National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

There arc great many republican prosi-
Dental candidates sitting on the fonce5 nc
their respective political crossroads just now,
but they must get down one of these days to
hunt a safe post, and rs all roads of old led to
Rome, all roIds now seem to lead TO Bob Linz
coin. AS first choice isn't likely to win for
anybody, the man who seems to be tho second
choice of everybody looks very much like
the winning man, and the hosts which speed
the parting and welcome the coming guest
don't forget it.-Phiddclphia Times.
There are several possible candidates be-
sides Tildon-McDonald, Payne Cleveland,
and Flower being tho foremost. They form
tho contingent reserves. OF course no de-
cisivo preference will be expressed as bo-
tween those four, but tho question will no
doubt be decided whether Tildcn comes to
the front once moro or not It is not Tilden
against tho field, for no ono is willing to
enter the list against him. 1t Is simply Til
den or tho 1e-i. As one state after another
holds its convention tho morning mist which
hangs over his candidacy will ovaporate, and
by June the question before the republicans
will be- who is the most available man to run
against Tilden, with an Indiana man prob
ably selected as second on tho ticket ?-Chi-
cdOo Inter Ocean.
II would be difficult, II not impossible, we
believe, TO refer to another session of tho
house so long as the present ono has been in
which so little of public concern had been
accomplished. 1t Is n session phenomenal for
its waste of timo and its indifference TO the
demands and needs of tho country. II is not
at all probable that representatives and soma.
tors will consent to remain at Washington
during the rapidly advancing heated term,
which, IL they should not, all the work to be
done will have to be crowded into May If
| dono by full house or senate, as In juno and
July the conventions will doploto both
bodies. Tho next session cannot last over
| three months, as the life of tho present con-
| gross will expire on the 4Lh Of March, 1886.
The situation is really most deplorable, con-
sidering the great necessity there is for con-
gross to pass many measures of the utmost
| Importance to the business Interests Of the
country hHGdelphia Inquirer.
The sentiment favorable to Tilden's re.
| nomination is widespread and overwhelming.
Pennsylvania, as q measure of state pride, has
pronounced for Randall. Indiana will un-
doubtedly vote for Mcdonald. But the plucky
and persistent democrats of Iowa, early in
tho field as usual, are tho forerunners of tho
army that win march to Chicago in July
shouting for the old gentleman of Gramercy.
| Nothing but his peremptory declination will
prevent his being a candidate. That is SO
plain that he who runs may read. That on
rushing tide can be stemmed only by one
weak old man. To proclaim his fatal ILL.,
ness is but to increase the clamor for his
leadership. To point TO tho action at Cincin-
natl In 80 is but to elicit the declaration that
that wrong, as we'll as the fraud of 1915, shall
| be righted. To aver that the democrats who
controlled congress In the winter of '70-7 con-
CURED in the electoral commission and gave
effect to its finding is but to rise up further
shouts for your Uncle Sam'l.-C Chicago Herald.
The Mail and Express has not gone into the
sewers or into ancient history in its notices
of the presiden tial candidates, from time to
time. 1t has believed that there was an
in telligent, undecoivable conscientious, and
considerable minority of voters in all the
''close states" who would decide the election
| by their silent and unpurchasable votes this
| year. We believe that the issues of the
| present are those that cannot be obscured by
| any personal controversies as to candidates.
The betrayal by the supreme court Of its
trust as defender Of the constitution and its
virtual comforting Of oil power on congress to
issue unlimited amounts of irredeemable
| paper, as well rs to exercise all the powers
| Inherent in the governments of Europe"
makes the election of sound, tried and con-
| stitution-loving president absolutely and
overwhelmingly necessary, and If the repub-
| licans fail to nominate man known to be
| equal to such an emergency, the democrats
| will have too obvious aud great an oppor-
tunity to throw away, unless they are far
crazier than they now seem to be.-New York
Mail and Express.
Gov. Cleveland wants to be president.
Like all the other aspirants he does not de-
sire to be regarded as q seeker for the NOM
/ ination, but the little beo is buzzing in his
bonnet all the same, and he has gone so far as
to admit as If such admission were nee
essary-that he would not decline If rendered
the honor. His boom is in the hands Of Mr..
Manning and the followers of tho machine,
while the opposition. which is large and we'll
organized, comes principally from leading
democrats throughout the state, who think
they have been quietly ignored by the pres
ent administration. Their candidate 10 Mr..
Flower, and while the Cleveland men rely
upon state patronage to carry them through,
tho others intend to employ the barl argu-
ment for all it is worth, pointing also to Mr..
Manning's alleged mismanagement in the last
campaign, which resulted in the nomination
of temperance man for secretary of state,
and the election Of the republican candidate.
There will be close work on both sides, and
the bugle note Of the battle has already been
sounded.-TrOy (N. " Budget.