The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-14

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pliment paid to the Ohio Senator, but
when it comes to business Mr.. Thurman
can scarcely be said to be in the field.
Mr. TIlden is master of the situation
from all stand points. He has even com
passed the uncertain chances of life and
death, and quarantined against failure
in defiance of the very king Of terrors
| II he lives he will be the democratic
candidate for president, and if he dies
his remains will be followed TO the
grave 10y one of the most enthusiastic
funerals ever known in the mortuary
history of the world.
Some of the third term organs are
very magnanimOusly rendering the great
financicr The second place on the nation
al ticket and are bowling for Grant and
Sherman as the result of the Chicago
Convention. This looks very nicely on
paper. but the politicians who look 10
Ohio TO furnish tail for the presiden-
tial kite will please remember that the
Buckeye state has never claimed the
honor OF being the mother of vice presi-
dents.
While the result of the Chicago Conven-
ton is confessedIy one of those things,
which, in the language of Lord Dun
dreary, mo fellow can find OUT we are
delighted to state, upon the authority of
an Emporia gentleman, who met him on
the train The other day, that John Smith
has declared himself, and offers to go
the extent of his pile, that Grant will re-
ceive five hundred votes on the first bal
lot in the Chicago Convention. This can
scarcely be considered case in which
straws show which way the wind blows.
II is much stronger Indication. When
the proclivities of John Smith can be
accurately ascertained, the people, as
a general rule, consider themselves in
possession of Il pretty fair knowledge of
the drift Of public sentiment.
The cry that the Blaine counties in
Illinois have all been heard from is
getting almost US thin as the old
story of Tilden's withdrawal. Late ad-
vices from that state, as published by re
liable and conservative journals, indi-
cate that 43 out of the 103 counties have
elected delegates, and of the $50 men
chosen 155 are for Blaine, 126 for Grant
and for Washburne. Among the large
number yet TO hear from Blaine is said
to have strong following, especially in
the Republican counties, all of which,
thus far, have instructed for him. 1t
really looks to a man up tree that
John A. Logan will have to do some
mighty hard work, and Gen. Grant a
good deal of travelling over the state be-
fore the pledge of the swarthy senator 10
deliver solid Sucker delegation for a
third term at Chicago can be redeemed.
1t is very safe to infer that the in
struction of the Ohio delegation to Gin
cinnati for Thurman, gives Mr.. Tilden
no serious uneasiness- He is well aware
that it is upon the electoral vote of the
state of New York that the possibility
| of Democratic success in 1880 is pre-
dIcated, and he is as certainly con.
nusant of the fact that the temporiZing
course of Mr.. Thurman on the financial
question, in the Senate, has placed him
in extremely bad order among the hard
money Democrats of the east,
who do not, as a general rule, entertain a
very exalted view of western statesman
ship on this question. The efforts of
Uncle Dick Bishop on behalf of Mr..
Tilden at the Ohio convention may pre-
sent surface indications of failure, but
we feel warranted in the prediction
that the sage OF Gramercy Park will dis
the home stretch, that little job of John
G. 1hompson's to the contrary, notwith-