The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-15
GRANT FOR 1884,
LATEST PLANS OF THE TRiUMVIRATE.
Cameron. Logan and ConkIing Rely
ing Upon Garfield's Defeat ana
Term of Democratic Misruie 10
Make the Country Cry Out
for the old Commander.
Philadelphia Times

Philadelphia Times.
Chicago, June 0.--The great battle is over
and all sides have had time to review the
field, count the Losses, estimate the advan-
tagos and take glance at the future. No
national convention Of any party ever gath
cred larger number Of representative men
together than we're face to face in the desper-
ate and protracted conflict that has Just
closed and the study Of the actors and their
respective positions and power has been as in
terestng as instructive to the impartial OBJ
server. During the progress of the struggle
| have had access rs q neutral to the inner
circles of all the various opposing forces and
my judgment in regard to the availability of
both Grant and Blaine as candidates in 1880,
has been somewhat modified by careful and
entirely dispas:ionate inquiry into their re-
sources and enduring qualities for the race.
believe that the strength OF Grant as the
standard-bearer Of the Republican party has
been generally underestimated by his foes,
and that Blaine's pers, had he been nomi.
mated, are generally underestimated by his
friends. There is no installing the fact that
Gran. has little of the purely popular ele-
ments Of a candidate, while Blaine possesses
degree Of personal popularity that has
never been equaled by any Of the great Re-
publican leaders lie could swell the Repub-
ican msiorities in Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Illinois, where any Republican nominee can
carry the electoral votes, and he could ma
Indiana debatable But the nomination of a
man like Payne, Of OHIO, would have made
the pivotal Buckeye State doubtful, and moth
ing but ilood.tide of Democratic folly
could have made New York cast her electoral
vote for Blaine. be could clthuse the rank
and file as has never been done since Clay
was betrayed in the Empire State by the
AbolitionIsts and the government given over
to Territorial extension solely for the benefit
of slavery; but the :mperou; chieftain OF
Utica, who has never spoken TO Blaine or
even noticed him in debate for some fifteen
wears. would have sUlled in his tent and his
Followers would have made Blaine's triumph
impossible. Conkling and Curtis would have
agreed for once and the mutual hate that
they have for each other would have had its
counterpart in their mutus hate for Blaine.
1t seems TO be fair conclusion that the
Plume6 Knight could have polled larger
aggregate Republican vote than any of his
competitors and yet failed of an election
against an acceptable Democratic ticket His
nomination like that of GARFIELD, would have
been ccepied as torbidding hopeful con-
test in any Southern State, and with both
Indiana and Ohio in doubt and New Go k
and New Jersey lost ne would have fallen,
lamented as none has been since the fall Of
Clay.
THE STRENGTH OF GRANT.
Any enc who intelligently studied the at
titude and aim Of Conkling since the conven-
ton first met could not mistake the Getermi-
nation Of the Grant leaders that Blaine
shall not be President, and on this contest
they hold the key OF the Republican position.
There can be no success without their posi-
tive leadership, and il is doubtful whether
without their resources and most cordial CO.
operation either Blaine or Garfield could win.
| believe that the resources and estimated
strength Grant as candidate have been
very generally underestimated by his oppo-
nents Had he been nominated there would
have been chill throughout the Republican
ranks such as the nomination of Taylor over
Clay sent throughout the Wing party in
1S48. The great heart of the organization
that throbs 50 warmly for Blaine would have
been pulseless for season, and there would
have been protests and bolts, and many would
have quietly retired to neutral ground. and
if the election were but sixty days distant al
most any man but Tilden would have de-
feated Grant overwhelmingly. But the
election does not come around until Novem-
Der, and those who counted On an easy
defeat of Grant would have been fearfully
disappointed. From the day Of his nomina-
ton there would have been portentious MUIR
murs in the Democratic ranks of the South
Mahone,of Virginia; Stephens and Lochrane,
OF Georgia, and score of other prominent
men who will oppose Garfield, would
have only awaited favorable time and cir.
cumstances TO declare for Grant, and Vir.
ginia, North Carolina and Florida would have
been debatable from the start. The one great
obstacle to Grants success was Ohio. He
would have been defeated there at any time
in the three months after his nomination, and
it's probable that even as late as October
Ohio would have obstiuately refused to elect
the Grant State ticket, which would have
doomed him TO defeat. With Ohio lost to
grantin October, the South would have con.