Daily Republican., 1880-05-06
To.Day's Convention.

Tas Republican State Convention
which is being held at Dover to day
will be another movement on the part
of the Republicans Of the State in the
great campaign of 1880. 1t is important
only as expressing the choice Delaware
Republicans have as to who shall be the
standard bearer Of the party through
out the nation in the approaching con-
test, but it really means more than ap-
pears upon the surface. Political con-
ventions always do that. Composed as
they almost necessarily are of either
fall fledged, cunning politicians and
those inclined to be politicians, there is
generally some fsr-rsaching object in
view by most of the delegates, which
more or less influences their actions. A
political convention is political move
upon the chess board of politics, watch
ed with intense interest by those who
enjoy the'..honors and emoluments Of
Office and those who have inclinstiona
70 be officers in the future. Viewed in
this light, though the convention held
to-day may not'appear at first sight to
be of the greatest importance, yet it is
SO far reaching in its influences that it
may turn the whole eour,e of scattered
public opinion in favor of this man or
that man as a candidate for the Presi-
dency.
Delaware has but six votes in the
National Convention ont of the 760 odd
of which it is composed, yet these six
votes may be the pivot upon which
rests the whole party fabric at Chicago.
But no matter whether or not this i'm
portance is attached to Delaware's six
votes they should be cast in such a
as to insure to the strength and
solidity Of the party. Tc-dsy's Con-
vention is important in another re-
'pect as bearing upon politics at home.
The six men who are to be sent to
Chicago cannet do half the harm, vote
IS they may, to the party in Delaware, as
would be done to it by an injudicious
hoiae of local leaders. A chairman of
he Republican State Central Commit. !.
ee is to be chosen to-day and in a lit
10 State like Delaware, where great
ontest is looming up, this is a matter
II no small interest to the party if it
would be successful in the coming cam
,aigu. A chairman of vim and vigor,
'rudent and careful, aggressive and yet .
lot obnoxious, is required to lead the u
arty in the coming struggle. To J.
hoose such man will be the duty of
he Republican Convention to-day at
over. The choice of a judicious
'ader will have much to do with
lsuring either vistory or defeat. E
7e hope that choice will bs intelligent.
= and judiciously made. 1t is also
oped that whatever Of acrimonious =
cling ray have been engendered thus II
r may be all thrown to the winds VI
hen the Convention adjou1ns, and
lat when choice is made the party I
lay be a unit afterwards. We wish T
lat the party machinery could have
ZEN SO worked and controlled that a ca
'ndidate for Congress and Presiden- p'
al electors could also have been Sc q
cted to-day, so that there need here = =
ter have been no more friction, and
g party could have settled right down -
a hard busy summers work and not
I've been compelled to 60 through ~,
other State Convention campaign. da
le fewer State Conventions a party 10 10
n have in a small state like Delaware
acre erybody knows each other, the
tier it will always be for that party,
pecislly in State where there are
Il three counties, and each county =
alous of the political influence of ths I
her. Ii