New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-04
candidate can secure the electoral vote of New
York Mr.. Blaine can.

candidate can secure the electoral vote OF new
| York MIR. Blaine can.
PERIL IN OHIO.
The best Republican authorities in Ohio declare
if Grant is nominated that State wfll be carried by
| the Democrats in the October election. Nobody
whose opinion is worth having has predicted Re
publican defeat In Ohio with Blaine at the head OF
the National Republican ticket. His very name IN
spires remarkable enthusiasm in that State In spite
of Senator Sherman's popularity it IS probable that
very largo minority Of tho Republicans OF Ohlo
would prefer to vote for Blaine than for the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. Ohio is q doubtful II not a
Democratic State with Grants name at the head OF
the ticket 1t would become almost certainly Re
publican with Blaine rs the standard bearer
THE CRY OF SCANDAL.
The argument that Blaine ought not to he NOM
mated because he might lose great States has made
very little impression. His opponents finally fall
back on the assertion that if Blaine is nominated,
old scandals will be revived and new ones will be
disclosed, which will put him and the party on the
defensive and make it impossible for tho Republic
cans to elect him.
To this Mr.. Bainc's friends reply in the first
place. that at Il time when tho Democratic party
was more anxious than any party IN this country
over was before to throw mud on the Republican
party and its leaders, and wien Mr. Blaine was par
excellence the ono man on whom they concentrated
their attacks when the Democratic party had the
power and the inclination to go to the bottom oil
all accusations made against him and utterly to de-
stroy him politically whether he was guilty or NOT
they signally failed to make ont case. They
failed to convince anybody except few malignant
partisan Democrats and handful of deputy Demo-
Gratis who claim to be Republicans, but who stand
up 50 straight that they lean backwards, that Mr.
Blaine had done anything worthy oil censurc. HIS
oI iittn Win
people of this country were morbidly sensitive
about the character of their public men and were
ready to judge Que Of them guilty of almost any
offence of which ho was accused without waiting
for the evidence in his defence.
The attacks upon Mr.. Blaine failed IN 1876
and any attempt to revive the scandals
Of that year now will not succeed. The
same powder cannot he twice burned No man
who has met and successfully rcpclIcd an attack
can br injured hya renewal OF hoNtlltlrS on tn'
same line. One OF the cauSc3 OF his present ponl-
larily is the fact that he has been through lne lit"
Of Democratic abuse ahd has come out unScoitrh
These are samples of s"Ihr OF lie Facts ana alSl-
mruts with Which Mr. BIanr's frcndS meet Ohj"c-
tiInS 10 his nomination.. Hey do not aEnlh inc -
sue which his opponents seek to make. lhey ,n'r,
the satisfaction of unprrndIcrh people ana 70 VI"
confllsoa of those WHO working for has defeat
EnMr>D: As \ RIVAL OF BLAINE
The attempt to combine the rlene';s antagoni'tic
to Senator Blaine upon Mr. EdmuniS, does moi no"
seem likely to succeed. The Senator from Vermont
would uadou3tcdly receive Il large vote IN the Con-
yrntl,n if tho dclrgatrS were released from their
present OBLIGATIONS or were obliged TO select the
candidate Of their second choice. If COnklng,
Cameron and Logan should agree to transfer tine
Grant vote To Mr.. Edmunds they might succeed III
part. bnt Only in part. Many Of the delegates from
N"w York and Pennsylvania personally prefer
Blaine To Grant, or either of the other Candidates
Y hose names will be- presented to the Convrhtion
nurr released from their present obligations ana
allowed TO vote - the, phrase, they VIII follow
t ir own uriinat:ons. and Will fairly rrpr' S"ft TN"
; altman Of thc people who sent them Acrr' by
,ntirv for the Senator from Maine.
10 make the Sc.lcur to run ElmundS III ~ u
OZARK horse" succcssu it Will b. ncrrS'aiy 10
combine the hnlk ui the Sherman vHtr with thdi "i
fine Grant meg. nut the drrGatr| VINO VIII Supp"r
S.c.iulu al, iuauN ut them rnillp~a>:r IlnilrlN n
Mr. B.alnr The Delegation from OEln II largely
i,.rc ~ 81 n,rn y hose srrOnd ch"lco ~ Balnr.
Inr:r votes canno. b, tIau~iIrrd 10 any Uirr can
du!at- iur the ruIp"ar Of d"i"dtlng the senator
fmu Maine ! he iils' essential for successful
rnl,,ultInn to drirnt Nh Blaine seems, therefore,
t. BE- wanting.
The i,lrl, contained in this dispatch are those
held lN Il large Proportion 81 TIE drlrgair@ ana
W,Ir Xur ~-cd 10 CoilV,ItHtiun during the interval
be t,,c-I tho morning AMI eycriHg sr'sious ~ thr
Convention. 1t may -" cathc!"'l that the b'hn'
ur.l ,tc becoming mole aud uulr CO4illcni all tht
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