The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-04
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THuRMAN--ABoUT FREE APPIhJACK-pRO.
BABLE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS IN THE
EARLY PART OF JUNE GRANT AND THE Ia
RlFf-MR. BLAINE-PERSONAL-THE DEFI-
! cIESCY BILL, &C.
fffom our Regular Correspondence
| WASHINGTON, May Sin spite Of the fact
that Mr.. Seymour declares be does not
want the Cincinnati nomination, and all
who know him believe he is in dead
earnest when he says so; in spite OF the
fact that he has no organization here or
elsewhere. and no literary bureau either TO
puff him or to disparage those who do want
the Cincinnati nomination, still all the adj
vices received at Washington from Demo.
cratic states indicate that he is the
first choice OF the Democratic porty for the
presidency. asked West Virginian to-
day, for example, who has just returned
from along the line OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio road in that Stetc, what candidate
named the people preferred and he replied.
I"Seymour is their first choice" had sup
posed he would say Thurman, because he is
for the great Ohio statesman, and l had
conceded that West Virginia was too.
4 Kentucky employe Of the Hou.e,
who served in the same command
with Captain George d. Wise during the
war. told me awhile ago that the latest in.
formation from that State is that the Sey-
mour sentiment is growing rapidly there.
Kentucky has been put down in all the CAL
culations have seen for Tilden, and yet its
entire congressional delegation is against him
except two, one OF whom, hear, is waver-
ing, because of the old mans evident want
OF availability. You may, in fact, g 10 the
| Capitol any day, or to the hotels any night,
and talk with the beSt-iniormed men here
from the Democratic States, and in an over
whelming majority of cases you will hear
the remark, My people prefer Seymour il
he will run, because he can certainly be
elected" The first objection made against
him by the partisans OF other gentlemen
named in connection with the Demo-
cratic nomination was that his health
was frghtfully delicate, and that he would
not accept. Now, however, when these OBJ
ieclions no longer avail to stop the rapid
popular uprising North, South. East, and
West in his favor, tbey say Mr.. Tlden is OPP
posed to him. Wei, Mr.. Tilden wants the
nomination himself, and is opposed to every
body who is in his way. 1t is certain that
he has no peculiar affection for any one now
prominent, and that his choice will be dark
horse. But suppose some outside State
dominates Horatio Seymour at Cincinnati,
and State after State votes for him as the
roll Is called, does ii stand 10 reason that
any New Yorker will vote against him, even
If he did prefer Mr.. Tilden originally? ]
sometimes hear it said that Mr. Seymour is
not popular in his own State because he ran
behind Hoffman in 1868; but Hoffman was
running against an ordinary man, and with
the certainty of winning the governership
and its patronage, and Seymour against
Grant, then the foremost man in all Ameri-
Ca; for he had not then been President
and furnished his military fame by two
administrations the most corrupt known in
the history of the United States. Seymour,
too, was leading forlorn hope, because the
southern States, including Virginia, had in
that election no vote; and yet under such
circumstances he carried New York, and
can carry it again by fifty thousand. His
friends here point 10 the significant fact that
while Tiden's ticket--Robinson d Co..
was beaten in New York last fall, that Sey-
mour, the kinsman OF the farmer statesman
OF Utica, was elected and say there is vic
tory IN the very name.
| OHIO SOLID FOR THURMAN
Eighty-seven of the lightweight counties
OF Ohio have elected delegates to the Demo-
cratic State Convention. OF these eighty.
one are solid for Thurman and six scatter
ing. This looks as il the Ohio statesman is
the choice OF his own people. What pity
| he did not run for Governor last fall.
THE HOUSE OPPOSES FREE APPLEJAcK.
The House has refused 70 amend the Car
Isle bill so as to relieve apple brandy OF any
OF the tax now imposed on it. Pending
the discussion, Judge Harris, OF Virginia,
said 81 have uniformly voted and strug-
gled for the right OF each person to manu-
| iaciure the fruit grown on his own lands or
those under his control without paying any
tax. There are hundreds OF persons in my
district W ho live too far from market to dis
pose OF their apples and other fruits. The
law prohibits them from diStiling them,
md the result is they rot and become OF no
use to any one. This is wrong. 1t is the
only means many persons have OF making
living, and it is unjust and tyrannical In
the Government to deprive them OF their
principal means OF support. | hope this
small boon will he granted"
ANOTHER FLOOD OF PETITIONS IN FAVOR OF
TARIFF COMMISSION.
There was another flood OF petitions in
both houses to-day in favor OF the passage
OF Senator Eaton's bill for the establish
ment Of a tariff commission. Pennsylya.
mia sent in much the largest number, and
there were some from States as far South as
Alabama. Virginia's petitions embraced
one from the Old Dominion Iron-Works,
Richmond. All these petitions baye the
same priuted head, and contain the letter
from the president of the National Iron and
Steel Association, already noticed 10 these
dispatches.
ADJOURNMENT AND NIGHT SESSIONS.
Everything hear either from Democratic
or Republican congressman indicates an
honest purpose to get through by the FIRST
week in June. A resolution introduced In |
tho eenate to-day by Senator Wallace for |