The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-17
THURMAS,s CANDIDACY.
One Chance I'm a Thousand That he Will
be the Chosen one nj Cincinnati.

THURMAN's CANDIDACY.
One Chance In n ThouSRnd That he Will
be the Chosen one at Cincinnati.
COLUMBUS, O., June l6.-There is one
chance in one thousand that Allen G,
Thurman, Of Ohio, will be nominated for
President at Cincinnati next week. But
not more. The one thousandth ticket
may be the lucky one, but there is not
much probability Of it. The nomination
OF Gen. Garfield put Senator Thurman
out OF the question. His chances would
have been equal to those of any other can
didate had the Chicago nomination gone
anywhere else than to Ohio.
The forty.four Ohio delegates, with the
exception Of six, two from the First, two
from the Second and two from the Twen.
tieth districts, are honestly for Thurman,
and will vote for him in the outset, but at
the same time without any hope or expeO-
tation OF nominating him. But II upon
any ballot the thirty.eight unquestionabe
votes Tor Thurman in the Ohio delegation
will give the nomination to any candidate
except Tilden. and possibly Bayard, they
will be transferred without moments de-
lay.
II ere is good deal OF talk in this State
about Jewett and Payne, but it is only
talk. The man that the Ohio delegation
would like to see nominated is Justice
Field, and they will break for him the
moment they see that he has chance for
the nomination. They would do the same
for Gen. Hancock second and Hendricks
third. But Field is the man that they
prefer above all others. His record is a
judicial one, and would be hard to assail,
except on questions OF judicial interpreta.
ton, aud this would only go to prove him
thorough going Democrat. Hendricks
would find his soft money record against
him and Hancock would find the Mrs.
Surratt affair matter that would need ex-
planation during the whole campaign.
The potent reason why Thurman is not
available is this: His nomination would
make the resultof the Presidential election
hinge entirely upon the October election
in Ohio. for It Is fact that even in 1876
the result OF the October election in Ohio
settled the result and made three or four
States solidly Republican that were more
or less doubtful. Thurman is as strong as
his party in Ohio, and with almost any
other nomination than Garfield from
among the candidates at Chicago, would
possibly have been stronger. But with
Garfield and Thurman as candidates,
there would be nine chances for Garfield
and one chance for Thurman TO carry the
October election. This is too great a risk
for the Cincinnati Convention to take. To
fight the Presidential battle in Ohio in 0c.
tober aud lose, is what the Democrats do
not want to do, and II they nominate an
Ohio man they must fight the battle here
and then, and, with the most liberal al
lowance, only one chance to wiR in ten.
Despite all that is said TO the contrary, the
Ohio Democracy have genuine affection
for Thurman, but they will not let their
affection run away with their judgement.
Like Flanagan, OF Texas, they are looking
for the official woodchuCk to replenish
their store OF meat.
Presuming that Field or Hancock or
some other than an Ohio man is nominal.
ed at Cincinnati, it is the Democratic pro-
gramme to concede Ohio to Garfield in
advance. They will say that 1t IL his
own State, and Republican State, and he
will be entitled to carry it at the State elec.
tion, and that in fact the result in Ohio in
October will have no more TO do with the
Presidential election, than will the result
in Maine, or the result in Kentucky, or
than would follow the result in Iowa II an
October election was held there. The
unaniuity with which Ohio will be con.
ceded to Garfield will surprise you.
But II the Republicans put any faith in
these concessions, they will be gudgeons
indeed. With all their professions and
declarations in advance that Garfield will
insure a Republican triumph in Ohio at
the October election, they will make the
hardest fight that was ever made in the
Buckeye State for the mastery, and II the
Republicans sleep on duty they will wake
up the morning after the October election
70 contemplate slender and preCarious
majority, or find the largest figures on the
wrong side.
1t will be fight in which the Demo.
Gratis will make but little demonstration,
but the size and the vigor OF the "still
hunt will be something marvellous to
contemplate when the ballots are being
counted. An army OF 5000 workers will
be enrolled and regularly compensated
not to talk, but TO keep their mouths shut
in public, and work in private with every
doubtful vote In the most etiicacious man
ner, and see that every Democrat goes to
the polls. While the Republicans are
firing their heavy artillery at an enemy
that claims he doesn't want to fight, his
Grand corns nj RcoIlts will ba everYWhare
laying torpedoes, breaking the triggers Of
the muskets and hlunting the bayonets,
which do the real execution In the final
hand,to-hand charge on election day.
Then, II the Republicans only carry
Ohio by a scratch, or II the Democrats
should carry 1t, you will hear the Demo-
cratic bugles everywhere make proClama-
ton that Ohio in October is the key note
to the Presidential battle In November,
and cite as an evidence OF Garfeldls weak
ness his inability 10 carry Ohio by big
majority, when there was little or no op-
position to him, and when the State was
freely and fully conceded TO him in ad-
vance.
1t Is the programme 10 concede Ohio to
Garfield by twenty thousand majority,
aud at the same time declare that the
Democrats do not propose TO dispute the
State with him at that figure. II the Re-
puhlicans permit the majority in October
10 fall much below that figure, they will
find that they have furnished their oppo-
nents with club, the size and efficiency
OF which will depend upon the smallness
OF the majority In October.
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