National Republican., 1883-07-20

obtained in the rural districts. Whore do
democrats got maiorties2 In the slums of
the city, whero tho people arc of foreign
birth, and largely Irish at that. They vote
the democratic ticket because that's its name.
What do they know about free trader If
they knew anything they'd understand
whore their interest lies However, we pro-
pose to enlighton them on this subject, aud
that's one reason i favor a convention in
june"
"Do you regard the very general good
feeling manifested toward President Arthur
as indicative of strengthT
Certainly l do. The popular current is
growing stronger in that direction every day.
The fact is, there is nobody else If there is,
where is he2 Look at that ridiculous list of
little pigmies published in tho Times. Why,
it's positively humiliating There isn't q six
foot man among EN-, democrat or republican.
Look at the last here of the democratic party,
tho ablest, best, and purest-Horatio Soy-
mour-with one foot In the grave-wheres
his peer2 You can't find him. Certainly not
that old cripple Tilden. whom l have known,
man and boy these flftyWyears. Bless my
heart, remember him when he peddled
grated turnips for horseradish. That was
just fifty years ago, when WIS h. lad in an
Albany store. Tlden's father had h kind of
patent herb store in Lebanon On broadway,
just below State street, Job Gould had n store,
and Erastus Cornlngs place was directly OPP
posite, and the boys used to point out Sam
Tilden as the fellow who sold grated turnips
for horseradish. And he's been in the same
business ever since"
But would he take q nomination If he
could get it?"
Certainly. He'd take u red hot stove"
Would Cornell agree to o united delega-
tion for Arthur from New York?'
arthur is making no effort. He needs to
make none. Events are shaping things for
him, Cornell is u dead duck. Ilo has few
friends, but no patronage. He has had his
day They are all out. Blaine is out Sherman
is out. Conkling is out, and means to keep
out. Really, Arthur seems to have walkovcr."
"Joe Mcdonald will be the strongest demo
crat in the convention. He will have morv
good working mon in the hall than any other
Hendricks can't control Indiana mon if he
wishes to-"
Il tell you Tilden's declination is part of
the game. It's the old Seymour dodge over
again. And as for Dana-well, Dana is fooled,
and he's just the kind of man to be fooled
by old Tilden. He can be played on very
easily. He is a bright, able man, but under
the control of prcjudices If he could rise
above them he would be very considerable
force"
THE "HERALD" EDITORIAL.
The Herald has a long editorial leader on
these interesting interviews, which it intro
duces by saying that: "The Herald has the
pleasure this morning to lay before its read
ers three important conversations held by
Herald reporters with gentlemen of whose
importance In the political world we do not
need to speak. What Mr.. Dana, of the Sun
Mr.. Reid, of the Tribune, and Mr. Hastings, of
the Commercial Advertiser, choose to say to the
public in their own journals is always of
sufficient Importance and interest When,
however, these three gentlemen, at the solicit
taton of the Herald, kindly drop for the mo-
ment the impersonal we and give their
opinions upon very interesting and impOi-
tant political topics over their own names
these direct and personal communications
have an extraordinary interest"
1t then gives very full resume of the in
tolviews with running comment, and closes
AS follows: "The most remarkable phenome-
non in our present politics is undoubtedly the
general, and indeed almost universal, favor
with which Mr.. Arthur is regarded by the
people of both parties and by those political
leaders who are moved, not by personal am
bitions or dislikes, but whose Judgments are
fou nded upon facts When it is remembered
that Mr.. Arthur became President by the ac
cident of Gen. Garfed's death, and that his
accession was an extraordinarily disagreeahle
circumstance to an important faction oC Lhs
republican party which did not pretend in
the preceding canvass to think him even
tolerably fitted for tho nnirnportant position
of vice president, it Is certainly proof of his
very great ability thatin less than two years
he has been able to gain, and indeed to com
pei, the confidence and esteem of the general
public and even of his opponents in his own
party. No vice president attaining the Pros
idency has ever before been so fortunate
The Herdid, as an Independent journal; not
blinded by partisan or factional impulses
but always endcavoring to see the facts of II
political situation, was the earliest to recog-
nize Mr.. Arthur's merits and the careful and
public spirited way in which he chose to CON
duct the administration. The recognition is
now general.
whether the republicans will make Mr..
Arthur their candidate next year no one can
fOretell AS old Senator Collamer of YER
mont, once said when some friend brought
him the flattering report that the republicans
would perhaps nominate him for the prcsi-
dency 'rhoy might do worsc-and they
probably will" Mr.. Arthur himself, being a
modest man, would say that Mr.. Hastings
was eXtravagant in asserting that "there is
nobody else" But there is good deal OF
truth in the remark of a shrewd democrat
that "if the republicans would renominato
Mr.. Arthur on a platform made out of his two
annual messages, and if they could persuade
the country that they agreed with Mr..
Arthur and would carry out in good faith the
policies he has recommended, thoy would un-
doubtedly and easily carry the next election"
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