The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-03
WAsu1SoroS, March 9

The great question that oyershadows
every other question here ct this time Is
the coming struggle for the Presidency.
The Republicans have called their Con-
yention at Chicago on the I'd OF June, and
the Democrats have called theirs at Gin.
cinnati on the 29d Of that month, and the
question that now agitates both Republic
cans and Democrats here is who will we
be able to nominate and elect. Since the
result Of the State Republican Conven.
tons in Pennsylvania and New York, the
third termers profess TO believe that the
boom is on their side. They claim those
two States, and in addition, Connecticut
and Wisconsin, from the North, and pref
" much all the Southern States, and say
that they will be able to nominate Grant on
tho first ballot at Chicago. And yet despite
this talk, It is manifest that the third term
movement is daily evoking a wider, deeper
and more formidable opposition. This Is
true net only Of newspapers but OF indivi'
duals. The opposition Is not only gain
ing strength but increasing in boldness oil
dissent. The great German meeting In
New York is case in point, as is also the
attitude Of the leading German Republi.
can newspapers. The Chicago Tribune,
tho leading Republican newspaper of the
Northwest, and the Cincinnati Commercial,
rs well rs the New York Tribune and
Springfield Republican, are daily demand
ing with more positiveness why the Re.
publican party should suffer itself to be
untrapped into defeat by Don Cameron
and Roscoe Conkling.
have seen enough since ! have been
here 10 satisfy me that the Democrats are
hoping that the Republican party will
commit the blunder OF nominating Grant
at Chicago. All the members OF the M
tional Committed session here last week,
expressed themselves hopeful OF Grants
nomination, with the exception OF Gen.
Ransom, Of North Carolina, who appre-
hends that Grant may prove unexpected
" strong in the South. For this reason he
would prefer TO see Blaine or Sherman
nominated. His judgment, however, dill
iers wholly from that OF his colleagues on
the committee. The committee as o body
wish Grant nominated.
WHO WILL THE DEMOCRATS NOMINATE?
This is a question that divided their
committee much more than their choice
of candidate for the Republican party,
/ never remember time when there
was wider dissent among Democrats
Many OF them acknowledge that they are
more at sea than the Republicans. New
York State is their great bug.bear. What
10 do with Tilden is the great problem
that distresses them. The spectre oil
Kelly, and the 10000 voters behind him,
atfrights their vision every time they
they think OF nominating Sammy. How
TO dispose OF man who has much need
cd barrel Of money, and who could be
put forward as their defraudcd candidate
In 1870, and yet who has the sworn enmi-
ty OF powerful Tammany against him, ID
their great embarrassment.
There are at least two members OF
the West Virginia delegation here in Con-
gress who express doubts as to whether
Tilden could carry West Virginia. This
shows you how much opposition there is
to him on othergrounds than hissupposed
inability to carry New York. The Post
newspaper here, the Democratic daily,
advertises Seymour, and from what can
hear among Congressman more Demo-
Gratis favor Seymour than any other can
didate. II Tilden would only step aside,
Seymour, as New York man, would get
the nomination without opposition, but
inasmuch as 1flden will not step aside,
and will not designate any one as posi-
BILE candidate for the Cincinnati nomina-
ton save himself, the Democrats see no
light ahead for them, and are much con-
cerned over the gravity OF the situation.
aREENBAcK PROSPECTS.
The Grecnbackers in Congress are very
indignant over the sights which they say
Speaker Randall puts upon Weaver, OF
Iowa, who has been attempting all session
to monopolze attention as the great ex.
ponent OF paper money ideas, but whose
hercsies on that subject are so unrelieved
by anything like ability that the House
looks upon him as bore, and the Speaker
shows him no iavorS.
The Rev. De La Matyr, OF Indiana, who
representative Indianapolis district, in that
Stale. got of a grand initiation harrague the
other day, which has been the text for no
little jeering by the newspapers, because
OF its utter crudeness and extravaganza,
and the members seem to be about sick OF
listening to such speeches.
And Just here l want to say word
about speech making in Congress. The
House is a body where a man finds his
true level in short order. II man Is
simply blathering fraud and demagogue
he is speedily recognized rs such by the
Speaker and the entire, membership, and
alter his calibre has been once ascertained
no body pays the slightest attention to
him. II, on the other hand, man has
real ability, audit is seen that he knows
what he Is talking about, aud that he only
talks when he has something worth hear
ing, he Is always sure to be recognized by
the Speaker and 10 be heard by the house.
As rule, the average member has but
few auditors. AS soon as 1t is seen that
he Is simply trying to get himself into
print in the Congressional Record, or, in
other words, that he is saying something
to send to his constituents, no body pays
any attention, and he fires away in the soli-
tude OF his own originality, while all
around him, and all over the house, the
members pursue their ordinary occupa.
tions, which is to write letters, read news
papers, and chat with one another.
Coming back to the Greenbackersa again,
l do not sec that they are likely 10 be
seen in Congress after their present term
has expired. The place that knows them
now will soon know them no more for
ever. l asked Potter Palmer, the great
Chicago hotel man, who was hero the other
day, how much OF Greenback conven-
ton they were preparing for next Ju ne in
Chicago. "Well, VIC are not making any
calculations" he replied, on a convention !
OF any size. / guess 1t won't amount to
a. Nl.Nu- l.