St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-26
A STALWART SQUEAL.
Good for StalWarts in ANY
of the Chances at
Chicago.
Blaine and Arthur Hostile and
the Dark Horse an Uncer-
tain Quantity.
Bitter Attack of Washington Paper
Upon Senator Sabin OF
Minnesota.
A Screed Supposed to be Inspired by
Window or Friendship
for Him.
The Republican Candidates---Secretary
Lincoln's Prospects and His
Qualifications.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l

leave tomorrow night, and every outgoing
train from. the federal city will carry its load
OF visitors to the convention. Knights of
the green cloth have made extensive ar:
rangements to entertain votaries of king
faro and queen roulette and hospitality will
be extended with lavish hand to lambs which
''gambol on the green"
A sTALwART sQUEAL.
A Republican congressman observed to the
GLOBE correspondent to-day that he would
like to go and would probably go
to the convention, but he had asked
himself the question without satisfactory
answer, for what purpose? He was not com
mitted to any candidate, and yet was opposed
to some whose names would be presented to
the convention. He did not know for whom
he would work and if any one of those
he opposed should receive the nomination,
his presence at Chicago would prove his
hostility, and he would doubtless be finished
hereafter or at least placed in the ranks of
the enemy. This was the result of Garfeld's
election. Everybody who served other than
than the Blaine and Garfield wings, no mat
ter how hard they had worked for Gartield's
election, were put on the administration
black list and received no
consideration. The friends of Don Cameron,
Conkling and Grant were served with notice
that they must ask nothing, and Garfield
himself said that those senators who antago-
nized Collector Robertson's confirmation
would need letter of introduction to him
thereafter. He would like to see some man
nominated above such meanness, and would
treat all allke-a candidate not embroiled in
the quarrels of the houses of Montague and
Capulet, and a statesman rather than poll
tician. Such was not likely to prove the
case. As matters were now situated the can
didate would be selected by one faction or
the other, and the defeated party would be
better off, even if the nominee were
elected. He had followed the fortunes
of Grant and Conkling, and was snubbed by
the Garfield administration. Arthur became
president, wheeled out of the stalwart line
and slapped the faces of nearly all his old
friends. Between the two stools the slalwart
wing had fallen to the ground; and it was a
source of great embarrassment, now, that
four years had rolled around and the day of
reckoning come there was nobody to reckon
with since Blaine and Arthur were tarred
with the same stick, and the dark horse was
an unknown and uncertain quantity.
BLAINE TALK.
Blaine's friends express great confidence
in his Success. One argument made
by Blaine's supporters is being used
with considerable effect They say
that it is matter of paramount Importance
to the Republican party to carry Maine at
the September and Ohio at the October cleo
ton, and PROFOUND the question: 'Can
Arthur hope to do this!'' Blaine can GER
tainly carry both states at these elections,
notwithstanding he was beaten four years ago
at the Maine election. This was the result
of carelessness and the over confidence of
Chairman Jewell, which was taken advan-
tage of through a shrewd trick of the Demo-
Gratis. Arthur could not carry Maine
at the September election with
out Blaine's assistance, while
Blaine, per contra, does not
need the administration to aid him.
The Garfield sentiment, which is by no
means dead in Ohio, would carry that state
at the October election were Blaine nominat-
ed, while with Arthur as nominee it would be
at best uncertain. There is strong DISPOSE
ton among the Campbellites and Western
Reserve people to hold Arthur indirectly re-
sponsible for Garfeld'e tragic death, and
Arthur could not live down this feeling, even
had he retained all the Garfield cabinet and
welded his widow.
LOGAN TALK.
Iogan's friends say things are looking
briuhtnr or his hon
after Blaine and Arthur have
fought each other to a stand
still he will come sto the front
with great strength. The soldier element is
working for him with unexamplcd earnest
ness and wonderful accord. He will have
many quiet but shrewd and influential
hackers among the classes which oppose
Blaine, in the Arthur, Hawley, Harrison,
Sherman and Bob Lincoln outfits.
BOB LINCOLN.
Arthur managers are suspicious of Lincoln.
The latter knows it, and operates according
ly. He protests he is loyal to Arthur, but
does not pretend he is working for him. As
matter of fact he is lying back of luck, un-
der hard pull, expecting other nags TO be
winded by the pace they are running,
and that he will come to the
finishing post with a rush.
His policy is to keep quiet, look bland and
say nothing, and the political jockeys, who
are grooming him, predict that the light
weight he is carrying and his pedigree must
make him winner
The New York Times of to-day saws: The
growing popularity of Lincoln as a candidate
for president, and the unweIcome conclu-
siod that Blaine men appear to have reached
that their candidate cannot be nominated. is
disturbing both the Blaine men and those
Arthur men who do not place the implicit
reliance upon the long array of dele
gates furnished from the White
House as sure for Arthur. The
fact that Blaine men will talk about a possi
BILE necessity of agreeing upon compromise
is itself an admission of doubt''
The Sunday Capital says: seNext to the
fear that President Arthur may be nomi-
. mated at Chicago there is nothing that so agi-
tates the minds of ardent patriots as the
asserted unftness of Robert T. Lincoln to be
president. While nobody denies that he
would be an ideal candidate for the vice
presidency a large number of politicians
seem to be perfectly sure that he would be
an utterly improper person to elect to the
presidency. He is declared to be lacking