The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

be nominated. The endeavor, however, will no
doubt be to select a ticket that shall he excep-
tiOnally strong in two of these Srates-nost
probably New York and Indiana"
Beginning with Bayard, "unquestionably the
first Democratic statesman of the land" he
thinks his record will stand in his way to such a
degree that his party associates can not take
him up. Thurman, Pendleton and Payne, CON
stituting the "OhiO triumvirate," each stands IN
the others way, all are veterans in the party's
service, but their prominence has been gained
ON issues that the party would be pleased to ig-
more in the coming contest. Pendleton's civil
service bid for the nomination is at best n mere
feather i'll his cap to the country at large, while
not wholly free from prejudice in his own party.
OF the three accidental" or tidal wave govern
Os he regards Buffers chances best, particular
~ If he succeeds in carrying the State again this
fall. If he can make it appear that his oppo-
sition comes from snobbishness and ''blue-blOod-
ed arlstocracy," his chances will be
greatly enhanced. TOurgee pays a
fiattering compliment to his personal character,
and does not think that Southern prejudice
would cost him any votes. Cleveland's strength
lies in the fact that he carried New York last fall,
and the that he can do it again.
His strength is purely a tortnItous and personal
one. The managers of his party in the State have
little love for him, and if he should be nominated
for the presidency it would be solely in the hope
that the man who got nearly two hundred thou
sand majority last fall might hold enough to
give him the electoral votes next year, Mr..
Pattison's chances are regarded as remote, pro-
badly, as those of almost any man in his
party, and so are not worth considering.
Hancock is not to be thought of, since it is gen
orally held that he was Responsible for his own
defeat in 1890. MpClallan from the nrestipa Of
the gOvernorship of New Jersey, stands the
same chance "of the ordinary rank and nle of
his party-say one in five millions or So" Mr..
Randall, who expects to step from the Speakers
chair into the presidency, would be "wise to
take the former, if he can get it, not as a means,
but as an end" OF Indiana's prominent men
the Continent says:
There is no ground for supposing that either
Tflden or Hendricks could be nominated, save
upon the claim of Fighting what the party holds
to have been wrong in the election of 1876. This
sentiment was not strong enough to control the
convention of 1880, and is still less likely to
affect that Of next year. The fact is that these
men are worth more to their party in the posi-
ZION of accompanying martyrs than as candi-
dates. The redress of a mere personal
grievance is too narrow a ground for a national
party to stand upon, while the public retrIbu-
tion-it the act was evils made inst as COM
plete by the asceudeney OF the party as by the
election of the old ticket as it is called. Be-
sides this, however, both of tho men have
EbdCncu 6AlItm6 d1tg JUL nave WCtlh uOWu auu
perilous physical infirmities, and one has John
Kelly and the other Senator Mcdonald as an OBJ
stacle in his path.
"SenatOr Mcdonald has little prospect of OBJ
tanning the first place upon the ticket, and his
chances for the second are impaired by the fact
that tie last Two Vice-presidential candidates
were from that State. Though it was carried in
1876 by the Democracy it was lost by a still heav-
Ter vote in 1880. While there is scarcely any pros
pect of Mr.. Hendricks's nomination 1t is not at
all probable that he would be friendly to Mr..
McDOnald's success. These facts render 1t rea-
souable to expect that. should the presidential
candidate be taken from the East, as it is almost
certain that he Will, the vlce-presidency will go
either to Illinois or Ohio"
The writer is guilty of an Inconsistency in this
paragraph. In his article on Republican candi-
dates, published in Wednesdays Journal, he
said:
Indiana will be one OF the most important
States in this contest. There is little doubt that
one of the Democratic candidates will come from
that State, and this probability makes impera-
tive the necessity that rests upon the Re public
ans TO select a ticket that shall at least be as
ceptable to all the Republicans Of Indiana. 1t
is likely to be one of the most sharply-eontested
points along the whole line"
In his article now under consideration he de-
clares that there is scarcely a possibility of the
first place coming to Indiana, while if the presi-
dency goes to the East, as is almost certain, the
vice-presldency will go either to Illinois or Ohio.
General Palmer, of Illinois. is also mentioned
as a possible candidate for the second
place, with Mr.. Morrison as a dangerous
rival. The last man considered by Judge
Tourgee is General Henry W. Slocum, of New
York, elected congressman-at-large, last fall, by
a ~phenomenally large majority. The only thing
that will prevent him from endangering Cleve-
lands prospects is the possibility that in his
eagerness to better his prospects he will commit
some blunder in Congress next winter. How
ever, Cleveland himself runs the same rick as
Governor of New York. In conclusion, the
Judge is of the opinion that 1.-THE presidential
candidate will be selec ted on account of his sup
posed ability to carry the State of New York,
with perhaps one other Eastern State, while the
vice-presidency will be given to the West, in the
hope of securing it against disaster, even in case
OF failure IN New York. TOurgee's prognOst1ca-
tiOns are, for the most part, drawn with ability,
Though exceptions will be taken to many OF his
opinions.