Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-02
CAN GRANT BE NOMINATED.

The Philadelphia TINES has been one
of the most able and persistent oppo-
nents Of third-term, and, until after
the New York Convention, had been
arguing in confident tone that the
Pennsylvania Convention would prove
a Waterloo for GRANT. Now, however,
the Times is consistent enough in its
convictions to declare the possibility
and the strongest probability that GRANT
will b. nominated.
Having brought itself to look at that
side OF the case, it presents reasons
which carry conviction to the most in
credulous. Ii might have been true, as
the TiM<s argues, that had GRANTS
chances for the nomination long de-
pended alone on the championship OF
CAMERoN and his convention, a disas-
trous failure would have been the final
outcome. But the indomitable purpose
Of the GRANT leaders, and the enforced
obedience OF the party organizations OF
their two great States, have presented
the GRANT movement in very differ
ent aspect from that ioreshadowed at
Harrisburg.
That, says the Times, was deemed at
the time as rather a personal struggle
by Senator CANERoS for individual mas
terry in the party, but the important
events which have followed the GRANT
instructions in Pennsylvania prove that
the battle at Harrisburg was not solely
for CAMERoN's omnipotence, but the
starting point Of a weil-matured cam
paign Tor GRANTS nomination at Chi
cagO.
The Tunes proceeds to show, in very
clear and torcible article, the true III
wardness and logical outcome of the
GRANT movement:
The action OF Senator Conkling's con-
yentiOn in New York Is the first en-
phatic Interpretation OF Senator Cam
eron's Pennsylvania Convention. At
Utica as ut Harrisburg, the master hand
waived all followers into obedience, re-
solved all contested seats in favor OF in
dividual power, and forced the oppOSi-
ton into the attitude oil protesting
against the formal dellyerance OF the
party. The Grant movement thus gains
the prestige OF regularity and Cameron
and Conkling plausibly demand sub
mission to the officially declared
Judgment oi their conventions. With
this vantage ground to start on, they
have plumber for the yenal, honOrs for
ambition, vengeance Tor the weak and
PROMISES Tor fools, to consolidate their
ranks; and the hollowneSs OF the popu-
lar support they command ~ cunningly
hidden from the public by dependent
organs Ii is known that neither New
York nor Pennsy lvania will be entirely
solid Tor Grant at Chicago; but intelli-
gent observers OF political events know
also that henCefor;h until the 81 of
June, power will wage an unequal bat
tie against the convictions Of delegates
who would be glad To obey their consti-
tuents.
IL IL confidently expected that Illinois
will follow Pennsylvania and New York
in an unqualified endorsement OF Grant
for third term. Colorado has already
declared for him, and California. Nevada
and Oregon will follow in the iullness OF
time. These will be the emphatic Grant
States OF the North at Chicago, and the
recognized leaders will be there to ex-
haust all modern political appliances to
make their vote as nearly unit as pos
sible. Elsewhere in the North there
will be scattering Grant delegates, and
there will be lew solid delegations
against him. Blaine will control Maine
and New Hampshire, and Edmunds will
control Vermont; but Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island and Connecticut
will divide with Grant, aud
Vermont is likely TO make Eimunds a
convenient bridge to get over to Grant,
Blaine could make Maine aud New
Hampshire solid all the time against
Grant; but will he 10 so2 II he cannot
be nominated himself, Conkling and
Cameron will name the candidate. and
between Grant and the COnkllng- Came
ron dark horse, 20 be nominated under
covenants, he may be so indifferent as
to allow his delegates to make their own
choice. Indiana, although rs much
against Grant As Pennsylvania. will con-
tribute more or less Grant stragglerS,
and unless Michigan has forgotten
Chandler and Wisconsin has deserted
Carpenter. the Northwest will not be
wanting in Grant votes when il
comes TO the homestretch- Ohio
is halEhearted for sherman. lie
will have q delegation ready to break
into fragments at the tirst opportunity,
and in a desperate struggle many Of
them may be landed in the Grant fold
Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas viii not be
for Grant; but the same influences
which have controlled Pennsylvania
and New York may not labor entirely
in vain in that region.
ID IL TO be remembered that whenever
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