Daily globe., 1883-07-17
ARTIL THE FIELD.

HRTILUKIN THE FIELD
The Republican party is no longer with
out at least one pronounced candidate for
the Presidential no mination. For a long
time covertly a candidate, Mr.. Arthur,
whom John Sherman kicked out of the
back door of the New York custom-house,
who is now acting president by the acci-
dent of assassination, has determined to
make the attempt to enter the White House
by the front door. The first step in that
direction is to secure,the nomination of one
of the national political parties. Can Arthur
col trive to get votes enough to capture
the nomination?
The Republican convention of 1884 will
consist of $40 delegates. The southern
states and the territories will have 344 del
egates. As All are required to nominate,
the candidate who can attach to
his flag that support will
need to look elsewhere for but
sixty-seven votes to receive the nomina-
ton. Arthur is about setting out on his
great $50 horse act through the territories,
and Chandler has been eng aged for year
in organizing or reorganizing a Republican
party in the south. 1t is true they may
not acquire ali these votes, but by the tac-
tics employed, they stand fright smart
chance" to control the most of them, and
that is the basis of Arthur's decision to be
a candidate for nomination.
At the Chicago convention in 1880,
Grant had III of the 262 southern votes
that were cast there, and the southern del
egates were good stayers, as On the last
ballot he retained all but two. Sherman
had few Southern votes, delegates who
cam there with Sherman checks in their
pockets and Sherman tickets
in their hands. The fact
that Sherman divided the southern vote
with Grant was great obsta-
Gle in the way of the third
term ca andidate, and misadventure not
anticipated when Grant entered the field.
Arthur's expectancy of the southern vote
may miscarry, as did Grants, as some
Sherman may arise who can fatally divide
it with him.
Garfield, who never loved Sherman, was
induced to go to Chicago as delegate for
the purpose of aiding in taking as much
as possible of southern vote from Grant.
He was SO far from being Sherman man
at heart, that he did not control or in
fuence the delegates from his own con-
gresslonal district, whose votes we're given
to Blaine steadily until the break came for
Garfield
Arthur is repeating the mistake of Gran
and showing the blindness of Sherman in
seeking his chief support for the nominat-
ing convention from quarters that
cannot give him single elec-
toral vote. The solid south has
not. under the Establishments of Chandler,
been reconstructed into a Republican
parish, and the territories have no cleo
toral votes for anybody. But this does
not so much matter when the nomination
IS the stake that is played for. Had Grant
been nominated he would not have been
elected, and if Sherman could have had
the vote of the entire section that never
have had any electoral votes for the
Republican candidate, he would have failed
mlserably. If it be possible for Arthur to
compass the nomination by means of the
scheme he has set afoot, he is a defeated
man from the start. The chances are he
would not carry his own state, and most
certainly could not if Mr.. Tilden should be
the Democratic candidate. The Repub-
hcan who can gain the nomination from
delegates who have no electoral votes
behind them, builds his house upon the
sand, and will have the pleasure of being
badly beaten candidate. 1t will be inter-
esting from this point to watch the man
uevres within the Republican party. twill
be developed in what measure the present
administration has cultivated Harmony.
and what sort of crop it can harvest. 1t
looks now good deal like an interesting
time of throat cutting. But we shall see
what we shall see.