Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-27

managers continue to pretend that the
party is pining for his nomination, and
that he is, as the ridiculous New York
Herald puts it, "the only fit candidate"
1t is not possible, in the face of these
figures, seriously to contend that General
Grant is the choice of the party. 1t is
only too apparent that he has been rejected
wherever public opinion has had fair OPP
portunity to manifest itself. The West
may be regarded as almost unanimous in
its opposition to his nomination. The re-
sistance to the third term at the East is
almost equally pronounced. The claim
that he would have solid South has been
shown to be untenable by the facts. The
reliance of his managers upon New York
and Pennsylvania has been shown to be
misplaced. Notwithstanding the unscru-
pulous employment of machine tactics in
both those States, it has been found i'm
possible to control the delegations. The
latest report from Pennsylvania is that
twenty-nine delegates, or just half the
delegation, will vote against Grant, while
it is confidently asserted that he will lose
| fourteen votes in New York. The abil-
ity of the Grant managers to force
the admission of the machine delegates
from Illinois is by no means proved ;
in fact all the indications point to
a failure in that maneuver. There
can be no doubt that all the anti-Grant
delegates in the Convention will unite to
defeat the machine programme. The
Committee on Credentials will therefore
certainly not be a Grant committee.
There is no method by which the Grant
men can overcome the preponderance
against them on organization, unless they
should resort to open fraud, and though
it is quite possible that they would not
shrink from this recourse, it is highly i'm
probable that they would be allowed to
curry out any arrangement of that char
acter. Mr.. Logan's offer to guarantee the
admission of the Louisiana machine bolt
ers is one of those propositions which are
far easier to make than to perform, and
his Illinois contract is likely to prove no
less difficult of fulillment. In fact,
while the buster and noise of the
machine men increases constantly, it is
only necessary to analyze the situation
| l. 4lo+ H., h.,
marked by failures at every step, and that
the further they have proceeded the more
emphatic has been the expression of pub
lie resentment at their policy. And it is
proper to point out that there has never
before in the history of the party been any
such general and determined condemnation
of candidate as is here displayed. Even
surprising that through the free use OF fiagi.
tious methods the machine should succeed
in procuring the nomination of Grant at
Chicago, it is evident that no general sup.
port for the ticket could be expected. The
Great West takes no stock in Grant
as a candidate, nor would it enter into
campaign on his behalf with
any enthusiasm, even supposing that
it accepted the nomination. But
it is already certain that if he is nomi
mated there will be third candidate, and
no one can examine the list of States given
in this article without perceiving that in
such an event a great part of the West
would be apt to prefer this third candidate
to the Chicago nominee. The time for the
servile submission of parties to the dicta
ton of few managers, is past. 1t is nc
longer possible to crack the party whip as
of old. Men will not surrender their con.
victions as to what is just and expedient
but they will step out of the ranks of any
party which does not suit them. Viewing
the prospect dispassionately and carefully
it therefore appears probable, first, thai
the machine managers cannot secure the
nomination of Grant at Chicago; and
second, that even if they should secure hi.
nomination, they cannot induce the party
to acquiesce in this programme.