plan
to buy up and pack State conventions elsewhere,
with view of forcing his nomination. This
opinion seems to prevail among Western Sen
ators mostly. Senator Cockrell said the Syra-
cuse convention showed that Tilden is candi-
date, and that he will not scruple to use any
means to win, and his steady working will put
him ahead at Cincinnati. Mr.. Beck remarked
that
TILDEN WAS DOING ALL THE WORK;
the opposition is idle, and the old man will in
this way force himself on the party. MIR. Ker-
nan said that Tilden twill not be a candidate
for nomination; you may rest assured of that;
and the party in New York will be united and
harmonious long before the election" All the
Democrats in the Senate, so far as expressions
could be heard, were of the opinion that Tilden
could not be elected over any Republican. The
general effect of the Syracusr convention upon
the Democrats in Congress is depressing. There
was hope that he would get out of the way,
but they feel that that hope can not be cher
ished now, and that Tilden will either force
his nomination on the party or, If he is de-
feated for it, will work to
BEAT THE NOMINEE.
The general impression among Democratic
politicians of the House is that Tilden gained
a substantial victory in New York yesterday
and is master of the situation so far as the
New York delegation to Cincinnati is concern
ed. The fact that Abram s.
Hewitt, who in 1876 was Tilden's
friend, but who more recently has proclaimed
against Tilden's nomination, was not selected
as delegate at large is cited as evidence that
the delegates chosen are all known Tilden men,
and that Iilden arranged details to conciliate
Hewitt by having him selected as one of the
electors. A good many Democrats who few
days ago were ready to believe that Tilden was
preparing to get out of the race now say that
he is candidate IN the fullest sense ef the
term, with chances as favorable to his nomina-
tion as any of the rival aspirants.
THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS
still insist that his nomination will break the
solid South, but they do not seem to have the
basis of safe calculation as to how he is to
be beaten. The Tilden men now claim that
their candidate will have behind New York a
majority of the Pennsylvania delegation, all
of kentucky and Georgia. and the bulk of all
the delegations from the Northwest.