Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-06


for Arthur on the first ballot for Presi.
dent is one Of the most uncertain quan.
titles in the Chicago Convention. 10
the first place, the cypherers who have
given him 29i votes at the opening Of
the Convention don't know what they
are talking about. Many Of the South
ern States have sent their delegates un-
instructed, and there is II vague assump'
tion that these will all bo counted for
Arthur. Half of these uninstructed
delegates will. as like as not, turn up
voeifera ing for Blaine. II ID also as
sumed that the twenty-four Re-adjuster
delegates OF Malone, who, from poll
tical standpoint, are half horse and half
alligator, are sure to be admitted to the
Republican National Convention. We
confess that we see nothing probable or
likely in this proposition. On the
contrary, we think the twenty four
Republican delegates from Virginia
who, to a man, are for Blaine.
will probably be the voting delegates.
On the principle that nothing succeeds
like success. there will be troops of del
egates who will bo found to vote for
Blaine, instead of Arthur, at the critical
moment. Col. 7. NJ. Bayne, one Of the
Republican members Of Congress from
Western Pennsylvania, believes that
tho Plumed knight, will, ul timately,
pull mp ut Chicago, with 425 votes. We
should not be surprised If he received
this vote on the first ballot--ether that
or much larger vote. The assertion
that much stress can DO laid upon the
mere preference of national adminstra-
tion has been discredited for timo
whereof the memory Of ordinary voters
runneth not to the contrary. Not even
the glamour of the glorious Mexican
war, which added both Texas and Cali
fornia to the United States
availed to secure the denomination
Of President Polk. Notwithstanding all
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Buchanan secured tho nomination in
1856; and. notwithstanding that states
mans rapid alterations of Governors in
Kansas--trn running from grave
to gay, from John W. Geary to Robert
j. Walker-he was powerless to prevent
the Democratic party from bifurcating
In 1860; and from presenting, instead of
his own siatuesque self, the Messrs.
Douglas and Breckenridge as antago-
nistic Democratic Presidential .candi.
dates. In the white heats of the war
Mr.. Lincoln procured himself to be his
own successor. Andrew johnson, how
ever, who occupied to Mr.. Lincoln pre-.
cisely the Vice Presidential relation
which Mr.. Arthur occupied to Mr.. Gar
field. was not 30 much as mentioned for
the Democratic nomination for President
in 1865; although, for all the years of
his honest, spotless and patriotic life, he
had been Democrat of the Democrats.
The fact that, in common with countless
millions of Democrats, he had adhered
to the Union cause, in no whit inter.
rupted his right to succeed himself, and
yet his claims were not even considered,
Grant, of course, succeeded himself and
yet the whole forces of his adminisira.
tion were powerless to procure his
nomination for third term. Certes
the fraud Hayes had too much "gump-
tion" to attempt to procure his own
denomination. Nevertheless, ho per.
mitted John Sherman to manipulate the
whole resources of the national admins
tration, with the well known result that
another 0hioan, Garfield, as an an
tagonist to Sherman, was advanced TO
the post of honor.
In the light of such facts We have no
hesitation in saying that anyone who
thinks that Arthur will receive 29i votes
on the first ballot is lugubriously mis-
taken. The whole resources of the
telegraph to-day are being manipulated
to deaden the fact that Jim Blaine, of
Maine, has already compassed the Re
publican nomination. Only an unlimited
employment of money, as to which some
other man than Arthur will be the ben
eiiciary, can prevent the nomination of
Blaine at an early ballot at Chicago.
The HERALD believes that events are
shaping for his nomination by acclama-
ton. The telegraph might be used from
now till doomsday to deaden the signih-
cance of the recent popular Republican
outgivings. and stall Blaine would loom
up as the popular Republican favorite,