Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-11-19

Omitted States. How close the call |
Was oan only be realised by the re-
Section that = square deal" on
~ Democratic side. in the cities
= Nav York and Brooklyn, would
heve resulted In the triumphant
oleotion Of Hancock for President.
1heEe was . boss Kelly in New
York City, and boss Mclaughlin
"a Brooklyn; and. between these
tuo damnAble "bosses,n the man
Who. 10 our later days, more near.
~ approaches Washington In the
pegfectlon Of his private character
nhAn any other man, came to grief.
Take the thing in any aspect,
ard Garfield has little cause for sx-
ultation. A very dirty dicker, in
two Of the cities Of the United
States, with two contemplate
''bosses" officiating as High Priests
a the sacrifice, lie all that brought
Hancock and the Democratic
party to grief.
Hut there are peculiar difficulties
onvironing Garfield, notwithstand.
Ing his precarious but successful
battle. Card I'D was made Presl.
dsnt BY Jim Blaine, Of Maine.
when the Pine Tree statesman
nv that he could not grasp the
prise himself. he threw the glitter
Ing baubls to Garfield. Only 10
this way could the Mentor chief
oaln have entered into the compe-
eltion with Grant. The solid 306
Who adhered to Grant and his for,
fuoes, under the leadership OF
Conklins, absolutely declined to
bfoak ranks. A stampede to the
A0nsk hoFss'' was all that was left.
blaine, who knew the exceeding
dinlcuIty Of his own nomination,
who did not expect to be noml.
mated, but who had determined, at
al ha1ards, that the Third Term
should not succeed. had told his
ffisnds that "ths nomination
would be . surprise" That sur
prise was on hand, in the person of
0arAsld, whom Blaine had settled
upon. In advance. and whom
Blaine only could nominate.
That was the first stage In the
political drama. The second act
opened with the inevitable defeat
Of Garfield, unless the "stalwarts''
could be whipped into his support.
Grant, who was foolish enough to
Backyard Hancock In the later
stages Of the campaign, at Its
opening had nothing but words OF
praise for the gallant soldier who
stood the brunt of the fateful battle
Of Gettysburg. GarfielTs election,
Without . concession to the "stal.
warts,n was seen to be impossible.
Then followed the famous Mentor
conferences brought about by the
veneraoie Simon Cameron, in
which Grant, Conkling, both the
CAmerons and Logan, met under
Garfsld's roof at Mentor. From
the very moment of that confer.
ence. Garield's campaign was en-.
ergised. Money was thrown into
the contest as freely as the flow of
the hood OF Iser, noted by the poet
Campbell, and Garfsld's cleo
tion was assured, by "a scratch"
We now witness, in our Nation
d politics, something which re-
calls the line of Shakespeare, "Un-
der which King, Bezonian? Speak
or de-" Shall Blaine or Conkiing
inauences dominate the next ad.
ministration
There's the rub. Blaine, OF
Maine, is no pullet in politics. No
man 10 quicker than he to discern
whether or not he has been sold
cut. The enmity between Blaine
and Conkling Is mortal. It was
binine who described, with a
wealth Of inyective that made the
picture complete, Roscoe Conkling
- 1.-THE strutting turkey gobbler"
Of the House Of Represe natives. n
A particularly envenomed ami
mostly pervades the breast of these
two champions of stalwart RI pub.
lleanism. Each will be specially
quick to note aud to resent a
slight.
Considering Garfield ia that
modified light ola ruler. in which
only We can look upon an Ameri.
can President, Blaine is his War
wick.
Blaine nominated him.
And yet, without the aid of
ConkliDg, and the Grant stalwarts.
oarnsld could not have been
elected.
0srnsld, II he be a man, cannot
70 oo'ivious of the contemptuous
styls Of Conkling's advocacy.
when this "curled darling" of Re.
publican politics, aud thorough
humbug, BY the way, made his
nrst speech In the Academy of
Ausic, In New York, the sta nd was
decorated by the legend "3O6n re-.
fsrring to the Triggers" and a few
white men who, at Chicago, stood
~ Grant and his leprous tbira