Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-09
THE ENTIRE GROUP.
The Pictures of the Candidates for the
Republican Presidential Nomination.


harness, with plain looking darkey in a
rather shabby nondescript suit on the
| box. Blaine himself is not a splendid
| looking man in a carriage. He sits
rather limpy in a corner, dressed in an
ordinary dark-colored business suit. wear
ing a rather oId-fashiOned tall hat. His
| complexion looks like that of the sacred
| elephant, and his hair and close-cropped
! beard are white as the hawthorn buds.
! He looks like an everyday retired bank
| president with some irritating disease.
| Blaine has to be excited to look big. But
Mrs. Blaine looks most imposing when she
| is not excited. She is a large woman,
who sits bolt upright in her corner
| of the carriage, with her usual
| scOrnful smile on her face. Her
| face is a strong one. Her features
are large and are so disposed as
to convey a sense Of power. They always
wear the same proud, contemptuous ex-
preston. Mrs. Blaine has as many enc
mics in Washington as Mr.. Blaine has
friends. Washington would be sorry to
see her in the White House. The Blaines
live in a comfortable house on Lafayette
square, about as large as their old house
on Fifteenth street. 1t has been the place,
despite all the talk to the contrary, where
all the activities designed to nominate
been working hard ever since 1880 to
bring about his own nomination. His
part in the actual labOrs of the past win
ter has been quite visible here beneath
the veil thrown over it by his managers.
Far from being Indifferent, from being alb
sOrbed in his studies and in the
preparation of his book, he has been
intensely interested in everything that
has been done to advance his in
terest in the great struggle. 1t was be-
cause his interest was so intense that he
left Washington. He did not want the
eyes of the capital upon HIM when be
was shocked with victory or defeat. And
his interest has not been q passive one.
He has worked harder than all his lieu
tenants put together. Blaine is a wonder
full man. He can work day and night for
long stretches with all the facility of a
trained newspaper man, and his work is
not the worse for its long duration. He
is a remarkable combination of Lord
BeacOnsfeld and Prince Machiayelli. If
he had been at Chicago fewer mistakes
would have been made in his canvass.
But communication by telegraph, even
over special wire, is unsatisfactory.
Still he has directed the general move
ments in his behalf from day to day.
President Arthur is very different
man. You step out of a close perfumed
atmosphere of Jesuistical intrigue into a
pleasant conservatory when you pass
from Blaine to Arthur. Arthur is a
typical Interchangeable, modest, dir
ect manly, courteous. He has con-
Quoted himself throughout the canvass
for the Republican nomination with
characteristic dignity. He has never said
that he was a candidate, he has never
done anything to make himself the nOmi-
nee, yet he has not affected, with the
mock modesty of the hypOcrite, to be in
different to the efforts of his friends to
procure him the high compliment of a
nomination by his party. Throughout
General Arthur's position has been per-
fectly simple. He was unwilling to turn
his hand in order to make himself the
nominee, but he was entirely willing to
accept nomination which would carry
with it an Endorsement Of his course while
in the White House. General Arthur has
given the country an admirable admins
tratiOn. Every word of honest praise for
his services is grateful to him, and it is
for that reason that he did not absolutely
refuse to permit the use of his name in
the Chicago Convention. About 6 O'Clock
these evenings General Arthur takes a
ride on a well looking roadster of no espe-
cial merit. You can see him any day as
he rides gently out of the White House
grounds into the glow of the setting
on his way to the heights above George
town. He is handsome man, who knows
how to sit a horse gracefully; a we'll
framed man, with a frank, fine face, a
short moustache and short sideswhiskers,
both turning gray. l need not tell you
that all these stories about the ultra fash
ionable dress of this plain, business-like
lawyer are utterly absurd. He dresses
just as any other gentleman would,
quietly and neatly, and so tastefully that
one never thinks of his clothes.
Gen. Gresham, one of the Presidents
most loyal friends, is one of the best men
in public life. He is a tall, thin man,
bowed with work and wounds, who walks
slowly with the help Of a cane, while his
First Assistant, Frank Hatton, sails
around town in a coupe. Gen. Gresham
has all Of Abraham LincOln's good quail
ties, and he doesn't tell stories that are
unfit for publication. He has hOnorably
won and worn the titles of General and
Judge. Everybody here likes him and
his family-an agreeable wife, bright
daughter, and a son who took the degrees
of Bachelor and Master Of Laws within
the same hour the other night. Gen.
Gresham's position has been as simple as
President Arthur's. He is a straightfor-
ward, hOnest-hearted man, with clear
eyes, incapable of duplicity. He wanted
the President nominated. If the Presi-
dent could not be, he was willing to ac-
cept nomination. No one has under
dent himself.
Ben Harrison, a short, smug-faced
hoOsier, who would make q very poor
President, made the great mistake of
showing his ugly face in Chicago. His
managers, wiser than he, sent him home
at once, with the remark that it would
ruin his chances to have him remain
there.
Edmunds has not been able to remain
no n iuia
to buy 'dark" horse. He is nervous
man in spite of his stolidity, and was not
able to remain here with nothing to do
but read kilograms. Edmunds is a fine
looking man. with red nose. He is
rather agreeable than otherwise, but
does not put himself out to serve you,
and always looks out for number one. He
is very domestic man. He lives in a
pleasant house next door to Senator Bay
ard, on Highland terrace, Massachusetts
avenue, Northwest. But he is Just dying
to live in the White House.
General Hawley is a very charming
man. He is a pleasant combination of
diverse qualities. He is frank and re-
served, bluff and genial, gentle and ener-
getic. He looks well, dresses well, talks
well and writes well. Everybody is fond
of him and of his delightful wife, whO is
emphatically the heroine in their life
story. They live in handsome rooms on
old sc" street, once the most fashionable
street in the city, Hawley has taken the
Presidential fever very philosophically.
Logan is really Mrs. Logan, as YOU
know. He is just big voice and stub
born will, and a great deal of animal
courage; black, as to a heavy shade of
hair and heavy moustache and as to a
heavy suit of old-fashioned broadclOth.
Mrs. Logan is his mind, and very fine
mind she is; a handsome woman, with
gray hair and bright eyes, who loves her
husband dearly, calls him 'darling" in
public, and works day and night to help
him upward. She has more friends in
Washington than the whole Blaine family
put together, and her friends cannot find
words for their praise. Mr.. and Mrs.
Logan live in the second story of a board
ing house on Twelfth street, and it speaks
volumes for them that their fellow-board-
ers are all for Logan. They are censured
for not taking handsome house and en-
tertaining lavishly; but they have learned
that they that take the handsome house
shall perish by the handsome house. Be-
sides, they don't need to. Mrs. Logan
makes enough Of friends without it.
John Shermanis unsympathetic, though
not cold, and his wife is like him. They
live quietly in a fine house, finely but
conventionally furnished, on X street,
opposite Franklin Park.
Secretary Lincoln is a very correct
young man, if he does play poker. He
is a neat-looking business man, with a
short English beard and brisk way. He
is as fond of cigars as General Grant,
but he knows more about business than
General Grant could ever learn. He is
undoubtedly the best Secretary of War
we have had for quarter of a century.
His office manners are not very agree
able, although IN his own parlor in
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