Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-23
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Who Shall be the Republican Nominee
at Chicago.
Grant Blaine Conkling Combination
Against Arthur.
Remarkable Changes in the Machine
Logan's Chances.
New York IIerald.i

New Gork Herald
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IN 1881
Washington, December 11.-Many
signs concur to show that the struggle
in the Republican party next year
will be between President Arthur and
Mr. Blaine. BY this it is not intend
ed to say that Mr.. Arthur is candi-
date for the presidential nomination
any more than it is pretended that
Mr.. Blaine is q candidate. Mr.. Blaine's
friends assert pointedly that he will
not have the nomination on any
terms. Mr.. Arthur's friends say they
have no knowledge in the matter, but
say they believe if the party would
agree to nominate him hecould be more
easily and certainly elected than any
other candidate now thought of. The
Republican situation AT this time is
very singular. Mr.. Arthur was nomi-
mated IN 1850 as the machine candi-
date. He was the favorite Of Gen.
Grant in the interest of the then Sena-
tor Conkling, and was so tiercely hated
by the nti.Conkling Republicans all
over the country that his nomination
1 for the vice-presidency almost pro
duced a mutiny. A number of furious
! Republicans were qtiieted only by the
4
I yoang and vigorous man, and that the
! vice-president had not even remote
/ chance of the succession.
I That was in the summer of 1885, less
! than three years and half ago. To
day the machine leaders in the party
have almost as strong n dislike Of
! President Arthur as the other set had
when he was nominated. So strong is
this antipathy that Gen. Grant is
openly quoted in preferring even Mr..
Blaine to Mr.. Arthur; and as to Mr..
Conkling, he does not conceal his dis
like of the president, with whom he
has for some time ceased To be on even
terms of acquaintanceship. Gen.
Grant, Mr.. Conkling and Mr.. Blaine
are said by their several friends to he
united in their approval of the candi-
dacy of Gen. Logan, and Logan is
thus the machine and anti-administra-
ton candidate.
GENERAL LoGAN's CANDIDACY.
How much of joke General Lo,
gans candidacy is remains 10 be seen.
, 1t is not joke with the general, and
ii may turn out something like trag-
| edy. His term in the senate will eX-
pire March 8, 1885, and he has, there
; fore, before him the problem of secur.
+ ing presidential nomination next
June without, in the meantime, fling,
ing away his chances for reelection &c
the senate in the winter, in case he
should not become president. There
, are people who say that 1t was cruel
of General Grant and Mr.. Blaine t.
expose General Logan To temptations
which may, unless he shows the mos,
: skillful generalship land him where
those who attempt to sit on two stools
at the same time too often land.
: 1t Is odd that of the three senators who
composed the notorious "senatoria
chird-term syndicate" in 1879 and lSot
!, Mr.. Conkling is already in private
, life; Mr.. Donald Cameron has so en-
tire!y lost interest in politics that III
: is spending the winter in Europe, ant
!, is not believed To have any hopes of ;
reelection, his term also expiring
March, 1885, Gen. Logan, the thirc
4 member of the syndicate, turns up a
!, the Observation-Disclosures candidate TO
|, the presidency, with Gen. Grant ant
!. Mr.. Blaine as his ostensible hackers
: and with grave possibility OF losini
the solid meat Of the senatorship Will,
he is trying to seize the big shadow o
: presidential nomination.
: WHERE THE STRUGGLE Is.
$ The contest between the Grant
Blaine-Logan combination and til
: administration represents, in point {
j. fact, a struggle between the old an
: more or less used-up party leaders, VIII
: aim to regain control, and the NOR
y conservative part of the party, whicl
: is well satisfied with Mr.. Arthur
d prudent and nnadventurous admins
d tration, sees that he has given aud
s. giving great satisfaction TO hecountry
Q and is pleased To see that the eterns
e and disgusting political squabblt
70 which disflgurea and disgraned the al
It ILLUSTRATIONS of Grant. Hayes an
r. Garfield have ceased under Mr.. A
e thur.
d Those Republican leaders who O.
d ject TO Mr.. Arthur do not hesitate
l. acknowledge that he has made goo
10 president for tho country, but tht
d say that he Is poor president for I'll
IS party. That means, of course, TIN
II he has not advanced their politics
" fortunes; that he doess not use the {
a fees as party plumber; that he h
r. given the country rest nom injurlol
G. and mean excitements. He h
H..