Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-14
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
GEN. SLOCUM SAID TO BE MIR
TILDEN'S FAVORITE.

Payne's Course an Imitation of that of
the New York Sage-No Chance for
Either Morrison or Randall-Bayard,
Mcdonald, Field and FIower-LincoIn
Confident of a Place-Disappointme
Said to be in Store for BIaine-Gen.
Sherman Thought to Have a Chance
LOgan's Show Slim - Edmunds Too
Lazy.
WASHINGTON, April l3.-There is not
very much of general interest doing in
Congress just now. Beyond the passage
Of the regular appropriation bills, the
brief discussion Of the Morrison tariff bill
| (Which is expected to come up this week..
and the consideration Of a small number
Of other bills Of national interest, the ses-
sion may be said to be practically over
In this statement there is to be allowed.
however, the usual big margin for the
unexpected both in measures and in
! lively rows. But the Presidency's now
| the thing with all members both of the
| House and Senate. Who will get the
! Presidential and Vice Presidential nomi-
nations at the Chicago conventions is the
staple of Congressional talk. Where there
are three or four members talking together
it is safe to assume they are discussing
| the chances Of the various Presidential
candidates.
Tilden, it is thought, could have the
| Democratic nomination if he wanted il.
Whether he wants it or not is a matter of
some doubt, although it is alleged that he
has repeatedly said that he would not ac-
| cept 1t If offered to him. Nine people out
of ten here think that if Tilden is not
| chosen Payne has the best chance. Payne
! is generally considered to be what the
| elder Weller would have called Mr.. Til
! den's "leg-at-ease." Such is not the case,
| however. The man to whom Mr.. Tilden
! would prefer to have his influence trans
terred, in case always that the convention
| does not ask him to take the nomination
! himself, is Gen. Slocum.
| THERE Is NO SHADOW OF SECTIONALIsM
| lowering around Gen. Slocum. He was
| one Of the most gallant of all the soldiers
| Of the Union. He is a steadfast. honest.
| fearless Democrat. He is earnest, plain
and straightforward. He is closely allied
with Mr.. Tilden. He is strongly affiliated
| with that stateSman'S views.
| A good deal is heard of Payne, of Ohio,
in the prints. He is there talked of as
| Iilden's choice for the latter's mantle for
the cloak of his power in the party Mr..
Payne is not talked of mnch among the
| political workers here. He is very old and
has the Od0r about him Of being practi-
cal and very wealthy mOnOpOlist. Mr.
Payne has son who goes roaming about
the country, saying here that his father
is candidate, and denying there
that he entertains any such ambition.
| This is all there is about Payne's being
Tilden's second choice. The similarity
OF tactics or rather his imitation of Til
denis course is the sum and substance
of the claim that after himself Tilden
would like to see Payne nominated. Mr..
Morrison was a candidate before the CON
ventiOn of 1880. He will be before the
| convention Of 1884. He has been
so weak, so vacillating and so lack
ing in the characteristics of a leader
| in the present House. that he is free
to stand without fear of Presidential
lightning. He need not hide in a feather
bed when the thunder begins to get very
loud. Mr.. Randall is a candidate.
Mr.. Randall has been a candidate
several times. He has had the Tilden in
tluence twice. He could not do anything
even with that great aid. He has not the
| Tilden influence now. He is estranged
from his party by his course in the pres
ent House. He could not carry his own
State if he got the nomination. That he
Will have chance of trying to do is one
of those things which, at the present out
look, is among the impossibles.
AS TO MIR. BAYARD.
The honesty, dignity and purity Of Mr..
Bayard is not questioned by anv one. He
is a candidate, but does not propose to
work for the nomination. He 10 Il states
man who would honor any position. But
he comes from the small State of Della
ware, and lacks the quality of making
friends readily. He is too cold, and there
is the popular prejudice against him that
he goes too much on his cOat-ofarms and
family genealogical tree running back
for hundreds of years. The average man
who votes in this dear, delightful republic
has contempt for cOats-Of-arms and pe-
neaolOgy. Mcdonald is another man.
There is no doubt about McDOnald's can
dldacy. lie announced 1T eighteen months
ago, and has been watering and nursing
the boom which he then planted with an
assiduity certainly worthy of the most
distinguished consideration. He made a
mistake there. He has been booming IL
too long. Mcdonald might carry Indiana.
Mcdonald has strong friends, but he
cannot win. 1t might be said Of him and
his boom as the late lamented Ben Hill
said of Emory Speer, che is rather bright.
but lie was plucked before he was ripe.v
Hancock IS not heard of oftener than
once week. He is a good man, however,
and his weight remains about what it was
four years ago. The Field and Flower
boOms are woefully weak.
OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
Blaine is most talked of. Blaine is not a
candidate, Of course. But his canvass
goes along at a lively rate.
The tax that bubbles to the surface
smacks strongly of Blaine. Lincoln is
pretty certain to be on the ticket. The
most general expression heard is that il
will be Blaine and Lincoln, But little
Mr.. LINCOLN seems to have an idea
that there is good chance
OF its being Lincoln and Somebody else.
lie is perfectly confident, and with every
reason, too, that he Will be on the ticket.
so he holds off from affiliations here or
there with his idea to the chance of being
first. But as to Blaine, the war between
him and Arthur has been accented and en-
phaslzed. lie is getting delegates in New
York, Arthurs own State. He is fighting
Arthur at every point, and Arthur is
fighting him-but is doing it in a swallow
tail coat and with the outward mould of
a Chesterfield. Blaine is on the other
hand fighting in his everyday clothes and
without regard to the prOprieties. He is
getting the best Of it. 1t is already as
sured that Arthur has chance that it
would not be safe to gamble on to the ex-
tent Of dime with hole in it.
THOSE WHO MAKE POLITICS A STUDY
don't see success for Blaine. He has
many enemies, they say, in the party
He is erratic, and even those of his DolitI-
cal faith-that is, many OF them-do
not hesitate to pronounce that he
is unfaithful and dishonest. He could
capture all the farmers in the
country by slapping them on the back
and all the women by kissing their ba-
bies. But the politician does not want to
be slapped on the back nor does he care
about his ''kids' being kissed, if he has
any. 1t is freely predicted in the inner
circles that Blaine is again doomed to
disappointment, although he now seems |
to have the underhOld. He is put
down by the manipulators as being des-
tined to share the fate of Henry Clay-a
brilliant career, but no Presidency in it.
These same gentlemen predict very big
row in the Republican convention, with
the candidates killing each other Off And
they also assert that Gen. Sherman will
be the grist that is ground out.
They say this even with the
doubt before them as to whether Sher-
man is a Democrat OF Republican. Gen.
Sherman, it must be remembered was i'm
favor of Hancock in 1880. John Sherman.
''wbOse blood is very much like snow
BROTH" is not considered in the race. But
Logan is. Logan is trenchant and has
wife who knows much more
about politics than he knows:
as she does of the Orthography.
etymolOgy and syntaX Of the English
language. LOgan's chief strength is
in the soldier elements and his
bristling moustache (always except
ing Mrs. Logan). But Logan is
from Illinois. So is Lincoln. Lincoln
is going to be on the ticket. They can't
take two men from the same State. Ed
munds is foxy, but don't care much about
the nomination He would take If hut is