The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-03-10

STRENGTH AND BLAINE's wEAKNEs
-TILDEN's SUPREMACY WIN DEN
oCRATs RANDALL As A DARI
HORSE.
Pittsburgh Tefegycph
WAsHINGTOS, Feb. 90.
"We are going 70 nominate Grant
no matter what it costs" said one 0
the ex-President's campaign manag
ers fresh from q conference witt
Cameron aud Logan. To an intelii
gent aud impartial locker on here il
Washington, Grants nomination
seems inevitable. The determination
and steady progress Of those in charge
of the movement 10 put the ex Presi
dent again in nomination is begin.
ming 10 tell. Blaine's campaign Is {
campaign Of talk, while Grants mean;
business at every sep. While the
sentimentalists 10 politics Ike George
William Curtis are gushing for the
"plumed knight" practical men like
Cameron and Conkling are seeing 10
it that Grant gets the delegates. The
ex-PresiGent starts cut with The soliG
delegations Of the two greatest States
in toe nation, having together l2s
votes, while in Vermont with 10
votes Edmunds is but another name
| for Grant. Massachusetts, with 26
votes, it is claimed will follow this
lead. and it is hardly disputed that
Logan and local pride viii carry toe
day in Illinois and add her - votes
to the Grant column Here. then,
we have a total Of 20G delegates that
may be said 10 be assured ia these
FIVE States, leaving but l73 TO be
picked up throughout the whole
North and the entire south TO give
Grant the majority OF the Congen-
ton.
The ex-Presi6ent is wonderfully
strong with the negroes Of the South.
He is the one man among all the
foremost men Of the Republic that
they know. They regard him as the
savior Of their race and lock upon
him with supersiitious reverence
that ascribes 70 hin power little short
Of omnipotence. The triumpbal tour
Of the Southern States upon Grants
return from Mexico Is expected to
strengthen him with al classes and
conditions Of men 10 that section and
arouse an irresistible Enthusiasm
Besides it is the most raIursl Thing
10 the world for Fede, Office mold
er 10 turn from the getting to The ris-
ing sun, and 50 soon as il shall sp-
pear that Grant is the coming man,
hundreds Of these potent yolrieisn
will desert the cause Of : srra !, 10
which they now nomiaaliy adhere,
aud Join TO swell the chorus for Grant
Witb ell these sdvas stsges, and under
bold and skillful leadership, and
against timid and disorganized op-
position, is IL any wonder tina! Grants
friends have CONCLUDED that be can
sin with esse2 While Blaine is put.
ting or bis armor Grant IS in The
tbickest of the fight The Gran;
men say they can't afford TO let
Blaine have the ncminzliOn They
proclaim that the MuIiigan letters
would defeat him if be we're nomina-
ted. but there is a deeper TessOB for
their opposilioa thsn that Ia the
great States Of PENNSYLVANIA, New
York, aud IIliUois, (the established
base cf be Grant coiumn. the ina
chine" y for Grant and sll who are
opposed 20 it have made common
cause against Grant and rallied to-
geiher for Blaine, not that they loved
Blaine more IN many instaRees), but
that they loved Cameron, and Conk-
ling and Logan less For instance,
Cameron having espoused the Grant
cause in Pennsylvania mus. stand Or
fall By It's ultimate success CT failure
There Is 20 step backward for these
leaders. There il 10 turning aside
from their course. They have only
70 march forward 10 political victory
or GO down TO dusty death. At least
they so regard the issue between
Grant and Blaine as il Affects their
fortunes and future. John Sherman
might furnish middle ground upon
which the Grsn. snG Blaine factions
could stsud together, bCl hs il little
talked Of, and the eoltest seems to 0e
generally regarded az lying between
Grant aad Blaine, with the pTep0n-
derance Of opinion that the former
will come in an easy winner over his
principal competitor. Dark horses
ere little talked Of, and the only one
" hose name seems TO be received "a
vorably is that Of ex-Minister Wash
bGrne TIE latter would be excep-
tionally strong with The Germans.
with whom Grant Ia regarded as par
ticulsrlv weak, owing 10 the unbouH-
ded respect Of these foreigners for the
traditions Of the fatbers Of the Amer
icaa Government and their reverence
for the example Of the earlier Presi- |
dents.
WHAT WILL THE DEMOCRATS Dc? ?
While the way seems clear for the
nomination Of Grant OF the Chicago 1
Convention, what sban De said Of the
usually diseoTdant Democracy III
is not customary to fad anything Ike I
unanimity i1 the councils or among /
the individual members Of the Demo 1
cratic party, but a glance a. the field (
shows that while other names have I
been talked about. TildeD's j. algsvs
uppermost With the people II il
true that Tilden has been The target I
st which the poisoned shafts Of diset- Z
fected and spleneiic politicians have
been directed, and tba; members Of
bis own party have lsbored harder 70 4
kill him or than sny body else. sad I
yet to-day it is generally admitted BY /
Democrats Of every section thst the
one thing the Cincinnati Convention 4
must DO is 10 nominate Tilden. There I
is no escape from IL He represents 4
the organization of the party, TO say 4
nothing Of the bar'l, embodies what
ever Of zeal, or enihosissm, or hope
Of success may be called f5rih in the
campaign. A Democratic ticket ia
1850 without Tilden's name ST It's
head would be Ike the plsy Of Ham
leir with the Melancholy Dane"