New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-27
BRJEGIYG IN THEIR STATES

The Senatorial Syndicate have fought their
battle with great persistence, and each with
characteristic method.
Let it be remembered that the original pro-
gramme was Great Popular Uprising. Gen
eral Grant lent to it his inexhaustible and un-
paralleled passivity He travelled gravcly
around the world without protest, and the
world bent before him with even more attention
than had been expected He came home, and
his countTymen received him with enthusiasm
There the Order of Exercises came to d I'd
halt. The American people began to suspect
that they were taken in. They were ready to
Receive the OK President with unboundcd cheer
ing, but they had no idea of voting for him.
He was instantly sent on his travels again, but
without success. The fire could not be re-
kindled. The people said, first wonderingy
then resolutely, that they did not want third
term.
Then the battle began between the Senatorial
Syndicate and the American People. The
People were incredulOus, reluctant. but with
latent determination. The Syndicate were firmly
seated in their Senatorial chairs I'LL after the
next Presidential election of 1884, and they felt
that they would be no worse oil with Demo
cratic Administration than with u Republican
Administration which they could not control.
Mr.. Cameron advanced the first parallel, He
had found in his Pennsylvania Great Popular
Uprising, but 1t was for Blaine and not for
Grant. Mr.. Blaine was in Maine fighting
against Democracy tooth and nail, and with
neither time nor thought for his personal for
tunes so Mr.. Cameron had it all his own way.
His own way was his own personal humiliation,
which considered everything manly that would
win. He got himself made chairman of the
National Committee, by protesting that he was
not against Blaine He was a Republican, and
no patriotic party man wishes to antagOnizo his
party as sharply as he would antagOnize the
enemy. Accordingly, MIR. Cameron was made
chairman.
He went to the Harrisburg Convention. The
Convention was for Blaine, and not for Grant
Mr. Cameron begged and pleaded that he might
not be humiliated- all his future depended
on his not seeming at least to be defeated and
the Convention, not unfriendly, not desiring to
humiliate their own Senator, agreed TO be in
stIuctcd on condition that the delegates should
use their own Judgment at the Convention, and
vote as a amt for Blaine if ut Chicago they
should deem it wise. Thus blr. Cameron got
his Grant instructions and unit rule through at
Harrisburg by abject supplicatOn
Mr. COnkling advanced on Syracuse in his
more seIf-resDecting fashion. lie had the adj
vantage of a really stronger Grant sentiment in
New York than Cameron had in Pennsylvania,
and with the discipline of the most perfect
political machinery that ever existed in the
country he had less trouble in supprC ssing q
minority, which in a Convention Of 420 mem
beers came within 30 of being a majority,
and might indeed have been an actual majority
but for the admission of questionable delegates
from Brooklyn. Mr. COnkling himself got into
the Convention by scratch. The anti-third
termers of Utica were strong enough to resist
him, and had their tact been equal to their num-
bers they would actually have excluded him.
But long use, shrewd management, and elo-
auent oratOry from Mr.. Conkling succeeded in
giving to Grantth semblance of SUCCESS, while
the Empire State was and Is really against him.
Mr.. Logan, with his somewhat simple nature,
and with his wOnted bravery, took frank and
brutal directness. He went to Illinois, tore
of his coat, and began to knock down and drag
out in his shirt sleeves. Springfield being later
in the day, and feeling the grOund-swell of
National resistance, was harder to win than even
the strong cities of Harrisburg and Syracuse.
But Logan threw himself ON the majority with
savage strength, and held it down by the
throat long enough to call out to Conkling and
Cameron: have brought in my State ~
Considering what they had to contend
against, the Senatorial Syndicate has been won
dorfully successful. Considering what they
started out for, they have been rather failure
The Harrisburg Convention had hardly dis
solved before Pennsylvania began to suspect
that Cameron did not mean to play fair, and it
has been rapping his knuckles ever since. Tho
people muttered and growled and roared at him,
the delegates declared instructions off, and
THE TRIBUNE harassed his very soul with
postal cards. Mr. Cameron has been engaged
from that day to this with his refractory delega-
ton. He cOaxes and wheedles, prays and prom
ises, sweRISS and swears. lie has gone on to