The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-09

else. The personal adherents of the different
candidates are ma%noeuvering and marsballing
their different forces so as if possible to win
the nomination, or, falling in this, to prevent
the nomination of rival aspirants. On the
Republican side Grant, Blaine and Sherman
are mentioned most prominently as the prob
able candidates of their party, while Wash
burne seems to loom up as the dark horse
which may carry off the prize if each of the
other candidates named fails to command a
majority of the delegates chosen to the Chi
cago convention. The Grant boom, which
swept like a wave over the country for the
first few weeks after the EX-President re-
turned from his foreign travels, seems to have
subsidized iatterly and yet he has a large fol-
lowing of influential men, who are working
earnestly, and efficiently to secure his nomi-
nation. HIS chief henchman in the work of
securing the nomination is Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, Chairman of the National Re-
publican Committee, but in this work he is
ably seconded by Conkling. of New York.
No doubt Mr.. Conkling would like to carry
oithe nomination himself, but seeing no hopes
of this, he would rather see Grant nominated
than any of his own special rivals. Grants
strength as a candidate lies partly in his mil
itary record, but in a greater degree is owing
to the fact that other aspirants for the Office
no not regard him with the same jealousy
they do one another. Between Conkling and
Blaine particularly this jealousy burns with
bitterness, and, if possible, with still ~increas-
ing force. Either Of these would lose meas
welded with their party should the other
secure the nomination and succeed in being
elected. With Grant as President it would
be different. His abilities are of a different
kind from either of those men, and he
awakes no jealousy or rivalry. Conkling or
Blaine, with Grant as President, might still
be powerful in the Senate as the organ and
mouth-piece of the President and the de-
fender of his policy, but it would be impossi-
BILE for them to sustain such d relation to one
another.
The two Republican conventions winch
have met in the great States OF New York
and Pennsylvania haye both expressed a
preference for Grant, but only by a small
majority, and that majority secured by politi.
cal le~gerdemain. The fact that Mr.. Cameron
manipulated the Pennsylvania convention
and Mr.. Conkling that of New York, affords
pretty strong proof that those conventions
tlemen rather than the wishes of a majority
of the Republican voters in those States.
Sherman seems to be working very quietly,
mostly through the patronage of the Treasury
which he controls; but he is
being closely watched and his eiectioneerins
fully exposed by the Republican
journals, acting in the interest of other cam
didates. The New York Times has laid bare
his efforts to secure a delegation fl ON North
Carolina to the Chicago convention favorable
to his nomination, and in language no way
has condemned his action and the
gross abuse of the public patronage of which
he has hardly been guilty. 1t is hardly prob
that Mr.. John Sherman will get away
with the baggage. The country has had al
ready four years of Hayes and Ohio and signs
tor a change.
Among the Democratic aspirants there are
several talked of, but zone that seem to tower
above all others as probable or possible cali
didates, and none that public opinion within
the party seems to designate as the candidate
before all others. Tilder is doubtless doing
more wire pulling than any other Democratic
aSpiropt anil tIarn ic NO fo1lipr tha ,,euIt of
this, with a man as astute and able as Uncle
Sammy, but he is not believed to be the
choice of the great mass of his party in any
and the reason heretofore urged in
of his nOmination-that he alone of the
Democratic statesmen could carry the State
OF New Iork-seems now admitted to be an
error, and if the Democratic press of the city
of New York can be relied on for its opinion.
he would be about the weakest candidate
could be nominated. so far as carrying
that State goes; and without carrying New
York it seems to be conceded that no Demo-
crat can be elected. In this view OF the
matter Mr.. Bayard looms up as both an avail
and highly respectable candidate of his
party. All concede his ability, his
his fearlessncss, his adherence
to sound Democratic principles, and
Above ali of his loyalty to his own honest
convictions, about which he has never PLAYED
juggler nor thrown any political summer
Of him it may be said as of his great
nanesake and antique, he is "Sans peur,
reprOche." He is perfectly sound, TOO,
OH all financial questions. and this ought to
enable him, if any Democratic candidate, to
carry the State of New York. He bears also
a great historic and Democratic name, and
his candidacy would awaken an enthusiasm
which the Democratic party has not felt for