The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-07-14

From present indications there. win
be a triangular fight for the Republican
nomination for President between
James G. Blaine, John A. Logan and
George +. Edmunds. with compromise
candidate like Joseph r. Hawley, or
Walter O. Gresham or Robert I. Lin
coin as the possible outcome. 1t has
been said by some of MFR. Blaine's
friends that he viii not permit his name
to go before the nominating Convention,
but that is probably only lone OF the
ways that are dark and the tricks that
are vain" to which that desperate poll
tician is wont to resort to accomplish
his ends. The fact is that Blaine's
chances for nomination are better now
than they have ever been, not that his
personal popularity is greater than
formerly, but because the forces within
the Republican party which opposed him
successfully in 1876 and 1880 are demon
allied and scattered.
Neither Logan nor Edmunds as cam
didate of the Stalwart wing of the party
can reunite the dissolved and distracted
elements which supported Grant in
1880. Blaine will make inroads upon
the former Grant strength as against
any opponent except Grant himself.
Logan's illiteracy and coarseness are
offensive to many of the leading Grant
men of the East, and Edmunds' classic
GOODNESS chills the ardor and enthusiasm
of the Western admirers of the great
military hero. Between these two,
Blaine, with his magnetic character and
dashing mode of fighting, will have no
difficulty to push ahead and make HIM
self the victor. Neither of them nor
both of them together can possibly
muster the strength against the Half
breed favorite in any of the Middle
States which he was obliged to en-
counter in 1880. As Blaine has long
desired the Presidency, and as there is
no reason for believing that his ambi-
ton in that direction has cooled, it is
not likely that he will deliberately
throw away the best opportunity he has
ever had to make himself the Republic
an nominee.
But the singular fatality which has
attended Mr.. Blaine's candidacy for
President may overtake him again. The
very fact that he will probably, as here
tof0re, lead the other candidates in the
outset, will have-a tendency to unite his
opponents in the end on some new cam
didate to be brought forward in the nick
of time Thus the story of Cincinnati,
repeated at Chicago, may be told again
in 1884. Even now candidates are being
groomed for the emergency by the enc
mics Of Blaine. Two Of these are MEM
bers of President Arthur's Cabinet.
Secretsry Lincoln, however, will hardly
prove available. Logan will have the
Illinois delegation well in hand. and be
is not the man to sacrifice his own future
to State pride. But Postmaster-G Genera
Gresham may serve the purpose of ths
anti Blaine men. He is Stalwart o.
the Stalwarts, and, withal, is posing as 9
| reformer. He will be able to c0ntro
the delegation of his own State, and
would most likely become the legatee O
both Logan and Edmunds. The influ.
ence of the Administration would prob
ably be exerted in his behalf, especially
in the South. Itwould therefore not b.
at all surprising if the next Republican
candidate for President should hail from
the State of Indiana. But it natter
not whence he comes or what his name
he is destined to certain and inevitable
feat.-Harrisbarg (Ru.) Patriot