The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-25
Observation-Disclosures.

We neglected 10 state yesterday WI! INC
pc,nocruts are not confidently expected 70
carry PENNSYLVANIA next fail. 1t would
seem reasonable TO expect them to do So
when the wide split in the Republican
partv Is taken into consideration. The In
dications. however, are that the Greenback
ticket will draw OF from the regular DEM
ocratic ticket votes enough to secure the
s,,ccess OF the CAMERON ticket, which, in
common parlance, Is the regular Republi-
can ticket. But there will We long time
between the oath Of May and the 18th OF
November, and the lane may prove to have
turn In IT.
Yesterday was the day for the assembling
OF the Convention Of the Independents 10
nominate candidates for the various State
offices. The declination OF Mr.. MARSHALL
70 run as a candidate for congressman-at-
large on the CAMERON ticket would, II he
would consent, as It is said he will not,
insure his nomination by the Independents
for almost any Office for which he would
agree TO run. That Is, we take 1t Tor
granted that owing TO his standing ano
nopularity in the State the Independents
would be sure TO use his name to strengthen
their ticket II he would only say that II
might be thus employed.
Mr.. MARSHALL. has some peculiarties
which would render almost any other mar
unpopular, but which do not appear to be
counted by anybody as an element OF weak
ness in his case. lie is opposed to all secret
Societies-Masons, Odd-Fellows, Sons OF
Temperance, Labor Unions, Knights OF
Honor. and what not-and never hesitates
to make known the fact. lie is also opposed
10 what he, or somebody for him, calls
Manufacturers Protection" In Pennsyl-
yania, where such Democrats as eX-Speaker
RANDALL are avowed protectionists, it is
surely little strange to hear that
one OF the most prominent OF Re
publicans Is opposed to such protec'
ton. But, as we understand his position,
il Is because he would protect the work
men rather than the owners OF the mills
foundries, furnaces, &c. He would pro.
bibit any manufacturer from employing
workmen in Europe and bringing them to
this country. 1t is possible that he would
prohibit absolutely such workmen from
coming to this country; but we are not sure
that he would go to that extreme. IL
would be new form Of Notbingism
il he could make his views on this last ques-
ton the principal issue in the fall elections,
and carry Pennsylvania on that issue, as
we think it was carried by the Know,
Nothings Of 1854.
But such an issue would spoil the anti
CAMERON contest. 1t is fight against the
Boss system that is going on in Pennsylva-
mia now. In SO far rs it is a continuation
Of the contest of 1880, it is a BLAINE and
an anti-BLAINE contest-a GRANT and an
anti-GRANT contest-a third-term and an
anti-thrd-term contest. 1t is contest be-
tween the Half-B Breeds and the Stalwarts.
1t is a contest between the Republicans
who on the one side demand that the dele
gates to their National Conventions shall
be chosen by districts, and vote as the con-
stituent bodies desire, or as the delegates
themselves prefer to vote, and the Repub-
licans who on the other side acknow-
ledge Boss rule, and demand that the
delegates shall be chosen by State Con-
ventions, and claim for those State
Conventions the right TO instruct their dele
gates to the National Conventions. The
reader will understand now why the Stall
warts charge Mr.. BLAINE with being in
league with the Independents Of Pennsyl-
vania. When we add that GEORGE VIII
LIAM CURTIS, the great anti CoNKLING
leader in New York State, has written for
publication letter in which he warmly
espouses the cause of the Independents in
Pennsylvania, and recollect that Mr.. CUR
It's is the editor Of Hdrpers' Weekly and
has immense influence over the northern
Republicans in every State, the outlook for
CAMERON will not appear to be altogether
encouraging.