The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-29
State Politics.
from the Sunday Americana

ted in the action OF the assembled
wisdom of the two parties. The Re
publican National Convention meets
one W eek from next Wednesday in
Chicago, and the Democratic Conven
ton three weeks from next Tuesday
in Cincinnati. Who will be the nom
inees of the two parties for the high
est offices in the peoples gift is the
absorbing question.
General Bradley T. Johnson has
just returned from Washington,
where he spent three weeks as c0un-
sci for Ignatius Donnelly in the Don
nelly Washburne contested seat case.
During his stay in Washington Gen.
Johnson has had frequent interviews
with prominent senators and mem
bers of the House, particularly those
from the South with whom he is on
terms of intimate acquaintance. Gen.
johnson states that the prominent
Senators of the South will work Wig
orously to secure the nomination oil
Senator Bayard in the Democratic
National Convention. Senator La
mar has already left Washington for
Mississippi for that purpose, and SEN
ator Hampton will do all in his pow
er to send Bayard delegation from
South Carolina to Cincinnati. Yes.
terday Gen. johnson received pri-
vate letter from Wade Hampton,
in which was the following para
graph:
"Bayard is gaining strength daily.
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and New
Jersey will support him, and other
Northern strength will come to him.
If the South comes to his aid he will
win. If his friends will press him in
convention he can win. McLane says
the Maryland delegation will be solid
for him."
The letter concludes with a request
from Hampton to General johnson
that the latter would interfere in Vir-
ginia and see whether some of the
delegates would not vote for Bayard
in the Cincinnati convention.
General johnson. in conversation
with an american reporter yesterday
stated that while he believed that
Senator Bayard had a number of
strong friends in the Maryland dele
gation-or rather those who, as is
understood, will be the delegates to
Cincinnati-others were not SO friend
ly to him, and he doubted whether
Bayard would receive a solid dele
cation from this State. He knew
that Wilmot Johnson, of Baltimore
county, is strongly in Senator Bay
ards favor so is Ex-Governor Car
roll, John w. Dayis and others.
Some ofthe others were not Bayard's
friends. If Maryland presents solid
front at Cincinnati, with other states
where the sentiment is equally fav-
orable to the Delaware Senator, Gen.
johnson thinks he will be nominal
ed. A strong sentiment is being
aroused in the South in favor of
Judge Field for the presidency. The
latter has a we'll organized literary
bureau at Washington, which is scat
tering campaign literature all over
the country. This sentiment in fa-
yor of Judge Field is. according to
Gen. Johnson, mainly and entirely
due to his recent opinions dissenting
from the majority of the United
States Supreme Court in the Reeves
case, and also on the election laws,
the validity of which was lately tried
before that tribunal. Gen. johnson
thinks that the Democratic party
would have rather heavy weight to
carry by conducting campaign on
dissenting opinions of a judge in
cases which have been definitely set
tied by the opinions of majority of
the highest. judicial tribunal
in the country, and it would
be unwise to appeal from the deci>
sions of the Supreme Court to the
populace thro' the ballot box. This,
however. would be the effect of Judge
Fields candidacy. 1t cannot, how
eyer, be denied that the sentiment
in favor of Judge Field is growing
in the South daily. Louisiana is OPP
posed to Bayard's nomination on ac-
count of his action in sustaining
Kellogg.
"What about Tildcn's chances"
asked the reporter.
"Tilden's nomination." replied the
General, "would be the virtual
abandonment of the field to General
Grant or any other Republican cam
didate. Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina would in such an
event be almost sure to cast their
electoral votes for the Republican
nominee, and 1 doubt if Georgia
would go Democratic if Tilden is
nominated. Why, sir, you can't get
prominent Southern maR to go in.
A. l.