The daily gazette., 1880-08-07
ABANDONING TAE SOUTH.
REPUBLICAN l. FAD ERS IN A
VERY DESPONDENT MOOD.

TEST IN THE SOUTH, AND DECLARE
THAT MAINE, INDIANA AND OHIO
ARE THE PIVOTAL STATES.
The conference of Republican lead
ers and statesmen from all sections
which was held yesterday in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, was nothing more moi
less than gathering of persons whose
every interest is iI favor of keeping
the Republican party in power, nc
matter what its record. 1t was called
for the purpose of devising ways and
means TO carry on the campaign,
which in other words means to get the
wealthy men of the Republican party
to put up money, by which it is ex-
pected the great popular vote for Han.
cock and English can be overcome in
Ger ain States, and the Electoral tick.
cts of such States counted for Garfield
and Arthur. The corridors of the ho.
tel were thronged with politicians OF
all parties, and brisk and lively dis.
cussion went ON from the front door
to the bar from an early hour in the
morning. There were many Republi-
cans present who took no stock in the
conference, for, in the words OF an old
veteran, they had been there before
and knew what it meant.
81 tell you," said one well known
politician, II amt going in for any OF
it this time, We're beaten already.
What's the use of sending good money
after bad These fellows up stairs
wants us to 90 down deep into our
pockets this time, SO that while they
can dance we pay the fiddler"
There were ex-office-holders by the
dozen and Office hunters by the hum
dred present. Only the ''big bugs"
were allowed up stairs to the room in
which the conference was being held.
The small fry, who were known to
have no surplus bank account, were
kept below by two policemen and an
official, who was evidently posted on
the solid men of the party.
Gen. Garfield was in the hotel, but
did not attend the conference. He held
a levee in his own room, and his card
basket was filled with the pasteboards
of the callers. Each man of them be-
lieved that he alone was fit to repre-
sent the United States in the Court of
st. James, Paris or elsewhere.
Among the callers on the already
badly-frightened Presidential oandi-
date were Secor Robson, W. W.
Belknap, Frank Shepherd, Thomas G.
Alvord, Frank Hiscock, ]. M. Bundy,
Green b. Raum, Gen. Badeau, Sena-
tor Blaine, Edwin W Stoughton, Gen.
Arthur, Senator Potts of New Jersey,
w. r. Petit, Senator Birdsall of Long
Island, Hugh Gardner, Salem II.
Wales, Thomas Cavanagh, Z. Nc
Manus, ex-Secretary Boutwell,, Gov.
Hoyt of Pennsylvania, E. d. Morgan,
w. A. Stiles Of New Jersey and Gen.
Carr of Albany, Gen. Sharpe, Con-
gresham Hiscock, Levi P. Morton,
N. P. Banks, Edwards Pierrepont, ex-
Gov. Pinchback, ex-Gov. Jewell and
many others. After paying their re-
spects to Gen. Garfield they repaired
to the room where the conference was
being held. This meeting was called
to order by ex-Gov. Jewell, who said .
"We are assembled to consider
what action it will be necessary to take
in the coming campaign, and especial
ly to take into consideration the ques-
ton how we are to aid our brethren IN
the South. may as well tell you at
the outset that the members of our
committee are divided upon the latter
point, some of them contending that
we should not fool away our time on
Louisiana or any other Southern
Slate"
Here Mr.. W. E. Chandler wanted
the reporters excluded from the room
but the matter was left an open ques-
tion after discussion. DR.. Loring of
Massachusetts offered resolution that
the National Committee be directed
and authorized to provide pecuniary
and such other aid as they may deem
necessary for the Southern States in
the coming campaign, and that it is
the sense of the conference that their
brethren in the South should not be
abandoned in the coming struggle.
Then the row began, and it soon be-
came apparent that there were many
present who regarded the resolution as
an outrage and that it meant simply
an effort to buy up some Southern
States.
Mr.. W. W. Hicks of Florida was in
favor ofthe proposition and said :"We
our property in the last
contest, and we don't fear to repeat it.
Aye, and we will sell out every acre of
it if necessary. [Great cheers This
contest means life and death to the
In Florida, and we will
carry it by the white votes of those
who have settled there"
Mr.. Conover of Florida said that
what they wanted was the moral as
we'll as the financial support of the
North.
Mir. Cessna of Pennsylvania claimed
that the only hope of the Republicans
in the coming election was to secure
Congress.
Gen. Sypher of Louisiana said: off
the candidacy Of Garfield and Arthur
depends on the Electoral vote of the
South then we are licked to-day, ,and we
cannot get slEgle Electoral vote south
Of Mason and Dixon's line." He be-
Iieved there were too many s'ifs" in the
statements about Republicans carrying
The Southern States. He heard men
talk of the majorities they would give,
but for his part he did not believe sim
gle Southern State could be carried, or
II carried, would be for the Republicans.
The figure ground for them in the South
was North Carolina, where the deter
mined stand taken by the white voters
would win them the day. There should
be, however, deter mined men at the
polls, with pistols in their hands, as the
l. .nnr tho hlack maioriiu In q section the