Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-17
POLITICAL SPECULATION.

The Cincinnati Enquirer specializing
upon the result of the November elect ons
upon the next presidency, remarked that
the results all round, sat once takes out
of the list of possibilities in the
east all presidential candidates except
Mr.. Tilden." Noting this remark
of the Ohio paper, the New York Sun
which daily insists that Mr.. Tilden is not
to be candidate presents the following:
1884 DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For president, William Steeple Holman,
of Indiana.
For vice president, Abram Stevens
Hewitt, of New York.
Platform, Reform the Government.
letter written from Syracuse, New
York, falls in with the idea of the Enquirer
as applicable to both parties, and es-
peciaily the Democrats that the fall cleo
tions have materially reduced the prob
able or even possible candidates for the
Presidency next year. Some of the para
graphs of the letter alluded to are of
sufficient interest to quote, which we do
below:
Gen. Butler has voluntarily withdrawn, it
would seem, from the list of presidential aspi-
rants for 1884. But he is far from being dead,
and proposes to make himself very lively can
didate for governor next year. The chances for
success are In his favor.
Judge Eoadly lives in an October state.
There will be au election for important state
officers in October OF next year. If Governor
Hoadly were the presidential candidate,
and the Democrats were to be overwhelmed
mo in npSO
Der, as were the Democrats of
Indiana in October, 1880, Ohio would be lost,
and Hoadly would be defeated in November
New York could not bear up against the shock.
These considerations viii exclude an Ohio man
from the presidential ticket.
AS the Sun sa5 Senator Mcdonald could not
carry New York, and this excludes him. Gen.
Palmer and some other excellent men at the
west are doubtless in the same condition.
Having thus laid the foundation the
letter writer quite earnestly puts the ques-
ton, ''Where, then, can the Democrats
turn? Can they do better than fasten
their eyes on VIM. S. Holman?"
Next to Mr.. Tilden very
likely Mr.. Holman is as
probable candidate as any man. 1t will
be difficult to turn the Democratic thought
away from Mr.. Tilden, and as G. A. arthur
is the most probable Republican candi-
date it seems as if Mr.. Tilden were the
more foreordained to cope with him. A
Washington letter reveals the purpose of
Chandler and other administration Re-
publicans to secure the nomination OF Ar
thur at all hazards. The result Of the Vir-
ginia election has obliged these patriots
to change the original programme. Had
Malone carried the state, ne was to have
come out for Arthur and carried with him
the delegation of Virginia TO the Republi-
can convention. The Washington letter
alluded to says:
The Virginia election has had one positive
effect beyond the redemption of the state from
mlsru!e and corruption. 1t has forced Arthur
TO show his hand, and to stand forth as the self
nominated administration candidate for the sue
c7ssion. Notice is now served on Blaine. Ed
munds, Grant, Conkling, Sherman, Logan.
Gresham, Lincoln, Miller mot Wood PUBL,
Haw ey, Foster, window, Harrison, Alison
and Porter, that they must get out of the way
and not stop the presidents carriage.
All the decorations of the white house and
the tineTy Of tho fittings, to which the president
IS credited with having given his personal care
IN the hours OF official relaxation, now ex-
planned. He IS looking to prolonged occupa-
ton Of that charming residence, with the pleas
ing hopes In which John Tyler. Willard Fillmore
and Andrew johnson INDUCED If this pro-
granme is to be carried out, the fitness of things
demands that Malone should be associated with
Arthur on the ticket, to deprive it of any sec
honal bias.
Thus the politicians of both parties
speculate, although there is moral GER
teinty that Arthur will be the Republican
nominee. If SO, all the more reason for
steadfast devotion by Democrats to tho
old ticket of 1876. That ticket will prove
invIncible.