National Republican., 1880-04-19
SPARKS FROM THE POLITICAL ANVIL


A majority of tho Texas Democratic dole
gates favor Hancock.
General Joseph Lano is Democratic candi-
date for the Senate of Oregon.
General Banks who was a Greeley man in
1872, has declared for Grant.
General Combs, of Kentucky, Is down on
Tilden, and says be wouldn't vote for him TO
save his life.
General Hancock does not yet count himself
ont of tho Presidential Tco. His friends arc
actively ut work in the South.
II tall lying could nominate a Presidential
candidate the Blaine Literary Bureau would
get its man in without struggle.-lGlO
Democrat
n. l.. Butler has declined tho Grcenback
nomination for Congress IN Oregon, aud James
X. Scars, Of Polk county, has been nominated
IN his stead.
Tho Nebraska Republican Convention will
be composed of 353 delegates. OF tho number
II is safe to say that 25O will be for Grant
LNonrarcil
Tho Virginia Republicans are for Grant, and
as matters now stand the Republicans have Il
good show for carrying tho State il Grant
heads the National ticket Buffalo Adver.
tisGr.
The Charlotte Observer is n little previous
II hoists tho names of 1oratio Seymour and
w. II. English Mt the head of its columns US
candidates for tho Presidency and Vcc.Presi.
dcncy
The Massachusetts, delegation is for Edmunds,
and Edmunds is for Grant. 1t needs no
prophet to foretell how tho vote of the Bay
State will be cast in the cOnvention.-LN. Y.
Freeman.
General Grant in his noble uttciances at the
South for peace and reconciliation, like a
good sowpr, has strcwn seeds by tho waysdo
which cannot fail to produce fruitful rCsults.--
Wilmington News
Several Democratic statesman might be
named who would give two dollars aud half
to see that letter OF Mr.. l'ildcn's announcing
that he would condone fraud and back out OF
the fight for the Presidency Tribune.
Instead of the old-fashionod cry in Congress.
"Mr. Speakor" being heard in tho piping
times OF peace, that which comes from tho
Democratic side of tho House Is, you're Il
liar" and You're another W-L Harrisburg
Telegraph,
God bless your enterprise but you have
got big contract" is the way physician in
the interior of the State writes TO the New
York Scratcher5. This is pious but tue.
Anybody who undertakes Go beat Grant has
"a big contract Buffalo Express.
Senator Elmunds gives somo friends from
| Vermont to understand that ho will not be Il
candidate for the Presidency. This announce.
ncnt makes the Tribune unhappy, as Mr. Ed
munds long ago declared in favor Of Grant,
! Now York Commercial Advertiser
The Tribune may discover before IL is two
months older that if il becomes u question OF
| Blaine or Grant, the Connecticut delegation
will stand three to ono for the latter. Aud in
so doing IL will correctly represent tho Repub-
lican sentiment Of the State Hartford
| COurant.
We do not believe it worth whlo for Massa-
Chusotts to commit itself TO II candidate who
is sure not to be nominated. We had the
| unique honor in 1876 Of voting in tho ConVon-
tion assCincinnati for Mr.. Bristow, an excel.
| lent man, but having no moro chance of d
nomination than Daniel Pratt Fitchburg
| Sentinel.
This significant paragraph from the San
Francisco Post "Thc Grant boom will soon
| be heard from Maine to Texas, aud from At
lantic to Pacific. lie is tho only available can
didato on whom the conservative element OF
the republic can unite Party lines should
disappear in the face Of tho coming conflict
with communistic agraranism."
If Senator Edmunds turns his little boom
over to Grant, rs he seems rather determined
TO do, it will be rather dismal TO see the
| Springfield Republican falling back on Charles
| Francis Adams again. Wo shouldn't think
of such u thing for u moment, only our es
teen cd Springfield contemporary seems tC
fud it necessary to have candidate ON hand
all the time Philadelphia Times.
The New York papers speak of Horace
| White, tho former editor OF the Chicago Tribune
as an anti Grant Republican" There is not
n solitary man in Chicago by whom Horace
White could prove that ho is any kind of
Republican. We were almost Oh the point O
adding that it would be equally difficult to oh
tain proof horeabouts that the Chicago Tribune
is Republican paper-[Chicago Journal.
Abram S. Hewitt sees it. "The effect o
these everlasting quaTels between Democrat
Is destroying the confidence of the public II
the capacity of the Democratic party for self
government" That is US true as Gospel. Blu
what else can 10 expected so long as al
irascblo old gentleman dominates n consider
able portion Of the party? Bile, like blood
always makes itself ffolt.-L Pittsburg Chronicle
In our opinion neither Mr.. Blaine nor Nj
! Sherman could carry any State that Genera
Grut could not carry, aud tho latter wouI,
probably succeed IN States that might vot
against either of them. Our advocacy O
General Grants nomination Is based, us w
, have repeatedly said on the belief that h
, could command wider and more certain sup
port than any other gentleman named in Gou
nection with the Republican Prcsldentia
nomiuation-[lro Times