Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-11
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WASHINGTON. March "a, 1884.
The "booms- are daily growing in
volume. and there is no better held for
studying the various erowths shau At
this national political center. Of course,
no indications are as yet sufficiently
strong 20 indicate who will be the com
ing nominees. bat some significant
straws are, however, bobbing and wav-
ing to show from what quarter the Re
publican breeze il strongest. Strangely
enough. these significant stravs favor
more positively than ever. within the
last few days. the plumed knight from
Maine, who has announced that be is
retired from the uncertain way of poll
tics, and whom the people will have to
call from his quiet desk. where he is
writing the history he helped to make.
il they want him. even as Cineinnat0s
was called from his farm to save Rome.
The m-st serious question which has
troubled the minds OF the friends of Mr..
Blaine has been whether he could secure
the supp ort of Mr.. Conkllng IN the event
of his entering the Presidential field.
Mr.. Bedford, more familiarly known as
the Red-headed Hanger of the Rockies.
who Is quoted as authority upon the po-
litical views of Roscoe ConklIng, has
announced this week that If Blaine Is
nominated Mr.. Conklin9 will earnestly
support him, though, of course, the lat
ter preference IL Grant. Thus il ls that
the Blaine blaze Is breaking out from
most unexpected quarters-a sort of
spontaneous combustion affair-until
many of the other aspIra1ts begin to
think that evidently the way to be can
didate is no, TO be candidate.
This activity in the Blame camp has
been balanced by not little going to
and fro between Washington and Gram
Grey Park. Ex-Speaker Randall Is ons
of those who have visited aud conferred
with Mr.. Iilden; summoned there, II Is
thought. by the sage himself. There Is
more surmise than knowledge about the
purp0rt of these conferences, but 1t Is
pretty we'll settled that Mr.. lilden has
consistently refused to declare any pre-
ference among the Presidential aspirants
In his party. Ii would seem, from the
talk at the capitol and about town, that
the New Workers. kind word 70, Randall
in his list Of good candidates" has
helped that leaders chances; and, judy
ing from the expressions of local senti-
ment, Randall il nearly AZ popular
among the Pennsylvania Democrats as
Blaine is among the Republicans of
that State, and he will most probably
90 before the Convention AZ "favOrite
SON."
The boOms of the other candidates
here are being carefully nursed. The
warrior statesman with the resonant
voice of fog whistle, who is at once
the pride and fear of his fellow Kepub-
loans in the United States Senate, still
il in the front ranks. His aspirations
have had al alarming effect upon his
mail. for he now gets from one hundred
to three hundred letters every morning,
and an answ of some sort must be
made to every letter. This is u larger
mail than is received at the White House,
or by any other public man III Washing
ton. Three clerks and Is day on the
average for postage are required for this
correspondence. The people of the
United States have evidently got the
idea that John Logan Is very good
natured man, and it must be admitted
that he needs the 81 per diem for a
private secretary which the Senate re-
Gently voted to each of its members.
While speaking to An old habitue of
the capitol. the other day, he informed
me that Mr.. Blaine has not entered the
Senate Chamber since he ceased to be a
Senator. nor has MIR. COnkllng been seen
in the Senate end of the capitol since he
voluntarily severed his connection with
that body. Mr.. Blaine frequently visits
the Congressional library to consult its
volumes in connection with his history,
but never looks into the legislative halls
of the Senate and House. Mr.. COnkling
has appeared several times a. counsel in
the United States Supreme CoHrt, bat
has studiously avoided the Senate and
House of Representatives, although the
court room il located on the main CORR
dor of the capitol and within one hun
bred feet of the Senate. The examples
of these men, who achieved distinction
i'll Congress, he told me, is not excep-
tional.
General Grant il in town and he will
soon be rendered dinner by the elegant
widower who dispenses the hospitalities
Of the White House in the sweetest man
ner, and who, in the matter of the tit of
trowsers and set OF coats, has a judy
ment unsurpassed by any gentlemaniy
broker III New York. He says he pre-
fers Logan rs Presidential candid ,te.
IL IL said on dit that one Of Gen. Grants
projects is 10 write a book, and that he
will do it the coming summer. If he re-
covers his health. The aim IL to get 1t
out about year after Blane's produc-
ton finds It's way to the second hand
stores. LKNox.