Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26
Aancaster fntellige,lrer.
Presidential Candidates.


that General Grant proposes
to make a public declaration that his
business engagements forbid him to be-
come a presidential candidate. Such a
is quite unnecessary and
we doubt whether it will be formally
made. The generals friends may make 1t,
but the general himself cannot now with
propriety speak when he has heretofore
been silent. To refuse what it is now man
ifest he is not likely to get, would pe
very ungraceful and foolish thing to DO.
But the politicians who have been third
term men are compelled, in view OF the
failure of their idea, to put their ships
about and to proclaim their belief that
Grant will not take the place which they
have but lately been clamOrously claim
ing for him. 1t is a sharp turn to make,
but none of the gang will hesitate
when they see the break in the ice ahe'o
of them. Senator Cameron Will skate
away in the direction that promises best
for Cameron, and if he gets his deleSa-
ton may even he bold enough to set up
as a presidential candidate himself With
the expectation of dropping into the
vice presidency. which is an office that
would suit his talents very well, beng
one of dignity and ornament ana not
much else. If such is his ambition his
wife's relations cannot count ON his sup
port of the Sherman boom, to which IL
is generally supposed that he Will be
kindly affected with a view to place the
power of the country in the Sherman
Cameron family connection. But Sena-
to1 Cameron probably know. Secretary
Sherman too we'll to trust HIM.
He NAV have good reason to
suspect that President Sherman'S care
of the freundschaft would begin and end
with No. |. and that when he is safely
seated he might be tempted to as
sumo in public the Roman virtue winch
would send his nephews and nephews-ln-
law to the rear. Senator Cameron may
not wish to lie exposed to the danger OF
any such wintry blast from his uncle OF
the lev heart. and rs he cannot run Oh
the ticket with him for the second Office
Secretary sherman 5 prospects Tor lle
PENNSYLVANIA delegation are not brilliant.
Senator Cameron possibly has done All
for the Sherman family that he thinks 1t
wise to do. in taking a poor but beautiful
daughter off its hands and introducing
her to the luXurieS which his unworthlly
earned million buy and to the
great expectations which she Is at
liberty to entertain Of future ascent 10
a seat Of honor as the first or second lady
in the capital. and perchance even tothe
hope that a rci-headed son OF the future
may be prince or duke under an EN-
pirr. IF which Donald l. is ruler. AS the
chief henchman OF Grant our senator
may claim heirship to all his possible
honorS. and if the general chooses to 60
- the wilderness to dig canal, the
senator when he gets up his empire. Cannot
reasonably be expected TO hunt Inn III!
to resign to him the throne.
There are several gentlemen Ill the
Repubiican partv who think with the
senator that none of its h0norS are toe
good for them. Mr.. Blaine considers
that he has groomcd himself for the
presidential nomination III hrSt-ciaSS
style by his exploits in Maine and prob
ably he has, for it is success at sucl
schemes of fraud that dearly recommend
apoIitician to 4 Republican convention
A man cannot have such an evil reputt
for general rascality and rottenness aStc
be hurt by it in such body. Blaine wa!
not stopped by the Mulligan letters from
going through at Cincinnati last time
and would certainly have been nominated
if his illness had not prevented him from
experimenting his canvass and counter
mining his foes.
Then there is Conkling, who comes t
the front as candidate us Grant disap
pears from view. An important move
ment in his campaign, which IS also tn
initial one, is a loving meeting betwcel
his wife and Mrs. Sprague at the Dime
table of the latter in the presence OF TN
senator and five other witnesses and witt
the associated press reporter as the chron
lCler OIL us Dcttuly 1HC UNCACoo iio"0i
i'm the most beautiful chalices OF tn
strangest devices adorned the table
and the high regard Of the sen
ator's wife for the woman
whose husband put the senate
out of his house at the end of his shot
gun is testified to before the country
That Connecticut lawyer who declared il
the Hayden trial that a woman would d
anything to save her husbands life ma
he encouraged 10y Mrs. Conkling's conde
scension to the belief that there is n
humiliation wife will shrink from t
save her husbands political fortunes
Mrs. Conkling is evidently thrust by he
husband into Mrs. Sprague's arms t
cleanse him from the suspicion of havin
been her predecessor there, but only wit
the result of proving the meekness of tn
senator's wife and of demonstrating hi
own utter depravity in forcing her int
such an odious situation. If Mrs. ConR
ling had met Mrs. Sprague casually in
public place and treated her with cord
ality the movement would have been e1
fective; but prepared and trumpete
such as this, has no tonic in it for MI
COnkling's S moral character.