The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-14
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

THE Albany Journal has announced in favor
of the candidacy of Mr.. Edmunds.
THIRTEEN aspirants are reported for the seat
of General Keller in Ohio, and he is not one of
the leaders in the race
CHARLES A. DANA: have no favorite at all
The only man 1 would really regard as favorite
is Holman, of Indiana but would never think
of running such man failing chance.
A PROMINENT Brooklyn politician is given as
authority for the statement that William E.
Robinson, better known as "Richelieu' Robin
son, will not be reelected to Congress at the end
of his present term. This will be good news for
the British lion.
Boston Journal The New York Tribune has
good deal to say against the dark-horse policy
That policy, however placed Abraham Lincoln
and James A Garfield at the head of the Repub
lican ticket in 1860 and 1880. Never were candi-
dates more popular
MAJOR W. d. BIoKHAM, editor of the Dayton
lOhio) Journal, who was one of the late Presi-
dent Garield's most intimate friends, says that
the Republican party is chiefly indebted for the
present prospect of assured success, unless there
should be imprudent nominations to President
Arthur, whose pure and dignifed administration
has healed dissensions and won the affections of
the people.
Boston Transcript: If the Blaine crowd will
only open sufficiently hard on Edmunds he will be
nominated without question. His danger con
sists in the fact that he is Indifferent to a nom-
nation, and his friends do not believe in the Of
such methods as find favor with the Maine poll
tcian. New York will have something to say to
the convention which will be worth hearing and
have great weight with it, if the assemblage
really proposes Republican triumph.
THE Boston Traveller notes the fact that while
some of the State conventions warmly indorse
Arthur and praise his administration, they elect
Edmunds or Hawley or Blaine delegates, and
comes to the conclusion that ''when the delegates
got out to Chicago it may strike them ALL as a
wiser thing to nominate the man whom they
have all warmly Endorsed, than to insist on
either of the favortes. who has only the indorse-
ment of two or three States, or than to nom-
nate a great unknown, whom nobody has in
dorsed."
SENATOR GEORGE F. EDMUNDs, at a ratifica-
ton meeting held in Burlington Vermont on
the I'D Of June, 1885, said: 81 have long
known General Arthur. The only serious diff
Guilty have had with the administration was
when it proposed to remove him from the col
lecJorship of New York. No one questioned his
tempt to the utmost. Since that time it has
turned out that all the reforms suggested had
long before been recommended by General
Arthur. and pigeon-holed at Washington"
ROCHESTER, Herald: Mr.. George William
Curtis says that ''the extreme danger of the
Blaine non ination would lie in the immediate
and final alienation of independent Republicans
and of Independents" That is the danger from
the party standpoint, and it is one that most as
suredly promises Mr.. Blaine'S defeat if he were
nominated But there is danger beyond that
of greater Importance still in the event of his
election. 1t would be peril that would strain
and rake our constitutional fabric Mr. Blaine
is not safe man. The country could not afford
to give him the presidency