The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-03-01
BOTH CONVENTIONS.
THE GOSSIP AND OUTLOOK AT
CHICAGO.
A Review Of the Several Candidates
for the Presidency in Either Party,
and Something About the Men.

A Review Of the Several Candidates
for the Presidency in Either Party,
and Something About the Men.
Special Correspondence of the Chronicle.
CHICAGO, February 27.-The fact that
National Democratic committee chose
Chicago as the place for the sitting Of the
National Convention has set good deal of
speculation agog here as to the candidate
whose chances this can effect. 1t is sup
posed to eliminate Mr.. Tilden, whose
chances, in some strange way, seemed to
be believed to depend on the sitting of
the Convention at St. Louis.
The only Democrat in Illinois who stands
a shadow Of chance is Mr.. Morrison; and
it is not likely that his chance is more
than shadow, because it is not likely that
the Democratic convention will be wise
enough to venture to put a pronounced
of the ticket.
The onlv other Western candidates men
toned here are Mcdonald, Of Indiana, and
Payne, of Ohio. Mr.. Payne, the new
Senator, and the Standard Oil man, is
very rich, very shrewd, and physically
powerful enough man for the campaign :;
and there is tradition that he is Tilden's
choice But if the holding of the con-
vention at Chicago have any real meaning
at all in favor of any Western candidate,
it will be favorable to Mr.. Mcdonald.
But every plan must take in New York,
and the old method is taking Presiden-
tial candidate from the East and Vice
Presidential candidate from the West, will
in all probability be followed.
Chicago, at all times the liveliest place
on the continent, will be livelier by good
deal than usual this summer with the Ma
tional Conventions of each party here.
The highest old time ever known will be
upon u.s.
On the Democratic side the Mcdonald
boom undoubtedly now seems the health
lest and strongest, chiefly because be has
not been so active in the recent tariff agi-
tation as to make himself offensive to
either wing of the party. Yet each re-
gard his views as sound He is an old
fashioned benevolent kind of man, and
perhaps the best lawyer in Indiana. He
began life as a saddler, and if he should
be nominated we may expect the Democ-
racy to take the saddle-saddle badges,
saddle-pins, saddle banners and saddles,
in fact, much as the Greeley hat, and in
older times the log cabin and coon skin
were the rage.
On the Republican side, there is not
much health either in the Logan or in the
Lincoln boom in the West. Mr.. Lincoln
is but a name-a sort of sentimental
quantity and Mr.. Logan is not a man of
enough refinement for his party He is a
rough fellow, and even in this State his
aspirations have hardly been regarded as
serious by the men who know most about
him or about the probable requirements
made of the next nominee.
Mr.. Blaine, it is believed, while he pre-
tends to be doing only literary work on
hic forthooynino hnnk WORKING q very
shrewd still hunt in the West. His unu-
sual quiet and his peculiar and even un-
natural amiability towards all prominent
men and wings of his party is regarded as
very ominous.
| Yet Arthur7s chances are better than
any other Republican candidate, because
the people believe that he can carry New
| York.
| Never before, however, was there such
| quiet and such uncertainty at time so
near the beginning of the contest.