The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-07-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Corresp ondent.

FIom Our Regular Corresp ondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 2, 1883.
Politics seem to be warming up
to correspond with the weather.
There is much interest here in the
Ohio situation, and to say that the
Republicans are exceedingly ncr-
vous but family expresses their
feelings. Key-notes for "a are be-
ing sounded in all directions, and
the fine preliminary work of that
campaign so far as the candidates
for nomination are concerned, is
being quietly done. George Bliss,
who has retired from the star
route cases with a hand some pile
in fees, is still about here and it is
said will alternate between Wash
ington and New York as the lieu
tenant of President Arthur in his
fight for the Republican nomina-
ton. When Bliss was private Sec
retary to Governor Morgan, he was
the chief magistrate Of the State to
all intents andpurposes. and it may
be noticed that in conventions, in
consultations and in all other
places Macgregor Bliss is generally
found at the head of the table, as it
were. AS the manipulation Of Ar
thurs campaign he is good deal
more likely to succeed than he was
at the head of the star route trial.
He is just about tricky enough
and unscrupulous enough to run a
Republican campaign in these lat
ter days of that once respectable
party.
It is said that President Arthur's
natural disposition to avoid trouble,
to live quietly and to ignore the
strifes Of the day, would disincline
him from the excessive labor en-
tailed by fight for the nomination.
Don't let the other candidates make
any such mistake. Arthur is a
quiet, taciturn, self.contained, self
caring man, undoubtedly, but there
is great deal Of human nature in
Arthur, He wasn't elected Presi-
dent, and it would be very proud
feather in his cap if: at the expira-
tion of a three years and a half ad-
ministration, he could be honored
by his party with a nomination.
That of itself would be an intensely
gratifying circumstance. The elec-
ton is another thing. 1t doesn't
follow that if nominated he would
be elected. The chances are pretty
strong the other way. But as mat
ters now stand he has the inside Of
the pole in the race for the nomina-
ton. Blaine is considered out Of
the way. Logan is very ambitious
but Dorsey says he can kill Logan
off. There is not strong man in
the cabinet except Folger, and the
latters' defeat last fall dug the pit
into which his presidential aspira-
tions necessarily fell. In the next
Republican convention there will be
818 delegates, 1t will be necessa-
ry to secure, for a nomination, 410.
AS things look now, there is hardly
any doubt that Arthur will 60 into
that convention with the solid
South at his back, and a solid
South means that mysterious and
significant number S06. That leaves
104 only to be obtained, with New
England, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and the boundless
West to CLEAN from. Let all the
ambitious Republican statesmen
look out for Arthur.
On the Democratic side there is a
greater quantity of available tim.
ber, and the probabilities cannot be
so closely narrowed down. The Re.
publican organs are indulging in
considerable chaff about the posi-.
bility Of the old ticket Of Tilden
and Hendricks, but they would not
laugh so loud if there really was
certainty of Tilden being again in
the field. To show the real feeling
among honest Republicans I will
quote the language of a well-known
Republican correspondent in the
Philadelphia Press, which though
Republican is, under its present
management, honest and outspoken.
Remember all that urged in favor
of Mr.. Tilden when he was elected
before. He is now older, but he is
stronger-and richer. In addition
to all that was said of him during
his first campaign, comes that vast
sentiment which lodges in the
minds Of Republicans as well as