The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-11-25
THE CANDIDATE OF 1854.
IL 10 ImPossieie 20 be Grant. but it IL Likely
10 be GARFIELD.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.

special Dispatch TO the Cincinnati Gazette.
PH,LApi;irHIa, Nov. 5.-The american, the new
weekly Rotical and literary Journal edited by Prof
Robert Ellis thompson, and in which Mr.. Wharton
Barker Is interested, will have notable editorial to-
morrow, on The Grant Campaign
IL has been remarked among the exuberanres Of
the Republican campaign, that ssme of our orators
were not content with doing their best for the cand
date of 1850 They extended their efforts 10 promote
the cause of the candidate of 1884 and tbose who
place the success of fayorite candidate a level
with that OF the party went into the canvass think
ing OF 1871 even more than Of 1870.
This has been most notable in the case of General
Grani friends and supporters They have not. like
Mr. sherman, made up their minds that the choice
made at Chieago was the best possible They seem
TO have been unusually anxious to explain that Mr.
Garfield was not their choice: but that they be-
longed to the iustrious JOG and to Indicate that
they were confident of securing for Mr.. Grant next
time the prize which so narrowly escaped their grasp
tins time In this business, Mr.. Conkling has taken
the lead IN the first half of the campasn lie led in
nothing. lie spared no pains to let the country
know that be was offended and he must he made
much of and soothed before he would take n part i'm
the game When he did at last show himself. the
ar was mi OF rnmors rs 10 bargains and agreements
between Mr.. Garfield and himself
These T7taors altogether misleading NsifksT.
tsen nor al any other time, did Mr.. Garfield ooHciiiae
SENATOR conkhngs or avg other MANS support. By any
pledges besdcs those contained 10 his letter 81 acceptance
We kaoe srhereof re spedk Nhe, sdy that not eres
Georye Washington e1ttercd HpoR oSfce free oD
entdn9leIneHts Of .rcry sort.
The IReTicaH goes on to say that Mr. Grant is at
once the most popular of men. and the most mpossi
BILE of candidates To elect Mr. Grant To the frrsi-
deney Is TO put that office in the hands of Commits
sion. O' which Mcssrs. Cameron. Conkling and L.'-
gan are members. To that arrangement the country
i no more ready TO assent than when il abol-
ished that commission by retiring Mr. Grant from
the Presidency. Ii the nomination to be made
to-day. there woud be the same opposition to the ex
President ~ in jane last
The IHserioaR article concludes a. follows:
We venture to predict that the candidate of 1851
will he the candidate Of 1880 Garfield unlike Mr..
Hayes has not pledged himself to refuse n rr-clcc
ton. but he will b. like Mr.. Hayes in refusing To Use
his high Office for the promotion of his personal
billions IL he Is he President u second time IL
will be becansc the people. having found him worthy
of the place prefer his reelection experiment
with new untried and if he fails to give
isfaction, and win friends in the Presidency il will
be the rst of many trying positions in which he has
failed
This article will attract attention from the fact
that Mr.. Barker H. warm personal and political
friend of Gen. Garfield, aud is formidable claimant
to the title of the original Garfield man.