Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-26
SINGLE COPIES TWO GENTS.
Saturday. April 26. 1854.
CO1IPRONIsE CANDIDATES.


The Republican politicians in Warrington
are in an active state of mind, according to
| the reliable Washington correspondent Of the
Boston Advertiser. Within few days sew
eral informal conferences have been held by
Republican congressman regarding the prob
| ability that none of the Republican candi-
dates for the presidential nomination now
prominent can secure the prize. And they
have talked about the best way TO select q
compromise candidate when the break
| comes.
of a compromise are Messrs. Harrison, Lin
| coin, Edmunds and Hawley. Harrison is
understood to be the especial fa1orite Of the
Blaine people, and Edmunds of the Arthur
men. Harrison has the advantage of
pivotal States active support. He will ut
Chicago vote for Blaine at first, and yet he is
almost the exact opposite of the Maine
statesman. In the senate, Blaine's active op-
ponents are well disposed towards Harrison,
whom they know to be an honest and cap
able man. But the administration is oppos-
ed to him, as witness the assertion Of Quay,
who runs the Pennsylvania machine. He
says that on one thing he is determined, and
that is not to allow his State to go to Harri-
son. 1t is thought that If Harrison should
be brought forward as candidate the ad~
ministration would array against him Judge
Gresham.
Although those who favor the nomination
of Arthur profess to be willing to help Ed
munds in case they cannot succeed with their
dent declares that Edmunds is not favorable
to Arthur's nomination. He is on coed
terms at the White Houss. Often he has
been called in to give the President advice
upon delicate questions. This is especially
true when any jar happens in foreign mat
ters. ''Mr. Edmunds is probably the best
expert in international relations now in pub
lie life. His natural carefulnsss and sure
movements render him q safe counsellor at
the foreign Office. The whole Lasker cor
respondence was submitted to him ct every
stage, and through his suggestion it was
brought to happy conclusion. Mr.. Ed
munds appreciates the attsntion given by
the President to the details of the executive
Office, for he is punctilious himself, and he
likes Mr.. Arthur personally. But there he
stops. He is not pleased at the methods
adopted to secure administration delegates.
As chairman of the committee on the judi
ciary, he has this winter advised the rejee
ton of several nominations from the White
House, by which solid delegations from the
South for Arthur were expected to be
gained
The Lincoln boom strikes this observer as
a pretty substantial one. Stalwarts and anti |
he points out, fight over every
thing else. but they unite on Lincoln for
Vice President. He has written letter say
ing that he is not candidate, but that ID not |
thought to mean much. HE ia full of hope |
that the lightning may strike him II 1t |
should, and the ticket be Lincoln and Haw- |
ley, who can say that it wonld not challenge |
the popular favor? We have not yet so |
passed from the first stages of a Democratic |
government that great names and the asso-
citation of patriotic impulses do not add /
strength to candidates for popular favor. |
Probably hundred delegates will go to Chi |
cago anxious to lead Lincoln diversion, and |
thousands of Republican voters are waiting |
to begin his canvass"
This is all very interesting. Whether it |
amounts to much or not remains to be seen. |
If the ticket should be Lincoln and Hawley,
or Hawley and Lincoln, it would be a ticket |
which the whole Republican party could |
work heartily for. We have faith to believe |
that the convention will not nominate tick |
ct that will ALLEVIATE large number of Repub- |
lican votes, as some of the candidates most |
prominently mentioneA certainly would.