The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-03-05
FROM pIrtADEp ErA.
otAEcEs AT the ynHsrpESrIAL CONTEST.
sn.oIal corre.ponaenee Nov sorth.wc.t.

aLAEsEs AT THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
Special Correspondence New Northwest
\ PHILADELPHIA, February 20 The I
great naticuai industry, which, It gors
without saying. is President-making and |
is still going on, though rather qnietly dn-
ring the past week. The feature has been
the primaries IN New York ~: the election
of delegates to the Republican State Con-
yention. One incident Of some interest
was the defeat Of George William Curtis,
the sophomore in politics, who was candi-
date Tor delegate from Richmond county,
where he resides The Conkling party an.
doubtedly put forth extraordinary effsrts
to compass this result, and then they only
succeeded by majority OF niue. 1t is not
certain that his defeat there will keep Mr..
Curtis ont o; the convention, nor is it GER
tain but that he will be more formidable
out that in.
The convention meets at Utica the day
after tomorrow so, long before this letter
reaches you, Its action will have been CON-
municated to you. Under these nircum-
stances there is no excuse for the folly Of
playing prophet still venture tho predic-
ton that Conklng will have considerable
majority at his command, but that while be
may secure from the convention some ex
plicit expression in favor of Grant, he will
not ptess tina matter to the "an1e extreme
as Don Cameron by instructing the dele
gates to vote as a unit and TO vote for the
ex-P President.
In this he will display better tactics Than
the Pennsylvania Senator The instfuc-
ton amounts to as much or AS little rs the
| delegates choose 20 estimate it at. 1t has
been established at two Republican Nation
al Conventions that delegates had right
to vote according TO their individual prefer
encss, no matter what iron instruc"
lions had been adopted by the State Con-
vention. So It will be Conklug's policy to
have delegates chosen who are of their own
choice in favor of Grant, aud 1t is probable
that this he will succeed in doing so as tc
fully four-fifths of the representation OF
, the Empire State at Chicago.
The effect of this overshadowing bust
ness of President making upon the work
t of Congress is little less than paralytic
! The Washington dispatches during thu
t past week have been utterly barren SD ia
. as anything actually done is concerned
At the beginning of the session it vas an
: nouuced that it was to be unusually short
: but at the present rate OF progress L is la
o BILE to extend we'll into midsummer Tier
!. has been some tinkering Of the rules t
II prevent the reprehensible habit of putin
h riders on appropriation bills, but the resu
s. has not been achieved. There have baen
few comedies by the way side, as when tn
Democrats, after the President had give
them fully one-half OF the superysorshI
of the census, sh owed their gratitude b
B. rejecting his nominees for Ohio in bate
because he had dared to choose them froi
N his own party friends There has bee
some declaration about the Nicarauguan c'
N nal and the Monroe doctrine by statesme
who scented the possibility of new iss'
with strong flavor of American eagle
it. But of legislation there has been lit
or nothing.
Go The fact is patent that both parties
cautiously playing for position" WI
IN very little regard for the interests OF {
20 government. This sparriug match is liat
TO continue until after both of the Nation
of Conventions are held. Then the membs
on of Congress will go back to Washingto
rush through the appropriation bills ana
nd few other halc-digested measures, and th
xn hurry to their respective constituencies le
he some other ambitious fellows shoa!d
sowing tares and couspiring 10 depriyo !
"a country Of their services.
= Amidst all this personal and parts
-, -, self-seeking there has been one scene
IN MESSED during the past week that was re
" refreshing and calculated TO restore on
Gu dropping confidence in the possibility
American craftsmanship. 1t was VT
'he Thomas A. Bayard arose in the Senate q
~ delivered calm and powerful argument
Z support of his resolution to deprive gre
ted backs of their legal tender character.
900 R.vard i 4 candidate 70. the Demccr;
OF nomination for the Presidency in the sc
ock OF being the choice of q large number
old influential persons. It is not to be $
posed he is indifferent to that honor
ae- belongs to proud and ambitious fan
do and occupies seat in the United St;
lie, Senate as the successor of his grandeur
eth. bis grandfather aud his father, and 1t il
,ons be presumed that he would be glad to
ar to higher place.
But when he made the speech to WIFI
-, have referred, he must have known tia
-. thereby made it impossible for him to
ceiye the Democratic nomination. III
is too much OF the Soho idee in
party, too much dalliance With the Or
hackers to permit the nomination
champion of the doctrine 10 W
Do'' he thus boldly committed him
But it is q spectacle
as a command admiration, that of man
used ting his ambition behind him and mo
pads grandly forward to tho polar star OF pr
the pie.
bich How such conduct must have am
and Mr.. Thurman! A. @.
IS OF --~>.-
,ople THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
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