The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-16

tions, are being chosen with the old-time
devotion to the "magnetic candidate
whom two national conventions have re-
pudiated. The congressional delegates
from Pennsylvania, 80 far as elected, have
been uniformly pledged to vote for Mr..
Blaine at Chicago. In the fourteenth dis
trict, at Harrisburgh, they were required
to sign pledge to support Blaine so long
as he was before the convention. In the
Pine Tree State, too, Mr.. Blaine has
thrown off the thin disguise of the man
too deeply engrossed in writing history to
mingle again in politics. He is there con-
sidered an intentional candidate, as he
was not four weeks ago. 1t is alleged
that this fact has not added to his popu-
lsrity in the state of his adoption, still
Maine will be found with a solid front for
her favorite son side by side with the
state of his nativity, with this difference,
that in Pennsylvania the enthusiasm for
Mr. Blaine is undoubtedly genuine, while
in Maine it is reported to be in great
measure perfunctory. In New York Mr..
Arthur, Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Edmunds
divide the field. The president and Mr..
Blaine, according to reports, will have
about an equal number of the Empire
States seventy-two delegates. Estimates
give Mr.. Arthur twenty-seven and Mr..
Edmunds smaller number. Schenectady
county sends delegates to the state con-
vention who favor Edmunds and Lincoln.
1t is noticeable that Collector w. III.
Robertson is a district delegate, unin-
structed but presumably in favor Of Mr..
Blaine. The sixth New Jersey district
convention, at Newark, has elected dele
gates who are understood to favor Ed
munds and Lincoln. Reports from the
southern states are coming in, quite uni
formly, of delegates instructed to vote for
Mr.. Arthur. Missouri, however, has a
divided delegation. Eleven are reported
to favor Mr.. Blaine. Mr.. Arthur, General
Logan and Mr.. Edmunds follow in the
order named, the latter being accredited
with five votes. 1t is said the delegation
is not strong in its preferences, and will
be governed largely by the views of dele
gates from republican states. If the other
southern and democratic states come up
to Chicago, animated by a like reasonable
spirit, the danger which many fear of an
obnoxious nomination, secured by the aid
of delegates of states which can contribute
no electoral votes to the choice of candi-
date, will be avoided. The Blaine strength
seems to be developing beyond that of
any other candidate, and the clamor in
his behalf is sustained and increased by
the old familiar agency of a literary
bureau abetted by the newspapers. This
"hurrah " is designed to create the i'm
preston that his nomination is foregone
conclusion. 1t is the rallying cry of the
auti-Arthur men in Pennsylvania, in New
York, in Ohio and the Northwest. Mr..
Blaine feels bitter resentment toward the
man that sent him to the rear when the
Garfield cabinet was broken up by the
death of its chief. He can hardly expect
to succeed. He knows that bitter antag-
onism and popular distrust in certain
quarters have done their fatal work. He
hopes, however, to command strength
enough to control the nomination, and
thus again be restored to the post he held
under President Garfield. The antagon-
ism between him and President Arthur
is sharp and unrelenting. Secondsrily,
Mr.. Edmunds is the object of Mr.. Blaine's
resentment. The Vermont senator four
years ago divided the vote of New En-.
gland. His candidacy then, if not the
rock on which Mr.. Blaine's hopes were
shattered second time, was at least a
serious barrier to his success. With Ed
munds president, the Maine politician
understands full we'll that he must bid
ga long farewell to power" "By ma
ture," says Washington writer, "the
two men clash. They agree upon moth
ing; they antagonize without effort. Ed
munds speaks of Blaine as a man without
the slightest idea of law, and when he
has said that he has said his worst of a
public man." It is intimated from Wash.
ington that Mr.. Blaine's friends are but
employing familiar election tactics in
claiming everything at the outset; that
many delegates reported as favoriug Mr..
Blaine are known to be opposed to both
him and Mr.. Arthur, because they want to
see nominated candidate who will rally
the entire support of the party. 1t seems
to be plain at the beginning that neither
of these two rivals can be nominated, and
that the independent voters--such men as
favor Edmunds, Sherman, Hawley, Har
rison-will name the candidate. Penn
sylvania and Illinois hold their state
conventions to-day; Indiana, Tennessee
and Delaware, tomorrow. The events Of
the coming week will shed light upon
the probabilities at Chicago.
Extenuattng Circumstances.
1t is charged on the one hand that DR.