National Republican., 1880-04-19
HENRy !. JAMES, City Clerk
HON Ihny Eeel Abont II.

Especial Correspondence of TIE NATIONAL REPun.
LICAS)
SIR: The next President of the United
States, Ulysses Simpson Grant never led his
friends military or civil, to dcloat, nor never
will. His friends never brought defeat upon
him. They never will. It. is now as certain
us that tho National Republican Convention is
h. meet at Chicago in June next that he will
he nominated on tho first ballot and before
the vote is declared by ucclNmation with uu-
precodentod enthusiasm. The Massachusetts
Debating Society will so to Chicago, repre-
scntinE the scratchcrs or ything-to'beat-
Grant" kind of relurmcrs, whore they will b0
as powcrlcss AS a similar delegation was in
1876 at Cincinnnti The delegation will be
led by tho Rev. Professor Seclyc follower of
George William Curtis, who IL is said voted
for Greeley and has quite recently stated
that "the Republican party has outliYcd its
usefulness" 1t will be chapcroned with the
frgidity of an iceberg by the late Charles
Francis Adams, assisted hy that poorest OF
waste paper, the Springfield RepuJiicGn, whose
editors were so immaculate pure and sp0tlcss,
such unadulteratcd reformers, that they voted
for Samuel !. Tildon and, ii IS hinted, tapped
his hnr'l handsomely or rather proftably. The
dclcgatcs-at-large are men of no comparative
influence in the State, and the old Common
wealth, which mghthave commanded s0mo re-
spect, has surrendered 1t to the several classes,
WHO were bNlltu tNEOlllNI lu lHtlA hN0lIN w
defeat the nomination Of Grant, not expecting
to succeed with their candidate, but simply,
as II Is said, run for luck and take the chances.
The Grant candidates at large were eX'GOv'
ornors boutwell, and Rice, Il, II. Nudge, one Of
Bos'o leading business men, and s. $.
Brown, of Adams, all strong and active men.
They have the satisfaction of knowing that
the electoral vote Of Massachusetts, will be cast
for the hero of AppOmattOX, anyway.
Massachusetts is very severe upon Senator
Blaine. 1t was great mistake he mado when
he moved from Pennsylvania and settled In
New England that he had not pitched his
tent in Massachusetts,, near Boston. There
are people horc, from the Hub Of the Uni
verse" who say they would like him to explain
his peculiar conduct when the Force bill was
under consideration and defeated in the House.
What especial object he had in view when hc
made his celebrated speech on the Chinese
question of California. Why he straddlol him
self over the slvor dollar and undertook to
rdo into popular favor upon il, us upon q
bicycle
Boston has the audacity to pronounce him n
"politica demngogue" 1t win be remembered
that his colleague, Senator lIamlin, took eX'
ccptions to his Chinese speech aud gave him a
severe dressing down then and there.
! Speaking of Senator Hamlin, your CORE
spondent has always felt that the Republican
party did him and itself great injustice in not
| rcnOminating him with Abraham Lincoln.
| lie made tho mistake Of being born in Maine,
when ho could have ilst as well been born in
Massachusetts. Had Honest Hannibal Ham
! lin succeeded to tho Presidency as Andrew
/ johnson did, we would have had a very dit
feront stulo of affairs in the Nation to-day
| The party could do him tardy justice aud
greatly strcgthon its ticket by causing it tC
| read Grant and Hamlin.
There are rumors that Secretary sherman
| is in reality making his fight for the Prcsi
doncy with a view Of capturing the Nice'Prcs
! dcncy, HOWARD,
WORCESTER, April 1s, $780,