Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-06
la1lraster fntellige,lcer.
RIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1880.
The Presidential DIRECTORY.

nAO" WIN dlC SCliuiuoSSc. l
and we are beginning to find out, too,
who are not. The New York Sun seems
to be of the opinion that pretty much
everybody is candidate and prints list
of them beginning with Mr.. Tilden and
Horatio Seymour, and winding up with
General Grant. Its list might be ex-
tended greatly, for it does not include all
the people, by any means, who think that |
they are candidates and all such are !
entitled to he named in complete direc- |
tory of the grand army. One omission
we note is that of the name of Hugh >.
Jewett, the Rochester UniOnS candi- |
date a man with paper behind HIM
and railroad under him. is quite too
important an aspirant to be overlooked
though just why Mr.. Jewett should claim
to be elevated from the charge of 4 bank
rupt railroad to that of a prosperous coun-
try. we do not see. When lie gets Erie
stock up to dividend paving business.
he can retire on his laurelS and ask for
promotion. There are sundrv other rall-
road presidents in 4 similar state of pro
baton. who 10 doubt would like very
much to exchange their preSidencieS for
that of the United States. but who have
by no means Vet worked out their title
clear to claim such reward. Pennsyiva-
mia has one or two that can rival Jewett
in the desperate state OF their companies
and who will want Il showing when he
comes 10 the fore.
But we observe in the San s brief list
of candidates one or two trees that seem
in this vernal season to be quite dead at
the root and as there is scarcely chance
of their reviving they may as well he cut
down. Chief of these is Gen. Grant.
who can hardly even consider himself
candidate after the showing of the llar-
risburg convention. And il is mere
act of Difference to Mr.. Tilden's own
opinion of his candidacy to keep him on
the list for there is really no respect
able ground for counting him as one
These two old trees have exhausted their
once vigorous vitality and cannot possi-
bly, blossom and bear fruit.
John Sherman is entitled to he cOnsid-
cred candidate because he certainly
thinks he is and because there was one
delegate at least to the Harrisburg con-
vention that agreed with him. 1t is said
there was still another of the same mind
but his name is not divulged and it is
feared that he is a myth. But these
people who believe in Sherman
cali find IA good deal more
company, it is said, in the Southern
states, to which attention has been espe-
cially given by the secretary of the treas
urv and he will have votes at Chicago :;
but hardly enough to make his candida
cy serious to Blaine.
On the Democratic side the list is still
open for the candidates and probably
the whole lot will have Il cheerful hope
of the prize until the last horn blows.
The Sun is for Chief Justice Church, a
very good man, indeed, who will not be
the candidate. We are for HOratiO Sey-
mour, still better man who does not
want to be the candidate. But any hon
est man will suit us and, by the way,
we do not see in the .Sun' S list the name
of Senator Eaton. Of Connecticut, who
always votes right and is always sound.
IT was McManeS who saved the day.
McManes was not an original Grant
man, and he had the Philadelphia dele
CATION we'll in hand OF it's forty-eight
members probably forty would have done
anything McManes asked; there were
not eight of them who would have done
anything that McManes opposed. Nc
Names was a big man. He was the big
geSt man in the convention. But he was
not a Grant man and his band of hench-
men were not Grant men. They were
above all things McNIanes men. Nc
Names went over to Washington and
talked it over with Don. He wrestled
with him. Don would not let him go.
McManes is even reported to have sworn
it would not do to pass Grant resO.
luton. Cameron insisted that it must
be done, not for Grants sake, but for his
own that this was his life and death
battle, and out of this consideration Nc
Names relented and consented. With
Philadelphia in hand, Cameron could be
defiant. But it is to be calculated that
McManes did not barter his delegation
cheaply. He is a high-priced Nc
Names.
THERE are two distinctly conflicting
statements as to Blaine's feeling about
the work of the Pennsylvania conven-
tion. One report is that, seeing now how
close he got to a majority, he is much
offended at the officiousnesS of Bingham
and other pretended friends of his cause,
for weakening in the fight against Cam
erOn when Drawer generalship could have
won it. The other is that he had per-
feet understanding with Cameron not to
antagOnize him in Pennsylvania and
does not want to be held responsible for
the onslaught Of his friends on the Lo-
chiel clan. The latter seems more plausi-
bic. Blaine is afraid to make battle
against Conkling and Cameron joining
their forces for Grant. He is a bravadO,
but, like all other braggarts, a coward,
and he would rather make terms for sec
Ond choice with Cameron than lead a
charge against him. Cameron wants to
put himself in such position that if Grant
is to be nominated it will be due to him.