Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-27
The Political Situation.

Washington on the eve Of the opening OF ac-
tual work at Chicago for the national conven-
ton:
WASHINGTON, May 24.---Now for Chi
cago.'' is the exclamation that is upon the
| lips Of everyone in Washington to-day. As
long as there remained single one OF the
great Northern States which had not spoken
through its convention, as long there were
delegates to capture, all eyes were turned to
the local contests. and people were anxious TO
| hear the latest news from Maryland or Mime
| sofa, from New Jersey or Illinois: but when
the Springfield Convention adjourned. and
the politicians of the Capital, footing up the
columns of their tabular estimates, found that
neither of the candidates had secured III ad-
vance a majority of all the delegates to the
National Convention. they realized as they
had at no previous time since the contest be-
gan, that the great battle-ground after all was
| TO be in the Exposition Hall in Chicago, and
began TO review the forces that are to gather
there next week, and to tell them of as ike
| " TO be found on the one side or the other IN
the preliminary struggle upon which 80 much
is certain to depend
| II is true that the third-term managers,
since the Logan machine did such effective
work in Springfield, have been asserting as
| with one voice that their triumph III Illinois
has made the nomination Of Gen. Grant on
the first ballot certain. Senator Don Cam
eron, the day before he left for the West, had
the assurance to tell very near friend Of
Ny. Blaine that the contest was already de-
cided; that the nomination of the ex-Presi-
dent. on the first ballot was inevitable. and
that the only question which remained for the
other candidates to decide was whether
or not they would Withdraw their
names before the convention met and allow
| General Graut to be nominated by acclama-
ton, thus securing for themselves the inf'u-
ence with the new Administration to which
! their position in the party entities them. But
Mr. Cameron knew better than this; the
tbird-term leaders are very well aware that
| they have not secured majority Of the dele
gates on the first ballot and they have a def
mite and well-settled purpose in the boastlng
in which they indulge.
The most uncertain element i'll the Chica-
go convention will probably be the delega-
tions from the Southern States. The repub-
licans from the South have nothing to lose or
gain at home? their local governments are IN
the hands of the democracy, and will remain
so, no matter who is nominated or elected to
the Presidency. The general government
can do very little to assist the republicans OF
the South politically or otherwise; but re-
publican administration can AMI will dIstrib-
butte a good many offices among the more ac-
tive members of its party in that section OF
the country and as Presidents are supposed
to look with more favor upon the claims OF
tbos. who advocated their nomination than
unop those of opponents, it is conjecturcd
that the Southern delegates especially will
be anxious to cast their votes for the man
who is to win.
If the managers for General Grant, there
e. 90, crooto a nonular immersion that
49,. - a., ;s certain IN he nominated.
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rooLross NJ ,be;r force when confronted by
noworf,l epemy nv drapoinp bushes in
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such toc,;cs never deceived great General.
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