The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-15

Glhnh would nave been thrown TO the Demo-
Gratis. But would Ohio have been lost The
Who'll issue Of the contest woull have rested
with State that has m undoubted Repub!i
can majority, and the Grant leaders would
have made such campaign as has never
been in the history of our elections Sher-
man would have been on the ticket with him,
and all the power of the government, all the
power of the banks, all the interests Of cap
ital and business, and all the money that
could be employed with the remotest pros
pect of controlling votes would have b en-
thrown into the battle for Grant, while Gar
field will left to tho ordinary appliances
of the party to shape his doubtful battle in
Ohio. There is nothing within tho range Of
skill, courage, desperation, venaliLy or fraud
that would not have been summoned to the
cause of Grant, ard success in Ohio in Octo-
Der would have made every Republican State
in the North vote for him in November and
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia Florida,
Alabama and Louisiana would have cast their
electoral votes for him whenever his cleo
ton was assured without them.
NEW YORK WOULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED.
New York could not have been made to
vote for Grant against any Democrat but
il'utllt DllL wv ClCNboIbh WV Va A'o" hN'h
is in the hands of the Grant men, even
against the people, and they would have
stopped ut no revolutionary process to secure
it whenever it had become necessity. bov-
ernor Cornell would have the strong Conk-
ling Legislature, and the choice of electors
would have been committed either to the
several districts or the Legislature itself, just
MS the emergency demanded. The Grant
managers would have forced the contest to
white heat and made the party assent to any
measure of violence and fraud to defeat the
Democracy. When it is considered that the
same men made the party and the nation as
sent to the Hayes fraud, what would they not
do to make Grant President, and why should
they doubt the submission Of both party and
country? The South would have been forced
into violence, Hamburg massacres W uld
have been planned in the National committee
and Grant would have been offered to the
distracted Republic as the embodiment Of
peace, safety and prosperity.
regard it MS most fortunate r the coun-
try that this desperate battle been
averted, and for that reason | welcome the
nomination of Garfield. | would have been
grieved ut the defeat of Blaine, for all who
know him, outside of the bitterness Of parti
sun and Mctious strife, must love HIM; but
Gener Garfield may be elected with little
harm to the nation, and he may be defeated
with mparatiyely little regret. If elected
he would make weak, but well-meaning
Executive, much after the style of Hayes,
only ranging above the infrmities of his pre-
decessur. Weak men never initiate their
equals. They exhibit their weakness by imi-
Eating impOssibilities, and every lucky subal
tern multplies his defects by
posing rs a Napoleon. His first grave eX-
hibllon Of weakness was given within an
hour after his unexpected nomination, when
he allowed Conklng TO eXtort from HIM his
consent that Ohio should second the nomina-
ton of Arthur for Vice President. 1t WAS
Conklings proudest achievement, for it ena-
bled him to snatch the laurels of victory
from his conQuerors. He cares not for the
election of Garfield, but he did care to bear
home with him the evidence that he had per
sonallv dictated to the convention by the Sc.
lection ola Vice Presidential candidate who
stamps tie imperial coat-of-arms ofConklng-
ism on the Republican banner OF New York.
If New York shall be carried the victory will
be ConkAng's; if it shall be lost it will be
the defeat of Garfield, and the responsibility
for the disaster will be charged upon the anti
Grant combination. He personally de-
manded and forced the acceptance Of Arthur
from Garfield, and for the first time in the his
tory ofthe government Il mere machine par
tisanism, with no pretensions to statesman
ship, is nominated for Vice President. Think
of the possibility of Chester A. Arthur, but
lately dismissed from collectorship by his
own party for corrupt prostitution of office,
D,ani1n,t of thn ITnitn1 ut I
How many scratches must the thought Crys-
talize in the Empire State?
GRANT TAKING IT ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
General Grant quietly stepped into the
Palmer house at 10 o'clock this morning, ani
never saw him look more gentle or com
posed. he came unheralded, at least to the
multitude, and witnessed with complacency
the profuse floral and bunting decorations of
the Palmer rotunds and lobbi 8, which were
intended to celebrate his nomination. He
chatted pleasantly in passing his acqualnt-
snces. walked leisurely to the ladies' parlor,
and the outer doors closed against all when
he entered. In half on hour he stepped out
in the same unostentatious manner, and the
faces Of Cameron, Logan and Storrs were
visible rs the ieutenants with whom no had
been in conference. Whist TRANSFERRED in that
briet council of war will probably never be
known to the public, but after Grant had
hurried of to the Milwaukee train both
Cameron and Logan said publicly that Grant
would be nominated without opposition in
1854. HAZARD little in saying that the con-
i'd, nj expectation of Grant and his leaders is
that Garfield will be beaten in 1880, and that
one term Of Democratic rule, under the in
spiraton of the Confederate brigadiers, will
make the Republican party shout aspontane-
Gus call for the return of its old commander,
and that the country will elect him by the
largest popular majority ever given to any
President sine Monroe. Grant is Tepulsed,
defeated; and he NJ moe doubts his
election to the Presidency, if he lives, than
he doubted his conquest of Richmond when
his lines recoled in bloody confusion from
| Cold Harbor. A. X. Nj.
| The new Senator, Brown, of Georgia, is an
exceedingly busy man outside OF politics.
He has two large farms; he is President of
the Western Il Atlantic railway, President