Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-31
TIE COMING STRUGGLE.

The approaching contest for the Repub.
ioan nomination at Chicago is evidently
destined to be very remarkable one
No such bitter and d-semnined lighting in
advance Of the meeting of the National
Convention has occurred since the time of
Van Barren and Breckenridge. The hos
tility to the nomination of Grant has long
since assumed SO pronounced and uncom-
promising a form that those who have
solaced themselves with the old-fashioned
belief IN an abandonment of all differ
ences after the nomination, must expert
euce unfamiliar apprehensions as to the
possibility Of restoring the enteate corclialc
in any event. And indeed the prospect of
united Republican party in the event of
the nomination of Grant is to-day ex-
tremely attenuated. The leading journals
of the country with scarcely an exception
have committed themselves most unquali-
fiedly against the third-term proposition,
nor is there any indication that the occur
renee of Grants success in the Convention
would move them to change their
tone The confident declarations of the
Grant managers they have been
very confident thus far failed
to cause any wavering in the ranks of the
opposition. On the contrary, the suspi-
cion of plan to capture the organization
of the Chicago Convention by Senator
Cameron has already produced a serious
movement to remove him from the Ma
tional Republican Committee. 1t is to be
noted further that since the politicians
from all parts of the country began to meet
az Chicago, the tone OF tie Grant men has
become less arrogant and assured Yester-
day for the FIRST time they admitted that
unless he was nominated on the first ballot
he would be defeated and they do not
seem so dead sure of nominating him CD the
first ballot either 1t is probable that
many OF these Grant politicians have
learned at Chicago, for the first time. how
very real and earnest aud extensive the
opposition to his nomination L. aud they
also have begun to perceive the danger of
fatal bolt even if they should be able to
carry their point. 1t is now asserted that
if the Grant managers attempt any unfair
ness or usurpation in organizing the Con-
vention, bolt is certain to ensue, since
the anti-Grant delegates are resolved not
to be cheated in any way It is not
less certain however that If Grant is
nominated third candidate will be put in
the field, for the machinery has already
been organized for that purpose, and by
men whose determination cannot be
doubted. And at Chicago the considera-
ton of what lies beyond the nomination is
certain to have a powerful influence upon
the average Republican politicians. Their
final desire is for the success of the party.
They do not care to sacrifice that success
for the empty triumph of a nomination
which the party cannot be got to indorse.
Convince them that Grant cannot obtain a
full party vote, and their motive for insist
ing upon him disappears and it is highly
probable that the proof of such contin-
gency is being furnished at this moment to
many jealous but narrow delegates. OF
course we shall have all sorts of rumors
henceforwayd until the Convention meets
on Wednesday, and it may not always be
possible to separate the wheat from the
chaff But this is certain, that the fight
viii be kept up with undiminished energy
and determination until the end, and that
the prospect of peaceful and harmonious
outcome is phenomenally poor.