Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-22
The Presidential Canvass.

Inc PreSlQenClal canvass.
Tho President makers Oh all sides arc busy.
Tho Third-tcrmcrs secured Pennsylvania and
Now York for Gen. Grant some time ago. Now
they havo succeeded in securing the delegates
from Kentucky, Missouri and scattering dele
gates from somo other States. His friends in
sst that tho South will also send u majority of
delegates TO tho Chicago Convention instructed
to vote for him.
Senator Blaine, of Maine, is tho next strong
est candidate. His strength is mostly in tho
West.
Mr.. Sherman. Secretary of tho Treasury
from present appearances is third in the race,
but In tho end may receive the nomination.
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, Con-
nccticut and also scmc scattering delegates
from other States have declared for Senator
Edmunds.
The Democrats arc rs much divided rs the
Republicans. The majority of the people arc
for Mr.. Tilden, while tho politicians arc for
Bayard and others II is asserted that the namo
of Mr.. Tildcn will bo withdrawn at an carly
day. If this be so, new man will, in all
probability, be nominated.
The Washington correspondent of The New
following correspondence under date of April
10th:
General Tom Oohiltrco, of Texas, who
accompanied the cx President on his
Southern tour until within two or three days
has arrived here and reports that tho Gu
thusiasm for the ex>Presidcnt all through
the Southwestern Statos is very great.
His brief and conciliatory speeches have
everywhere, he says, been received with
shouts Of applause and ho has virtually cap
tured the Southwest He believes that
the cx President enjoys popularity in that
section and that tho Southwest will ardcntly
support him for tho third term and give
him 90 overwhelming vote His reception
since ho landed in Galveston, General
Ochiltrec says, has been continued oya-
tion. There has been nothing like it in
this country for years; the Northern press
reports havo entirely failed to do justice to
it.
A CAUSE OF REGRET.
It is probable that somo of tho other Re-
publican candidates will regret, now that il
is too late, that thoy havo so pcrsistcntly
refused to show themselves to the Southern
people. Several of them have been at
different times urged and invited to make q
tour of the South or take part in the can
vass in that section, but they have always
refused. Mr.. Blaine has been os far South
as Richmond. Mr.. Sherman has been in
Now Orleans, but it was on tho disgrnceful
business of white washing the Louisiana
Returning Board, whom, with curious
hardihood, ho reported to be as honest men
ns himself No other Republican of suffi-
cicnt prominence to make him candidate
has dared to sec the South since tho war
except on Returning Board business.
THE EX-rREsIDENT's POPULARITY.
About the ex-Presidcnt's popularity in
the Southwest there is little doubt The
whito people of those statcs want liberal
appropriations and big slice of tho offices.
The mass of them are Democrats only
under compulsion and through the hostile
attitude of the Republican leaders. They
could hare been won over to the Republican
party at any time within tho last four years
and President Hayes failed to make a SEN
slblc impression on the South only because,
under the threats of the Returning Board
and other perpetrators Of frauds, ho was
weak enough to keep the whole nausous
gang in possession of tho federal Offices.
TIE SOLID SOUTH.
The Democrats here profess to tclievo
that they will retain the solid South in tho
coming election, but they know that there
is grave danger in split, and that with
any nomination by them such as that OF
MIR. Tildcn they would loso half dozen
Southern States. Party ties hang even
moro loosely in many parts Of tho South
to day than in tho North and West, and
that is saying good deal. Meantime the
friendly attitude OF tho cx-Prcsidcnt to-
ward tho South placed the Republicans here
for whilo in on embarrassing position
The third tcrmors had not got their cue
but thoy arc getting it. They adroitly pu
upon Mr.. Edmurts, who is not n thirt
termcr at all, tho ugly duty of resisting
tho reform of tho Elections Marshals law,
they stirred up friends Of Blaine md Shor-
man to commit tho stupidity in tho IIous
Of insisting on troops at tho polls, and TIT
somo purbliDd set hayo bccn moved t,
plead with tho President to veto both tht
Election Marshals bill and the prohibition
of troops at tho polls.
BAD JOKE ON OTHER CANDIDATES.
It would be bad joke on Blaine, Shcr-
man and Edmunds If tho third formers
should presently ropudint0 all this folly end