The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-15
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
Struggle for tho Democratic Convention he Re.
publlcans of tho Northwest for drant-0hioago
Ahead Of Romo-lco Famine
Commercial aud General

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CHICAGO, February II, 1850.
Greedy Chicagol Not satisfied with seour-
ing the Republican National convention, she
Is making the most strenuous efforts to in
duco the Democrats to assemble here also.
But tits patent they will fail The average
Democrat will not initiate Republican in
any particularany more than lion will n
vullurc or animal that feeds upon carton.
believe il Is "As You Like It," There is n
character who saved himself from being
devoured by tho King Of the Jungles by
feigning death, and who says that the great
monarch of beasts is 80 iastidious that he will
not even touch flesh he finds seemingly dead.
This is your average politician all over when
it comes to doing anything his opponent ia
vors. To ask the Democratic counties TO
meet here after the Republican feast is over
and pick up the scraps left, would be the
greatest insult that could be Offered.
Speaking of the Republican convention,
the whole party in the Northwest is alive
with
THE GRANT BOOM.
Hardly any other name is ever heard in con-
necion with the nomination The only fear
is, not that he will be declared the nominee
by reclamation, but he will, either before the
meeting or at it, peremptorily decline to run.
There are few old-time fellows who oppose
third term from u purely conscientious
standpoint but their voices are drowned by
the multitude the other way. They are few
10 number, and will support Grant when
nominated, with the hurrah of all
the rest. The Republican leaders accept
the fact they are in q minority within purely
political lines, and that it is necessary to put
up man who will elect the party instead Of
the party electing the man. They count up
on Grant being more able to carry the irregu-
lar or independent voters than any man they
can put in the field. But this irreg-
lar vote, for the reason it is Independent,
may oppose a third-termer and the breaking
down of the we'll established precedent No
body up this way supposes he will decline
any moro than he would refuse pr sent of
a span Of horses. But what about that talk
down your way that he has gone to Mexico
for the purpose of laying pipes for its annex
alton? 1t has gotten into the Northern press
that is what he is there for, and the
that if this is so he will
carry Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missis-
sippi
The Democracy of the Northwest are in
different as TO who will be chosen leader.
They count upon the solid South TO go in
with, and ask that men be put up who will
carry Indiana and New York Thus their
campaigni is at once simplifed, and if man
aged with thimble full of brains will be
successful. 1t is asnearly certain as anything
in the future we'll can be that Seymour and
Hendricks would. carry their respective
States, and next to this the old ticket, Tilden
and Hendricks would be the strongest in
them, but it is feared that ticket might fail in
South Carolina, Louisiana or Mississippi,
which would be fatal tot.
WHAT Is POSSIBLE FOR ONE MAN To CORNER.
Ten years ago the nation laughed at
the eCcentricities of Colonel Sellers
as portrayed by Mark Twain. One
of the colonel's "Millions in it, was to buy
up all the corn in the North at ten cents per
bushel and starve the world into forcing it to
give him dollar And yet we have Just
seen Jim Keene do that very thing in wheat
He did not buy the whole crop of 10, but he
did capture enough to bull the market and
make four or five millions. With this illus
trious example before us, what will take
place in the future? Is it not practically
| proven by 1t that similar corners can and will
be successfully worked year after year il
corn. in -four, in meat, and even in cotton
| and tobacco? Does not the French Govern.
ment do that very thing with tobacco, and
thereby raise an immense revenue?
THE BOOM IN TRADE.
The trade of this city appears to b,
without limit, with network of forty rail
ways direct, and to everywhere indirect,
stretching to all points of the compass, save
its water front and doing more in that than
any other, its commerce is greater than that
of any other patton ever was before the be.
ginning of the nineteenth century. School
| BOWS brains are stuffed and added with
sophomore descriptions of the immensely Of
the Roman, Greek, Persian and Egyptian
empires Of oldes times, and yet not one of
them In The zenith of their glory ever had the
trade of Chicago. Nor did they have half
the private, palaces or individual wealth.
Their public buildings surpassed those here,
but their citizens were poor in
comparison, and ignorant and de-
graded as we'll. This city &C