News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. G.
April ID 1894

The political world of Washington
is stirred to It's profoundest depths at
the revelations of the past week.
Among Republicans the friends of
President Arthur had confidently
counted on from sixty to sixty-fve
delegates to the Chicago convention
from his own State, New York, while
they never for moment gave a
Thought to Blaine receiving more than
from five to seven votes. The result,
therefore of the Congressional Dis
trict Conventions, as well as the cleo
ton of delegates to the Republican
State Convention of New York, has
been a surprise so great that its full
import can hardly be realized. 1t ev-
identity takes President Arthur out of
the field ard presents Mr.. Blaine as
the leading and prominent candidate
before the convention. Where the
friends of President Arthur will now
go is the absorbing question, and what
effect his virtual withdrawal will have
on the other candidates named has
created a ferment never before equal
led. Should many of them go to Mr..
Blaine it is evident he will be nomi-
mated. Skilled old politicians now
estimate That he wifi, even IF Arthur
remains in the field, have over 300
delegates in his interest, while if
Arthur withdraws he will have 400.
This will not nominate, however, as
All votes ale necessary to choice.
Mr.. Blaine will go to the Chicago
convention of 1884 as did General
Grant to the convention of 1880. He
will be the leading candidate and
backed by as determined men as were
the friends of General Grant. II is
as vet to be written whether his fate
shall be as was Grants. Many who
profess to know and be able to read
all the signs of the political horoscope
say that in this struggle the sold
Man" will prove the Chevalier who will
SILVER the lance and cleave the he'll
met of the P,umed Knight.
The Democrats have also been con-
siderably shaken up over the author
tive announcement that under no cir
cumstances will Mr.. Tilden accept the
nomination if rendered him at Chica-
go in July. While many pretend to
be for other candidates, those who are
on the inside know that the masses of
the Democratic party had settled down
to the conviction that Gov. Tilden
would be nominated, would accept,
and that he was the only man in the
party that could be elected. His pos
tive declension therefore stirs up the
pious souls of the unterriied, and
they don't even see a Flower of hope
left them. They will now go on a
still hunt for man with q barrel on
whom to bestow the empty honor of
a nomination. Dark horses have
grown popular with the American peo-
pie, and it now looks as if both par
ties this year would put on the track
comparatively unknown FLIES, or st
least those as yet not entered for the
race.
The appearance of Nast's cartoons
in Harper's Weekly has raised the
question as to whether his present eff
forts are equal to those of the cam
paign of 1872. We think they are in |
every way equal; but the fact that
since then Puck, The Judge, and other
papers have introduced colored car
toons, where more grotesque effects
can be brought out, presents a rival
field with which contrasts are drawn,
while then he stood substantially alone |
and without rival. The perfection to
which colo ed printing is carried, is
something marvellous, and although |
In the business for over thirty years,
on recent flying visit to New York,
being favored with an inside view of
the Office of The Judge we were more
than surprised. Instead OF being
merely an Office for the publication of
The Judge, we found it to be one of
the largest and most complete colored |
printing and photo-lithographic es-
adjustments in the col ntry, occupy |
ing Nos. 224, 2Z6 and 228 Pearl ST.,
where newspaper men and others can
have all work in these lines most ar
tistically executed. Every gentleman
connected with the establishment is |
master in his line, and to each of them,
especially Mr.. Bradshaw, the mana
ger, Messrs Baird and Hamilton, the
artists, Mr.. Harry Hart, the
solid man, and Mr.. VanAlstyne, in
charge of the composing room, is
your correspondent indebted for a de-
lightful visit. The Judge is the best
cure for blues we know, and well
worthy its extended patronage.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the
Father of the House," so called, be-
cause he is its oldest member in point
IF consecutive service, attained his
birthday on Saturday last.
huge basket of choice flowers had
,een placed on his desk by some Of
lis friends before he reached the !
Iouse in the morning, and just after
G took his seat he was warmly con-
ratulated by members of both par